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and lost, that they were said to die. Ten of the 

 sons of Jacob are dead, two, Judah and Benjamin, 

 are still living, marvels of youth in hoary age. 



Adam knew that though he was master of fire, 

 king of beasts, and lord of the world, he was him- 

 self dependent; that he and they were creatures of 

 an over-all Ruler. Standing highest in the ranks 

 of life, could he not aspire to a knowledge of and 

 communion with the Highest? His soul heard the 

 word of the Lord God in the garden; heard it as he 

 looked up into the over-arching stars; heard it call- 

 ing to him, "Where art thou, Adam?" — a voice that 

 is heard, and often heard, by every son and daugh- 

 ter of man: "Where art thou? What doest thou?" 



The great apostle took Adam, the primitive man, 

 when he was of the earth earthy, as described by 

 the author of Genesis, and contrasted him with the 

 One divine and perfect man who was filled with the 

 Spirit of God to the exclusion of all else. The earthy 

 Adam, and all that were such as he, died and re- 

 turned to the dust of which they were constituted. 

 The spiritual Adam from heaven brought and 

 bestowed eternal life. This was simple of state- 

 ment and easy to be understood before the fictions 

 of poets and the vanity of theologians had wholly 

 perverted and obscured the plain and true descrip- 

 tion of Adam, the primitive man, by Moses. Thus 

 dogmas were invented, as unreasonable as they 

 were immoral, which were supposed to be consistent 

 and logical with the character of the divine being 



