God's sweet mercy was with them still. Abel was washed in his Saviour's blood; he was the first of "The noble army of Martyrs," slain for the word of God, and the testimony which he held; and he was gone to wear the white robe, and to rest in his Saviour's presence, until all the number of God's faithful people shall be gathered from the Earth; then Abel, in his grave, will hear his Saviour's call, and his dead body will arise, and come forth, made like unto his Saviour's glorious body, to dwell with Christ in Heaven for ever.

After the death of the blessed Abel, God gave Adam and Eve another son, and his mother called him Seth, for she said God had given her another son instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. And she was right,-Seth was the child of God's mercy and grace. The Virgin Mary, the mother of our Lord and Saviour, was one of the daughters of Seth all the people who dwell upon the earth now are the children of Seth, but they are not all the children of God's mercy as Seth was. You are the child of Seth. God grant that you,

like Seth, may be a child of God's mercy and grace to a sinful world!

Adam lived nearly eight hundred years after God had given him Seth to be his son; then Adam died-washed in his Saviour's blood, he entered into the presence of the Lord. The blessing of God rested on the children of Seth, and he lived to see a son born as his descendant, who left this world without dying; his name was Enoch. Enoch walked with God in holy obedience and love; he walked with God three hundred years upon Earth, and then he was not, for God took him. Enoch's hope was in his Saviour, he went to God through the blood of the Lord Jesus, and he did not taste of death, for God took him.

Soon after Enoch went to God, another blessed child was born of the family of Seth and of the family of Enoch; and when the child's father saw his infant son, he called him Noah; for he said, This same child shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands; because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.

Noah grew up to be a man; and Noah walked with God. Noah not only knew the Lord himself, but he tried to teach others the knowledge of God. Noah was a preacher of righteousness. But Noah stood alone in the world, as the only servant of God; he was the only one who was found walking in the steps of righteous Abel; every one, except Noah, had turned to follow the example of wicked Cain; they were all walking in disobedience to God, and the Earth was filled with violence. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth. And it repented the Lord that He had made man on the Earth; and it grieved Him at His heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created, from the face of the Earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the Earth is filled with violence; and be-· hold, I will destroy them with the Earth.