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minister unto those who shall be heirs of salvation. It is through Christ
alone that the heavenly messengers minister to men.
Adam and Eve in Eden were placed under most favorable cir-
cumstances. It was their privilege to hold communion with God and
angels. They were without the condemnation of sin. The light of God
and angels was with them, and around about them. The Author of
their existence was their teacher. But they fell beneath the power and
temptations of the artful foe. Four thousand years had Satan been at
work against the government of God, and he had obtained strength
and experience from determined practice. Fallen men had not the
advantages of Adam in Eden. They had been separating from God for
four thousand years. The wisdom to understand, and power to resist,
the temptations of Satan had become less and less, until Satan seemed
to reign triumphant in the earth. Appetite and passion, the love of the
world and presumptuous sins, were the great branches of evil out of
which every species of crime, violence, and corruption grew.
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