The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-12-26
"A Dream story The Christmas
Angel.

"A Dream Story" and describes
1.-THE Christmas Angel"
'.It was the hour of rest in the
country beyond the stare 81
It was in one of the quiet CORNERS
of the green valley called Peace:
field. whore the little brook of
Brighthopes runs smoothly down
to join the River of Life, that I
saw a company of angels returned
from various labors on Earth. sit
ting in friendly converse on the
hillside, where Q, olamens and ar
butus and violets the fringed or
ohids and pale lady tresses, and
all the sweet smelling flowers which
are separated in the lower world by
the seasons, were thrown together
in harmony of fragrance"
We are told that three of the
company seemed to be leaders dis
tinguished not only by more radiant
and powerful looks. but by a tone
of authority in their speech and by
the willing attention with which
the others listened to them; as they
talked of their earthly tasks, of the
tangles and troubles, the wars and
miseries that they had seen among
men, and of the best was to get rid
of them and bring SORROW to an
end"
The arohangel Michael, the
mightiest tne among the warriors
of the King, and the executor of
the divine judgments upon the un-
just" dtcolared that the earth was.
tormented with injustice, full of
oppression and unrighteousness
and said that force must be used TO
establish the law of God among
men.
Another sngel, "Uriel. the spirit
of the sun, clesrest in vision, deep
est in wisdom of all the epirits
surround the throne"-Uriel said
that force would not do, that
power oorrupts itself and might
can not save"
"Thers was silence for moment
on the slt pes of Peaoefield, and
then over the enoiroling hills cool
wind brought the sound of chains
clankipg in prisons and galleys.
the signing of millions of slaves,
the weeping of wretched women
aud children, the blows of hammers
mailing men to their crosses. !"
Then the sound passed by with the
wind and Uriel spoke sgain: The
Earth is full of ignorant strife, and
for this evil there is no cure but
by the giving of greater knowledge
1t is because men do not under
stand the evil that they yield them
selves to it's power. Wickedness is
folly in action, and injustice is the
error of the blind 1t is because
men are ignorant that they destroy
one another, and at last Themselves.
If there were more light in the
world there would be no sorrow"
The company seemed to be
pleased with the words of Uriel,
but one among them remembered
something that the others had for
COTTON. He reminded his fellows
that one had been sent to counsel
with Balaam, the son of Beor, az
he was riding to meet the King of
Moab, the dumb beast profited
more by the instruction than the
man who rode him; also that
Solomon, who was called the wises'
of all men, having searched out
and understood the many inven-
tions that are found under the sun,
was "prince of fools and philoso-
piers, unable by much learning
TO escape the WEAKNESS of the flesh |
and despair of the spirit" 1t was
the arohapgel Raphael who epoke
and he added: Too we'll know
that power corrupts itself and that
knowledge can not save There is
no cure for the evil that is in the
world but by the giving of more
love to men. The laws that or
dained for earth are strenge end |
unequal, and the ways where men
must walk are full of pitfalls and
dangers. Pestilence creeps along
the ground and flows in the rivers;
whirlwind and tempest shake the
habitations of men and drive
their ships to destruction; fire
breaks forth from the mountains
and the foundations of the world
tremble Frail is the flesh of man,
and many are his pains and trcu-
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