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The Garden of Eden.

liary favored nor neglected one. Therefore, whether we live on this side of the great ocean or the other, whether on the earth or on one of the other planets, whether in this solar system or in any other of the myriads which dot the starry heavens, we are all momentarily watched over, guided and guarded by the omnipresent All-Father.

True, we cannot comprehend infinity; that is, we cannot fully comprehend how the knowledge of the Lord can embrace things so minute, or his presence extend so far. This is one of the subjects which is beyond our mental grasp. The child fails to comprehend many things which, as a man, he sees quickly and clearly. We are unable while in the flesh, to see the why of many things which, in the other world, will be simple and plain to us. One of the great delights of men who become angels, will be the constant broadening of their mental horizon, and the ever-enlarging power of their mental grasp.

We shall get nearer to this question of how the Lord can supervise the most minute affairs, only as our spiritual understanding develops and our experiences multiply. If we never come into it fully, it will be because we are not gods, and none but the Divine can fully comprehend the infinite operations of the Supreme Mind. Yet we can feel its influence; we can know its truth; we can