The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 38, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 16 January 1913 — Page 3

r- - iHOWTOCURERHEUMATiSMj ‘ Prominent Doctor’s Best Prescription Easily Mixed' at Home. This simple and harmless formula has worked wonders for all who have tried it quickly curing chronic and acute rheumatism and backache. "From your druggist get one ounce of Toris compound (in original sealed package) and one ounce of syrup of Sarsaparilla compound. Take these two ingredients home and put them in a half pint of good whiskey. Shake the bottle and take a tablespoonful before each meal and at bed-time.”, Good results come after the first few doses. If your druggist does not have Toris compound tn stock he will get it for you in a few hours from his wholesale house. Don't he influenced to take a patent medicine Instead of this. Insist on having the genuine Toris compound in the original, one-ounce, sealed, yellow package. This was published here last winter and hundreds of the worst cases were cured by it in a short time. Published by the Globe Pharmaceutical laboratories of Chicago. JUVENILE LOGIC. ■On Ttw mA y/) * V Oiiwt- pl “Do you belong to a brass band, Mrs. Blow?” “No, dear. What put that Idea into your head?” "Well, rcimma said you were always blowing your own horn, so I thought you must belong to a brass band.”. > RASH ALMOST COVERED FACE Warrenville, O.—"I have felt the effects of blood poisoning for eighteen years. I was never without some eruptions on my body. The terrible itching caused me much suffering and discomfort, while the rubbing and scratching made it worse. Last spring I had a terrible breaking out of blistery seres on my arms and limbs. My taco and arms were almost covered with rash. I could not sleep and lost nineteen pounds in five weeks. My face was terribly red and sore, and felt as if my skin was on fire. At last t tried a sample of Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment and I found them so cool, soothing and healing, that I got some Cuticura Soap, Gutlcurh j Ointment, and Resolvent. I bathed with hot water and Cuticura Soap, then I applied the Cuticura Ointment every night for two months, and I am cured of all skin eruptions.” (Signed) Mrs. KathYyn Krafft, Nov. 2S ( 1911. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address poet-card “Cuticura, Dept L, Boston." Adv. Why He Changed Hie Mind. John L. Sullivan met with some amusing incidents while giving boxing lessons. One day a husky young man came to him as a pupil. He took his boxing lesson and went home somewhat the worse for wear. When he came for his second lesson he said: “Mr. Sullivan, It was my Idea to learn enough about boxing from you to give a certain young gentleman a good licking. I’ve had It in for him a good while. But I’ve changed my mind. If you have no oblections I’ll send this young man down here to you to take the rest of my lessons for ChronicleTelegraph. « Early Training. Willis—ls that new young preacher you hired fresh from college up to date? Gillis—You bet. He called out the Master choir squad last Sunday, and has ordered practice behind closed doors.—Puck. Important to Nlotnera Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for Infants and children, and see that it Ja Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castorin raise Alam. “They say that Wombat is a genius." "Nothing to that story. It’s a canard. 1 loaned him a dollar onc« and he paid me back all right enough.” To Mothers In This Town. Children who are delicate, feverish and cross will set Immediate relief from Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. Th’ey cleanse pe stomach, act on the liver and are recommended for complaining children. A pleasant remedy or worms Used by Mothers for II yeara At all Druggists, 25c. Sample FREIS Ad dr tea. A. S. Olmsted. Le Roy. N. T. Adv. Great Effects. “What is that terrible noise?” asked tie pedestrian. “That,” replied the policeman, "Is caused by an ordinary one cent safety pin sticking into a $3,000,000 baby.” Dr. Pierce’s Pellets, small, sugar-coated, easy to take as candy, regulate and invigorate stomach, liver ana bowels and cure constipation. Adv.' Proper Rescue. “How did you come out of the tilt you had with the beauty doctor?” "Well, I managed to save my face.” No matter what happens, the sue Renders a man wears are never entirely free from responsibilities. Mrs. Winslow's Soothinc Syrup for Children teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflammation, allays pain,cures wind colic.2sc a bottleJSs If a man didn’t have a wife he proM r.bly wouldn’t know that he had neighbors. ALFALFA WKKD, K. Timothy and.Oovermixed, 14.5a. Will ship c. o. d. Farms for sale and rent o* crop payments. J. Mulhall, Sioux City, lowa. Adv, A bird in the hand fails to catch ths early worm.

