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Eden, Garden of. ministry was fast passing away; the people were hardening their hearts; they were relapsing into iniquity with their eyes open, and they were sinning knowingly and understandingly. Angels from heaven would not have converted them; they had given themselves up to Satan, and every manifestation of the power of God in behalf of his servants only made them more angry, and more determined upon the destruction of those who sounded in their ears the unwelcome message of Divine wrath. The hurricane might demolish the dungeon; the earthquake overthrow the walls of the prison; the earth refuse to close when the Disciples were cast into it; these protests of nature simply caused their hardened hearts to conjure up fresh methods of torture and devise new means to destroy those whom they so intensely, and yet so unwarrantably hated. But they ever failed; the three Nephites still live. Encountering thus the rage and cruelty of the wicked they gradually withdrew; their ministrations grew more unfrequent; until at last they ceased to visit the haunts of men altogether. Moroni states that he and his father Mormon had seen them and been ministered to by them; and these, the last two prophets of their race, were, in all probability, the last of that dispensation who were favored with a visit from these three Nephites. They have also been seen by numbers of the faithful in this dispensation.  EDEN, THE GARDEN OF. Mentioned six times in the Book of Mormon; always, except in one case, in connection with the expulsion of our first parents therefrom.   EDOM. The land east of Canaan, inhabited by the descendants of Esau. It is mentioned but once in the Book of Mormon, in a quotation from the prophecies of Isaiah (II Nephi, 21:14).   EGYPT. The land of that name in Africa. It is mentioned frequently in the Book of Mormon, generally in connection with the life of 