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 PRESENTED BY 
 
 PROF. CHARLES A. KOFOID AND 
 MRS. PRUDENCE W. KOFOID 
 
Who was 
 Cain's Wife? 
 
 \ LECTURE 
 
 )ELIVERED IN 
 
 HE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 
 
 )F ALBANY, OREGON 
 
 VPRIL, 1912 
 
 IY J. L.,JJILL, M. D. 
 
WHO WAS CAIN'S 
 WIFE 
 
 A LECTURE 
 
 DELIVERED IN 
 
 THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 
 
 OF ALBANY, OREGON 
 APRIL, 1912 
 
 BY J. L. HILL, M. D. 
 
 Rawlings. Albany, Oregon 
 
PREFACE ' C3Hr 
 
 Since delivering this lecture I have been asked by 
 a number of persons how I happened to take up the 
 subject of Cains wife, as I am not affiliated with any 
 church: to which I answer that I am a reader of 
 good literature that comes within reach, dwelling on 
 the best longest, with repeated readings. The Bible, 
 from beginning to end, being the most sublime and 
 instructive of any book we have, its intense perusal 
 claims priority. Some apparent contradictions occur 
 in it, one of which is "Who was Cain's wife?" Believ- 
 ing, as I did, that these apparent contradictions are su- 
 sceptible of solution that will harmonize in every in- 
 stance I determined to find the solution to the sub- 
 ject herein contained. To this end, I took up the 
 subject without prejudice or favor for or against the 
 believer or the skeptic with the conviction that if the 
 answer could not be a reasonable and comprehensive 
 one the argument should justly belong to the skeptic, 
 who claims that the story is contradictory; but should 
 the answer be harmonious the advocate of the veracity 
 of the story should prevail. 
 
 I had often heard feeble attempts made to give a 
 satisfactory answer to the question but none had 
 satisfied my mind. The doubt still remained. To 
 clear up that doubt was an invitation to engage in 
 the investigation just as intricate mathematical prob- 
 lems must be handled. In one, not a word can be 
 overlooked or omitted in the other, not a figure can 
 be overlooked or omitted. With the same diligence 
 applied to one that must be to the other I believe the 
 answer has been found that should satisfy the most 
 skeptical, that there is no contradiction or inconsist- 
 ency. That part of the lecture referring to geology 
 and the Pyramid has been added since the lecture 
 was delivered, u 
 
WHO WAS CAIN'S WIFE? 
 
 This question I have heard asked many times, but 
 have never heard any satisfactory answer to it. It is 
 frequently answered negatively by saying, "There 
 is something mysterious about it." or, "God has His 
 own way that we cannot understand, but we should 
 accept without question, even though we do not ful- 
 ly understand it." 
 
 One of the leading causes of so much skepticism is 
 cursory reading. Many apparent contradictions ap- 
 pear in the Bible, and an inability of the exponents 
 of Holy Writ to give reasonable answers to the quer- 
 ies that are propounded give origin to, and are very 
 prolific of heresy and blasphemy. 
 
 Study is toil, and a disposition, especially of the 
 present age, is to avoid analytical reading. When 
 severe thinking confronts the ordinary reader, intel- 
 lectual collapse, or mental prostration, calls aloud for 
 respite. Books are read like the large headlines of a 
 newspaper, abstractly, with surface glare, instead of 
 fundamentally in concrete. A half understood sci- 
 ence, or superficial reading of history, is worse than 
 no knowledge of the subject. Vital subjects require 
 succinctness, and without that, confusion and doubt 
 must arise, followed by avowed apostasy. The tend- 
 ency is to await the revelations of eternity to make 
 things clear, rather than that the individual closet 
 himself with the occult, and by arduous investigation 
 divest it of mystery. It is true that all knowledge is 
 but the shadow of God's light, but it will not be re- 
 flected on one who is too stupid or indolent to open 
 the way for it to enter. 
 
