Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-08-08
BETTER THAN SYMMES HOLE.

Il Nesc Theory of the B0nanxa to be Found
at the North Pole-TAe Genuine Tree of
Life Grosvin0 There.
A Paterson, N. j., man named Alexander
Shelton is probably the sublimest theorist of
this or any other age. He has doubtless
read the bible good deal, and pondered
deeply upon its histories, prophecies and
mysteries. He has also read tho narratives
of the unsuccessful explorers of the Arctic
seas in search of the North pole. He has
endeavored to account for the fact of the
failure of human enterprise, skill and daring
in this direction. There is no more ipfalli-
than there is to the pole. Why cannot man
follow it? Alexander Shelton has fathomed
the reason, as he thinks. The Skeltonian
discovery is that the North pole is the veri-
table geographical site of the Garden of
Eden, and the present location of Paradise
very pleasant hot weather theory, to say the
least of it, Now how does Shelton fix the
cradle of the human race at the pole?
Very simply indeed. It is as easy as rolling
off log, in the peoples parlance of to-day.
There was an act of disobedience in the gar
den, which damned the world. and a. fratri-
eide near there which stained the earth with
the first human blood. The people went
on from bad to worse until there was only
one family left that was fit to propagate and
transmit the human race. Skeleton finds it
in harmony with other acts of the Creator
that he should wish to hide this accursed
region of the earth forever from human
KEN. Then tho world suddenly whirled 30
degrees out of the original position, the poles
coming in line with the equator, the old
equatorial regions, of course, being thrown
into northern attitudes and containing the
new poles. Thus Eden was caught in the
s'thrilling regions of thick=ribbed ice,"
which environ the North pole, and is locked
up from human research forever. The ice
atthe former pole melted, making the forty
days and forty night rain and theeaood.
The ark foated on the waters, and drift
ed into nearly the same relative
geographical position, and Noah did
not know revolution had taken place which
had swept the old ground from under him
far to the north. In such q l1ufly-burly the
tropical animals were caught in the ice and
frozen up, IS their bodies are still found en-
,bedded in natures preserves of the north.
So man came to be bolted and barred from
Eden and totally unable to tell where it had
gone out of his sight and knowledge. This
new theory of the gospel, according to Skel-
ton, accounts for it in . manner. The par
ticulars are generally unimportant, but the
conclusion is that the failuse Of so many
Arctic explorers to reach the north pole is
attributable to something more subtle than,
common notural causes. 2 Skelton supposes
the original stree of ife'' still to exist there,
probably the pole itself; also, that .sthe cher
ubim's flaming sword turning every way to
guard the tree Of life is the cutting, piercing
cold Of that latitude, which, taken inscon-,
nection with the aurora borelis as
il flashes :, and darts in the northern
armament makes the fgurative language of
scripture plain to our understanding" If
the Shelton theory Of the sequestfation sf
the Garden Of Eden IN the frozen regions of;
the North il accepted, it is hard to say Whist
effect It would have upon the daring naviga-
tors of the future. But it Is very doubtful
il i would cool the erdor Of polar expedi-