And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Genesis 3:1. To man, the crowning work of creation, God has given power to understand His requirements, to comprehend the
A Chance to Choose
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis 2:17. Our first parents, though created innocent and holy, were
Eden
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Genesis 2:15. Although everything God had made was in the perfection of beauty, and there seemed nothing wanting
Look at the Pattern
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Psalm 119:105. The worker for God is not left without a pattern. He is given an example which, if followed, will make him a spectacle to
Brightest and Best
And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. Isaiah 46:4. I feel anxious that in
Speculations Concerning the New Earth
When they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven. Mark 12:25. There are men today who express their belief that there will be marriages and
Inexhaustible Themes
Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified