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Track Through the Bible.
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him. The garden in which he finds himself
the ultimate goal. It is the opportunity for the
exercise of the functions of the life bestowed.
Within it there liep potentially the city, and man
has to build this by the cultivation of the forces
of the garden, and by exercising authority over cre
ation under the of God.
3. Conditioned. The relation of man to God
and Nature is conditioned by a simple and yet per
fectly cleai’ command, which indicates the limits
of liberty. There are things which he may do.
There are bounds beyond which he may not go.
His liberty consists in loyalty to the law of God.
Os these fundamental truths the trees of the garden
afford sacramental symbols. Os all save one he
may eat. Os this one he may not eat. It is to
stand in the presence of his life marking the
bounds of his freedom.
4. Completed. Man is completed by the bring
ing to him of one who was of himself, and in whom
he found the true complement of his own nature.
In man and his companion the likeness of God was
complete. In his own image “male and female
created he them.”
B. Degeneration.
I. Os the Individual.
The section here commencing deals with the be
ginnings of that long process of degeneration, in
the midst of which the human race still finds it
self. The suggested analysis must not be treated
as hard and fast in its separation of parts. It is
intended simply to indicate the natural develop
ment of thought as to the individual, the family,
society, the nation. These divisions indicate the
true circles of human interrelationship as they
spread out in ever widening circumference.
Everything commences with the individual. This
is a simple story of man in individual innocence,
and racial immaturity. Satan appeals to him
HIS COURTESY.
All common “Excuse me’s” and “I
beg your pardons,” pale before this
striking example of politeness, given
by the Chicago Journal:
He was hurrying along the street
the other night, when another man,
also in violent haste, rushed out of a
doorway, and the two collided with
great force.
The second man looked mad, while
the polite man, taking off his hat, said:
“My dear sir, I don’t know which
of us is to blame for this violent en
counter, but I am in too great a hurry
to investigate. If I ran into you, I
beg your pardon; if you ran into me,
don’t mention it.” And he tore away
with redoubled speed.
A SLIGHT HITCH.
Stranger: “Sir, do you remember
giving a poor friendless tramp fifty
cents one cold night last winter?”
Jones. “I do.”
“Sir, I am that tramp; that fifty
cents was the turning point in my ca
reer; with it I got a shave, a shine,
and a job. I saved my money, went to
Alaska, made a million dollars, and
last week I came back to New York
to share my million with you. But
unfortunately, I struck Wall street be
fore I struck you—and—and—Have
you another fifty cents that you could
conveniently spare, sir.” —Life.
The big touring car had just whizz
ed by with a roar like a gigantic rock
et, and Pat and Mike turned to watch
it disappear in a cloud of dust.
“Thim chug wagons must cost a
hape av cash,” said Mike. “The rich
is fairly burnin’ money.”
“An’ be the smell av it,” sniffed Pat,
“it must be thot tainted money we
do be bearin’ so much aboot.” —Suc-
cess Magazine,
through a lower form of creation here spoken of
as the serpent. Spiritual evil takes material form
to reach spiritual man through the material side
of his being. The deepest note in the attack is
that of its attempt to reflect on God. The deepest
note in the fall is that of failure of faith. Faith
being lost, fear immediately succeeds.
Man may hide from God, but he cannot escape
him. He comes first for inquisition, and then for
pronouncement of sentence. In the sentences pro
nounced there is evident the differentiation of the
strictest justice. The curse is for the originator,
justice for the deceived. Side by side with the
sentences the first prophetic wbrd breajks upon
human ears. Behind all the movements of law
there abides the heart of love and this is finally
seen in the exclusion of man from the tree of life,
in order that he may not perpetuate the condition
into which he has come as the result of sin.
11. Os the Family.
Following swiftly upon the degradation of the
individual came that of the family. The sorrow
following upon sin is manifest, first, in the agony
of the heart of the first mother. In hope she bore
her first born, and called him Cain, crying, “I
have gotten it,” that is, I have gotten the promis
ed seed of the Lord. The hope wa® doomed to
disappointment, and she called her next boy, Abel,
vanity, because of what she had seen in the first.
Thus the first family is broken up, and the first
gap in the circle of human society is made by
murder.
The race moves on, multiplying into families, but
the shadow of the issue of sin is on the whole of
them, and with one rare exception through fifteen
centuries the knell of de/ath is heard unceasingly.
111. Os Society.
As families multiplied and branched out into
many directions, the new relationship of society
is created. From the original man two lines have
proceeded, one through Cain, the other through
Seth. These have developed around two opposing
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ideals, the one that of self-consideration and self
advancement; the other that of fear of God, and
obedience to him. The lines of difference become
less clearly marked until the sons of the godly race
intermix in marriage with the daughters of the peo
ple of the materialized ideals, and the issue is most
terrible corruption.
This all ends in a divine interference of swift
and overwhelming judgment. The destruction
of the race is not total, for, while man has failed,
the purpose of God moves forward toward consum
mation. Out of the devastation a remnant is Saved,
and human history starts forward upon a now basis,
as there emerges a new idea of social relationship,
that of the nation.
IV. Os the Nations.
With an immediateness which startles, the book
chronicles the story of the failure of the national
ide|a. The will of God was the peopling of the
earth by the separation of those delivered from
its primal corruption into nations occupying dif
ferent territories. Against this separation man
rebelled by the formation of a godless confederacy,
and an attempt to resist the divine decree. This
was followed by immediate divine intervention,
which issued in the confusion of the confederacy.
Finally, the line of continuity from <Shem to Abram
is declared, and the section seating forth degenera
tion closes.
Little William was standing at the window
watching an approaching storm. Great black
clouds overspread the. sky, when suddenly a bright
flash of lightning parted them for an instant.
“0, mamma,” he said, “I saw that funder wink!”
THE CANNY NORTHMAN.
An engineer from Sunderland was
spending a few days in London with a
friend, and after a busy morning sight
seeing the Londoner chose a large res
taurant for luncheon, thinking it would
be a novel experience for the man from
the north. The visitor appeared to
enjoy the luncheon, but kept looking in
the direction of the door. “What are
you watching?” asked his friend, rath
er annoyed.
.“Well,” was the reply, “A’s keepin’
an eye on ma topcoat.”
“Oh, don’t bother about that,” said
the other, “you don’t see me watching
mine.”
“No,” observed the guileless engin
eer, “thee has no call to —it’s ten min
utes sin’ thine went.”—Tit-Bits.
“You have three pairs of glasses,
Professor?”
“Yes; I use one to read with, one to
see at a distance and the third to find
the other two. —Fliegende Blaetter.
“I suppose you will marry when you
grow up,” said the visitor, pleasantly.
“No,” replied the thoughtful little
girl; “mamma says papa is more care
than the children, so I guess the care
of my children will be enough for me
without the care of a husband.”
TWO GIVEN.
Two more unanswerable arguments
in favor of postal savings banks have
been given in Chicago and Philadel
phia. It is not that workingmen can
save very much, but when they can
save a little they would like to have
a safe depository, hence the oft ex
pressed wish of organized labor that
Uncle Sam should go into the banking
business. He will do so by and by,
when the right kind of men are sent,
to Congress.—Machinists’ Journal.
