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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, their special residence.
In this garden the Lord placed fruit-trees of every description, for
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usefulness and beauty, also lovely flowers which filled the air with
fragrance. 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.
Very happy were the holy pair in Eden. Unlimited control was
given them over every living thing. The lion and the lamb sported
together 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
music echoed among the trees in sweet accord to the praises of their
Creator.
In the midst of the garden, near the tree of life, stood the tree of
knowledge of good and evil. Of this tree the Lord commanded our
first parents not to eat, neither to touch it, lest they die. He told them
that they might freely eat of all the trees in the garden except one; but
if they ate of that tree they should surely die.
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