If any one thought they knew how to measure Eve's blessedness and position, and only measured it by her relationship to Adam as an individual-the help meet for him, they would give short measure, far shorter than the measure given by another whose line and cord took in both the whereabouts of Adam's position in a garden of delights, fashioned for him by God, etc., and the who and the what Adam was as connected with the Maker of Adam and of those scenes. Just so: sweet as it is to the heart and mind to feel, I am part of a body, the Church, which is to be the companion of Christ-which has His heart's love poured out upon it, and who looks for a return to it-I need to remember the where this Blessed One is to be displayed, and the who and what He is, if I would at all enter into the blessedness of being a member of this Church. He is the channel, and center, and end of every display which God has made for Himself by His various attributes-the Son and Revealer of the Father-the opener of His blessed house.
And such is this Son, that when none, of men, slave to Him as Son of man here on earth, the Father glorified Him with the glory which He had with Him before the world was; and in the Church will be found God's paradise or garden of delights, all that will meet His mind and Christ's-the very expression of His own thought.