The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-14
EVE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
TALMAGE breaches A SERMON ON
THE FIRST WOMAN.


Fruits Sweet to the Taste May A.
forwards Produce Great AgOny-A
Warming to the VOtnries of Pleas
ure-Sin RepeIIing When Appended
to Great Attractivencss-ReS In
Auence of Woman.
New York, June ia new interpreta-
ton Of the calamity in Paradise is given
by Dr. Talmage in this sermon which is
laden with practical lessons. The text is
Genesis. SO: And when the woman saw
that the tree was good for food and that
st was pleasant TO the eyes, and a tree
TO be desired to make one wise, she took
of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave
also unto her husband with her, and he
did eat.
1t is the first Saturday afternoon in the
worlds existence Ever since sunrise
Adam has been watching the brilliant pa
geantry of wings and scales and clouds,
and in his first lessons in zoology and or
anthology and ichthyology he has noticed
that the robins fly the air in twos, and
that the fish swim the water in twos, and
that the lions walk the fields in twos and
in the warm redolence of that Saturday
afternoon he falls off into slumber; and
as if by allegory to teach all ages that
the greatest of earthly blessings is sound
sleep, this paradsaical somnolence ends
with the discovery on the part of Adam Of
q corresponding intelligence just landed
on a new planet. OF the mother of all the
living speak-Eve, the first, the fairest,
and the best.
! make me a garden. I inlay the paths
with mountain moss, and l border them
with pearls from Ceylon and diamonds
from Golconda. Here and there are foun-
tains tossing in the sunlight and ponds
that ripple under the padding of the
swans. 1 gather me lilies from the ANA
zon, and orange groves from the tropics,
and tamarinds from Goyaz. There are
woodbine and honeysuckle climbing over
the wall, and starred spaniels sprawling
themselves on the grass. invite amid
these trees the larks, and the brown
thrushes, and the robins, and all the
brightest birds of heaven, and they stir
the air with infinite chirp and carol. And
yet the place is a desert filled with dark
ness and death as compared with the res
idence of the woman of the text, the sub
Ject of my story. Never since have such
skies looked down through such leaves
into such waters! Never has river wave
had such curve and sheen and bank as
adorned the Pison the HaViah, the Gil
hon and the Hiddekel, even the pebbles
being bdellium and onyx stone! What
fruits, with no curculio to sting the rindi
What flowers, with no slug to gnaw the
root! What atmosphere, with no frost to
chill and with no heat to consumed Bright
colors, tangled in the grass. Perfume in
the air Music in the sky Great scene
of gladness and love and joy.
Right there under a bower Of leaf and
vine and shrub occurred the first mar
riage. Adam took the hand of this i'm
maculate daughter of God and pronounce
ed the ceremony when he said Bone of
my bone, and flesh of my flesh" A for
hidden tree stood ip the midst of that ex-
quisite park Eve sauntering out one
day alone looks up at the tree and sees
the beautiful fruit, and wonders if it is
sweet, and wonders if il is sour and
standing there, says: Il think I will INST
put my hand upon the fruit; IL will do no
Damage to the tree; l will not take the
fruit to eat, but 1 will just take it down
to examine it." She examined the fruit
She said: Il do not think there can be
any harm in my just breaking the rind
or it She put the fruit TO her teeth
she tasted, she allowed Adam also TO
taste the fruit the door of the world
opened, and the monster SIN entered Let
the heavens gather blackness, and the
winds sigh on the bosom of the hills. and
cavern, and desert, and earth and sky
JON IN one long, deep, hell-rendlng howl
THE world is lost!'
Beasts that before were harmless and
full of play put forth claw, and sting
ana tooth, and tusk. Birds whet their
peak Tor prey Clouds troop in the slsv
sharp thorns shooot up through the soft
SIass. Blastings on the leaves. All the
chords OF that great harmony are snap-
pea. Upon the brightest home this world
ever saw our first parents turned their
back and led forth on a path OF sorrow
the oroken-hearted myriads of a ruined
race. ANi''ou
DO you not see, m the first place. the
nanger OF poorly regulated inouisAtive-
ness! She wanted to know how the fruit
tasted. She found out, but six thousand
years have deplored that unhealthfnl on
riosity. Healthful curiosity has done a
great deal for letters for art for science
ana Tor religion. 1t has gone down into
the depths of the earth with the geologist
ana seen the first chapter of Genesis writ
Ten IN the book of nature illustrated with
engraving on rock, and ii stood with the
antiquarian while he blew the trumpet OF
resurrection over buried Herculaneum ana
fompell, until from their sepulchre there
came up shaft and terrace and amphithea-
ter. Healthful curiosity has enlarged the
telescope vision of the astronomer until
worlds hidden In the distant heavens have
trooped forth and have joined the choir
praising the Lord. Planet weighed
against planet and widest comet lassooed
with respondent law Healthful curiosity
has gone down and found the tracks OF
the eternal God in the polypi and the star
nsh under the sea and the majesty of the
great Jehovah encamped under the gor-
geous curtains Of the dahlia. II has stud
led the spots on the sun, and the larva In
a beech leaf, and the light under firehy's
wing and the terrible eye-glance of a
condor pitching from Chimborazo. IL has
studied the myriads Of animalculae that
make up the phosphorescence in a ships
wake and the mighty maze OF suns. and
spheres, and consultations, and galaxies
that blaze on In the march OF God. Health
1ul curiosity has stood by the inventor UNI
I'll forces that were hidden for ages came
10 wheels, and levers, and shafts and
shuttes-forces that ny the air, or swim
the sea, or cleave the mountain. until the
earth Jars, and roars, and rings, and
crackles, and booms with strange me-
chanism. and ships with nostrlls Of hot
steam and yokos OF fire draw the coptf-