Milford chronicle., 1904-08-19
CalmaQe
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee, DID.

iSSuS otHeI slns, now remOrSe tor
lures and makes towards of men and
how human nature is pretty much the
same today as in the time of Adam.
The text is Genesis ill., S. And Adam
and his wife hid themselves"
Where was the garden of Eden?"
is the theme of a never ending discus
sion Some think its site was at the
north pole The site of the garden
does not, however, concern us so much
as the event which took place there.
Man was put on his trial in that gar
den, and he failed. The consequences
of his disObedience have come down TO
us, for all his descendants have been
deprived of the blessings which would
have been theirs had he obeyed God
/ do not wonder that the sterile region
around the north pole should have
seemed fitting scene for the catas-
trOphe. In the course Of the ages it
may have been that the glory and fer |
tility of Eden may have been trans |
formed into region Of ice and snow |
Many have tried TO penetrate it and .
have failed
with her sword, who once stood at the
gate of Eden, saying to the first an
cestors Of the human race THUS far
shalt thou go and no farther" stands
today with the same warning message
for the children of the twentieth cen
tury. Her garments of the white
wings Of dove covered with silver.
and her feathers with yellow gold"
have been changed for the long flowing
robes Of spOtless snow. She is perhaps
the same sentinel. although her ward
robe Of springtime has been thickened
into the heavy toga of winter. Instead
of swinging in her hand a sword of |
fire, she now holds in tight grip her
glittering blade of ice
Site of Garden of Eden. :
Some think the garden of Eden was
fragrant with the flowers of conti- .
nent which once stretched between u
the Old world and the new. Explor- =
ing parties have gone forth and have :.
claimed that they have located with II
their sounding lines the lost Atlantis. "
They assert that the islands of the u
New Hebrides are only the highest /
mountain peaks of that famous conti- W
nent which was sunk by tidal wave u
and engulfed by earthquake Some y
claim that the garden of Eden was p
in Persia, others that it was watered kl
by the onfowings of the mighty Nile. Il
Others that it was in India and still 81
Others that it was in central China.
hut here today, in the words of my NJ
text, we are not concerned with the Ia
site of the garden of Eden but with he
the conduct Of our first parents after ca
they had sinned No sooner had Adam III
and his wife eaten of the forbidden Sc
fruit than they hid themselves, as K
frightened bares hide themselves in he
the jungles of the forests from the IS
baying hounds The voice of God call ey
ing them to confession of their sin was ev
Il summons to judgment which they th'
would have eyaded if they had been he
able he
Our first parents hid themselves aft
ar they had sinned That is always ces
the impulse of the conscious sinner. lea
lie shrinks from meeting the God tire
whom he has offended. A famous the
writer once declared, The sins of the the
Garden of Eden are as old as the dawn Go
It creation, yet, like the rising SUM- will
ach day they are ever fresh and have jun
lew applications for each changing to
our." exp
What we first want to do is to find una
ut how Adam and Eve sulked away eleE
lto the Edenic jungles to hide them awi
elves after they had eaten of the fruit moi
( the forbidden tree, then to ask wit
-hether living men and women are bea
OF now acting in the same way in sin
wing 10 conceal themselves in similar alw
iding places. l want to show them bully
ow vain are such attempts at con Ada
,alment from the omniscent eve of the
cd and by the help of the Holy Spirit trieC
WOO them from their retreats and of I
nd them to bend in humble contrition not
the foot of the cross. tried
Application Of the Text. reas
Modern application the first We find God,
lam and Eve hiding away from God dare
the garden Of Eden when we see thou
an and women stunning the faces Of conc
ose whom they have wronged We ms I'll
q the Satanic retreat of the first par livin
ise in the skulklng feet and the All
ertcd gaze and the conspicuous abb Adal
ice of those who after they have in was
ed brother hee his presence even of lie
the prodigal son when he desired to the {
wrong planned TO take his goods sham
l leave his fathers house and go us TO
o the far country where he would is du
be in the presence of his parents. doing
ose hearts the wayward boy was
aEiug. II is a peculiar but incon- HoV
rertible fact that sin, no matter sin b'
ether spasmodic or habitual, pro sins?
es a sense Of humiliation and deg been
alton IN the presence Of its victims He W
)m it has deceived or injured. Thus first
'od, the teuarch, although he was at tn
great Roman governor. trembled school
en he thought the beheaded John as a
Baptist was risen from the dead. to hei
emorse Is a terrible castigator. She throus
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