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s SYNOPSIS. Mrs. Keziah Coffin, supposed widow. Is arranged to move, from Trumet to Boston, following the death of her brother, for whom she had kept house. ' Kyan Pepper, widower, offers marriage, ami is Indignantly refused. Capt. Elkanah Daniels. leader of the Regular church offers Keziah, a place as housekeeper for the new minister, and she decides to remain In Trumet. Keziah takes charge of Rev. John Ellery, the new minister, and gives him advice as to his conduct toward members of the parish. Ellery causes a sensation" oy attending a “Come-outer meeting. Ellery's presence is bitterly resente.d Ebert Hammond, leader of the mevti'rg : Srace apologizes for tier rs«! Ellery escorts her home in thu rain. Capt. Nat Hammond. Eben s sop. becomes a hero by bringing the p<u-!ket into port safely through fog ana Sterna. Ellery finds Keziah writing a letter to some one. inclosing money in response to a demand. She is -’tiriously startled when informed of the a y r ival of Nat. Nat calls on Keziah. and it develops that they have been lav; rs since vouth. Dante’s remonstrates with Ktiery Lor attsnding “Come-outer" meeting, r.ilery to caught by the tide and is restated by Wat. They become friends Ellety Grace while walking in the fields, end learns that she walks there every Sunday. The clergyman takes dinner Sundays with ttie Daniels. Annabel, the captain's daughter, exerts herself to niak« an impression on him. she notices with vexation his desire to get away ever* Sunday at a certain time. Sht •watches him through a spy glass. Nat itgain importunes Keziah to marry him. He says he has had quarrel with his father," who wants him to marry Grace. Ellery asks Grace to marry him. bne confesses that she loves him. but say's she fears to displease her guardian. Elkanah Daniels tells Eben about the meetings between Ellery and Grace. Eben declares he will make Grace choose between him and the preacher. Grace finds him in a faint following the excitement of Elkanah’s visit. Just before he dies Eben exacts a promise from Nat and that they will marry breaks the news to Ellery and later he receives a note from Grace saying she is *to marry NaL and asking him not to try to see her again. CHAPTER Xll.—(Cntinued.) “Never mind about the other man. He was handsome then, in away, and he had money to spend, and he liked me. He wanted me to marry him. If— If the other, the one that went away, had written I never would have thought of such a thing, but he didn’t write. And, my pride bein’ hurt, and all, I finally said yes to the second chap. “Well, for the first year ’twa’n’t so bad. Not happiness exactly, but not misery either. That come later. His people was well off and he'd never Worked much of any. He did for a little while after we was married, but not for long. Then he begun to drink tnd carry on and lost his place. Pretty soon he begun? to neglect me and at ?ast went off to sea afore the mast. We was poor as poverty, but I could have stood that; I did stand it. I took in sewin’ and kept up an appearance, somehow. Never told a soul. His >olks come patronizin’ around and offered me money, so’s I needn’t disgrace them. I eent ’em rightabout in k hurry. Once In a while he’d come home, get tipsy and abuse me. Still I said nothin’. 'Thank God, there was to children; that’s ’he one thing I’ve been thankful for. “You can’t, keep such things quiet,always. People are bound to find out. I’hey come to me and said. ‘Why don’t you leave him?’ but 1 wouldn’t. I eould have divorced him easy enough, there was reasons plenty, but I Wouldn’t do that. Then word came that he was dead, drowned off in the Kast Indies somewheres. I come back here to keep house for Sol, my brother. and I kept house for him till he . died and they offered me this place ’j«re at the parsonage. There! that’s my story, part of it, more’n I ever told A livin’ soul afore, except Sol.” She ceased speaking. The minister, who had sat silent by the window, apathetically listening or trying to listenl^turned his he»d. “I apologize, Mrs. Coffin,” he said dully, “you have had trials, hard ones. But—” “But they ain’t as hard as-yours, you think? Well, I haven’t quite finished yet. After word come of my husband’s death, the other man come F.nd wanted me to marry him. And I Wanted to —oh, how I wanted to! J cared as much for him as I ever did;, more, I guess. But I wouldn’t—l wouldn’t, though It wrung my heart out to say no. I give him up—why? 