LIGHT AND TRUTH. CHAPTER I. THE HISTORY OF MAN. PRIMITIVE MAN -THE LAND OF ETHIOPIA. THE CREATION took place 4004 years before the Christian era, according to the Jewish computation. In the sixth day of the creation, God created man, in his own image. "In the Image of God created He him; male and female created He them.”—(Gen. i. 27.) "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul."(Gen. ii. 7.) [The scriptures evidently distinguish between the spirit and soul. — (1 Thess. v. 23: Heb. iv. 12.) The word which we call soul is used to denote mere animal life, the seat of sensations, appetites and passions.(Gen. 1: 20.) Here the word translated life is the same with that which is elsewhere translated soul. Hence we have our bodies and animal life in common with brutes; but the spirit, which was created in the likeness or image of God, and which raises man above the brutes that perish, makes him a rational and accountable being.]-(Gen. i. 26, 27: ii. 7.) Adam, the first person, was created of the dust of the earth; and the Lord God formed the dust into an inanimate figure, and made a man. Eve, the second person, was formed of a rib taken out of man's side, and called "And the Lord God took the man, and put a woman. him into the Garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it." (Gen. ii. 15.) The location of this garden was eastward from Canaan, and north from the river Gihon, the land of Ethiopia.—(Gen. ii. 13.) The soil of Eden was very rich, and black; it produced the richest fruit and trees of all the earth. THE FALL OF MAN - HIS LOCATION. THE transgression of Adam and Eve, commonly called the fall of man, took place, probably, soon after the creation, and has been most awful in its consequences. For their transgression, Adam and his companion were driven out of the garden, to till the ground of Ethiopia, it needing cultivation in consequence of the curse.-(Gen. iii. 17.) Adam and his posterity settled on the river Gihon, that went out of the Garden of Eden, and compassed the whole land (or country) of Ethiopia; and they tilled the ground, from which Adam was taken. — (Gen. ii. 13: iii. 23.) The word Adam is derived as follows: Adam, Adamah, Adami, Admah—which means earthy. The earth is a rich, dark substance, and from it our first parents were taken. Now if we admit that Dr. Brown's and other Bible Dictionaries are correct in their explanations of the meaning of terms, then the deduction must be that Ethiopia (Gen. ii. 13,) was black, and the first people were Ethiopians, or blacks. THE SONS OF ADAM. CAIN and Abel were the first offspring of Adam and Eve. Cain was a tiller of the ground; Abel a keeper of sheep. In process of time, it came to pass that Cain brought, of the fruit of the ground, an offering unto the Lord; and Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering; but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. Hence arose, on the part of Cain, a disaffection towards his brother, which, resulted in the death of Abel, about thirty years after the cre ation. This was the first instance of death (temporal) in our world; and of death by the hands of a fellow man a brother. Adam's third son, Seth, was born A. M. 130. The foundation of the first antediluvian empire was laid by the sons and sons' sons of Adam; and lasted the space of 1656 years. This was the empire of Ethiopia. Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden, (now Persia.) "And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch; and he builded a city, and called it after the name of his son, Enoch." -(Gen. iv. 16, 17.) or. THE GENERATION OF ADAM. ADAM was a man formed of the earth, reddish in col- (Josephus; Genesis, ch. 1, 2, 4 and 5.) Adam begat Seth, and died at the age of 930 years. Seth begat Enos, and died at the age of 912 years. Enos begat Cainan, and died at the age of 905 years. Cainan begat Mahalaleel, and died at the age of 910 years. Mahalaleel begat Jared, and died at the age of 895 years. Jared begat Enoch, and died at the age of 962 years. Enoch begat Methuselah, and, at the age 365, "was not, for God took him." Methuselah begat Lamech, and died at the age of 969 years. Lamech begat Noah, and died at the age of 777 years. And Noah was 500 years old; and Noah begat Shem, Ham and Japhet. Lamech, the fifth in descent from Cainan, was the father of Jabal, who first lived in tents, and owned cattle and of Jubal, "the father of all such as handle the harp and the organ - and of Tubalcain, 66 an instrucThus early tor of every artificer in brass and iron." did the necessities of man establish the right of property, and originate the mechanical arts; and the patriarchal government which existed in the antediluvian ages-the knowledge and experience acquired in a life of many |