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As we stand amid the chaos of doubt, surrounded 
 with the evidences of ancient tragedies, and imagine 
 the Great Leader has forsaken the cause of progress, 
 by leaving us in the labyrinths of mystery which 
 cannot be solved, we are unkindly reflecting on the 
 source of all light, and wilfully kneeling before the 
 Juggernaut of our own stupidity and self destruction. 
 
 It would be very unsatisfactory and disappointing 
 to accept the invitation of "Rabbi Ben Ezra", who 
 said: 
 
 "Grow old along with me 
 The best is yet to be, 
 
 The last of life for which the first was made; 
 Our times are in His Hand, 
 Who saith: 'A whole I planned, 
 Youth shows but half: trust God; see all, nor be 
 afraid." 
 
 As I interpret this, when we are entangled in the 
 snare of doubt, and age is creeping on us, we should 
 content ourselves with the idea that "The best is yet 
 to be, the last of life for which the first was made;" 
 and we should supinely await the end, trusting in 
 God to land us in the haven of ultimate blessedness, 
 without an effort on our own part, for the end of all 
 is daybreak everywhere, and to everyone. 
 
 Our most strenuous efforts are due to solve, if 
 possible, what we call mysterious, which are product- 
 ive of questioning the veracity of our creation and des- 
 tination. To say our time is in His hands, and He 
 will divulge the mysteries in the end, is recreancy and 
 injustice. It is true our time is in His hands, but 
 we are expected to make use of it by defending His 
 works, and we can only do that by understanding 
 them. The greatest of all we have to defend is the 
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History He has given us. That history speaks of 
 Cain's wife, and we want to know who she was. 
 
 By many it seems to be unanswerable. Commen- 
 taries that I have referred to seem loath to touch the 
 subject. Some refer to Cain as the first born, and 
 the first murderer; and that he was banished for his 
 crime and went to the land of Nod where he knew 
 his wife. An occasional writer ventures so far as 
 to say Cain's wife was his sister, who was younger 
 than himself, and that they together went to the land 
 of Nod after he was expelled "to become a fugitive 
 and vagabond in the earth." (Gen. 4:14). 
 
 Admitting that he was the first born, an answer to 
 the question is very puzzling; but it is assumption 
 without a shadow of proof that he was the first born. 
 
 There are a number of references in the Bible to 
 the first born in other relations, both among man 
 and beast, but in no instance or way do any one of 
 them refer to Cain either directly or indirectly as the 
 first born. His name is not mentioned cronologically, 
 except as being the product of Adam and Eve after 
 the fall, and the husband of the woman who dwelt 
 with him in the land of Nod, and the father of Enoch. 
 The reference to the first born in other creatures, and 
 absence of any reference to Cain having been one in 
 that catagory is strong presumptive evidence that 
 Cain was not the first born of his parents. 
 
 Why should the first born be given special promi- 
 nence by their names or cronological positions being 
 mentioned in all except the one (Cain), whose intol- 
 erable record has descended from birth through an 
 unbroken history to the present, if he was the first 
 born of his parents? 
 
 A more conspicuous personage mentioned in Holy 
 
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Writ, except Christ, than Cain, is not apperent. The 
 one for his goodness and the other for his badness. 
 The contrast is antipodal, and the extremes so great, 
 neither in his realm can be approached by comparison 
 with any other who holds a place in sacred history. 
 
 All minute details of the birth of one are given, and 
 it has not been overlooked to speak of Him as the 
 only begotten son, consequently, the first born, Mat. 
 1 :25, speaks explicitly of Jesus being the first born, 
 but the brith of Cain is simply mentioned as an occur- 
 rence. Why so complete history of one and so in- 
 complete in the other? 
 
 In the absence of any proof, or intimation, that 
 Cain was the first born, and strong circumstantial evi- 
 dence that, perhaps generations were born before 
 him, I shall argue the pre-existence, by birth, of oth- 
 ers before Cain. Instead of the evidence to be de- 
 duced contradicting the Bible accounts, it conforms 
 with them fully, sustaining them from a standpoint 
 of reason and logic. 
 
