Page 31 - THE TEMPTATION & FALL

had forfeited all right to that happy abode,

but pledged themselves for the future to yield

strict obedience to God. But they were told

that their nature had become depraved by

sin; they had lessened their strength to resist

evil and had opened the way for Satan to gain

more ready access to them. In their

innocence they had yielded to temptation;

and now, in a state of conscious guilt, they

would have less power to maintain their

integrity.