The Garden of Eden (1)

We shall now enter upon the practical branch of our subject. It is the old dispensation, inaugurated by the fall of man, which furnishes us with the materials to be considered. This period, however, was preceded by an epoch sometimes referred to as the golden age in the history of the human race. The first few chapters of the book of Genesis record the events of this period and describe the ideal state peculiar to it. It is related how that in the beginning God created heaven and earth. In the...