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Zurich Herald, 1937-04-08, Page 6LESSON 11. The Sin of Adam and Eve Genesis 3: 1-4: 26 Printed Text—Genesis 3: 1-15 Golden Text—The soul that sinneth, it shall die.—Ezekiel 18: 4. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time.—We do not know when the temptation of our first parents took place. The date commonly given is about 4000 B.C. All we know :s that there were no human people before Adam and Eve and ail man- kind on earth today descends from them. Place.—The Garden of Eden, the exact location of which is not known. "Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made." —That iffore than the serpent was present is suggested by the speech and the reasoning powers displayed, but it is rendered certain by a comparison of Rev. 12: 9 and 20: 2, where the serpent is identified with Satau. That Satan was the real tempter is additionally assured by John 8: 44; 2 Cor. 11: 3; 1 Tim. 2: 14; 1 John 3: 8. "And he said unto the woman." —The tempter addresses the woman as the more susceptible and un- guarded of the two creatures he would betray. Undoubtedly, the woman was alone, and, while the point need not be stressed, it is when we are alone that temptation most powerfully assails us. "Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?"— Satan begins his temptation, and this should be most carefully noticed by attacking the word of God. "And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die."—To begin with, the woman made a great mis- take in arguing with Satan. She should have deliberately demanded that he leave her presence—Be sub- ject, therefore, unto God; but re- sist the devil, and he will flee from you. (James 4: 7). As soon as we begin to argue with Satan about the word of God, we shall be compro- mising with the sin into which Le would lead us. "And the serpent said unto the _ W0341:0:4 X.0 shall ,,not:.,,surely ,die." — This is the first lie told in human history; others were soon to follow. This denial sounds as strong as pos- sible: the brevity and completeness of the expression make the contra- diction absolute. "For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil." Satan here appeals to the woman's pride, and, at the same time, leads her to almost hate God, for having as be would insist, cheated her of life's highest privileges. Satan prom- ised her two things if she would eat of this tree: that her eyes should be opened, and that she would be as God, in that she would know good and evil. Satan himself had fallen from his high place in heaven be- cause he attempted to be as God. (Isa. 14: 12-14; 2 Thess. 2: 4). "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise."—St. John speaks of "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the vain- filory of life" (1 John 2: 16). The rst is here to be found in the phrase, "good for food"; the second in the phrase, "a delight to the eyes"; and the last in the phrase "to be desired to make one wise." Christ's three -fold temptation in the wilderness involved these three ele- ments. "She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat."— She did this deed. Satan did not do it for her, the tree fid not do it, the garden did not do it, her environment and circum- stances did not do it, and God did hof do it. It was surely not her eredity that led her to do this deed. This deed was her own per- onal, willful, responsible act, and he blame of it must rest on her orever. "And she gave also unto her hus- band with her, and he did eat." — ve was given to Adam as a help - /fleet: instead she here exercises her ower over Adam, and takes advan- tage of his love and high regard for ler in leading him into the same n in which she had just indulged. here was every reason in the world Ily Eve should not have yielded to is temptation. She was not bound any previous habits of indulg- ce. God had distinctly given her command not to do what she did O. God had given her a command r life, :...The temptation came rough an animal beneath her, not 'ough an angel above her, and, tally, there was not the slightest eat on the part d Satan to force i3x into this sin. "And the eyes of them both were opened.." — Thus far the promise of Satan was kept, but never did Eve dream that the consequences of her sin would be what she now dis- covered them to be, "And they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig -leaves to- gether, and made for themselves aprons,"—A sense of shame, a con- sciousnes of guilt now possessed our first parents, who, up to this day, knew nothing but innocence. They had a knowledge of sin, of personal guilt, of broken law whish was never to leave the human heart, and never will until the redeemed ones of God are in glory. "And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God among the trees of the garden." — The voice of the Lord which they heard in the garden was either "the noise of his foosteps (cf. Lev. 26: 12; Deut. 23: 14; 2 Sam. 5: 24); or the thunder that accompanied his approach (cf. Ex. 9: 23; Job 87: 4, 5; Psalm 29: 3, 9.) ; for the sound of his voice, as Calvin and others think; or, probably, all four." And Eve hid themselves between the trees of the garden, because they knew they were guilty of sin and had disobeyed God, who was now ap- proaching them. "And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou?" --This is one of the sad- dest and yet most precious verses in the Bible. It is the first question ever asked by God hi the Holy Scriptures, and it was asked, not that God did not know where his sinning creatures were, but that he might get them to confess where they were. "And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid."