What Happened to Bliss?

"In Eden dwelt bliss; 

   but sin came, and bliss fled: 

      bliss cannot abide with sin, no, not in Eden. 

Man felt this; 

all nature felt: but the blessed God, by whose righteous law they were

made subject to vanity and death, mercifully subjected them "in hope."

 

This "hope" was begotten by the first promise: "Thy seed shall bruise his head." (Genesis 3:15)

Adam and Noah died in the faith, and left this hope to be cherished by their posterity; and their race have, in one form or another, ever cherished this hope, and will cherish it, until the time comes for it to be fulfilled." H.D. Ward