 The supposed mystery, sometimes called a fable or 
 a fairy tale, concerning Cain's wife is not mysterious 
 if the reader of Genesis will systematically analyze 
 what he reads and correctly connect the statements. 
 
 The only account given of time seggregated into 
 hours, days, weeks and years, prior to the birth of 
 Cain, is the six days consumed in the creation and 
 the seventh for rest. From the last date, the seventh 
 day, seggregated time has no reconing till after the 
 fall. 
 
 There was no necessity for calendar reconing, for 
 Adam and Eve were intended to live forever, provided 
 they lived under the law of life, but should they vio- 
 late the law by partaking of the forbidden fruit they 
 
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should surely die (Gen. 2:17; 3:3.) Had it been in- 
 tended they should die if they committed no sin why 
 is it there was no statement to that effect. There is 
 no reason given for death but sin. "The wages of sin 
 is death." 
 
 If the commission of sin is death, and the first time 
 the word death was spoken was in connection with a 
 warning against doing the thing that would cause 
 death, it is quite evident that there would have been 
 no death had not the cause which produced it been 
 applied. An effect is the result of a cause and had 
 there been no cause the effect, which was death, 
 would not have occurred. 
 
 Again, Adam and Eve, in the sight of God, were 
 perfect when created, for they were made in His own 
 image, and made by Him, and, as His work is perfect, 
 they were perfect. There could be no reason for a per- 
 fect person to die, therefore, Adam and Eve could not 
 have died in their perfection. They were given their 
 freedom in the garden of Eden, and made rulers of 
 all things that did exist. Their personal acts were not 
 dictated by their creator, but were left to their own 
 election. They were apprised of their surroundings, 
 and the consequences, or reward, of continuing in one 
 path, that of rectitude, which was compared to the 
 tree of life, or continuance of life, and the certainty 
 of death if that path of rectitude should be digressed 
 from, the digression being spoken of as the Tree of 
 Knowledge of good and evil, from which they should 
 not eat, for if they did eat from it they should surely 
 die (Gen. 2:17). 
 
 With this instruction and admonition they were left 
 in the garden, surrounded with all luxuries and having 
 domain over all living creatures. (Gen. 1 :28). They 
 
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were harbingers of their future lives, or directors of 
 their own death. They were free agents, unincum- 
 bered, unless, they chose to make it otherwise. Had 
 their course been dictated, instead of being their own 
 choice, they would not have been free agents, and 
 could not have been held responsible for the violation 
 of any law, or been entitled to credit for abiding by, or 
 upholding any law. 
 
 Had there been no law that could be violated they 
 could not have been free agents with personal re- 
 sponsibility and accountability, but the human family 
 would have been negative. There could have been no 
 choice or progress. Humanity would have been auto- 
 matic and mentally stationary. For the encourage- 
 ment of individuality Adam and Eve were invested 
 with individual responsibility to take a choice between 
 two options, and in conformity with the inquisitive 
 nature of mankind which descends to their latent 
 off-spring, even to this remote generation, the time 
 came in the career of Adam and Eve when an investi- 
 gation of the cause of a danger signal was institut- 
 ed. They became curious to know why such restric- 
 tions were placed upon certain indulgences and not 
 upon others mentioned in giving advice for the use 
 of what appeared in the garden. 
 
 Many do not considejr the expression "Tree of 
 Knowledge," and the "Tree of Life ?" literally. If fig- 
 urative they have reference to certain laws not trees 
 of any kind, or any vegetation that grew in the gar- 
 den. As to whether the garden was to be understood 
 literally or not is immaterial. It may have been a 
 state, or condition of existence. Most likely it meant 
 a state of blissfulness, happy surroundings as long 
 as obedience to prescribed laws were adhered to 
 
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but the moment those laws were refracted, literal 
 death would come to the transgressor. 
 
