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ture narrative of the Creation of Eve, so perfectly 

 consistent with the power and love of God, so 

 profoundly significant of the affection of husband 

 and wife, so strongly insistent upon the right of 

 woman as of man, so clearly expressive of the 

 inseparable nature of that marriage bond, with 

 but one single standard of equal and mutual fidel- 

 ity until death shall them part? Nearest from 

 the heart of Adam came that human substance 

 which the power of God was to build into the body 

 of the first Eve; nearest to the heart of Adam 

 was she to remain, husband and wife cleaving 

 together, as one flesh. Sacred must woman be 

 to man, but made doubly sacred in that new and 

 greater Eve, who was to repair the fall of Adam 

 by giving to us Christ, born of the Virgin Mary. 



Yet for Adam there was not found a helper like unto him. So 

 Jahweh God caused deep sleep to come upon Adam; and he 

 slept. And He took one of his ribs, and closed in the flesh in 

 the stead thereof. And the rib which He had taken from Adam 

 Jahweh God builded into a woman; and He brought her to 

 Adam. Then Adam said: She is now bone of my bones, 

 and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman, for out of 

 man has she been taken. On this account shall man leave his 

 father and his mother and cleave to his wife; and they shall 

 be as one flesh. 1 



Here then is a Genesis worthy of man and 

 woman. There is nothing in science to contra- 

 dict, and everything in fact and reason to confirm 

 this simple, primitive account. How exquisitely 



* Gen., II :2o-24. 



