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Show ORIGINAL SIN AND THE CURE. What was original sin? Was it not ignorance? What will be the atonement for it? When the man in the Stone Age started out he was on a level with the beasts of the field, except ex-cept that many beasts had better means of defense de-fense than he had, and that within him there was the germ of reason while with the beasts their instincts were their only guide. This original man lived on fruits, berries, wild grain and such animals and birds as he could catch. In his original orig-inal cave ho learned that by getting behind an angle of the cave he could get out of the wind, and this fact finally caused him to drop upon I the other fact that by piling stones in the mouth of his cave he could keep the wind out. When he had accomplished this he discovered that he had likewise secured himself protection from the wild beasts. Then was started in his mind all the elements of the world's future architecture. The cutting of his foot on a sharp stone gave him an idea. Ho gathered some of the sharpest and thereafter cut his meat instead of tearing It to pieces with teeth and hands like the wild beast. The rebound of a limb that he was bending, bend-ing, which smote him in the face, gave him the idea of the bended bow and the flint that had cut his foot suggested tipping his arrows with it. He found that a bed in the grass was softer than on the bare earth; that suggested the gathering of the grass and making of it his bed In his cave. He hung a deer skin one day to dry over the little opening which made the door of his house and found that It kept out the wind better than the stones. That led" him to try the-skins on his bed and he found them a great success. When he killed his first deer with an arrow, his fame was established and as his brother Stone Age men came to see the reality and marked the opulence of his residence and the luxury of his apartments, he found himself famous. fa-mous. He discovered, too, that the sweetest smiles of the prettiest Stone 'Age girls' melted only on him. It has been so ever since. In tho pride of his heart he selected the loveliest one maybe two or three of the fairest and in the primintive way of the age took her to lookout B for his cave when he was absent and to perform I the most of the work when he was at home. And the dusky beauty went with him exultingly for had he not put up the first stone front ever seen, and would not his arrows secure for her all tho furs and gay feathers which her primitive heart desired? When their first child toddled out and picked up a serpent for a plaything, was struck by the reptile and in a little while died, the two learned two truths. The one was that the rattler was a thing to be avoided or crushed, the other was that a part of their lives had gone out with their dead baby and further that the tie between them had incorporated in-corporated their lives In a way they could not express, but which was later called sacred. The women picked shining yellow pebbles from the streams to make ornaments of, the man picked white shining stones from the crevices to carry home for trinkets for his girl wife; the oak shivered by lightning taught them what fire was and when they tried to warm their cave with it and it spread and ran them out they found they would have to begin furnishing their residence all over again, but found out also that their venison was the better for the cooking and also that the shining yellow pebbles and the shining white trinkets , were not consumed, but only made brighter by the fire. When they showed these to other Stone-Age men they were glad to exchange ex-change skins and venison for them, to gather and bring them fresh dried grass and there the germ of barter began to expand. So through suffering, knowledge increased, and as the race increased it was found that for mutual protection they must divide into tribes and must have leaders. Intellect expanded fast, but the moral faculties remained dormant. All the triumphs were through the old law of might. Men and tribes held their possessions only through their power; women were articles of merchandize and prisoners taken in battle were but spoils of war. As the ages wore away there were many advances, a rude alphabet was invented, invent-ed, the processions of the stars were studied out, and later, by the cunning priests gods were invented. in-vented. When Moses came a code was framed which reduced men to order, which drew much protection protec-tion around women, which established and enforced en-forced many sanitary rules. But still it was an oyo for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and revenge re-venge was not only sweet, but it was justified. Then the Messiah came and began tho appeal for mercy and the education of the higher moral attributes. at-tributes. Under that the advancement has been wonderful, woman has gravitated up to man's side and men have been thereby exalted; tho chains of slaves in all civilized countries have melted away, hospitals have been upreared and schools advanced; science has opened Innumerable Innumer-able new doors; the invisible steam and the invisible in-visible electric current have become servants to men; millions of comforts have been given to men; a thousand fears have been taken away, ono after another of nature's fierce elements has been subdued. Is it not true that all men's early sorrows came through ignorance, that they have one by one been removed until it has become clear that perfect knowledge, knowledge of the heart as well as the brain, tho knowledge that would make men good and truo and just and mer ciful for tho joy that would follow, would "be H full atonement for the original sin, and that per- M feet wisdom would bo tho suffering world's salva- M |