"I, John, saw the holy CITY NEW JERUSALEM coming down from God, _out of Heaven_, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." In the 5th v. John saw him that "was dead and is alive forevermore," seated upon "his throne;" and he said unto me "write, for these words are true and faithful." "And there came unto me one of the seven angels, saying come up hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife; and he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and _shewed_ me that great CITY THE HOLY JERUSALEM, descending _out of Heaven_ from God, having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a Jasper stone, clear as crystal. And I heard a great voice _out_ of Heaven saying, behold, the TABERNACLE of God is with men." What a beautiful description is here--please read the whole chapter. In the two first verses of the xxii. chapter, we learn that the walls of this CITY enclose "the tree of life," "which is in the midst of the _Paradise of God_." Moses testifies that "the Lord God planted a _garden_ eastward in _Eden_, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And the tree of life also in the midst of the _garden_, and a _river_ went out of _Eden_ to water the garden, and became into four heads." Gen. xi: 8, 10; iii: 3, 17, 22, 24. Compare this with Ezekiel's prophecy, xlvii: 3, 5, 12; also xlviii: 30, 35. There he speaks of waters first shallow and then deep; waters to swim in that could not be passed over, on the "banks of which shall be fruit every month, and the leaves for medicine." He also shows the four sides or "heads" to the river. The prophet Isaiah says "Look upon _Zion, the City_. _Jerusalem._ _Tabernacle_, a place of broad rivers and streams; where shall pass no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby,"--xxxiii: 20, 21. Surely this is the same which Moses and Ezekiel has described; and John says, "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the _Paradise_ of God. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Rev. xxii: 17, 2, 7. Then this "_Holy City_, _new Jerusalem_, _the Zion of God_, _the Tabernacle of God_, _the Bride the Lamb's Wife_, _the Mother of us all_," is a _City_, enclosed with a wall one hundred and forty-four cubits high, which embraces the "_garden of Eden, the Paradise of God_." And God calls it his "SANCTUARY." I suppose that it will be conceded by all, that the _Garden of Eden_ at the time of the fall, was a literal place, and was planted eastward. Yes, says one, and it is located in "Ethiopia or Assyria." How then is it, that the traveller and historian are entirely silent about it? Surely, it is a most remarkable place. Hear Moses's description of it:--"Therefore the Lord God sent him (Adam) forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man: and placed at the _East_ of the garden