from this record of the Cainites to that of Seth and of his descendants. Even the name which Seth gave to

his son - Enos, or "frail"  9 - stands out as a testimony against the assumption of the Cainites. But especially

does this vital difference between the two races appear in the words which follow upon the notice of Enos'

birth: "Then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah."

Of course, it cannot b e supposed that before that time prayer and the praise of God had been wholly

unknown in the earth. Even the sacrifices of Cain and of Abel prove the contrary. It must therefore mean,

that the vital difference which had all along existed between the two races, became now also outwardly

manifest by a distinct and open profession, and by the praise of God on the part of the Sethites. We have

thus reached the first great period in the history of the kingdom of God - that of an outward and visible

separation between the two parties, when those who are "of faith" "come out from among" the world, and

from the kingdom of this world. We remember how many, many centuries afterwards, when He had come,

whose blood speaketh better things than that of Abel, His followers were similarly driven to separate

themselves from Israel after the flesh, and how in Antioch they were first called Christians. As that marked

the commencement of the history of the New Testament Church, so this introduction of an open profession

of Jehovah on the part of the Sethites, the beginning of the history of the kingdom of God under the Old

Testament. And yet this separation and coming out from the world, this "beginning to call upon the name of

Jehovah," is what to this day each one of us must do for himself, if he would take up the cross, follow

Christ, and enter into the kingdom of God.