EDEN.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5207, 24 September 1885, Page 3

EDEN.

The theory that the* Garden of Eden was situated in Asia Minor has been rejected by many eminent men. Chrisio pher Columbus maintained that Eden wax situated at the top of a mountain in Guiana, and be would, bare visited it bad time and money permitted. 3fhi» opinion was not, strange as it may seem, regardfd as heretical, for the church accepted Columbus' theory that the Mosaic accoUDt of a garden planted eastward, on the banks of the Euphrates, could be reconciled with scientific proof that the Rarden was, in point of %t^; pliijted on a South Ameri can mountain- Perhap« it was easier to reconcile science «od religion in the time of Columbus than it is now, for we may be very snre tliat a professor in a Southern Prebbjtcrisn theological seminary" who should adopt the theory held by Columbus would be promptly tried for heresy. A new theorist has just written a book to prove Eden was situated precisely at the North Pole. He claims that at the time of the creation of Adam the North Pole enjoyed a delightful climate, free from malaria, and wonderfully adapted to persons suffering from rheumatism, con" tumptie^"* dyspepsia, Bright's disease, broken legs, and all other diseases of the throat and lungs. It is his opinion that immediately after the fall of Adam there was a teeming population at the Pole, and that the different races of mankind emigrated from that region in separate streams to populate America, Europe, Alia, and the rest of the world. They carried with them the seeds of all valuable plants, and specimens of all desirable animals, and when the work of populating the globe had been completed the Garden of Eden was suddenly frozen solid, so that it might be preserved in ice until a late period in the history of the earth. Of coarse,' the inventor of this theory holds that an expedition should proceed to the pole and annex the Garden of Eden to the United States without delay It is, however, probable that- few objects of any pecuniary value are now in the garden. The fatal tree, of. whose fruit Adam and Eve unwisely ate, may still be in the garden, but if so it should be cut down the moment it is discovered and burned to ashes, lest another attempt to eat its apples should be made. On the whole, if the Garden of Eden is at the nortfc pole it would pot be worth while to find it, for while as a discovery it would be.'entirelyuseless, there can be little doubt that an effort would be made to erect a Monument to Adam in the centre of the garden, and the committees, for the next two centuries; would be constantly dunn ing the public for subscriptions to the building fund.—New York Times.