'cause 1 thought I had a duty laid on me.” Ellery sighed. “I can see but one duty,” he said. “That is the duty given us by God, to marry the one we love.” Keziah’s agitation, which had grown ss she told her stdfy, suddenly flashed Into flame. “Is that as fur rs you can see?” she asked fiercely. “It’s an easy duty, then—or looks easy now. I’ve got a harder one; it’s to stand by the promise 1 gave and the man I married.” He looked at her as if he thought She had lost her wits. “The man you married?” he replied. “Why, the man you married is dead.” “No, he ain’t. You remember the fetter you saw me,readin’ that night when you come hack from Come-Out-ars’ meetin’? Well, that letter was from him. He’s alive. Yes, he’s alive. Alive and knockin’ round’ the world somewheres. Every little while he writes me for money and, if I have any, I send it to him. Why ? Why ’cause I’m a coward, after all, I guess, and I’m scared hell do-what he says he will and come back. Perhaps you think I’m a fool to put up with it; that’s what most folks would say if they knew it. They’d tell me I ought to divorce him. Well, I can’t, I can’t. I walked into the mess blindfolded; I married him in spite of warnin’s and everything. I took him for better or | for .worse, and now that he’s turned out worse, I must take my medicine. I can’t live with him—that I can’t do—but while he lives I’ll stay his wife and give him what money I can spare. That’s the duty I told you was laid on me, and it’s a hard one, but I don’t tun away from it.”

She stopped short; then covering her face with her apron, she ran from the room. John Ellery heard her descending the stairs, sobbing as she went. All that afternoon he remained in his chair, by the window. It was six o’clock, supper time, when he entered the kitchen. Keziah, looking up from the ironing board, saw him. He was white and worn and grim, but he held out his hand to her. “Mrs. Coffin,” he said, “I'm not going away. You’ve shown me y>hat devotion to duty- really means*, I shall stay here and go on with my work.” Her face lit up “Will you?” ’she said. “I thought you wo(ild. I was sure you was that kind.”, CHAPTER XIII. In Which the Sea Mist Sails. They Juried Captain Ejben in the little Come-Outer cemetery! at the rear of the chapel. The Come-puters were there, all of them, and some members of the Regular society. Captain Zeb Mayo, Dr. Parker, Keziah i Coffin, Mrs. Higgins and Ike. The little companyfiled out of the cemetery, and Captain Eben Hammond was but 4 memory in Trumet. Keziah lingered to a word with Grace. The girl, looking very white and worn, leaned on the arm of Captain Nat, whose big body acted as a buffer between her and: oversynipathetic Come-Outers. Mrs. Coffin silently held out both hands Grace took them eagerly. “Auntie,” she whispered, “tell me: Did a letter— Did he —” “Yes, it came. I gave it to him.” “Did—did he tell you? Do you know?” “Yes, I know, deary.” “Did he—is he—” “He’s well, deary. He'll be all right. • I’ll look out for hifn.” “You will, won’t you? You won’t let him do anything ’’ “Not a thing. Don’t worry. We’ve had a long talk and he’s going to stay right here and go an with his work. And nobody else'll ever know, Gracie.” “O Aunt Keziah! ifW could be one half as patient and brave and sweet as you are ” “Sssh! here comes Nat. Be kind to him. He’s Sufferin’, too; maybe more’n you imagine. Here she is, Nat. Take her back home and be good to her.” “I tell you,” broke in the voice of Captain Zeb Mayo, “Kezidh, I’ve been waitin’ for you. Get in my shay and I’ll drive you back to the parsonage.” Mrs. Coffin accepted the invitation and a seat in the chaise beside Captain Zeb. The captain spoke of the dead Come-O’dte? and of! his respect for him in spit* of the difference in creed. He also epoke of the Rev. John Ellery and of the affection he 4iad come to feel for the young man. “I’m glad to hear you say so. Os course Cap’n Elkanah is boss of the parish committee and—- “ What? No, ha ain't nuther. He’s hea«l of it, but his vote counts just one ants no more. What makes you say that?” “Oh, nuthin’. Only