The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-12-15

lu reply io the query ot q correspou-
dont tluough thc NcW York Ledger as
o. wto Cain married. Henry Ward
lctchcF saws:
"lncre H. uo record Of Gains court
ship ur wedding. However interesting
totHr parties themselves. o. !, OF no in
forest 'e ~. except upon the s, ppOsi,iOn
taot auy people htd bean created. II
Adam and I've were tie sole progeni-
tors oi tho race. then Cain aud Able. il
i,mierled, must have married their own
sisters IA connection which is shocking
to the seu~ihi.itic~ uf the whole race at a
su'.cqucut state Of Development
"Bui many OF jhc atlcrs ofthe church
denied That Adam nj I've. and their
children. wclv he only people on The
glob.. They affirmed that the text la
Genesis very plainly implies that there
were other Inhabitants besides Adams
family. They allegc that verse fourteen
a. chapter four. OF Genesis paiulv i'm
piIys fiIat tIe c1rih was widely popu-
iajed. For when God declared that
tain should he driven from his family
and made "a vag bond in the earth. Cain
deprecated tie sentence. and plc1i that
EVERY one that fud"th me shall ,loN
nae u was plsinly no, ii, family con =
Hecuou thar he feared, for hc desired
ifot FOO Toe driven from them. Who. then.
Werr 'hcsc people whom Cain feared to
Uicel wheu Pee should have gone forth
into the earth?
'lt is also reasoned hv scholars. that
the most natural method OF soothing
lbs IetrS. would have been 20 tel him (:
lHere tre 10 other people upon the
r'h except your fathers children '
1H-la1u ofthat. thc Lord l. represented
az billing 100 with Caia's impression re-
speeding the population Of the world
ld thtt he -ct mark upon Caiu. lest
amy finding him should XIII him. Gen
80 lJ. SUI further. II is mid that Cain.
. pmtej l'im sclffrom his kindred. went
iuto tHe laud Of Nod. east ct Idcu. "aud
b." npiit a ciiv and called The name of
49, city after lis SON Iuorl The
tatH'rs were patiently asked: Whore
dif lHe people come from who lived In
q city: That wouli De- an extracrii-
iiy sat" OF things which should have
,HHD..i Civ to tH mp city. however
su lii With his own children, And II
D. iu'a.r.i. therefore. that there were
o.aer people in thr tlnd beside. the inn
mei tie p0starty @ Adam II Adam
was h. culy p ogmifor Cain must have
married hiss'-.or. Iftlerr were other
l.un, az people. other Adams ~ II were.
tleu Cain might have married into other
soc
w. - not "ypres. any jud .ment in
tie ter We give Our correspondent
tic opinion, that have been held i'm the
ear days OF the church. but with the
st'tDmrut that an modern Christian
writer, have rejected them.
"Hui as the origin Of races has. In our
'1v assumed an i'm ortaut scientific
dove. opmcut. aud a. very many able
scientists hold to a variety OF original
race stocks, il is interesting to kuow
thar these views have been held before
ana upon Biblical grounds.
'igt are there no more question:
about tain2 Does nobody wish O.
know lis wife'- namc Does no on,
wish 10 know w hat Tire mark was whicl
the Lord affixed 20 Ciin: Docs NO ON
wish 20 SNOW how Cain died Question
must Do scarce TO leave such point uu
touched. " Cain IS To- be raised D.,
surely ought 10 be thoroughly deal
with"