Editorial August 2, 1958 ISSUE

PERPETUAL FRUITAGE

Harold Molter

In the Biblical allegory of Adam and Eve (Gen. 2), it is related that Adam was placed in the garden of Eden, in which there were trees pleasant to behold and bearing fruit. In the allegory, the Lord God tells Adam that he is free to eat of the fruit of these trees. But Adam is forbidden to eat the fruit of the one called "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" and is threatened with death if he partakes of it.

Throughout the ages, mankind, like Adam in the allegory, has chosen to partake of "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil"; that is, men have accepted a material sense of existence, a mixture of good and evil, of Spirit and matter, as the substance of their lives. As a result the world today is suffering the inevitable fruitage of sin, sickness, death, lack, and other discords.

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