The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-01-25
THE STORY OF
CAIN AND ABEL
Sunday School Lesson for ian. Fl, 1907
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LESSON TExT.-Gen. 4s-l5; Memory
ve GoLDE EN- TExT.-"whosoever h.teth
| his brother is a murderer."-John $40
| .TIME-Unknown, although Ussher's
| chronology, which is generally under
stood not to be correct, gives it as b. <.
| 1875.
| but probably in the same region, which
| whole region was called Eden, near the
| Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
| SCRIPTURE REFERENCES. = The
| Evil dating the. Good.-Psa. LIZ; 1872
Matt. 1916; Acts 4:1-S; 7;52; ! Pet Sis
| 10, 16, 1921; 1880; Gal. 5:12; Phil. 2:2-4;
! John 2:1o. Show how love is the cure
| New testament. Light.-Cain was of
! that wicked one' Il John 312, who was
| murderer from the beginning (John
| SAD. The reason of the difference in the
sacrifices Is given In Heb Deb; In In G Srimes
| blood speaketh better things, or louder
than the blood of Abel Qeb. 1920.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
'The picture of Cain and Abel por-
trays how from the first opposition
has subsisted between good and evil,
between faith and self-will, between
obedience and lawlessness. The two
brothers brought up in the same FAM
lily, became the types, the one of sin,
the other of righteousness" -Ryle.
The Two Sacrifices, True and False
Worship.-V. 8. I'm process of time
An indefinite note of time. 1t prob
ably was many years. Gain. brought
the fruit of the ground" The products
of his business, as was natural and
proper. "An offering unto the Lord
Jehovah, who had made himself
known in the garden, and probably
since.
VA. "And Abel, he also brought of
the frstlings of his flock" Either
the first born, which God afterwards
demanded Eek. 1919, or the choicest
and best (Job 1919. Cook. "And
the fat thereof" Literally, the fat
ness of them, /. e., the latest OF the
frstlngs, the best he had, or, as Dill
mann, their fat pieces" the part, to
be burned. THE Lord had respect
unto Abel and to his Offering" ut is
impossible to know in what way the
Lord showed his favor, but it was, in
any case, a visible sign of satisfac-
ton. KEEL.
The Anger of Cain. (D 1t was
against his brother. (2) 1t was with
out good cause. 60 1t grew out or
envy and jealousy. (D 1t was inten-
sified by his own consciousness OF be-
ing il. The wrong, and the desire to
quiet his conscience by blaming 9TH
ers. 60 1t was against God. CO. 1t
was violent, ill-tempered, beyond the
control of reason. CD 1t was the feel
ing of hatred in the wicked toward
those who are better because they are
a continual reproof.
V. s. "And Cain talked with Abel
and his brother" Hebrew, And Cain
said unto Abel his brother after
which there is, in many of the Hebrew
copies, blank space left, as if some
thing had been omitted. Bush. He
talked over the matter with his
brother. He went on in familiar inter
course with him, and 1t was during
one of these conversations that MS
anger was again infamed. Others rep
! resent Cain as asking his brother to
20 away from the home into lonely
field for the purpose of doing evil to
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him. Cain slew him. Whether
he intended to kill, or struck a blow
in anger, and the result was more
than he expected. we do not know.
Am 1 My Brothers Keeper?-Only
Cain-like men ask Gains question. We
hall are our brothers keepers. God has
made the circles of family, friendship,
acquaintance, race, humanity, so that
each of us has an influence in them,
and we are responsible for that infiu-
ence. No one lives or dies to himself.
And God gives us wealth, position, in
tellect, not for ourselves alone, but
: that we may be better keepers of our
brother. % We are keepers of our
brothers, not by debating to them, but
by brotherly love; (2} by helping
} them, as the good Samaritan, or as
the righteous in Matt. 25:31-46; 90 by
considering their welfare in all our
business relations; (Q by using every
influence for their good, doing to 9TH
ers in all relations "as we would that
they should do unto u.s.
The Voice of Abel Still Heard
1.-THE blood that speaketh better things
than that of Abel" Qdeb. 12:24). He
being dead yet speaketh" (Heb. 11:Q.
Here is fine picture of Abels work.
He is living and speaking down all
the centuries one long triumphal
march, scattering blessed gems OF
truth to all ages, like Prince Siddartha
in his fathers dream in The Light OF
Asia,
Gains punishment consisted ID In
the strengthening of his evil charac-
ter. He added lying and selfishness to
murder. (2) He set himself in opposi'
ton to God and his laws, changing
from the light of blessings to the evils
that are the necessary consequences
of defying Gods laws. go His life
, work was a failure. (4 He lost tie
| blessings of companionship with the
good. He was lonely. estranged from