 The refraction of a specific law spoken of as the 
 "Tree of Life" was apparently irresistable to their 
 human, inquisitive nature, but there is no evidence, or 
 suggestion, to show how long they had lived before 
 the transgression, or that they had not lived, multi- 
 plied and replenished the earth for thousands ofyears 
 before they ventured to, or were submissive to presua- 
 sions by satan to violate the laws by passing beyond 
 the danger zone in the abuse of their privileges. In- 
 versely there is evidence to show that they did multi- 
 ply, and replenish centuries before the fall. 
 
 Eve had not so much as been given a name until 
 after the fall. Prior to that she had been known and 
 spoken of as "The Woman," In the geneaology of the 
 patriarchs (Gen. 5:2), God created male and female 
 and called them Adam, in the day they were created, 
 All persons were know by the one general appellation 
 of Adam. 
 
 Being of the same bone and flesh of man, as a dis- 
 tinction from the latter, Eve was called "Wo-man," 
 or "woman," until after the transgression, and before 
 any account had been given of the birth of Cain, when 
 Adam called his wife's name Eve ; because she was the 
 mother of all living (Gen. 3:20). 
 
 Who were "all living?" They were all those born 
 after calendar time had ceased to be used, and up to 
 the date of condemnation. Namely: after the six 
 days of creation and the one day of rest. Nor is the 
 length of a day at the time of creation known. That 
 one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a 
 thousand years as one day. (II Pet. 3:8). In the 
 
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language of the poet Browning, "So let him wait God's 
 instant, men call years." 
 
 According to this Eve was the mother of children 
 before the fall, and not until after the fall was Cain 
 born. Therefore, Cain was not the first born. He 
 went into the land of Nod, where he knew his wife, 
 who evidently was born in the interim between the 
 completion of the earth and all therein, and the trans- 
 gression, when the present calendar begun, and in 
 which latter calendar time Cain was born under the 
 reign of sin. This long interim had no proscribed 
 time, because all things were perfect, even as God's 
 time is not proscribed, because it is perfect. God's 
 time is not spoken of in days or years. It is limitless 
 because perfect, hence imperishable. 
 
 Adam's time had no date of record until he himself 
 made the record by doing the thing that gave date to 
 the sentence of death that was pronounced upon him. 
 Before that he multiplied and replenished the earth 
 with righteousness; after that he multiplied and re- 
 plenished the earth with the unrighteous. Before 
 that, time was not enumerated; after that, time was 
 enumerated. Before that, there were no deaths, be- 
 cause there was no sin; and the only cause of death 
 is sin ; after that there was death, as a result of sin, 
 for "The wages of sin is death." 
 
 Those who were born before the fall were Eve's 
 children, just as those born after the fall are Eve's 
 children. While Cain's wife was a child of Eve, she, 
 perhaps, was removed from Cain through remote gen- 
 erations, and by consanguinity from Adam and Eve, 
 just as all of the present era, who marry, though the 
 children of Adam and Eve, are removed from relation- 
 
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 ship with each other through distant consinguinity 
 with Adam and Eve. 
 
 Cain did not marry his sister. He married a woman 
 who may have been a thousand generations from him. 
 Cain was a direct descendant of Eve, while his wife 
 was an indirect, or remote descendant of Eve. 
 
 In the creation, which was finished on the sixth day, 
 God blessed the man and woman of His creation, and 
 said to them "Be fruitful and multiply and replenish 
 the earth, and subdue it. (Gen. 1 :27; 28.) This was 
 evidently done without sorrow, for later, after the 
 commission of sin, the Lord, in passing sentence on 
 the woman said, "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow 
 and thy conception ; in sorrow thou shall bring forth 
 children." Gen. 3:16). 
 
 Her first children, before the fall, were not brought 
 forth in sorrow, for no sin had been committed to 
 cause sorrow; but her children brought forth after 
 the fall were brought forth in sorrow, as a result of 
 sin, which is the author of all sorrow. Her first born 
 after time began to be enumerated, must have been 
 Cain, and his coming was the embodyment of endless 
 sorrow. 
 
