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18 BANISHED FROM PARADISE.

 

We can do things that we cannot undo. You have
power to take an axe and cut off your fingers, but you have
no power to make them grow on again, but must go
maimed through life. Adam had power to ruin his soul,
but he had not power to restore it again. But “God so
loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son that
whosoever believeth in Aim, need not perish, but have
everlasting life.” He can save us, even if we have been
great sinners, and bring us back to heaven again, if we
accept Jesus to be our Savior. ,

Just think of it, children; when Adam and Eve had
sinned, God would not allow them to remain in his pres-
ence, but drove them out of Eden, which he had made so
beautiful and glorious for their home. Now if God would

~ not allow them to be in his holy presence while in their

sins, how is it possible for him to receive sinners back
into his presence, until they are cleansed in the blood of
Jesus.

Sin has made all our sorrow. Every time you weep,
remember it has been caused by sin. Every time you
are sick, or look upon death, remember sin brought it all
into the world. What sad ruin sin has brought upon
us! But, O, how precious to know, that Jesus can-forgive
us, and cleanse us, and make us as pure as the angels
again! Will you not ask him to do it?