_Answer_. He pronounced a curse upon the woman, saying that in sorrow she should bring forth children, and that her husband should rule over her; that she, having tempted her husband, was made his slave; and through her, all married women have been de- prived of their natural liberty. On account of the sin of Adam and Eve, God cursed the ground, saying that it should bring forth thorns and thistles, and that man should eat his bread in sorrow, and that he should eat the herb of the field. _Question_. Did he turn them out of the garden because of their sin? 371 _Answer_. No. The reason God gave for turning them out of the garden was: "Behold the man is "become as one of us, to know good and evil; and "now, lest he put forth his hand and take of the "tree of life and eat and live forever, therefore, the "Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden "to till the ground from whence he was taken." _Question_. If the man had eaten of the tree of life, would he have lived forever? _Answer_. Certainly. _Question_. Was he turned out to prevent his eating? _Answer_. He was. _Question_. Then the Old Testament tells us how we lost immortality, not that we are immortal, does it? _Answer_. Yes; it tells us how we lost it. _Question_. Was God afraid that Adam and Eve might get back into the garden, and eat of the fruit of the tree of life? _Answer_. I suppose he was, as he placed "cher- "ubim and a flaming sword which turned every "way to guard the tree of life." _Question_. Has any one ever seen any of these cherubim? _Answer_. Not that I know of. 372 _Question_. Where is the flaming sword now? _Answer_. Some angel has it in heaven. _Question_. Do you understand that God made coats of skins, and clothed Adam and Eve when he turned them out of the garden? _Answer_. Yes, sir. _Question_. Do you really believe that the infinite God killed some animals, took their skins from them, cut out and sewed up clothes for Adam and Eve? _Answer_. The Bible says so; we know that he had patterns for clothes, because he showed some to Moses on Mount Sinai. _Question_. About how long did God continue to pay particular attention to his children in this world? _Answer_. For about fifteen hundred years; and some of the people lived to be nearly a thousand years of age. _Question_. Did this God establish any schools or institutions of learning? Did he establish any church? Did he ordain any ministers, or did he have any re- vivals? _Answer_. No; he allowed the world to go on pretty much in its own way. He did not even keep his own boys at home. They came down and made 373 love to the daughters of men, and finally the world got exceedingly bad. _Question_. What did God do then? _Answer_. He made up his mind that he would drown them. You see they were all totally depraved,--in every joint and sinew of their bodies, in every drop of their blood, and in every thought of their brains. _Question_. Did he drown them all?