"Then I went to her father's house," added the gentleman, "and we stood up together and were married, and that was called a wedding. We promised to love and cherish each other as long as we lived. The Bible has rules for persons who live together as we intended to, and we promised to try to live according to them. Now, Walter, can you tell me what relation Adam was to Eve?"
"He was her husband."
"Where was their wedding?"
"In Eden."
"Who married them?
"God."
"There was a great and glorious company present; can you tell me who they were?"
"I suppose," replied Mrs. Dermott, "you refer to the angels, as the Bible says,—
"'The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.'"
"Then God entered into a covenant, here called a covenant of life,—perhaps you would call it an agreement,—with the newly married pair, that if they would render perfect obedience to his one command, and not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, they might enjoy all the pleasures of the beautiful garden, and a whole eternity of joy and bliss. But if they disobeyed his command, and ate the forbidden fruit, they would be cast out of the garden, and becoming sinful, would be made miserable forever."