 Two commands, at different dates, were given to 
 multiply, but no mention of sorrow was made in the 
 first, but was in the second, therefore, there must have 
 been two sets of children born under different con- 
 ditions. (Gen. 1:28; 3:16). Cain's wife was of the 
 former generation, and Cain was of the latter gene- 
 ration. 
 
 In passing sentence on Adam the Lord said: "Be- 
 hold he has become as one of us, to know good from 
 evil. "(Gen. 3:22.) and lest he put forth his hand and 
 take also of the tree of life and live forever," the 
 
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Lord sent him away from the garden of Eden to till 
 the soil from whence he was taken. 
 
 Why should he have been deprived of the privilege 
 of living forever? It was done as an act of mercy. 
 He was condemed in sin, and had he lived forever, 
 without the transition through death, his life would 
 have entailed unending grief. Death was the pre- 
 scribed recompense, and without reciprocal death hu- 
 man existence would be one endless carnival of crim- 
 inality and debasement. 
 
 The laws of God are as irrevocable as they are im- 
 pregnable. Adam knew the law in its comprehensive 
 purity and justice, with the reward of having domin- 
 ion over all that abided on the earth as long as abso- 
 lute submission to every provision of the law was ob- 
 served. He also knew the penalty of insubordination 
 was death. But human existence is its own torment- 
 er, with a limit to the harmony it should enjoy. The 
 limit was reached in Adam's life when the turmoil in- 
 cident to inquisitiveness asserted itself at the time 
 he became an accomplice in violating a specific law of 
 God. 
 
 To relieve the rancor and discord of that lawless spi- 
 rit, death was Adam's deliverance. A continuance of 
 his adventurous life, after the transgression, would 
 have been to him an earthly purgatory, because it was 
 a wilfull estrangement from the beneficence of God. 
 
 Thus, the whole tragic drama of life was shorten- 
 ed, as was the shifting fancies that celestial light 
 might be alternately extinguished and reproduced at 
 man's carnal pleasure. 
 
 In speaking of disobedience the Lord spoke in plu- 
 ral one of us Who could He have been addressing. 
 This was said before the birth of Cain. But suppose 
 
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Cain had been born, he had slain Able, and himself 
 been banished, and if there had been no prior children 
 to include the second person, to whom addressed in 
 the plural, Eve must have been the audience, which is 
 entirely improbable, inasmuch as she was under con- 
 demnation, and sentence had already been passed up- 
 on her. It is not probable God would have taken the 
 criminal woman into His confidence and to her un- 
 folded His plans; and especially is it improbable when 
 it was her husband that was to be sentenced to hard 
 labor thereafter until death should come to him. Then 
 I repeat, who was the plural mentioned? None pos- 
 sible but those born before the fall, when time was not 
 enumerated, and all were known by the one name- 
 Adam. (Gen. 5:2.) Unless He was addressing the 
 Triune God, whose authority was from the beginning, 
 and whose audience may have been sought. 
 
 When sentence was passed upon Cain, he said to 
 the Lord, "My punishment is more than I can bear. 
 (Gen. 4:13.) I shall be a fugitive and vagabond on 
 the earth, and it shall come to pass that every one 
 who findeth me shall slay me" (Gen. 4; 13; 14.) 
 
 Who was every one whom he feared? He had al- 
 ready slain Able, leaving only Adam and Eve as ev- 
 ery one. He certainly did not fear his father and moth- 
 er would slay him. No, not by any means. Cain 
 knew of the existence of generations before his com- 
 ing, and it was those he feared. 
 
 "And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever 
 slayeth Cain vengeance shall be taken on him seven- 
 fold. And the Lord set a mark on Cain lest any find- 
 ing him should kill him." (Gen 4:15). 
 
 Seeing that only Cain's Father and Mother were 
 "any who might find him" if there were no previous 
 
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people, or generations of people, what necessity 
 could there have been for a mark of identification on 
 the son they had reared. Further, if they knew there 
 were but three persons on the face of the earth, they 
 two and Cain, the only one they could come in con- 
 tact with was the son on whom a mark of recognition 
 was to be placed. 
 