I thought maybe, as Elkanah was feel|n’ that Mr. Ellery wa’n’t orthodox ; enough, he might be goin’ to make a change. I didn’t mean to stir you iup, Zebedee. But from things Cap’n "Daniels has said I gathered that he was runnln’ the committee. And, as I’m a friend of Mr. Ellery, it—” “Friend! Well, so’m I.j ain’t I? If you ever hear of Daniels tryin’ any tricks against the minister, you send for me, that’s all. I’ll show him. Boss! Humph! ” The wily Keziab alighted at the parsonage gate with the feeling that she had sown seed in fertile ground. She was quite aware of Captain Zeb’s jealousy of the great Daniels. And the time might come when her parson needed an influential friend on the committee and in the Regular societjvThe news of the engagement between Captain Nat Hammond and Grace Van Horne, told by Dr. Parker to one or two of his patients, spread through Trumet like measles through a family of small children. Annabel Daniels and her father had not expected it. ’They were, however, greatly pleased. In their discussion, which lasted far into the night. Captain Elkanah expressed the opinion that the unexpected denouement was the result of his interview with Eben. “I think, pa,” she said, “that it’s our duty, yours and miner-to-treat him just as we always hay£f He doesn’t know that we know,_j)tid we will keep the secret. And, as Christians, we should forget and forgive.” Kyan Pepper was another whom the news of the engagement surprised greatly. When Lavinia told him of it, at the dinner table, he dropped the knife he was holding and the greasy section of fishball balanced upon it Remembering what he had seen in the grove he could not understand; but he also remembered, even more vividly, what Keziah Coffin had promised to do if he ever breathed h word. And he vowed 'again that that word should not be breathed. Keziah was*the life of the gloomy parsonage. Without her the minister would have broken down. He called her “Aunt Keziah” at her request and she continued to call him “John.” This was in private, of course; in public he was “Mr. Ellery” and she “Mrs. I Coffin.” In his walks about town he saw nothing of (jj>ace. She and Mrs. Poundberry and Captain Nat were still at the old home and no one save themselves knew what their plans might be. Yet oddly enough, Ellery was the first outsider to learn these plans and that from Nat himself.

Be met the captain at the corner of the “Turnoff” one day late in August. He tried to make his bow seem cordial, but was painfully aware that it was not. Nat, however, seemed not to notice, but crossed the road and held out his hand“Well, Mr. Ellery,” said Captain Nat, “I won’t keep you. I see you’re in a hurry. Just thought I’d run alongside a minute and say good-by. Don’t know’s I’ll see you again afore I sail.” “Before you sail? You—you are going away?” “Yup. My owners have been after, me for a good while, but I wouldn’t leave heme on account of dad’s health. Now he’s gone, I’ve got to be gettin’ back to salt water again. My ship’s been drydocked and overhauled and she’s in New York now loadin’ for Manila. It’s a long vy’age, even if I come back direct, which ain’t likely. So I may not see the old town again for a couple of years. Take care of yourself, won’t you? Good men, especially ministers, are scurse, and from what I hear about you I cal’late Trumet needs you.” “When are you going?” “Last of next week, most likely.” “Will you—shall you go alone? Are you to be—to be— ’’ “Married ? No. Grace and 1 have talked it over and we’ve agreed it’s best to wait till I come back. She’ll stliy in the old house with Hannah.” “Good-by, captain.” “Good-by. Er —1 say, Mr. Ellery, how’s things at the parsonage? Er— Keziah—Mrs. Cottm, your housekeeper, is she smart?” “Yes. She’s well.” “That's good. Say, you might tell her good-by for me, if you want to. Tell her I wished her all the luck there was. And —and—just say that there ain't any—well, that her friend —say just that, will you?