It is true that when Cain grew to manhood and slew his brother, there were some people down in the land of Nod, but when God made them we have no means of knowing. They were not a people of much consequence as no notice is taken of them by our author, and besides they permitted Cain to come and live among them and take a wife. Perhaps these people were before Adam and Eve, for it is stated that in the city there were workers of iron and brass. Brass is a compound of copper and zinc, and these workers must have had a knowledge of the arts of mining and compounding metals. The mark, too, was set upon Cain that "whosoever" might not slay him; then there must have been a "whosoever." It is very likely that if Cain built a city he must have had the aid of carpenters and workmen, and it may be that he found his wife in the land of Nod among the "whosoever" "workers in of iron and brass." I think the clergy will agree that there was a "whosoever." It would have been needless to put a mark on Cain to preserve his life from a "whosoever" if there were no "whosoever," and my opinion is that Mr. Cain married some of the daughters of Mr. "Whosoever" in the land of Nod. "And Adam called his wife Eve because she was the mother of all living!" That eclipses everything. And we were about concluding that nothing of the kind had ever been known before, but we remember the story about Ahaziah, and that he was two years older than his father. Thirty and two years old was he (Jehoram) when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead. Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign. (Kings 8 : 17, 24, 26.) In the book of Chronicles we have another account. Thirty and two years old was he (Jehoram) when he began to reign and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead. Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign. (2 Chron. 21 : 20, and 2 Chron. 20 : 1, 2.) Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he came to the throne, and he reigned eight years, which made him forty years old at his death, and his son Ahaziah who took up the reins of government which dropped from the hands of his father, was forty-two years old--just two years older than his father, and the youngest son at that. "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them."