The Book of Genesis says that there is none; for, after it
has said in the third chapter, 'Cursed is the ground for thy sake,'
it says again, in the eighth chapter, verse 21, 'And the Lord said in
His heart, I will not again curse the ground for man's sake. While
the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and
winter, shall not cease.'
Can any words be plainer? Whatever the curse in Adam's days may have
been, does not the Book of Genesis represent it as being formally
abrogated and taken away in the days of Noah, that the regular course
of nature, fruitful and beneficent, might endure thenceforth?
Accordingly, we hear no more in the Bible anywhere of this same
curse. We hear instead the very opposite; for one says, in the 119th
Psalm, speaking indeed of God, 'O Lord, Thy word endureth for ever in
heaven. Thy truth also remaineth from one generation to another.
Thou hast laid the foundation of the earth, and it abideth. They
continue this day according to Thine ordinance: for all things serve
Thee.' And so in the 148th Psalm, another speaks by the Spirit of
God; 'Let all things praise the name of the Lord: for He commanded,
and they were created. He hath also established them for ever and
ever: He hath given them a law which shall not be broken.'
Yes, my friends, God's law shall not be broken, and it is not broken.
And that faith, that the laws which govern the whole material
universe, cannot be broken, will be to us faith full of hope, and
joy, and confidence, if we will remember, with the Psalmist, that
they are the laws of the living God, and of the good God.
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