and all our desires will be regulated by Him. He will feed us with food convenient for us. He will give us to eat of the fruit of the tree of life; all our affections will be satisfied by His goodness, and no good thing will He withhold from us. And while the tree of life is the centre of our Eden, there will not be wanting the river of the water of life to nourish all the trees in our spiritual garden.
Only let us exalt the wisdom of the Lord to the supreme seat in our understandings, and the love of the Lord to the inmost or centre of our affections, and our bread will be made sure to us, and our water will not fail. Every thought and affection will be hallowed, and the Lord Jesus Christ will dwell in the midst of us, and conduct us safely to His kingdom.
October Fifth.
THE OFFERINGS OF CAIN AND ABEL.
"And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bare his brother Abel. Arad Abel wat a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground."—Gen. iv. 1, 2.
THE sacred Scriptures being a revelation from God to man, must be able to conduce to the happiness as well as to the instruction of man, in all ages of the world. And the word of the Lord being the wisdom of the Lord, we cannot suppose there will be any characters introduced into the sacred narrative but such as are calculated to be instructive to man. Hence Cain and Abel are representative characters,—types of individual classes in the church; and to be acquainted with their representative char-