 It is neither plausable or probable that such an un- 
 natural maelstrom could have arisen. The mark was 
 placed on Cain for identification by those born before 
 his advent, and who had never seen him. Perhaps 
 that identifying mark was the shield that saved Cain 
 from being slain when he went among strangers, in 
 the land of Nod, in search of a wife. What that mark 
 was no one knows, and it is not material that it should 
 be known, further than that it acted as a special pass- 
 port from God for Cain's protection from harm to all 
 who met him in his travels. By this mark, or pass, 
 he might travel safely through strange lands, and to 
 make the protection doubly certain the Lord said 
 vengeance would be taken sevenfold on the slayer of 
 Cain. 
 
 That any who met Cain might understand the pen- 
 alty of slaying him, it may be accepted as a fact that 
 the mark carried by Cain bore the law and penalty of 
 its violation on the face of the passport. 
 
 As a result of the union of Cain and his wife, whom 
 he knew in the land of Nod, a son was born, and they 
 named him Enoch and Cain built a city and called it 
 Enoch, (Gen. 4:17). If Cain and his wife were the 
 entire population of Nod how could it have been pos- 
 sible for the one man to have built a city? It was not 
 possible. He employed the services of those living 
 there, who were the predecessors of Cain, -and -inhab- 
 
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ited that country before sin came into the world 
 through disobedience, and before individual names 
 were given, when all people were called Adam. 
 
 Those perfect people, but not yet named, might 
 have been in the attitude expressed in the beautiful 
 poem of F. L. Duly, entitled "The New Name." 
 
 I know not what the name will be 
 Which Christ, my Lord, will give to me, 
 When at my journey's end I stand 
 Within the gates of Beulah Land. 
 
 From the fall, when time began to be reconed in 
 years, Adam lived 130 years and begot a son who 
 come to supply the place made vacant through the 
 death of Able. This son they named Seth. (Gen. 
 5 :3). After that Adam lived 800 years, added to the 
 previously enumerated time of Adam's age, after the 
 fall, was 930 years, when he died ( Gen. 5 :3 ; 4 ; 5. ) 
 
 This conforms to the sentence that "In the day that 
 thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." (Gen. 
 2:17). And the age accorded Adam after the sen- 
 tence, corresponds with the ages of others who lived 
 at the time. Seth died at the age of 912. Enos 
 lived 905 years, and Methusela lived 969 years. So, 
 we see the longevity of Adam coincided with that of 
 others of his time. 
 
 Again, when men began to multiply on the face of 
 the earth, and daughters were born unto them, the 
 sons of God took the daughters of men as wives. (Gen. 
 6:1:2.) 
 
 How are we to interpret that? Who were the sons 
 of God, and who the daughters of men ? 
 
 The sons of God were those born before the trans- 
 gression and without sin, consequently, they were 
 known as the sons of God, who may have dwelt in the 
 
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land of Nod, or elsewhere. And the daughters of men 
 were those born after the transgression, and were 
 under vicarious condemnation, hence were not of 
 God and could only be the daughters of men. The ex- 
 pression "sons of God and daughters of men" is an- 
 other evidence of the existence of people before the 
 birth of Cain. 
 
 If I were asked what effect the marriage of the sin- 
 less to the sinful had on the former I would answer 
 that the sons of God, who were without sin before 
 their marriage to the condemned daughters of men, 
 through that mariage, became contaminated by vi- 
 cious association contrary to the laws of God, and vi- 
 cariously, before the nuptial garlands had faded con- 
 demnation became universal. 
 
