THE 

 GARDEN 



THE GARDEN 



THERE is a very ancient book in which it is 

 said that "the Lord God planted a garden 

 eastward in Eden and took the man and put 

 him in the garden in Eden to dress it and to 

 keep it." The Bible narrative opens with a 

 picture of a man in a garden. The story of 

 Humanity begins there. Was it there that 

 God meant to train man for his great career? 

 A little farther on in that old book we read 

 that when the man and the woman whom God 

 had placed in that Eden had learned to know 

 the bitterness of sin and fear, "they heard the 

 voice of God walking in the garden in the cool 

 of the day." Is the voice of God still heard in 

 the garden? Is it in the cool of the day, when 

 the fret and fever of life pass with the day's 

 glare, that we are most likely to hear the 

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