The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-01-07

peen outgrown IN this day. We have
no room IN our thinking for the be
lief that God is glortfed by human
suffering, and displeased by human
happiness. When man was created,
he was set in a garden Mark that:
not a desert, but a garden. A place
or pleasure was the divine plan for
mans habitatiOn: we get the word
paradise" from the original garden.
An anonymous poet has glimpsed
this truth M its everyday applica-
ton:
Dear Lord. since Thou didst make the
earth,
Thou mad'st it not for grief, but
mirth,
Therefore I will be glad,
And let who will be sad.
For II I lead my life with care,
What profits me the buxom air,
And What the sweet birds choir
Or heavens azure fire?
Lord, as it's Thine eternal state
With JOY undlmmed to contemplate
The world that Thou hast wrought
AS mirror for Thy thought,
So every morning l would rise,
And offer Thee for sacrifice
A spirit bright and clear
AS the wide atmosphere.
For, Lord. since all is we'll with Thee,
1t cannot we'll be i'll with me.
In hat fair garden Of delights
there yet stood a h shalt not"
There must eve be law where hap
piness is to abide. Man needed for
his development, for the proving Of
his divine attributes, the necessity
for self-denial. Even we can see the
hIOh uyIOdcDo which n1onn1 in E>1nn n
prohibition; God rules by self-im-
posed law, and man must learn that
there are some things which, by the
exercise of his own vOlition, he should
refrain from doing. Every gilded
youth who has grown to manhood
wishes gratifed, is a commentary
upon this truth. The truth that
might not be touched was a necessary
part OF the furnishing of a perfect
Garden Of Eden.
Enter the Woman.
Neither man nor woman has We,
solved the woman question. Obvious
ly, the fact OF woman created the
most difficult problem that man wa.
called upon to face. What shoule
be their relationship? How should
each conduct himself or herself to.
ward the other? Pressing presen'
perpleXities first appeared in the Gar.
den Of Eden.
Old Matthew Henry makes a wis'
and timely comment upon the crea
ton OF Oma He says that Sh,
was made out Of the side Of Adam
mot made out of his head t rul,
over him. nor out of his feet to b.
trampled upon by him, but cut o
his side to be equal with him, un
der his arm TO be protected, and nea
his heart to be beloved"
come to his height. She has eve
evoked the manifest and divines
n earthliest of his qualities. TIL
bedrock. creation fact about man an
woman, despite all problem novels an
modern vagaries, is that man an
woman are indispensable to each 9th
er. All the current notions abOu
separate careers for the two X d
violence to the Genesis story and t
the laws written in nature We hav
not yet improved upOn Gods plaI
He means man and woman to g
through life together. The relation
ship which he established in the Gar
den takes pre-eminence of all othe
.. claims and ties, and is to endur
despite all storms. Society ma
, change, and man and woman ma
both play the fool, but eventual
, they must return to hat prims
! sanctity-the husband and wife, cleav
: ing to each other through all an
in spite of all. as joint inheritors
a divine sovereignty.
, SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.