World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1905-04-06
The lJnreason.
ableness Of
Infidelity
continued from last week

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! designed for him 10 the fruit O
. trees. Gram, the secondary kin,
+ OF vegetable diet, is the product Q
the farm rather than ofthe gardep
. and therefore docs not come nov
INTO use, As the law must be luit
down before man proceeds TO or
act Of appropriation, the matter oil
reserve and consequent test OF obed
renee is the trait OF q tree. ONLY
" his csa nan 1T present learn
me lessons OF morality. 10 devise
my other means, not arising from
NE actual state OF things il which
man wss placed, would have been
arbi!rsry and unreasonable. The
Immediate sphsr OF obedience lie,
10 me circumstances 10 which he
actually stands. Those Afforded
40 occasion tor any other Dom
mand than that which 10 givep
Adam had no father, or mother. or
he'ghbor, maze or female, aud
therefore, what was contained in
the second table Of the law could
not apply. nut he had a relation
TO his maker, and legislation on
this could not be postponed, The
command, then, assu N 81, the kind.
est the Ineligible and convsni.at
form OF the 10 ianliIs mind Of
prlmeval man.
Acam is not the only man that
WAS put on trial For we know
that God tries His moral creatures
Abraham. Job. and all His saints
have to under 90 their trials. II
the Lord Jesus Christ the
second Adam, to be tempted. Aud
must not expect the first Adam TO
10 exempted from the common or.
deal. But we may observe that
the temptsr is not allowed TO an.
pear in his proper person 10 our
first parents. The serpent emily 10
seen or heard by them "a creature
inferior 70 themselves, snd inan.
elely beneath The God who made
hen, and condesccndcd 10 com.
munlcate with them with The auth.
DrI!y t6f father. IL the next
place, tue ssrpeot neither threa.
'ns nor directly persuades; much
ess Is he permitted TO use any
means OF compulsion: be simply
alseties. AZ the God Of truth had
spoken to them before, the false
nslnualion places them IT no dis
advantage, Man has now come TO
no second step in morals--ths
practice. Thereby, hs has come .
o the knowledge Of good and owl,
'ot merely Is On ideal. but Us an
'clnal thing, But he has attained
ME end, moi by standing in, but
" falling from, bis integrity, II
70 had stood the test Of this ten.
'tation, ~ b might have done, he |
would have come by the know.
edge OF good aud evil equally
veil. but with . far different re.
rll. As he bore the Image Of G cd
u his higher nature. no would
ave resembIed Him, not only in
thus realized in his
WA act and will. Asit 10, he has
aimed some knowledge in on I'm.
awful and disastrous way; but he
as also tskon 10 that moral evil
Which ia the image, not OF God,
ut OF the temptcr, to whom he
ss yieldsd. Now observe how !,
be Serpent Or the Devil prepares .
10 way tor Adams unbel,ef. The
emptat,on steps out from cautiyes !,
raft into that OF a reckless denial
! tho truth OF Gods prohibitions, "
nd castes a mnlitions suspicion :,
! lts object. We shall not die al Ii,
u; thus ia tho truth of tho threat.
ming stontly denied: hence the
roman thinks maybe we, will not
lie, the doubt, then, become mn :
eliet The way, however, is not
repaired for The unLelicf without
raj aronsing feeling Of disirust
. respect 10 Gods loy.. His right
onsHess, md even He power
llong wlthrthis, and entering with
there must DO also be 4 prcnd
elLcoAidcnte, and a wil;fal strive
" after = tnlso independence,
or the transition from doubt ioi
nbslief the way il specially open.