deterioration of our nature and the entrance of death, temporal, spiritual, and eternal; the departure of the Holy Spirit from the human heart, formed to be His temple; the tyranny of Satan; the gulf formed between men and all holy intelligences, and the like. In a word, whatever is restored by Christ was forfeited by sin. Thus, when Christ, in a memorable passage in John, describes man as the servant of sin, He says: “He that doeth sin is the servant of sin” (John 8:34). Commentators, in a somewhat