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 was God. The ship was our world. The captain and mate Adam and Eve. The crew their children. The island the forbidden tree. The man in the boat the devil. The shipwreck the fall. The prison our lost and enslaved condition. The deliverer Christ.

How sad it was that our first parents should have sinned and brought so much misery upon us. Do you think you would have done so if God had placed you in the garden of Eden? Yes, I fear you would. There was a gentleman who used to employ an old man as a gardener, and a funny old man he was, for as he worked