The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-18
TALKS. ON GENESIS
HISS MARY N. BLODGETT OPENS
 LECTURE SERIES.
DlbA Instructor Delivers First of Three Addresses To Women In
 Court Street Methodist Church. ts Many Attend.

The first lecture of a two weeks se- ries, beginning yesterday afternoon at { o'clock, in the main acditorinm os sfhe Court Street Methodist Church, was delivered by Miss May N. Bloigctt. enc Of the mott no:.1 instructors of the Bible in this country.
 Miss Blodgett comes to Montgomery by Invitation of the Young Women Christian Association and 1t IS uhuer the auspices of the Assocaton that she will deliver the course of lectures
 the first of the lectures have something to regret. The afternoon was inciem- speakins. of the women ,n of ,ta the vary 9ity were present, but to those few the af- ternoo was one of pleasure.
 Miss Blodgett, as public speaker meets the requirements popularly de- thoughts in almost flawless Englis and her delivery is such as to hold the closest attention of her hearers. For several years she has given her time and for the past two years she has lectured throughout the Gulf States Her education and special training in York and in the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. with her wide practical ex- perience on the lecture platform dur ing recent years, makes her splendid ly equipped for the work. and in her first lesson yesterday she won the sin cere interest of every woman in the
 The lecturer selected Genesis as the book of the Bible on which she will lecture during the course. Genesis, pe- ing a history of the creation of the world it follows that the subject of the course will be Adam and Eve, their life in the garden of. Eden, their sub sequent sin and banishment from the garden; the story of Cain and Abel, and on through the book The interpreta- tion which Miss. Blodgett placed on many passages of the Genesis changed viewpoint, and for all created new
 There were many students of the Bi-
 Genesis conceived an idea of the
 ,anity or the existence of Adam and
 we, and felt no wonder that they. got
 e idea that God cares very little for
 beautiful. tha* His whole thought
 that, of discipiining His children.
 entrance of sin and death. The Gre
 gave everything to Adam and Eve to eat. He told them He wanted them to enjoy everything and eat of every tree, except one; His provisions were bountiful. and his prohinitlons & rev; ie He of the one tree After they had dis obeyed and had partaken of the fruit of the tree it was x .aen tbem tna' fro oa the he garden. Not for the reasons usually believed. were they driven from Eden: but according to the interpretation of Miss Blodgett, but that they yet might be saved for time and eternity. They had sihned, and punishment was due them for that sin
 If they had been left in the Garden. they might have continued to partake of the Tree of Life. and to live for ever. In the state of sin in which they now were. the idea was one full of hor- rors and to save them from an eter- nity in sin and degradation. God sent them forth. The lesson which she taught in that connection. was that the idle life which they had lived in the Garden. did not make the Paradise. and the sentence of work which He imposed was not the punishment.
 An exeePtiGnally beautiful innla thought was that in the life of Adam and Eve. God showed He knows what h,ai, His Is chil- sibie death in the things which He pro- hibits. His prohibitions. she said. are always made because of His love.
 Miss Blodgett spoke of the personal Satan" and of the personal Saviour" She described Satan as being of tre- mendous and intense intellectual power