is accessible by the inhabitants; and the fruits of the tree, ripe in all months of the year, and adapted to every taste, each one may “put forth his hand” as he passes, “and take ... and eat, and live for ever.” (Gen. iii. 22.) Or, “the people that are therein” may “sit down under its shadow, and its fruit will be sweet to their taste.”—­“The leaves of the tree” are for medicine, being preventive of all disease, so that “the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick:  the people that dwell therein are forgiven their iniquities.” (Is. xxxiii. 24.) “There shall be no more curse.”  Satan gained entrance into the garden of Eden, and succeeded in entailing the “curse” upon man, and upon beast, and upon the fruits of the ground; but he shall never be loosed again, or emerge from “the lake of fire,” to disturb the repose of that blessed society in heaven, (ch. xxi. 27.)—­As the “throne of God and the Lamb” is one, (ch. iii. 21;) so it is remarkable that the distinction of persons is omitted, as though the Father and the Son were but one person.  True, Christ said, “I and my Father are one,” (John x. 30;) but he referred to unity of nature and purpose, not of personality; for, in consistency with this, he said also,—­“My Father is greater than I;” an assertion which must consist with the former, and which plainly involves personal distinction, (ch. xiv. 28.)—­“His name shall be in their foreheads.”—­Which of them?  We have found Christ’s Father’s name “written in the foreheads” of a hundred and forty-four thousand saints militant, (ch. xiv. 1.) While in conflict, “the world knew them not,” and the adherents of Antichrist “cast out their names as evil,” branding them as heretics; but now they are known to the whole universe, as the covenant property of both the Father and the Son, (ch. iii. 12.)—­“Behold, I and the children which God hath given me;” (Heb. ii. 13.) “I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me cut of the world.  Thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. ...  All mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.” (John xvii. 6,10.)—­There will be no intermission or interruption of service, “no night there,”—­no hidings of God’s countenance, no desertions; for “they shall see his face” in the “express image of the Father’s person,” be assured of his love;—­“need no candle,” nor any earthly accommodation; “for the Lord God giveth them light; and they shall reign for ever and ever,” in fulness of joy and unalloyed pleasures for evermore. (Ps. xvi. 11.) How different is this heaven from the Mahometan paradise, which, if real, could gratify only carnal and sensual sinners! yet the imaginations of many, and their aspirations too, with the Bible in their hands, are little better than those of Mahometans or pagans.  All speculations of heathen philosophers about the “chief good,” or the enjoyments of their imaginary gods, are so gross and brutish as to demonstrate the all-important