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The Story of Redemption
Although everything God had made was in the perfection of beauty,
and there seemed nothing wanting upon the earth which God had
created to make Adam and Eve happy, yet He manifested His great
love to them by planting a garden especially for them. A portion of
their time was to be occupied in the happy employment of dressing
the garden, and a portion in receiving the visits of angels, listening
to their instruction, and in happy meditation. Their labor was not
wearisome but pleasant and invigorating. This beautiful garden was
to be their home.
In this garden the Lord placed trees of every variety for useful-
ness and beauty. There were trees laden with luxuriant fruit, of rich
fragrance, beautiful to the eye, and pleasant to the taste, designed of
God to be food for the holy pair. There were the lovely vines which
grew upright, laden with their burden of fruit, unlike anything man
has seen since the fall. The fruit was very large and of different col-
ors; some nearly black, some purple, red, pink, and light green. This
beautiful and luxuriant growth of fruit upon the branches of the vine
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was called grapes. They did not trail upon the ground, although not
supported by trellises, but the weight of the fruit bowed them down.
It was the happy labor of Adam and Eve to form beautiful bowers
from the branches of the vine and train them, forming dwellings of
nature’s beautiful, living trees and foliage, laden with fragrant fruit.
The earth was clothed with beautiful verdure, while myriads of
fragrant flowers of every variety and hue sprang up in rich profusion
around them. Everything was tastefully and gloriously arranged.
In the midst of the garden stood the tree of life, the glory of which
surpassed all other trees. Its fruit looked like apples of gold and
silver, and was to perpetuate immortality. The leaves contained
healing properties.
Adam and Eve in Eden
Very happy were the holy pair in Eden. Unlimited control was
given them over every living thing. The lion and the lamb sported
peacefully and harmlessly around them, or slumbered at their feet.
Birds of every variety of color and plumage flitted among the trees
and flowers and about Adam and Eve, while their mellow-toned