—her friend said ’twas ail'right. She’ll understand; it’s a—a sort of joke between us.” “Very good, captain: I’ll tell her.” They shook hands and parted. Didama and her fellow news-venders distributed the tale of Captain Nat’s sailing broadcast during the next few days. There was much wonderment at the delayed marriage, but the general verdict v>aff that Captain recent death and the proper respect due to it furnished sufficient excuse. Hannah Pouudberry, delighted at being so close to the center of interest, talked and talked, and thus Grace was spared the interviews which would have been a trouble to her. Nat left town via the packet, on the foljo'wing Wednesday. Within another week came the news that his ship, the Sea, Mist, had sailed from New York, bound for Manila. CHAPTER XIV. In Which Trumet Talks of Captain c Nat. Summer was over, autumn came, passed, and it was winder—John Ellery’s first winter in Trumet. Fish weirs were taken up, the bay filled with ice, the packet ceased to run, and the village settled down to hibernate until spring. The stage came through on its regular trips, except when snow or slush rendered the roads impassable, but passengers were very few. Twice there were wrecks, one of a fishing schooner, the crew of which were fortunate enough to escape by taking td ih»: d.d-ies, *«nd another, a British bark, which struck on the farthest bar and was beaten to pieces by the great waves, while the townspeople stood helplessly watching from the shore, for launching a boat in that surf was impossible. Mr. Pepper made no more calls at the parsonage, and when the minister met him, at church or elsewhere, seemed anxious fttt avoid an interview. “Well, Abishai,” asked Ellery, on one of these occasions, “how are you getting on at home? Has your sister locked you up again?” “No, sir, she ain’t,” replied Kyan. “Laviny, she's sort of diff’rent lately. She ain’t nigh so —so down on a feller as she used to be. I can get out once in a while by myself nowadays, when she wants to write a l&feter or somethin'. Writes one about every once in a week. I don't ( who they’re to, nuther. She’s talkin’ of goin’ up to Sandwich pretty soon.” “She is? Alone?” “So sne sayt.” “To leave you here? Why! well, I'm surprised.” “Godfreys mighty! so be I. But she says she b’lieves she needs a change io iUi L/w They Shook Hands and Parted. and there’s church conference up there, you know, and she Aggers that she ain’t been to conference she don’t know when. I s’pose you’ll go, won’t you, Mr. Ellery?” “Probably.” Lavinia got herself elected a delegate and went, in company with Captain Elkanah, Mrs. Mayo, and others, to the conference. She was a faithful attendant at the meetings and seemed to be having a very good time. She introduced the minister to one Caleb Pratt, a resident of Sandwich, whom she said she had known ever since she was a girl. “Mr. Pratt’s a cousin of Thankful Payne over to home,” volunteered Lavinia. “You know Thankful, Mr. Ellery.” i Lavinia confided to her pastor that Mr. Pratt made the best shoes in Ostable county. He could fit any kind of feet, she declared, and the minister ought to try him sometime. She acded that he had money in the bank. ■ ’J

Spring once more; then summer, i And now people were again speaking i of Captain Nat Hammond. His ship I was overdue, long overdue. Even in ! those days, when there were no cables I and the telegraph was still something I of a novelty, word of his arrival should i have reached Trumet months before . this. But it had not come, and did not. ' Before the summer was over, the wise J heads of the retired skippers were 1 shaking dubiously. Something had I happened to the Sea Mist, something serious. As the we-eks and months went by ; without, news of the missing ves&el, this belief became almost a certainty-' " At the Ccme-Outer chapel, where Ezekiel Bassett now presided, prayers were offered for the son of their for i mer leader. . One afternoon Keziah came into El- ! lery’s study, where he was laboring I with his n&xt Sunday sermon, and sat | down in the rocking-chair. She had been.out and still wore her bonnet and j shawl. “John,” she said, “I ask your par- ' don for disturbin’ you. I wanted to j ask if you knew Mrs. Prince was ; sick?” ■ “No. Is she? I’m artfully sorry. | Nothing serious, I hope?” “No, I guess not. Only she’s got a ■ cold and is kind of under the weather. . I thought p’r'aps you’d like to run up and see her. She thinks the world and all of you, ’cause you was so good . when she was distressed about her son. Poor old thing! she’s had a hard time of it. I