"Yes, and it is equally sin if we do not conform to the law. Suppose God had commanded Adam and Eve to eat of the fruit of a particular tree, and they had not done it, would they not have sinned just as much as by eating the forbidden fruit?"
"Yes, sir."
"But for a long time after the creation of the world, God's law was not written down in the Bible; your mother will tell you where it was written."
"Paul says it was written in the hearts of men,—
"'their conscience also bearing witness.'"
"Before the Bible was completed, God wrote his commands upon two tables of stone. Do you know what became of them?"
"Moses broke them in pieces, because he was so angry that the Israelites worshipped the golden calf; but God wrote them again, and afterward they were put into the ark."
"In what part of the Bible do we find them?"
"In the twentieth chapter of Exodus, and also in Deuteronomy."
"Has any one ever lived in perfect conformity to the law of God?"