The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-03-22

words: learn what people have, ant
what makes people to live. Whel
you have learnt this you will return
to heaven" flew back to the eartl
and took the soul from the woman.
1.-THE infants fell from the breasts
The dead body rolled over on the bed
crushing one infant and putting ou
its foot. [ rose up above the village
in order to take up the soul to God
when a gust of wind caught my
wings, they dropped, and the sou
went up to God alone, but l fell by
the way to the earth
Simon and Matrona understood now
whom they had clothed and fed, and
who had lived in their home. They
wept for Joy and fear, and the angel
said
I was left in the field naked and
alone. l had never known human
needs; | had never known hunger or
cold before, and | became man.
Hungry and half frozen, | knew not
what to do. 1 saw in the field chapel
made for the worship Of God, went
up to Gods chapel, and thought to
shelter myself there. The chapel was
locked up; l could not enter. So I
sat down behind the chapel to find
shelter from theswind. The evening
drew on; nearly frozen and hungry,
I had quite lost heart, when suddenly
a sound caught my cara man was
passing along the road. He was car
rying a pair Of boots, and he talked to
himself as he went. This was the
first mortal face l had seen since l
became man; It filled me with fear,
and [ turned away my eyes. | heard
the man talking to himself about how
he should shelter his body from the
cold in winter, and how he should
feed his wife and children. I am
perishing Of cold and hunger |
thought to myself, and man passes
along whose only thought is how
to cover himself and his wife with a
skin, and how to get bread for them
both. He cannot help me-" The
man saw me, knit his brows, looked
more fearful than before, and passed
by. l was in despair, when suddenly
[ heard the man returning on his
steps. And when I looked on him
[ did not know him again: before, |
had seen death in his face, but now it
had a bright look, and in his face l
knew God. He came up to me, cloth
ed me, took me with him, and brought
me to his home. [ went to his house;
a woman came to meet US, and began
to speak. The woman had a fearful
look, more fearful than the man, and
from her mouth there came forth a
mortal spirit, the odor Of death quite
took away my breath. She wished to
drive me out in the cold; l knew she
would die if she did so. Suddenly her
husband. put her in mind of God,
upon which change came over the
woman. She gave us to sup, and
when she did so she looked on me. ]
looked on her also. There was now
no death in her; she was alive, and in
her knew God.
''Then I remembered the first word
Of God, You shall know what is in
people, I had learnt that in people
is love. was glad, because God had
begun to make things clear to me, as
he had promised, and I smiled for the
first time. But this was all the
knowledge could gather. [ had not
yet understood what is not given to
people, and what makes people to live.
II began to live with you. A whole
year had p .ssed by when one day a
man came to order boots, which should
last whole year without wearing
down or wearing out. | looked upon
him, and 10! I saw at his side my
the angel Of death. [
alone saw that angel but k knew him,
and knew that the sun would not set
before he had taken the soul Of the
rich man. Man provides for himself
for whole year. I thought to myself,
but he does not know that he will
not live on till the evening" The
second word Of God came to my mind,
You shall know what is not given to
people,
81 had learnt already what is in
people. Now | knew what is not
given to people. 1t is not given to
people to know what is needful for
their body. And l smiled a second
time. l was glad because had seen
my companion the angel, and because
God had shown me the meaning Of
the second word.
"But | had more to learn still. |
had not yet learnt what makes people
to live, so | lived on and waited till
God would show me the last word.
In the sixth year there came two
little girls, with woman, and | knew
the children, and knew how those
little girls were left alive | knew
and thought to myself, The mother
begged for her children, and | be-
lieved her. | thought the children
could not live without father and
mother, but a strange woman fed
them and brought them up When
the woman had pity on the strange
children, and wept. | saw in her the
living God, and understood what
makes people to live I knew, also,
that God had declared to me the last
word, and had forgiven me. And l
smiled third time"
XII.
The whole of the angels body was
now clearly seen, and it was all cloth
ed in dazzling light, too bright to look
upon; and his voice had now louder
ring, and seemed to come from heaven,
not from his own lips.
II have learnt" said the angel,
''that every man lives, not by care for
himself, but by love. 1t was not
given to the mother to know what
her children needed to live by. 1t
was not given to the rich man to