The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-16
WHERE yAS IT2

Where was the Garden of Eden, that beautiful place where Adam was put by God, who had formed" him; where "the Lord God made to grow every tree that Is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil;" where Eve was made and called Woman, be- cause she was taken out of Man." and where that same Eve, in silly co-opera- tlon with the subtitle Serpent, promptly took out of Man all his innocence, and all his happiness, changed his life from comfort and content to labor and sor- row, and fixed it SO that he must eat bread in such days as these'i in the sweat of his face. The bible says the garden was eastward in Eden" It also gives the following hints as to the location Of the garden: And "a. river went out from Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison; that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there IS gold; and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx-stone; and the name of the second river is Gihon; the same is 1t that conlpasse-h the whole land of Ethiopia; and the name of the third river is Hiddekal; that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria, and the fourth river is Flu pirates" This description would per- haps now be good guide if Eve and the Serpent hadn't changed things in the way they did, but it doesn't tell anything with certainty in the present state of affairs. Josephus and some of
 he fathers of Christendom thought that the description indicated all the terri tory between the Ganges and the Nile Calvin and some of his contemporaries located 1t in Babylonia, not far from the Persian gulf. Hales, Faber and other writers claimed that it was in Armenia, near the source of the Tigris and Euphrates, while many modern German biblical students argued that it was in Bactria, or Cashmere, or the region a little to the north of 1t, which is called, to this this day .Audsan "tthe garden.
 But now comes w. Marsham Adams, whose name is a reminder of the man who lived in the garden until he knew too much, and announces that he be- lieves that the garden was in the region of the great lakes of Africa, where are the heads of four great rivers, which go forth to water the whole country" :" viz, the Congo, Nile, Niger and Zam-
 besi, whose seaward basins have an aggregate area of 4,S5O000 square miles. In the eastward part of this great ba- sin is the great garden of 5000 square miles, which Stanley pictured as a natural paradise. MT. Adams claims that this is the veritable Eden of Gen. esis, a, single river that waters the gar ! den exactly as described in the an- cient story. Here Adam and Eve four 1 ished, and from thence their descend
 ants gradually worked their way down | to the fertile plains of Egypt, and es- tablished the oldest civilization of the | world.
 l This is an interesting and 8 plausible | theory. And if the Garden-of Eden was where MT. Adams thinks it was were
 Adam and Eve negroes, or were there
 rlo negroes until Canaan was cursed? | By the way we would respectfully in 1 Sheldon of this city to the fact that in
 the bibles description of the locality uf
 the Garden of Eden there is no mention of silver Gold is mentioned. Is it moi 1 possible that Brother Sheldon in his devotion to silver is tending downward
 instead of upward? Do mot Gold auG | the Garden of Eden go together, and dc not Silver and Sin join hands to plague those who are out of the Garden
 Would not Brother Sheldon be more
 right than he is if he were engaged ir
 pointing his fellow men toward gold
 and the Edenic ideals instead of toward
 silver, which does not appear to have
 been considered in that day when the
 human race was good?