Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-13
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
lesson In the international series
for July "A, 19O1-BesinRtaE Of
Sin ana RedemPtiOz-
Prepared by H. C. Lenington.J
THE LESSON TEXT.

prepared by H c. LenlngtOn.I
THE LESSON TEXT.
Genesis a;l-1s.)
L Aud the serpent said unto the womaHs
Re shall not surely die:
& For God doth know that in the say y
eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened;
and ye shall be as gods, knowing sooo s1@
6. And when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food. and that Il was
pleasant to the eyes. and = tree TO ps Ge-
sired to make one wise, she took OF the
fruit thereof and did eat and gave also
unto her husband with her; and ne old eat
z And the eyes of them both were opene0S
and thew knew that they were naked ana
they sewed fig leaves together ana MAUI
themselves aprons.
g. And they heard the voice OF the Lo[o
God walking in the garden IN the cool OF
the day; and Adam and his WIS MO them.
selves from the presence of the Lero 0oo
amongst the trees OF the garden,
9. And the Lord God called unto Aoans
and said unto him. Where art thou.
TO- And he said, heard Thy voice IN the
garden, and l was afraid, because was
cal0ed; and hid myself.
And He said Who told thee that thou
vast naked2 Hast thou eaten of the tree,
whereof I commanded thee that thor
shouldest not eat?
Thou gavest to be with me. she gave me o.
the tree, and I did eat.
Ii. And the Lord CID said unto the "ona-
| an. What is this that shou hast done? And
the woman said. The serpent beguiled me.
| and I did eat.
Il. And the Lord God said unto the ser
pent, Because thou hat done this, thou
art cursed above all cattle, and above
every beast of the field; upon thy belly
shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat ali
the days of thy life.
Is. And I viii put enmisy between thee
and the woman. and between thy seed and
her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou
lshalt cruise his heel.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
| The lesson of to-day presents pic
| ture in sad contrast to that of our last
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 ir.
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 its accompanying
misery and desolation. The story is
familiar to all, an outline is sufficient
to recall al its essential points,
The Serpent Tempts Eve..........:. Oh. $40
| Adam and Eve Yield to Temptation. vs.
| Life Apart from God...............-Ch. 4:1-26
The Serpent Tempts Eve.-ln the
story of the temptation notice CAREFUL
" three points: ~ The power of evil
suggestion. The serpent (or, we may
say, Satan, speaking through the SER
penO made no bold assertion at first.
nor did he pluck fruit from the forbid
den tree and offer il to the woman
That means would have been an invita-
ton to defeat. He put a question:
Hath God said, ye shall not eat OF
every tree of the garden?" The subtle
suggestion is at once apparent. OF al
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 a thing as
a noble discomfort which spurs one on
to endeavor that viii enable him to rise
from lowly surroundings and to mount
the ladder of aspiration to higher
things; but discomfort, in and of itself
, considered. is thing to be despised. 1t
regards neither ways nor means, ask
ing only that its object be attained,
and that object is usually one not
worth the attaining. Have your aspira-
tons, but keep down the spirit of dis
content. The sin of discomfort is tn"
more clearly realized when we recall
that it is ever awakened at the call o..
an evil suggestion. (3) Satan follown
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
I !
: shall not surely die"
The Results of Sin.-AIl the rest OF
! the Bible, beginning with the seventh
verse of the third chapter of the first
book, and all the history of the world
!, is the story of the consequences of sin
| The immediate result was banishmen nj
from the paradise originally intended
for man. God had said the penalty
would be death. 'The wages of sin is
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 to
q the tree of life. Only through re
: pentance and the death of the physica
: body does man now find his way bach
: to the paradise of God.
: Incidentally, we have here him
: of the redemption through Christ
o Among "the seed or descendants, OF
: the woman was to be the Messiah
: Jesus Christ. By Him has the head o;
i the serpent been crushed
e Life Apart from God.-Read ths
Q fourth chapter of Genesis for hint a.
n to the results of sin, and Of eparatioI
b from God. It is the beginning of the
II story of man taking the life of man
e It is picture darkly drawn, but Grim,
= has been rampant on the face OF tn,
d earth from the fall of man to the pres
i ent hour. Cain killed Abel, and Lamacl
T killed Cain. 81 have slam man to N!
wounding, and young man to N.
hurt"