The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-07-11
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
1Sr July ~, Notwithstanding Of
Ssn ana RedemptiOn.
Prepared by II. e. Lenington.1
THE LESSON TEXT.


4 And the serpent said unto the woman,
Ye shall not surely die:
g. For God doth know that in the day ye
eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened,
and We shall be as gods, knowing good and
evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food, and that 1t was
pleasant to the eyes. and a tree to be de-
sired 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.
Z. And the eyes Of them both were opened,
and they knew that they were naked; and
they sewed fig leaves together, and made
themselves aprons.
8. And they heard the voice Of the Lord
God walking in the garden in the cool of
the day; and Adam and his wife hid them
selves from the presence of the Lord God
amongst the trees of the garden.
O. And the Lord God called unto Adam.
and said unto him, Where art thou?
10. And he said, / heard Thy voice in the
garden, and I was afraid because ] was
naked; and I hid myself.
II. And He said, Who told thee that thou
vast naked? Hast thou eaten Of the tree,
whereof l commanded thee that thou
shouldest not eat?
IL. And the man said, The woman whom
Thou gavest to be with me- she gave me of
the tree, and did eat.
12. And the Lord God said unto the wom-
an, What is this that thou hast done? And
the woman said, The serpent beguiled me.
and did eat.
a. And the Lord God said unto the SER
pent, Because thou hast done this. thou
art cursed above all cattle and above
every beast of the held;, upon thy belly
shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all
the days of thy life.
Is. And I will put ,enmity between thee
and the woman. and between thy seed and
her seed; 1t shall bruise thy head, and thou
shalt bruse his heel
GOLDEN TExT.-where sin aBsoun d.
ed, grace did much more aboand.-
Rom. ssxO.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The lesson of to-day presents pic
ture in sad contrast to that of our las t
lesson. Then we read of God and the
wonderful works of His hands,. we
read of the creation of man in the i'm
age of God with Eve, his wife, placed in
the Garden of Eden, surrounded by
everything that was beautiful, pure
and calculated to make them happy.
The picture of this lesson is the great
black blot of sin and it's accompanying
misery and desolation. The story is
familiar to all, an outline is sufficient
to recall all its essential points.
The Serpent Tempts Eve. ........... .Ch. 3:t-5
Adam, and Eve Yield to Temptation; VS.. 6
fma Anart f,on oi H Gnd h
The Serpent Tempts Eve.-In the
story of the temptation notice careful
ly three points: (D The power of evil
suggestion. The serpent Cor, we may
| say, Satan, speaking through the SER
pent) made no bold assertion at first.
nor did he pluck fruit from the forbid
den tree and offer it to the woman.
That means would have been an invita-
tion to defeat. He put question::
Hath God said, ye shall not eat of
every tree of the garden?" The subtle
suggestion is at once apparent. OF all
evil things the most evil is the evil sug-
| gestion, and the more subtle the sug-
gestion the more powerful the evil.
| (2) The spirit of discomfort as the
| opening wedge for sin. The serpent's
evil suggestion created in the woman's
mind the spirit of discomfort. 1t is
possible that there is such thing as
. noble discomfort which spurs one on
to endeavor that will enable him to rise
from lowly surroundings and to mount
the ladder of aspiration to higher
things; but discomfort, in and of itse II
considered, is thing to be despised. 1,
regards neither ways nor means, ask.
ing only that its object be attained
and that object is usually one no,
worth the attaining. Have your aspira
tions, but keep down the spirit of dis.
content. The sin of discomfort is the
more clearly realized when we recall
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an evil suggestion. (3) Satan follows
up his own evil suggestion, and the
consequent spirit of discomfort awak
ened in the woman's mind by denying
the word of God. God had said: "Ye
shall surely die" Satan said: aye
shall not surely die"
The Results of Sin.-AlI the rest o1
the Bible. beginning with the seventh
verse of the third chapter of the first
book, and 1.-THE history of the world
is the story of the consequences of sin
The immediate result was ba anishment
from the paradise originally intended
for man. God had said the penalty
would be death. 1.-The wages of sin i:
DEATH" Separation from God is death
Sin drove Adam and Eve from the gar
den, and put flaming sword which
turned every way to guard the way tt
the tree of life. Only through re
pentance and the death of the physica
body does man now find his way bacl
to the paradise of God.
Incidentally, we have here a hin
of the redemption through Christ
Among "the seed" or descendants, O.
the woman was to be the Messiah
Jesus Christ. BY Him has the head O
the serpent been crushed.
Life Apart from God.-Read tn,
fourth chapter Of Genesis for hint a
to the results of sin, and of separat tiol
from God. 1t is the beginning of tn,
story of man taking the life of man
1t Is a picture darkly drawn, but crim
has been rampant on the face of tn
earth from the fall of man to the pres
ent hour. Cain killed Abel, and Lamacl
killed Cain. 81 have slain man to m
woundfng, and young man to M
4 hurt"
Grapes from Canaan.
Spirituality is not spasmodic.
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