The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-04-06
THE SITE OF EDEN.
General Gordon Thought 1t was in the
Indian Ocean Off the East Coast Of
A africa

General Gordon Thought 1t was in the
Indian Ocean Off the East Coast of
Africa.
The following are the reasons for the
theory that the Garden of Eden is at
or near Seychelles | could even put it
at Praslin, a small isle twenty miles
north of Maize. Allow that Genesis is
not alegorical that Eden, it's garden,
its two trees, did exist on this earth.
Eden is a district the garden Is a spot
chosen in that district, the trees were
actual trees, the bush, the ark, the tab
ernacle in the temple differed nothing
from the same things in the world eX-
cept for the time during which they
were spiritually consecrated or set
apart for manifestations of God, or
Satan. Gods conservation made things
which were equally clean, clean and I'M
clean; therefore l see no reason for
doubling that God did set apart the two
trees to be one of Life, the other Of
knowledge; or that God, when these
two trees had fulfilled their purpose,
should have relegated them back to
their former ordinary tree position
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tual trees--wllich had been sacrament
tai, and had ceased to be so; and in
Praslln, near Seychelles, and only there
in the whole world is a magnificent
tree, curious beyond description, called
the Prince of the Vegetable Kingdom;
it is unique In its species, and on earth
the Laodicean Seychellarum, or Coco
di Mir. This, believe, was the Tree of
knowledge. l then thought if the one
tree Is to be found so is the other and
this ] think is the Artocarpus incisa, or
bread fruit; it is a humble tree. of no
great distinction, yet to an observer 1t
is as unique in its kind and among trees
as the other This last tree is only found
in the Indian ocean. 1t is a life-sus-
tanning tree, and, like the other, it Is
full of Scriptural types.
Having thought that these were the
two trees, then the question arose:
Where was the Garden of Eden? And
first came the Information that Sey-
chelles is of granite, and other isles cut
here are volcanic, granite being the
more ancient formation. Then the Rev.
d. Bury mentioned casually that the
verse Genesis ii, 10, could be read that
the four rivers flowed into Eden, not
out of it, / have been at the source Of
the Euphrates, Tigris etc, and unless
the rivers were forced to flow back
ward, no spot could agree to a central
basin in those lands. while flood does
not change features of 10000 feet high
So took the rivers Euphrates-as Flu
pirates, on which is Babylon; Hddeke
as Tigris, on which Is Nineveh wide
DanieD. They meet and flow into the
Persian Gulf. Babylon oppressed Israel
-Nineveh oppressed Israel. Required
two other rivers connected with oppres-
sion of Israel The question of wheth-
err ever a river came down the Valley Of
Jordan into the Red Sea is one which
has been much discussed. That an i'm
mense crevasse exists from the source
Of the Jordan to the Red Sea is the
case; the depression Of the Dead Sea is
the difficulty; the ravines of Kedron
and Gihon are very deep. Taking my
ground spiritually and the similarity
Of the name Gihon, with the brook Of
l think that they are the
same. The Pison, or Nile. flowed into
The Red Sea- the Gihon, or Ginon Brook,
flowed into the Red Sea. Joined, flowed
down, met the Euphrates and Tisris,
united near Socotra, and the surround
ngs shown end in a deep basin 1900
fathoms deep which is close to Sey-
,helles. Cush is written in margin for