~~ BANISHED FROM PARADISE.

Here is an angel with a drawn sword in his hand.
See, he is driving Adam and Eve out of the beautiful
garden, where they have been so happy. Why does he
do this?

We learned, in our last lesson, that they disobeyed
God, and lost their purity. So God would not let them
live any longer in Eden, but sent his angel to drive them
out.. See, they are weeping sorely. How terrible a thing
sin is. :

God has pronounced his curse upon them. The
woman he tells, that he will greatly multiply her sorrow;
and the man, that the earth shall be cursed beneath his
feet. It should grow thorns and thistles, and all kinds of
weeds, compelling him to work hard to earn his bread.
God told him that “in the sweat of thy face shalt thou
eat bread:” It is‘because of sin that we have to labor and
toil and:suffer so much.

When God had driven Adam and Eve out of Para-
dise, they could not go back again. Was it not very sad ?

They would have done anything in the world to have
returned to holiness and happiness, but it was impossible.