(_d_) Communion with God.—Our first parents enjoyed the divine presence and teaching (Gen. 2:16). It would seem that God manifested himself to them in visible form (Gen. 3:8). This companionship was both in kind and degree suited to their spiritual capacity, and by no means necessarily involved that perfected vision of God which is possible to beings of confirmed and unchangeable holiness (Mat. 5:8; 1 John 3:2). _Gen. 2:16_—“_And Jehovah God commanded the man_”; _3:8_—“_And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day_”; _Mat. 5:8_—“_Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God_”; _1 John 3:2_—“_We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is_”; _Rev. 22:4_—“_and they shall see his his face._” 2. Concomitants of man’s possession of the divine image. (_a_) Surroundings and society fitted to yield happiness and to assist a holy development of human nature (Eden and Eve). We append some recent theories with regard to the creation of Eve and the nature of Eden. Eden—pleasure, delight. Tennyson: “When high in Paradise By the four rivers the first roses blew.” Streams were necessary to the very existence of an oriental garden. Hopkins, Script. Idea of Man, 107—“Man includes woman. Creation of _a_ man without a woman would not have been the creation of man. Adam called her name Eve but God called their name Adam.” Mat. Henry: “Not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled on by him; but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be beloved.” Robert Burns says of nature: “Her ’prentice hand she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!” Stevens, Pauline Theology, 329—“In the natural relations of the sexes there is a certain reciprocal dependence, since it is not only true that woman was made from man, but that man is born of woman (_1 Cor. 11:11, 12_).” Of the Elgin marbles Boswell asked: “Don’t you think them indecent?” Dr. Johnson replied: “No, sir; but your question is.” Man, who in the adult state possesses twelve pairs of ribs, is found in the embryonic state to have thirteen or fourteen. Dawson, Modern Ideas of Evolution, 148—“Why does not the male man lack one rib? Because only the individual skeleton of Adam was affected by the taking of the rib.... The unfinished vertebral arches of the skin-fibrous layer may have produced a new individual by a process of budding or gemmation.”