Where was Eden?”

That’s the question a student once asked Dr. Carlyle Marney. He put down his pen, turned to the college freshman, and replied, “I can tell you exactly–in Tennessee.”

“What?” gasped the student.

“Knoxville, Tennessee, 215 South Elm Street,” Marney insisted. “It was there on Elm Street, when I was a boy, that I stole a quarter out of Mama’s purse and ran to the store and bought a bag of peanut clusters and ate it as fast as I could. Afterward, I was so ashamed that I came back home to 215 Elm Street and hid in the closet. Mama found me and asked,  Why are you hiding? What have you done?'”