ow they were to draw near to God; but

CAIN CAME IN HIS OWN WAY,

while Abel came in the way God commanded. Cain said to himself, "I am
not going to bring a bleeding lamb. Here is the grain and the
beautiful fruit that I have raised by my industry; and I'm sure it
looks better than blood, and I'm not going to bring blood." Now it was
not that there was any difference between these two men, but it was
the offering which each brought. One came in the way God had marked
out, and the other in a way of his own. Now there are a great many
just like that at the present day. They prefer what is agreeable to
the eye, as Cain did his beautiful corn and fruit, and they do not
like the doctrine of

THE BLOOD OF ATONEMENT.

But any religion that makes light of the Blood is the work of the
devil, even if an angel from heaven came down to preach salvation
through any other means.

Undoubtedly on the morning of creation God marked out the way a man
might come to Him; and Abel walked in God's way, and Cain in his own.
Perhaps Cain could not bear the sight of blood, and so he took that
which God had cursed and laid it upon the altar.

THERE ARE MANY CAINITES IN THE CHURCH

even now; and some have got into the pulpit, and they preach against
the doctrine of the Blood, and that we can get to heaven without the
Blood. From the time Adam went out of Eden there have been Abelites
and Cainites. The Abelites come by the way of the Blood--the way God
had marked out for them. The Cainites come by their own way. They
repudiate the doctrine of the Blood, and say it does not atone for
sin. But it is better to take God's word than man's opinion.

Again, turn to Genesis viii. 20: "And Noah builded an altar unto the
Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and
offered burnt-offerings on the altar." We have thus passed over the
first two thousand years, and have come to the second dispensation.
The thought I want to call your attention to is this: The first thing
Noah did when he got out of the ark was to build an altar and slay the
animals, thus putting blood between him and his sin. The second
dispensation is founded upon blood; and these animals were taken
through the flood in the ark that they might illustrate the
indispensable necessity of the shedding of blood.

ABRAHAM OFFERING UP ISAAC.

Again, in Genesis xxii. 13, it is written: "And Abraham lifted up his
eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in