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ened with the odors of the woods and spiced with 

 the fragrance of balsam and birch — compared with 

 this the highest artificial pleasures that wealth can 

 furnish are a weariness, Adam was under disad- 

 vantages, but after all he was the happiest man of 

 his race. 



Let us return to Paradise. Let us forsake the 

 vapid follies of fashion and display and dissipation, 

 and return to a life as simple and unostentatious, 

 as benevolent and unselfish, as that of our Lord. 

 Let us return to simple faith in God as our Heav- 

 enly Father, and in our fellow-man as our brother. 

 Let us free ourselves from the vain complexities of 

 theology, philosophy, and of living, and rise to the 

 pure, free air, and to the simple dignity and worth 

 of true manhood and womanhood. Let us go back 

 and dwell with Adam and Eve in the Garden of 

 Eden. 



