It had had the chance of salvation in Adam, and had lost it, and was therefore condemned.

To the preacher this punishment of the helpless heathen seemed only just.
"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right ?" he cried, and he stopped to suppose, for the sake of argument, that Adam had not sinned: surely no one would have disputed the justice of receiving the blessings which his godliness would have entailed.

Then he began to prove the right of the potter over the clay.

He had forgotten his congregation; the horror of the damnation of the heathen was lost in the fear that one soul should perish.

He saw only Helen; she was in danger, she was far from God, but yet the price of admission to heaven could not be altered, though his heart broke for longing that she should be saved; the requirements of the gospel had not softened, the decrees of Omnipotence were as unchangeable as the eternal past.
His words, glowing with his love and grief, were only for her.