Cain dies.

then taking his beloved wife by the hand, he thus spoke :-" My beloved and tender wife, I am now going to eternal rest, and shall presently receive the welcome of myriads of the glorious host of angels, and exchange embrace with my dear brother Abel. Know, therefore, that grief for my decease will be no service to my clay, but only hurt thy gentle nature; and as thy eyes have beheld my salvation through hope, faith, and love, let me be had in remembrance as thy friend gone before, thee to the banquet, and rest with content. Let it be thy only care to follow me whither the Lord hath called me; for, though through my sins are my days shortened, yet this act of justice in a beavenly Parent is my eternal gain, and in all sinners' cases will this maxim of the Most High be always attended to. Our children in Nod leave to the direction of heaven.-Remain in Salem.-Our parents will advise thee. So farewell, until we meet in the world of happiness."

As he uttered these words he drew up his

Grief of Mehala and Eve.

knees in the bed, and expired without a

groan.

Notwithstanding Cain's admonition to his spouse, to refrain from immoderate grief as one having no hope, yet she could not avoid the impulses of nature, but wept in bitterness for her departed husband; nor were the whole assembly without grief on the occasion.

Eve particularly was next in sorrow unto her daughter Mehala, as she considered the works of her evil hour in bringing sin and death into the world by her transgressions, and saw her first-born a prey to those corruptions she had instituted. Therefore she was grieved the more, inasmuch as she had no abettor, but brought her husband into the culpability of her transgression, which was to fall on all her posterity, and should only be redeemed through her seed, which God had promised in Eden.

CONCLUSION.

THE body of Cain was, on the following day, removed from the place of his decease, and with a becoming solemnity interred beside that of his brother Abel. Thus were the remains of the two first-born of men incorporated with the earth for the appeasing of that new-appointed sovereign of human life, that king of terrors, Death; for, as he had absolute dominion, he gave sin an invitation, through the medium of the father of lies, the old serpent who beguiled the inhabitants of Paradise, consequently their frail offspring were liable to his attacks.

Mehala was constrained by the counsel of her parents to remain in Salem, and was blest in her children there; and to the end of her life enjoyed the grace and loving kindness of

Conclusion.

The children of Nod were the perverse generation mentioned in the holy scriptures, for whose account the world was destroyed by a deluge, and only the seed of Seth preserved in Noah.

From this example let the agents of sin and the corrupt in mind be convinced that this life is but a probationary state; and agreeable to the race they run here, the same rewards and punishments will be given as their works in the flesh deserve; whether by repentance they obtain the former, or by negli gence they receive the latter. As the time is precious, it behoves the transgressor to re deem it, and work while the day remains, for in the night no man can work; so that in the grave there is no repentance; for on the uncertainty of time and repentance is the whole of an endless eternity of joy or sorrows depending. O my brethren, let no deceits hinder your eternal happiness; but be wise unte salvation!-Amen.

END OF THE DEATH OF CAIN.

DEATH;

A VISION:

OR, THE

SOLEMN DEPARTURE OF SAINTS AND SINNERS;

UNDER THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM.

BY JOHN MACGOWAN.

HEBREWS ii. 15.

And deliver them, who, through fear of death, were all their life-time subject to bondage.

REVELATIONS ii. 11.

He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.