Covenant Confidence

Why did it have to happen? Many a parent has asked that question, if not audibly, then in his soul, "Why did it have to happen to my child?" And try once to imagine the grief, and the deep despair that would have filled the souls of Adam and Eve, were it not for the grace of God, to learn not only of the murder of their second son by the firstborn, but also of his thoroughly ungodly attitude, utter contempt for all the things of God, and complete separation from the sphere of the church of...