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142 is natural and whose pleasures are transient—it is evident that the blessings which Eden comprises must be of a spiritual and not of a worldly character. This realm is no Mohammedan paradise of beautiful houris, delicious perfumes, voluptuous music, and other sensual delights. It is that generous, pure and holy state of the soul which rests in the Lord, which takes home to the heart the spiritual life that He has taught, and which finds its chief pleasure and delight in doing good.

We fully understand, now, that Eden is a state of the soul and not a natural locality. Were it not so, we could not approach the closing chapter of Scripture with any just appreciation of its meaning. Like the great I AM who is the only God, and yet is called by many names, Jehovah, Jesus, Christ or Lord, Adonai or Immanuel, so, in a large sense, there is only one spiritual home for man, although it is referred to or spoken of in Scripture under many names. In Isaiah it is called Hephzibah, the Lord's delight, and also Beulah, the married land. In many places it is called Jerusalem, sometimes Zion; Jesus preached it as the kingdom of heaven; John described it as the holy city, New Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. But it is introduced in the early chapters of Genesis as the Garden of Eden

Now all these expressions are typical of a spiritual state of the Church or of man. True, Zion