— This is the first occurrence of the word "fear" in the Bible. It will be found again and again as human his- tory is recorded. But the voice from heaven, often through angels, and, ultimately, through the Lord Jesus Christ, is 'fear not', providing man accepts God's gracious redemp- tion. "Because I was naked; and 1 hid myself."—Sad it is to note that man's first word to Goa, as far as the divine''rec'ord goes, was a lie. Man did not hide hmiself because he was naked, for he was created naked, and often before this he had fellowship with God and never had thought of hiding. Furthermore, in this case, he was not naked, for he had devised for himself a covering to hide his nakedness. The truth was that he hid himself because he had sinned, and was afraid of God, but he would not acknowledge it. "And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?" Thus God at once points to Adam to the true cause of his nakedness and intimates God's cognizance of his transgression. "And the man said, The woman whom thou gayest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat." It is cowardly of Adam to at- tempt to blame Eve for his fall, as if Eve's giving him . of the fruit of the tree was any reason why. Adam should have partaken of it. "And Jehovah God said unto the woman, What is this thou bast done? And the woman said, The ser- pent beguiled me, and I did eat." Let particular attention be paid to what the woman said regarding her sin: The serpent beguiled me. Liter- ally this word means deceived, and clearly indicates that Eve knew she had been tricked by the devil, and that she had not obtained by her sin the things which Satan had pro- mised her. Every man can testify that in is the great deceiver. "And Jehovah God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou above all cattle and above every beast of the field, upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shall thou eat all the days of thy life." The serpent is allowed no trial. This is not Satan's initial sin. This' sentence has a literal application to the serpent. The curse of the ser- pent erpent lies in a more grovelling nature thna that of the other land animals. This appears in its going on its bel- ly and its eating the dust. "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.' This is the first promise and prophecy of Christ in the Scriptures and, as Dr, A. T. Pierson well said: As the oak is germinating in the acorn, and the eagle in the egg, all subsequent Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament are here in germ. There is sacredly added, in the whole afterglow of such prophecy, one idea that is absolutely new, other pre. dictions ttrowini out of and expand- ine, Vie germinal n'ndic'tion. Titled Labor Leader Lbrd Elton, young leader of the;; British National Labor Party and" lecturer on modern history ntj Oxford University, arriving .in; New York on the liner Scythia fo his first visit to the United Stateail He will lecture in New York g '4 "Public Opinion and wor peace.,, Legal motor speeds are up, a mobile insurance rates are up, p pedestrians, no doubt, will be doh as usual, if not mere so. — Torta Star. A scientist says'.that for 60,000' years 0000;years the world was;- free of inserts Fishing in the back lakes must been a real pleasure in those dal; —Brockville Recorder and . Times e Movie is vaima.iii Rt By VIRGINIA DAL* A Little did Jack Benny know w'• he was letting himself in for w k n he decided to go to:New York .for a few weeks and do his lir adcast- ing from there. So many rquesta for tickets came in,, and, front very important people too, that the.larg- est studio at Radio City wasn't any- where near big enough,to hold thein. So, National Broadcasting`Compahy had to rent the biggest ballroom ;,of the Waldorf-Astoria and send ,the Benny broadcast out from there. Jack is one of those` big, affable, Oa - tient fellows who can . rememlter practically everybody 'hey!"eye' ':met, and he has met tl ousan's in his years of vaudeville,musical comedy,,, pictures and radio. First results of the. Academy of Mo- tion Picture Arts awards are begin- ning to be noticed at the. studios. Louise Rainer, whose performance it n "The Great Zieg- feld" was voted the best of the year, has been given a 5 - year contract by M e t r o -Goldwyn- Mayer. Paul Mimi, who got the year's award for the hest Paul Muni actor for his work in "The Story - : of Louis 1'as.cur," evidently figures that he won't be out of a job for a long time, so he is talking to contractors about building extensive dog ken- nels at his house. Someone has giv- en him a valuable schnauzer, and he is shopping