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134 “has perfected praise out of the mouths of babes and sucklings” to destroy the revengeful foe.

As it is God's stern command that we should teach the children the commandments He has given us, and shall bring them up in the fear and admonition of the Lord, there are in the Scriptures many beautiful witnesses to the one God and His divine qualities; how He reveals Himself by His works, and how He created all things by the power of His word; the breath of His mouth, and His impenetrable omnipotence and omniscience; Scripture further testifies how through the devil's envy death, temporal and eternal destruction, came into the world, and how the human race by Satan's cunning fell into sin and disobedience, and that through this disobedience sin came into the world, and through sin, death, and thus death penetrated to all men, because they all sinned.

Holy Writ teaches us also, that God in His great mercy promised fallen mankind that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head, that they may be again redeemed from the curse through an eternal redemption. Of all this we find in Scripture many comforting promises given to the fathers from time to time through Moses and the Prophets, partly by signs and partly by visions and prophecies. Of these there are many in the Old Testament. Again, how such promise was fulfilled through Christ, the promised offspring of woman, by the Holy Ghost, God's mysterious plan of redemption — incomprehensible to man. Of His birth, ministry, life, suffering, death, resurrection and ascension, of