St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-14
PARADISE AT THE POLE.
A Scientific Mans WeI|cupported Theory that
the North Pole is the Site Of the
Garden Of Eden.

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years ago that the repeated failure @ SO
many experienced Arctic explorers to
reach the North Pole was in consequent e
of something more subtle than commo
natural causes. The result of my cegitas
lions is that possibly at this Pole lies the
Garden of Eden, and that the original
tree of life still exists there to fulfill the
purpose of Jehovah, in His own appointed
time. Moreover, that the cherubim's
flaming sword, turning every way to
guard the tree of life, is the cutting,
piercing cold of that latitude, which
vixen taken in connection with the
aurora borealis, as it flashes and darts in
the northern Armament, makes the
fgurative language of scripture plain to
our understanding. To sustain this
theory, we learn from the mesgre history
of our first parents that God made them
"coats of SKINS" and as our Heavenly
Father provides His creatures with what
is best adapted for their protection and
convenience, this woald indicate that the
temperature around Eden must have
materially changed to necessitate SO
warm a covering for human bodies Al
though this barrier was sufficient to keep
the antediluvians at respectable dis
lance from Eden, it does not discourage
modern Adventures. / can imagine
that while Noah was borne up by
waters of the deluge, anchored as
it were to the heavens, the earth was
removed from under him, and the east
changed to the north. In the vast guam
titles of ivory in close proximity to the
pole is also strong evidence in support of
this theory. In Siberia on the one side
and Alaska opposite, are found preserved
portions of innumerable animals which,
on the subsiding of the waters. were en-
veloped in the preserving element as at
present found for it is quite evident
that they were not long subjected to the
changes of winter and summer, night and
day.
It would he perfectly in accord with
other acts of the Creator that He should
cast into oblivion for long period of
time the theater where was enacted the
first human crime; the progenitor which
brought forth SO much woe, the enormity
of which could not be atoned for by any
or all created beings, but necessitated the
sacrifice of the Son of God. If Jerusa~
lem, with Gods own temple, Babylon,
Tyre, Ninevah, and many other places
we're destroyed on account of the wick
edness of their Inhabitants may it not
appear reasonable that Eden was hurled
as an unclean thing into the cold and
desolate regions of the north, thus isolat-
ing from our race the first district pol
luted by the trail of the old serpent,
who SO successfully prompted the first
human crime, instigated the first murder
of brother, and corrupted the inhabi-
tants so that in the end there was but
one man found worthy to preserve
small remnant of all that breathed the
breath of life.
The prevailing idea of scientific men
that there is a warm space at the pele
also favors the above theory. The late
lamented Capt. Hall enthusiastically de-
clared, previous to his last voyage, that
he expected to place the American flag
on the pole, and to find there a beauti'
full, saIubrious climate, and a race of
human beings unlike any at present
known. If the theory herein advanced
be correct, the signal failure of that
voyage, and the sad results connected
with it, are proof positive that man,
however innocently, cannot fight against
God Alexander Shelton.
The good woman who tied bunch
of variegated ribbon to the caudal Of
her poodle, remarked that it was the
duty OF everyone to do something to-
ward making the world brighter and
better. She might not be able to point
moral as well as the minister, but she
could discount him at adjoining tail.