just heard that she was ailin’ from Didama Rogers. Didama said she was all but dyin’, so I ; knew she pimb’ly had a little cold, or somethin’. It she was really very, bad, Di would have had her buried by this time, so’s to be sure her news was ahead of anybody else’s. I ain’t been up there, but I met her t’other mornin’.” “Didama?” “No; Mrs. Prince. She’d come down to see Grace.” “Oh.” “Yes. The old lady's been awful kind and sympathizin’ since—since this new trouble. It reminds her of the loss of her own boy, I presume likely, and so she feels for Grace. John, what do they say around town about—about him?” “Captain Hammond? Why, if you mean that they’ve all given up hops, I should hardly say that. Captain Mayo and Captain Daniels were speaking of it in my hearing the other day and they agreed that there was still a chance.” “A pretty slim one, though, they cal’lated, didn’t they?” "Well, they were—were doubtful, of course. There was the possibility that he had been wrecked somewhere and hadn’t been picked up. They cited several such cases. The South Pacific is full of islands where vessels seldom touch, and he and his crew may be on one of these.” “John,” she answered, with a sigh, “sometimes I think youid better get another housekeeper.” “What? Are you going to leave ' me? You?” “Oh, ’twouldn’t be because I wanted ‘ to. But it seems almcst as if there was a kind of fate hangin’ over me and that,” she smiled faintly, “as if ’twas sort of catchin’, as you might say. Everybody I ever cared for has had somethin’ happen to ’em. My brother died; my—the man I married ' went to the dogs; then you and Grace ' had to be miserable and I had to help : mtfke you so; I sent Nat away and he blamed me and—” “No, no. He didn’t blame you. He sent you-word that he didn’t. Aunt Keziah, you’re my anchor to windward, as they say down here. If I lost you, goodness knows where I should drift. Don’t you ever talk of leaving me again.” t “Thank you, John. !’m glad you ? want me to stay. I won’t leave yet ; awhile; never—unless f have to. John, ! I had another letter t’other day.” “You did? From —from that man?” “Yup, from —” For a moment it seemed as if she were about to pronounce her husband’s name, something she had never done in his presence; but if she thought of it, she changed her mind. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Archiepiscopal Feast. A correspondent sends us the material for a dinner given by the Archbishop of York in 1468: Three hundred quarters of wheat. 330 tuns of ale, 104 tuns of wine, 1 pipe of spiced wine, 80 fat oxen, 6 wild bulls, 1,004 sheep, 3,000 hogs, 300 calves, 3,000 geese, 3,000 capons, 300 pigs, 100 peacocks, 200 cranes, 200 kids, 2,000 chickens, 4,000 pigeons, 4,000 rabbits, 204 bittern, 4,000 ducks, 400 herons, 200 pheasants, 500 partridges, 4,000 woodcocks, 400 plovers, 100 curlew, 100 quails, 100 egrets, 200 roes, 400 bucks, 5,506 venison pasties, 5,000 dishes of jelly, 6,000 custards, 300 pike, 300 bream, 8 seals, 4 porpoises and 400 tarts. There were 1,000 servitors, 62 cooks and 515 scullions. Our correspondent informs us that his authority does not state in what circumstances the dinner was given, or how many guests assembled. Possibly seme reader may be able to throw light on the subject.—Loudon Globe. Annoying Honesty. Having vouched for the honesty ot the woman who wished a situation as scrubwoman, the good-natured man was subjected to a severe examination by the superintendent of the building. “There are degrees of honesty,” said the superintendent. “How ,honest is she?” | The good-natured man reflected “Well,” he said, “I’ll tell you. She is so honest that if you throw anything that looks to be worth a copper intc the waste paper basket you have tc tag it ‘Destroy this’ or she will fish it out and put ft back on your desh night after night, no matter how badly you want to get rid of it I don’t know that I can say anything more." “Nothing more is necessary,” said the superintendent, and he hired th« woman at once. Felt the Sting of Failure. “What,” asked the hunter who had mistakenly shot a guide, bending down eagerly, “is your name?” “Smith," gasped the guide, with his last breath, The hunter’s face fell. “And I cams up here,” he exclaimed, ruefully, "ia pursuit of rare game!”—Puck.

