Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-01-25
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''Values don't count the same here as they do
there" replied the angel.
Don't they?" asked the man, with such look
OF CONSERVATION that the angel felt for him great
pity. So he said to the trembling woman, "Come
right in, my good sister, and himself stepped
back with low obeisance and threw open the Gate
Beautiful. Then he called two angels with CLEAN
ing faces who had often minstered to her heart
while she was on earth, and asked them to guide
her feet along the golden pavement, and when she
came in, all dropping with self-distrust, he said
'We've right hearty welcome for thee my sis
ter for even in this place there is much teaching
to be done, and none can do it so well as those
whose hearts have been open to the spiritual Word
which we have been sending down to earth in the
care of our heavenly messengers. 1t is the good
sisters who have most fully received our teachings
1t is they who have most surely recognized the
eternal truth shining into their souls. The ways
of things get reversed up here. The one whose
inner life is most open to the direction of the
Divine Master, he is the oneswho is most to be
trusted as spiritual leader. You will have much
to reveal to this poor husband OF yours who has
been satisfying his soul with the mere letter OF the
Word and who doesn't know the taste of the
mama which the angels have been giving to you. :"
eyes, that's it, that's the TRUTH" exclaimed St.
Paul. "Why, saw ii with perfect cearness when
was talking to those low-minded Corinthians, but
l had to give them according to their need. They
were debased children of ignorance and asciyous-
ness, and felt forced to talk to them as SUCH
But didn't | take the freedom to say for the in
struction of the later world, Neither was the man
created for the woman, but the woman for the man.
For this cause ought the woman to have power on
her head because of the anges| What do they
make of that, Brother Wseman? How can they
understand it to mean anything else than that the
woman stands between the angels and man, and
therefore is the better spiritual teacher and leader
I'm all the time studying how to get more light
into their dark understandings, but l can't open
such blind eyes until they willing to have them
open. There's no force in heaven to do work like
that"
"You must go yourself and give the man his first
lesson in the land to which he has come, Brother
Paul." said the Hebrew Doctor
"Did they bring him in with his wife," asked
the Apostle.
"Oh, yes, though the angel did say We're not
sure that we know this man, he seems stranger
to us; there doesn't appear to be much of heav-
ems light shining in his face He's quite dark in
his understanding, but Wen try him, and see if
he's ready for the truth y
Then the silent woman seemed to forget the
many eyes that were upon her; she forgot, too,
that women must keep silence in the churches, and
she spoke out so earnestly that we could all hear
her pleading voice as she said, ~ beseech you
good angel, close not the door upon my poor hus-
band he did not know he was in the wrong, he
always meant to do what was right"
''Ill 90 and have a word with him myself"
said St. Paul "Blind and slow Of heart to be-
lieve; just as it used to be eighteen centuries ago.
How long, o Lord, how ongT'
Vi VAN DUzEN.