The Beginning. 33

 

“We must never read this sad story without
thinking of Him who is called in the Bible
the Second Adam, because He showed us in
His perfect life all that the first Adam should
have been, and was not. He fulfilled exactly
all that God meant man to be; He was per-
fect in obedience; He overcame the tempta-
tions of the bad angel.

‘He died that we might be forgiven ;
He died to make us good;
That we might go at last to heaven,
Saved by His precious blood.’

If we will but trust in Him, and do His will,
He will give us back more than all that Adam
lost. He will bring us to a better paradise,
and make us happy there for ever.”