It may be a question, perhaps, with some persons, whether our life is derived from Adam through the successive generations of our ancestors, or whether it is directly communicated to each individual as at the first God gave it to Adam. Reason and observation alike plainly teach the fact that life having once been given to the head of the human family is transmitted from him to all its members. But should this statement be disputed, one grand fact does certainly settle this question: We all die in consequence of Adam's sin. Infants do thus die who can never by any possibility have committed sin. Why do they thus die? The answer is obvious. Adam died because he had forfeited his right to live. His children thus die because he could transmit to them no higher life than himself possessed. In other words they die because they receive from him a forfeited life. But on the supposition that each infant receives life direct from God, who can explain the death of such infants when they have never committed sin?