What has been Satan's purpose in teaching the false religion? ¶ 89.
What punishment has God fixed for the willfully wicked? Give Scriptural
proof. ¶ 90.
What is man's duty toward God and toward his fellow men in regard to
teaching the doctrine of eternal torment? ¶ 91.
How are we affected by a proper understanding of the manifestation of
divine justice? ¶ 91.
WITHOUT THE GATES
Alas! how changed from bowers of Paradise
That desolate region, overgrown with thorn
And thistle rank--a trackless waste forlorn,
Unblessed by God, o'erarched by sullen skies,
There stand that guilty pair, now sadly wise,
Their hearts with grief, their feet with briers torn,
Vainly their faded innocence they mourn,
And toward the gates of Eden turn their eyes.
No more to see the beauty and the bloom
Of that blest garden was to sinners given;
To weep and labor wearily their doom,
Out of God's holy, blissful presence driven,
Till through life's sorrows, and death's dust and gloom,
By woman's promised seed they're blest of heaven.
--_Pollok_.
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CHAPTER IV
String 3: _The Abrahamic Promise_
Some time after Adam and Eve were driven from Eden children were born to
them, who grew to the estate of manhood and womanhood and they in turn
had children. Cain obtained his wife by marrying his sister.
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