14 FALL OF MAN.

 

when sister was playing on the piano the other day, one
of the keys got out of tune, and you remember how terri-
bly it sounded, and how it spoiled all the music. So,
when our first parents sinned they were, in God’s world,
just like the discordant key in the piano; it was no longer
harmony and happiness, but discord and sorrow. I don’t
know, dear children, as you just understand me; but this
is what I want you to see,—that by disobedience man
has made all his own trouble.

We never can be made happy again, only as we have
a new heart; and this Jesus will give us, if we ask him
in faith, for this is what God promised immediately after
Adam and Eve had sinned. God told them that “the
seed of the woman should bruise the serpent’s head.” He »
meant by this that Jesus, who was to be born of a woman,
should at last destroy this sad work, which the Devil had
wrought by tempting our first parents to sin.

The promise of a Savior was at last fulfilled; and
Jesus died on the cross for us, that we might be saved in
heaven, if we give our hearts to him.

As Satan tempted our first parents, so we read that
he is still “going about as a roaring lion, seeking whom
he may devour.” It is this great enemy who comes to
you, children, to tempt you to say naughty words, or to
_ deceive your papa or mama, by telling wrong stories.
We are told to say to this enemy, “get thee behind me,
Satan,” and he will flee from us. He surely will, if we
ask Jesus to help us.