around for some other dogs. For the fifth successive year Walt Disney won the award for best car- toon, Mickey Mouse in "Country Cousin" being the one singled out as the best of the year. You will have a chance soon to see all of the Dis- ney winners in one evening, as 'unit- ed Artists is going to combine the prize-winning comedies of the past five years, calling them the Walt Dis- ney Revue, A glacier is nearing an Alaskan night club. After one of, those six- month nights, it would seem just the thing to pack on the head. -- Ottawa Citizen. The best people are the ones your wife knew before she was married. —Quebec Chronicle -Telegraph. -3 Farm QuE rie Conducted by PROFESSOR HENRY G. BELL With the Co -Operation of the Various Departments of the QUESTIQN:-"What is consider- ed the best way to handle manure so as to get the most out og it? Someone advised us to leave the manure in lie barnyard until you could draw it out and plow it. under. We have a spreader, .and this year we drive up on thepile with the horse and stone -boat every day and •,as there is not much straw in it the pile is frozen too much to use a spreader like I see some farmers doing this winter. Would it be better not to drive on it so it could, heat, and be able to draw it out frequently?"— A. S. G., Oxford County. - ANSWER:—Regarding the handl- ing of manure: If you can keep it fairly well compacted in the barn- yard, so that the liquid manure is not lost, you will retain the largest amount of plantfood in it. 1 believe it is all right for you to drive on the manure pile to keep it fairly well compacted. If you have the labor to take it out in the Spring, as soon as the weather will permit, you should get- good results by handling it this way. QUESTION: -1. What would you recommend for top dressing of Fall wheat this Spring (Fall application Af 150-200 lbs. of 2-i2-10). What is the most economical and effective Ammo -Phos. Cyanamid, Sulphate of Ammonia, and Nitrate of Soda? 2. Is it possible that a sandy clay loam with lime stones in it can be lacking the very lime necessary for plant growth? 3. Could 1 expect, under fair growing conditions, a good yield of barley by using about 4-25-20 .in avaijable plantfood in fertilizer on light sandy clay loam, high, western slope along the river, the soil not very productive, plowed last sum- mer. To add some more nitrogen and kill the mustard, I intend to p dress with 50 lbs. of Cyanamid. ,euld like to know if this would every harmful to the barley? Has Cyanamid any advantage r Sulphate of Ammonia? Can it mixed with Superphosphate and: ^iate of Soda. Nitrate of Soda is ;'mmediately soluble and there is da er that you may lose some c'f it:'' f heavy rains come immediately after it is applied. Sulphate of Am - monia is likewise soluble, but to a large extent has to wait until the soil warms up sufficiently for bee- tenial action to change the Sulphate form of Ammonia to Nitrate in which form it is taken up by the crop. 'Sulphate of Ammonia is a little slower than Nitrate of Soda, and the results are prolonged. Amino -Phos would add Phosphoric acid, as well as Nitrogen, which you have already added in the 12 par cent in your 2-12-10, , Cyanamid gives best results if it is worked into the damp soil, therefore I would recommend it as a top dressing for wheat. 2, I have known soils with lime-. stones in them to be lacking n available lime for crops, but this rs not usually the case. Would it not be well to send us a sample of the soil (about 'A pint) se -that we may test it and tell you whether it needs- lime or does not.' Mail the sample in a little .cotton bag, addressing it to the Department of Chemistry, O.A.C., Guelph, Ont. Please write me at the same time as you send the sample. There is no charge for the testing. 8. 4.25-20 would be a well bal- anced fertilizer •for barley, It is a little higher than double 2-12-10, and 2-12-10 has been found` in our tests and by many others to be best adapted for production oe malting barley on' e medium to sandy loam soil'. A top -dressing with 50 lbs, Cyan- amid to kill mustard would be in the right direction. It will not be permanently harmful to the growing barley. It may turn a few of tee leaves yellow, but the added nitro- gen will help' the barley recover from this temporary setback` very rapidly. 4, Cyanamid' carries 22 lbs. of - nitrogen and TO lbs. of lime to. the 100' lbs. It is therefore dis- tinctly alkaline in its action on the soil, while Sulphate of Ammonia is decidedly acid in its action on the soil. Cyanamid cannot be mixed: in large quantities with Superphos- phate'. If it is so mixed, the lime of the Cyanamid will revert or turn back the soluble, phosphate in the Superphosphate to the insoluble form. Cyanamid can be mixed with Muriate of Potash without any ill effects. