CAIN the Fratricide!—the marked murderer -the branded beacon--the outcast vagabondwhat visions of boyish delights with thy once loved Abel, and anon of his blood-stained body, must ever after have flitted before thy imagination, haunting thy slumbers and breaking thy repose! Did remorse and penitence ever visit thee? Didst thou ever find rest on earth?

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ADAM and EVE! Ah! who can describe what you felt when the body of your missing and murdered son was found? But hope of his salvation at length dried up your tears. you ever see Cain repentant, offering the sacrifice of faith, and obtaining thereby the remission of his sin? and when you yourselves entered the holy world, did you find both the Boy Brothers there?