The child's book of Bible stories : with practical illustrations and remarks on the fall . to be done. It was just something not to be done,not to take the fruit from one tree. How do you suppose you would have felt if youhad been in that beautiful garden, and, like Adamand Eve, been forbidden to eat of the fruit of thetree in the midst of the garden ? You think, perhaps, that you would not have com-plained at all of the prohibition, but have been per-fectly contented, and thankful to God for all hisgoodness. But have you never felt uneasy and discontented THE PROHIBITION. 25 when your parents
The child's book of Bible stories : with practical illustrations and remarks on the fall . to be done. It was just something not to be done,not to take the fruit from one tree. How do you suppose you would have felt if youhad been in that beautiful garden, and, like Adamand Eve, been forbidden to eat of the fruit of thetree in the midst of the garden ? You think, perhaps, that you would not have com-plained at all of the prohibition, but have been per-fectly contented, and thankful to God for all hisgoodness. But have you never felt uneasy and discontented THE PROHIBITION. 25 when your parents or teachers have forbidden you todo, or to take something ?—Have you never thoughttheir prohibition too hard, and wished that you couldbe free from it ?—Think a little, and you may findreason to believe, that if you had been under thesame prohibition as Adam and Eve were, you wouldhave thought it too strict, and wished that God hadnot made it. We shall see, in a few stories more, how they feltand acted. And let us try to see, too, whether youfeel and act any better than they STORY III THE PENALTY. A father who had a library in which there was alarge and costly book of beautiful pictures, told hisson that he must not take it down from its place. Hesaid that he would show it to his son whenever itwas best for him to see it, but that he must nevertake it down, and that if he did, he should shut himup in a room, and keep him there six hours. The being shut up in the room six hours, was thepenalty which the boy would have to suffer if he dis-obeyed his father. If a man steals, the law says he must be put intoprison. Imprisonment is the penalty for stealing. If a man kills another in anger, intending to do it,it is murder, and the lav/ says he must be hung. Tobe hung is the penalty for murder. Have you ever suffered any penalty for having 30 THE PENALTY. broken the commands, or rules, of your parents orteachers f When God forbade Adam and Eve to eat the fruitof the tree wh
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