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Harvard niyersity • announced last week two Canadians had been awarded Shel- don travelling scholarships valued at $1,500, permitting study in Europe next year. Winners are Dr. Malcolm H. Hebb, of Vancouver, instructor of , physcis, and Charles F. Farzer, of Bedford, N,S., doing graduate work at Harvard Law Schools. Mr. Frazer is a son of the late Sir Frederick Frazer, of Halifax.' He won phis B.A. from King's University in 1931, his M.A. from Dalhousie University in 1932, and graduated from Dalhousie Law School in 1935. Last year he was awarded a master of law degree by Harvard. Historians of London say fancy, boxesas containers;, for Aioeohates and other confectionery were first introduced in 1868. Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances; those who are too big to pass through.. -are our friends.—Kitchener Record. Seventeen racketeers in New York cursed and wept when a jury found them guilty. It was their way of squeaking.—Detroit Free Press. English is now taught in all the German schools, occapying a position no foreign language has ever before held in the Fatherland. Attacks Court Plan as Peril to Democracy Dr, Harold W. Dodds, president of Princeton University, telling the Senate Judiciary Committee that he feared the proposed Su- preme Court change was a first step toward authoritarian govern- ment, Arc and New York k Uighlighlls and Lowiights Of The Big Metropolis NEW YORK. — So This is New York; Madison Square Garden Is nei- ther a garden nor anywhere near Madison Square --- the only horticul- tural exhibits which the place has ever housed are cauliflower oars. Grand Central Palace is anything but ai regular edifice—it is an office building.. Times Square is a triangle, There has never been a polo game in the Polo Grounds. • Broadway, as it sprawls through lower Manhattan, is one of the city's narrowest thorouglifares. Few musical shows have show girls any nioro the night clubs have most of them, Coney Island is a peninsula. George M. Cohen has not set foot upon the stage of the George M.. Cohan theatre In 'more than ten rs. Harlem, which was that section of Now York set aside for the' Dutch, is • rw almost 100 per cent, colored. It takes 41; minutes to' fly from Philadelphia to New York — and' one hour to get from the airport to• Times; Square. - • Manhattans only authentic Argen- tine night club is run by an Evil, tiara. If a motorist does more than 25 miles an hour on Gotham's uptown. Speedway,he gets a ticket for speed- ing. "Death. Avenue," or,as; the city directory calls that thoroughfare,. Eleventh Avenue, has no funeral es- tablishments. The most completely typical New York night spot is tabbed. "The I3oi- lywood. Sullivan Street is populated for the most part by Italians: The Ubangi Club, Harlem's hottest den of sepias entertainment is, own- ed by white f;,1ks. Most of tlie foreign trapeze artists, jugglers, etc., stop at the Hotel' Ara. erica. The Winter Garden Theatre• boasts of an elaborate' frigid -air' cooling sys- tem. One, of the city's: most exchi- sive residential districts• is located directly across the street from the slaughterhouse sector. Most of the large Wall Street bro. kerage houses have Broad Street; acl dresses. And New Street is one ot the town's oldest thoroughfares:, Dinty Moore's restaurant specializes, in gefulte fish. Only about one-quarter of the. route of a "Fifth Avenue Bus"' ilr albng, Fifth Avenue. Na one. has ever seen: a'. gypsy' ,n - ter one of the city.' hundred: odd' ".gypsy tea rooms:,". Gray's: Drugstore'''; bi;g ,attraction',I; for customers, are cut-rate theatre- tickets. . • There hasn't been a muszcall show i.. the Music Box for years: now. South Street is on the East Side. The Queen Mary is a Swedish res- taurant. The oii?ces; of the German -Ameri- can Society are directly over a pub. called "The Chateau Thierry." The Woolworth Building has not a five-and-ten cent store anywhere on the premises. Washington Square Park, a favorite trysting place for romantic couples, used to be. the town's Potter's Field. There's a vinegar factory at the foot of Sugar Hill in Harlem. John Perona, owner of the city's swankiest after -dark rendezvous, the 171 Morocco, dines regularly at a lunch counter a half a block away from his own establishment. And you rarely see a Broadway, col- umnist walking on Broadway — the traffic is too annoying. Cost of Living Shows, Slow Upward Trend OTTAWA—The cost -of -living in- dex of the Department of Labor continued its gentle upward trend in February, the corning issue of the Labor Gazette will show. The cost per week of a family budget of staple foods, fuel, light- ing and rent was calculated at $17.12, as compared to $17.01 in January, $16.58 for February 1936, $16 for February 1935, $16.41 for June 1933 and $22.12 for Febru- ary 1930: The wholesale price index was 83 at the end of February, compar- ed to 81,6 at the end of January, due largely to a rise in the prig of iron and steel and certain non-fer- rous metals.. The wholesale index was 72.5 in. February 1936, 71.8 cn February 1935, 63.5 in February, 1933 and 93.9 in February 1930. rief Comment Mussolini'e eociai affairs got WI the front pages but he hasn't all- dicated yet.—Brandon Sun. Some of our statesmen who "speak straight from the shoulder" should begin a little higher up; don't you thinit?—Windsor Star. It looks as if this part of the conn• try is going to be exceptionally pop• Oar with starlings this year.—Wood- stock Sentinel -:review.