JffIMUONAL | SIINWSdIOOI Lesson (By E. O. SELLERS. Director of EveI nlng Department The Moody Bible In- I | xtitute of Chicago.) j LESSON FOR JANUARY 19 MANS’ FIRST SIN. LESSON TEXT—Genesis 3:1-12. 22-24. GOLDEN TEXT—“Every one that comi mitteth sin is the bond servant of sin." 1 John 8:34 R. V. There are four natural divisions tc ■ this chapter in Gene&is: I. The : Temptation vv. 1-5; 11. The Fall, vv. 6,7; 111. The Trial, vv. 8-13; IV. The I Sentence vv. 14-24. L The Temptation w. 1-5. En : vironment certainly did not cause out i parents in the garden, to fall. How long after the creation of man this event occurred no ono knows. Was . it a real serpent? Why not? Did not i I Adam name all the animals? It is.nc ! stretch of imagination to believe the ! tradition that he conversed with them till driven from the garden. True Mil ton and not Genesis says this was Sa tan, yet Milton had Scripture author i ity, Rev. 12:9. We are also taught 1 that Satan can assume disguises, 2 Cor. 11:14. etc. The point of attack was to question ' the word of God; this is always the open doorway to all sin. False the- ’ ology always leads in the end to false conduct. God had forbidden to eat of 1 but one tree, chapter 2:17, but here Satan takes a partial truth to make a lie. “Ye shall hot eat of the fruit of all the trees.” v. 1 (R. V.) Eve did what Jesus did when he was tempted, replied with the words of God vv. 2 and 43. But though she saw through Satan's misrepresentation, she made the ooUosal mistake of parleying. Gaining that much ground Satan goes a step further. It is not death she I need to be fearful of; God would rath- , er prevent her becoming like himself ■ £ence the prohibition not to partake of the fruit of the tree. Eve’s Mistake. "Your eyes shall be opened . . . the woman saw.” Huihan curiosity •nd • wrong ambition for a clearer i knowledge have ever been fruitful I sources of failure. Eve made the mis- i take of adding to God’s words (2:17) j •nd of allowing herself to see the one prohibition of the garden rather than the myriads of privileges. 11. The Fall, vv. 6,7. The next •top was but the entering wedge- The appeal was to the eyes, ‘lt was a delight to the of it,” see 1 John 2:16. When God gave command not to eat, he knew j the danger of touching, 2 Cor. 6:17. There was of course a possible escape, 1 Cor. 10:13, even yet, but scarcely so. Eve had gone too far, hence she, and then Adam partook. The result was death (v. 19 and Rom. 5:12-14), but not immediate death. That sentence was carried out when Adam died. “In that day” rather/ in his day, just as we speak of the< days of Lincoln or Washington. But physical death was not all. Death means separation. Adam and Eve were separated from God because of this disobedience. Death in every sense is the result of sin, Rom. 6:23 and came upon the entire race because of the sin of one man, Rom. 5:12 R. V. But Christ the second Adam brought back life 1 Cor. 15:22. • Adam’s Fault. Adam's fault was that he listened to his wife’s persusion (v. 17). Their I desire for • present advantage, “become like God,” Overcame the fear of a future displeasure and illustrates the Hebrew word for sin, "missing the mark.” Immediately their eyes were opened. What they saw now was not “desirable to look upon® and they, made themselves, girdles from the leaves of the fig trees. Man has ever since been seeking to cover his own shame. 111. The Trial w. 8:13. Commit iniquity and human nature seeks concealment Innocence never seeks cover. Sin makes., cowards of us all. As the cool of the day approaches God walks In the garden. Os course he misses Adam and calls “Where art thou?” From that day on his call has | resounded but man heeds not the call. ' Sometimes the call comes In the cool quiet of the evening an<| sometimes the fierce blare of the tempests of life. Let us like Adam’s answer. There is, however, no joy now in Adam’s response v. 10, the joy of life is all gone once we yield to sin. Adam’s confession is worthy of study e. g., that his fear arose from his nakedness. When will men realize that In the sight of God they are naked, and that no cloak of self righteousness, nor any .other garment of man’s philanthropy can cover his sin. Notice how each sought to pass responsibility on to another, Rom. 14:12. God, however, drew from each a statement of their owr. personal participation in this entire affair and judged each accordingly, Rom. 14:10. IV. The Sentence w. 14-24. Adam sought to throw the blame upon Eve and indirectly upon God who had given him Eve. No excuse but seeks to evade responsibility. We see, however, in the words of this section three great facts presented. First, the relation between the human race afcd the race of serpents. Everything that is evil, repulsive and vile Is summarized In that phrase “that old serpent-’ Rev. 12:9. The trickery of a serpent, its venom, its noiselessness, Its resort to dark places, and man’s natural ! instinct to kill a snake, all put togeth-' er, Is but a summary of the curse as recorded in verses 14 and 15. Second, the everlasting conflict between man and tho powers of evil. One reason we know this garden story la true is that It squares with our every day experience. It is as true to life as the laws of mathematics. The power of sin, its appeal to pride, to lust, to ambition, to the pleasure of the eyes, to any and all of the emotions, and the counter pull of an outraged conscience are too vivid a reality in our lives to be denied. And lastly there is the prophecy of one who should conquer this power and bring all things subject to himself.fcj. who was. to-conqjw that IgM

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