Carry Deacon said, “Yes, I remember. You read about Adam and Eve, and about our heavenly Father sending them away out of the beautiful garden of Eden where they lived, and that he sent them away because they were disobedient.” “And, Mary,” said Eddy Forester, “you told us you would read to us next time about the way to get back again to God, and the beautiful garden which you called Paradise.” Mary read to her little scholars, the first, second and twelfth verses, in the second chapter in the first epistle of John; the eighth and twenty-third verses in the third chapter; and the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh verses in the fourth chapter. She then told them, that Jesus Christ our Saviour, was sent into the world, not only to show us the way to God and Paradise, (which is heaven,) but to fit us to go to that holy and happy place. She explained to them, that when Adam and Eve had sinned, and our heavenly Father sent them out of the beautiful garden of Eden, he knew they could not be happy without him; and he pitied them, and loved them so much, that he sent his only Son, Jesus Christ, from heaven down to earth, to be their Saviour, and our Saviour, and the Saviour of the whole world. Our heavenly Father knows all things, and he knows how wicked the heart is, and that the wicked one who had tempted Adam and Eve to sin, would follow the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve wherever they went, and that he would tempt them to sin too, and to forget Him. And because he loved them, and us, and everybody, He sent his only begotten and dearly beloved son to be our Saviour, to die for us and to teach us how to avoid sin, and how to come to him and love him, and to love one another. Eddy Forester said, “Mary, does the wicked tempter follow you and me and everybody?” “Yes,” said Mary, “and he is always trying to make us sin. He knows, that if he can prevail upon us to commit sin, we shall be separated from God. He hates God, and every thing that is good, because, where God is, he cannot come. The greatest evil that can happen to any of us, is to be separated from God, by sin.” “If we stay close to God, the wicked one cannot hurt us, can he, Mary?” said Eddy. “No! and if we ask Him, he will put his good Spirit in our hearts, and then there will be no room for the wicked one. This good Spirit of God, will guide us to the knowledge of our Saviour, and then we shall like to read about him in the Bible. You are too young to understand all that the dear Saviour has done, and suffered for us, to take away our sin and to make us the children of God; but I want you to think about Him very often; and by and by, I hope you will know more than you do now.” “Then will we be our Saviour’s little lambs, Mary,” said Eddy, “the little lambs that you once read to us about, that he carried in his arms?”