 The vital question is, "Who was Cain's wife?" She 
 was a woman who was born before the transgression, 
 and lived, perhaps in the land of Nod, and was a child 
 of Eve, just as we of this generation and country are 
 the children of Eve. Cain's marriage to her was no 
 more incestuous than the marriage of men and women 
 of this age. Kinship, though existing, was then, in 
 those of that time, and is now, wtih those of this time, 
 so distant from the original parentage in consanguin- 
 ity and, in fact, it was and has been practically ex- 
 tinguished. 
 
 According to the only history we have of the crea- 
 tion is it not a fact that intermarriage of brothers and 
 sisters must have taken place in the beginning, and, if 
 so, was that not incest? Most assuredly intermar- 
 riage must have been, but before the fall all children 
 of Adam and Eve were perfect, therefore their mar- 
 riage and procreation was not criminal incest, be- 
 cause sin had not come into the world, for the promul- 
 
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gated law to refrain from indulging in the forbidden 
 fruit which was the beginning of sin. had, up to this 
 time, been adhered to. 
 
 We rre all related to Cain, and to Cain's wife, ac- 
 cording to the record of the creation which we find 
 in the bible, though we take no special pride in pub 
 lishing our relationship to Cain. 
 
 God created out of one blood all nations of men to 
 dwell upon all the face of the earth, and hath deter- 
 mined the times before appointed, and the bounds of 
 their habitation. (Acts 17:26). 
 
 Geology teaches that the earth has existed for many 
 thousands, and perhaps millions of years, as shown by 
 fossil remains of pre-historic life and earth stratas 
 that far antedate any history that we have access to. 
 Accepting the teachings of geology is confirmation of 
 the belief that chronological time ceased after the 
 historic creation, and no further reconing was made 
 until after the fall. Six thousand years is the esti- 
 mated time from the creation to the year 1873 accord- 
 ing to chronological summing of important events, 
 but both geology and physical geography prove this 
 reconing to be inaccurate. Then how are these seem- 
 ing discrepancies to be harmonized? Just one way 
 only, and that without violence to reason. 
 
 Darwin, the celebrated geologist, attributed to the 
 European man Who witnessed the last glacial period 
 an antiquity of 250,000 years, which coinsides with 
 the biblical account of Cain, who was the first child 
 born in sin who knew his wife in the land of Nod, 
 where she was one of the many thousands who were 
 without record or name, because human life, up to the 
 latter date was without stultification, and was one 
 homogeneous, unmasked concourse in tranquility 
 
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with no cause for recorded epochs. Some other geol- 
 ogists with equal celebrity with Darwin insist that in- 
 stead of thousands of years the time is millions of 
 years since the beginning of time. 
 
 Now, when science affords such discrepancies as 
 sources of controversy is it not very plausable that 
 many thousands of those years are without record? 
 Or to put it stronger: is it not a fact, according to the 
 geological exposition before us that there is a wide 
 gap in the earth's time that has no written history. 
 And if that is true, which I believe all will admit, is it 
 not also true that we have an accepted record of the 
 beginning of time and things, and if that latter rec- 
 ord dates back thousands, or millions of years the 
 greater part of that time is a blank to us except the 
 knowledge given by geology. Therefore, if life be- 
 gan with the creation of the earth nothing is known 
 of the human family from that date till the fall except 
 that they did multiply and replenish, for that was the 
 command given Adam and Eve, and their refusal to 
 do so would have been a direct violation of God's law 
 as much as partaking of the forbidden fruit at a later 
 date; and had the first injunction been violated or dis- 
 obeyed we would have a record of that just as we have 
 of the disobedience in the other. So, if this multipli- 
 cation of human life was going on during that long 
 unrecorded time the people of the earth would have 
 been many when the next epoch for record began, and 
 there could be no mystery as to the identity of Cain's 
 wife. 
 
 I recently read a labored address of a learned di- 
 vine who attempted to extricate himself from the 
 labyrinth of trustification in which he placed himself 
 by attempting to overthrow the teachings of geology 
 
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as to the antiquity of the earth's creation, which he 
 assumed controverted the more recent creation ac- 
 cording to his interpretation of biblical history. The 
 only collision, or controversy, dwells in the mind of 
 man who fails to analyze the premises logically, and 
 through this lack many are beguiled into skepticism, 
 where they attempt to take refuge behind a false bul- 
 wark of their own 'erection through lack of penetra- 
 tion and record interpretation. 
 
