The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-04

ana OF = philosophical trsterpresatson-
AAa y may be considered first sri In.
iatfons.
IA presenting the Biblical doctrine Of
aati 70 a company % ministers we
quote at length the words % IN
spilasion. simple statement which ev-
one may corruborate from his own
hhoWiedgs will be sufficserf.
Inc Lord at the fsrxr made man sr
ms own iixsage--after His own likeness
and gave him dominion over the fish
OF the sea and the fowls of the ar ara
over the cattle and over all the earth.
MoTeoyer. man In hts original condi-
uon was perfect being. After his
creation God saw everything that He
had created. ard, hefosd. IL was very
coed No woman existed iii, after cur
nFss father had been formed out OK the
dust OF the ground and had received
NE from the breath OF the Almighty.
Ihfh God said. 1T Is not good that
Hsan should be alone: / will make him
an neipmeet for him." 50 the Lord
caused deep sleep to fail upon Adam.
ahd he took one OF bis ribs and ciosed
up the flesh instead thereof. and the
IT'D which the Lord God had taken from
man made He q woman. and brought
ner unto the man. BY this significant
act woman was presented 70 man as
nis companion and heipmeet. IN part
OK himself, and as vastly above all
those beasts OF the field which were
Formed Out OF the ground
The style OF life into which man was
introduced after his creation was one
OF extreme sirnplicity. yet Ii called for
the exercise OF a rational Intelligence.
God gave man the faculty of expressing
his thoughts In language; and then, for
the enlargement OF his vocabulary, He
brought unto Adam every beast OF the
field and every fowl OF the air to see
what he would call them, and what
soever Adam called every living crea-
fure, that was the name thereof. God
also gave the man a business. or occu-
patton; He put him into the Garden OF
Eden. TO dress IL and keep H. Then.
too. IL was a recognition OF Gods In
teliigence that God in blessing him told
him or his high place and urged upon
him great career. God blessed them,
and God said unto them: BE fruitful
and multiply and replenish the earth,
and subdue IL. and have dominion over
the fish OF the sea and over the fowl
OF the air and over every living thing
that moveth upon the earth" II Adam
had been an angel from heaven God
could not have given him a greater
earthly position.
But the most important part of Gods
conduct towards this youngest born OF
His creation was His treatment OF man
as moral being and as one who might
be influenced by rewards and penalties
In order to determine the question OF
mans worthiness of the perpetual fell
lowship and favor OF his heavenly
Father, the Lord subjected him TO an
extremely simple test of obedience and
loyalty. Two trees were planted in the
midst OF the garden, the one the tree
| OF life, the other the tree OF the knowi-
edge or good ard evil. Upon each OF
these grew pleasant fruit. And the
Lord God commanded the man. saying.
or every tree OF the garden thou may
est freely eat: but OF the tree of the
knowledge OF good and evil thou shalt
not eat OF IL; for in the day that thou
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
mus Adam was assured of utter ruin
should ne, Tor any reason, throw off
the divine authority and partake of the
forbidden fruit. We are not told I'm
what way the tree of life was TO be
used: probably had Adam maintained
MS innocence throughout a sufficient
probation he would have been invited
to eat OF that tree and to enter uron
a course of unending blessedness.
n mighty tempter came. A great
spirit who had once been an archangel
In heaven. but whose rebeilous pride
had driven him down to the depths
or Woe and wickedness. used his .nfu-
ence IN lead our first parents astray.
For this purpose he addressed the worn-
an through the agency OF a serpent.
Hence afterwards in the New Testa-
fnent Scriptures he Is spoken OF as
that old serpent. which is the devil
and satan" His efforts were success
full. Man ate
OF that forbidden fr7I4t
Whose mortal taste brought death into
our world,
And all our woe.
Then God pronounced the curse
which he had threatened Adam and
Eve are driven out OF paradise into a
world full OF thorns and this;les, OF
sins and sorrows. Of tolls and cares. OF
sickness and death. Man has lost the
favor OF God and become subject 10
condemnation OF the law. Yet there
are indications that he Is not past re-
deinp,ion. We are told OF the seed OF
the woman: sacrifice appears TO have
bean instituted. and the flaming sword
which kept the way Of the tree Of life
was probably intented to prevent man
from psrpetuating his existence in a
condition Of weakness and suffering
The evil consequences or the trans
erosion OF our first parents fell not
only upon them. but upon their poster
ity TIE sentence pronounced upon Eve
has been continually repeated I'm the
experience of her daughters, and every
son of Adam finds himself In a world
OF caiamities and cares and lahors and
subjected 10 the inevitable fate: "DuSt
thou art, and unto dust shalt thou re-
turn" In Genesis the participation Of
the race tn the primal condemnation 10
taught only by Implication. but in
psurs Eplssle TO the Romans we are
expressly told that by one man sin
entered into the world. and death BY
sin: and so death passed upon all men
The object OF the apostle IN making
this statement was 10 show that be-
levers are justified through the right
eausness or Christ, and wlthout any
merits Of tHleIr owfs. tuss as the family
~ Adam were condemned because OF
the sin Of fhesr first parent ana before
they themselves had been guilty OF any
ans,.aa x,fysn>sss He calls attention "a