The child's book of Bible stories : with practical illustrations and remarks on the fall . gst the trees of thegarden. Have you not felt just so when you have donewrong, and were afraid of being found out. Some- THE REMORSE. 65 times you may have run away and hid yourself asAdam and Eve did; and at other times, you havewished to avoid the eye of some one,—of your pa-rent or teaeher, and would have hid yourself fromtheir look if you could have done it. How unpleasant such feelings are ! But how hap-py a person feels when he can look every body fullin the face,—fearing no eye that shall examine
The child's book of Bible stories : with practical illustrations and remarks on the fall . gst the trees of thegarden. Have you not felt just so when you have donewrong, and were afraid of being found out. Some- THE REMORSE. 65 times you may have run away and hid yourself asAdam and Eve did; and at other times, you havewished to avoid the eye of some one,—of your pa-rent or teaeher, and would have hid yourself fromtheir look if you could have done it. How unpleasant such feelings are ! But how hap-py a person feels when he can look every body fullin the face,—fearing no eye that shall examine him,and no tongue that shall ask him a question. How happy you have felt when you could run andmeet your father, or mother, or teacher, and heartheir voice, and catch their kind look, and let themsee that you look as an obedient and happy child al-ways does. Be obedient to them. Be obedient to God, if youwish to enjoy this happiness. Remember how Adamand Eve hid themselves in the garden, and pray toGod that he would keep you from sinning, that soyou may be kept from shame and STORY VIII THE EXCUSES. How very hard it is when a person has clonewrong, to feel sorry for it, and to confess it, and askto be forgiven. How often when you have done wrong, have youtried, on being told of it, to make some excuse for forgot, you said, all about what your parent orteacher had commanded. You did not suppose thatthey meant exactly so. You did not intend to do justas you did. It was much worse than you thought itwould be. You were mistaken about it. A compa-nion told you there could be no harm in doing led you on to do it. He did it more than halfhimself. You never would have thought of doing it,if he had not tempted you. Just so Adam and Eve began to make excuses,when God called them out from their hiding placeand they came and stood trembling before him. 70 THE EXCUSES. Hast thou eaten, said he to Adam, of thetree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldestnot eat ?
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