 We sometimes hear an assumed expounder o-f the 
 bible assert that it, the Bible, is an easy book to under- 
 stand. When I hear that statement I am assured that 
 the one who makes it as a sciolist. The Bible is not 
 only a history of events it is much more. Besides 
 being history it is poetry in its sublimity and gran- 
 dure, and is the embodiment of science in all its pro- 
 fundity. 
 
 To assume that the depths of Bible science is easily 
 reached, with little thought, is as fallacious as to as 
 sume that algebra, trigonometry, or biology are of 
 easy solution by untutored minds. The Bible is a hard 
 book to understand, but when understood through 
 patient analytical study the apparent contradictions, 
 or apparent unreasonable, or extravagant statements 
 it contains can be harmonized to mathematical cer 
 tainty, and to the satisfaction of those who think first 
 and assume later. 
 
 There is cricumstantial evidence that the Great 
 Pyramid Gizeh, which stands at the head of the seven 
 wonders of the world, was erected during the interval 
 without record. There is no history of its building 
 and nothing to indicate when, by whom, or for what 
 purpose it was built. The only thing, we do know is 
 that it conforms to astronomical developments of the 
 
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heavens, and some later writers believe the Pyramid 
 is an index from the beginning to the end of time, and 
 will yet be read and understood definitely as scientific 
 investigation proceeds. 
 
 One stone in the Pyramids construction is estimat- 
 ed to weigh 880 tons, or 1,760,000 pounds. Solid 
 stones thirty feet in length are so mechanically joined 
 without the use of mortar that a pen knife may be 
 drawn over the joint without detecting the union by 
 the sensation. The Pyramid covers about thirteen 
 acres and is 486 feet high, and 764 feet at the base. It 
 is estimated that it weighs six million tons, and that 
 to remove it would require sixty thousand steam en- 
 gines, each drawing one hundred tons. It is also said 
 the wealth of the whole of Egypt is not enough to pay 
 laborers to demolish it. Another important fact, late- 
 ly discovered, connected with it, is, that the Pyramid 
 is located in the geographical center of the land sur- 
 face of the world including North and South Ameri- 
 ca. The distance to the sun, according to scientists is 
 indicated by the height and angle of the Great Pyra- 
 mid, to be 91,840,270 miles, which almost exactly cor- 
 responds with the latest figures of astronomers, who 
 make the distance 92,000,000 miles, correction of 
 former figures which placed it at 96,000,000 miles. 
 
 We must not forget that there are other Pyramids 
 besides the Great Pyramids but all others are infer- 
 ior in every respect and absolutely perfect in none. 
 Their composition and architecture are inferior and 
 there is no astronomical significance in any of them so 
 far as investigation has gone. They seem to be sep- 
 ulchers for potentates of special renown, or store- 
 houses for idols and religious emblems. They are 
 poor imitations of the one Great Pyramid, and they 
 
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are also without history as to builders or time of 
 building, but their inferiority and imperfections make 
 their history unimportant. 
 
 The query might arise as to why the Great Pyramid 
 was erected before the fall and other Pyramids not. 
 The answer is that before the fall all people were per- 
 fect and in their perfection were evidently capable of 
 doing things that were not within the power of the im- 
 perfect to do. That before the transgression all man- 
 kind were under the direct guidance of the Almighty, 
 and that whatever they did while in that attitude was 
 perfection, and not fraught with arduous labor or dis- 
 appointment in construction, and by the sweat of the 
 face, as it became after the fall. 
 
 The next question is, why was the Great Pyramid 
 not mentioned in the Bible if it was constructed as a 
 special monument astronomically, or for other pur- 
 poses under direction of the Allwise? The answer is 
 that it was built in the time without record and when 
 no record was needed. 
 
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