3. The consequences of sin are three-fold; moral, intellectual, and physical. The most direct is the penalty proper. "In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die." Condemnation entered, and with it an untold train of evils. Guilty, he hides from his God. Man cannot be separate from the approbation of God, without a consequent alienation of mind.

4. Man was made a prophet. The prophetic power was beclouded, then obscured to the greatest uncertainty, until with the masses, it was lost. Sinful man turned his natural faculties to his own spiritual disadvantage.

5. Refusing the light of natural reyelation, he sought out causes beyond his ability, and became a speculative theorist of a false philosophy. Not liking to retain God in his memory, he was led to deny Him.

6. With the decay of the more ennobling and spiritual faculties, came the abnormal growth of the animal and sensual. Hence the hatred, revenge, fornication, strife, and utter selfishness of our race.

7. With the debasement of mind and soul, the body loses its natural protector, and physical consequences of sin multiply. Among them may be ranked the organic tendencies of our being. "We are prone to evil as the sparks fly upward."

8. The soul could not be debased without dragging down all the faculties of man. Hence, the

consequences of sin are found reaching down through his mental, even to his physical being. Sin follows up the transgressor, through these laws to the third and fourth generation.

9. Under these accumulative evils, it was not well always, to continue to man the lengthened years of his early probation. It was cut short, and a quick work of righteousness demanded. "For a short work will the Lord do upon the earth." 10. The earth is cursed for man's sake. It stands to-day a dismembered monument of God's hatred to sin. It hurls into his face the terrible fiat, "By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou gain thy bread, and in sorrow shalt thou eat of it." 11. Physical death came not as the penalty, but as a consequence of sin. "So death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned," i. e. the physical consequences have reached all, therefore all must die. This is the more evident from the Apostle's own interpretation, "Death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them who had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression."

12. Passively received, yet not the less terrible are the organic results of sin.

QUESTIONS.

1. Has God defined sin ?

What is it?

What does Paul say?

Are infants sinners? *

At what period of Paul's life was he alive without law ?*

How else is sin defined?

Are not the sins of omission, often, of equal magnitude with those of commission? *

2. What is a figure of Metonymy ?*

Is it not common to meet with Bible language where causes are put for effects?

What bold protests against a triune of error has the Bible made? Ezek. 18: 2, 3.

3. What may be said of the consequences of

sin ?

What are they?

What is the most direct ?

Does not the true penalty commence with the act?

What entered with condemnation ?
What does guilt lead men to do?
What follows moral degradation?

4. What was man by nature?

What effect had sin upon prophecy?

How does sin turn the natural faculties ?

What advantages might be derived, from a

mind naturally skeptical?*

5. What is natural to the unrenewed heart?

What is necessary to guide a person into true philosophy ?*

What was man led to do?

6. What resulted from moral degradation? Can the mind maintain independence against the degraded soul ? *

7. What does the body lose in sin?

What results follow?

Are not some persons born with stronger propensities to evil than others?

8. What general results follow sin?

9. Would it be well to allow sin to accumulate, in the same man, for many centuries?

What did God do for his sake? Gen. 7: 11. What does God demand?

10. How has sin affected the earth? Dan, 2: 21 How does the earth stand to us? What fiat does it present?

11. What caused physical death?

Who, of the human race, have not sinned ?*

12. In what manner does man receive the organic effects of sin?

Are not these effects greatly under the influence of will and habit?

*

THE RELATION OF SACRIFICE TO SIN.

LESSON LXXIX.

"For every high priest, taken from among men, is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sin."-Heb. 5: 1.

1. Propitiatory sacrifices pertain to the covenant of grace. Hence we find them instituted soon after the introduction of sin. The thing to be sacrificed, the manner of doing it, and the state of mind with which the worshiper should approach the altar, were all prescribed by God. 2. Cain brought an offering, but failed to comply. Abel brought his in compliance with the requirement, and received assurance of acceptance. Sacrifices were illustrated sermons, preaching the means, and impressing the assurance of pardon.

3. Sacrifices were not intended to render God propitious. To suppose God wanting in mercy,