Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-06-05

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brown, Tor there was no water for them.
and the vans and corn were blackened
yet for the love the people had for Ad
lulai they suffered in silence and fore
bore to trouble him.
Not until the people. who once in
their abundance were able even to wash
their bodies, began to die from thirst.
and the plain was white with the bones
OF their sheep and cattle, did they 90 to
him. But Adiulai, who sat in his house.
showed them that how for a long time
nothing but good had come to them. and
now that Allah had sent them adversity
1T was not right for them to rebel but
to receive what was sent with humility.
80 the people went home with darkened
faces.
Then as the famine was sore in the
land the people began to grumble and
regret their own gods-their idols of
clay. They remembered not that in
those days the water had dried I'D. To
them it seemed as if before the coming
OF Adjulai there always had been album
dance. So short is mans memory of
past good, when misfortune comes upon
himl
Now the old men and the young men
"NtS hNAOCu. lie uIsI SdlH, Let us
wait, for our new faith is a good faith;
that 1t can give good we have seen. Let
us be patient till our new Lord sees fit
to take the evil from us and send us
RAIN But the young men said No!
Let us beg pardon of the old gods and
return to them And because the peo-
pie We're full of the terror of death the
young men prevailed
and led him outside the town and beat
him with sticks so that he died
Now when the deed was done and
the body of tie good man buried deep
in the sand great fear came upon
them. They returned to their houses
and remembered what he had done for
them and the goodness of his life.
The young men crept away and hid
and the King called the people togeth-
er. 'Adjulai taught u.s., he said, that
when a man dies the angel of the Lord
comes down at sunset and takes the
soul from the body There is no doubt.
then, that when he comes this night
Adjulai will tell him what has been done
to him, and viii ask for our punishment.
1t is better to die outside the town.
Let us 90 and wait beside his grave
They mourned over Adiulai till past
sunset, and then the King said He has
not told the angel. He is waiting I'm
til tomorrow we are safe, but do not
forget that he taught us how on the
second night after a man dies, the angel
at sunset cleanses and prepares his soul
so that it may stand well before Allah
Now tomorrow surely the angel will see
what has been done to him. Then our
fate will be upon us. Let us therefore
return here tomorrow evening" So they
came and cried round the grave the Sec
ond time.
When again the sun sank and no
harm came to them, the young men, be-
coming bolder, returned to the town.
and the King ordered them at once to
be seized and bound, for he said: 'Ad-
julai taught us that ON the third night
the soul stands before Allah and de-
mands its gift" from him. Whatever
it asks for must be given. No doubt he
will tell him what we have done and for
his gift demand vengeance on us. Yet
perehance he will remember that we did
not all wish to kill him and only ask
for vengeance on his murderers Thus
the town may be spared
They mourned and tasted. then. all
that night and all the next day, and in
the evening crouehed weeping round the
grave. As the sun began to sink the
King told Adjulai that he must not pun
ish them all for what was done by
few, and the young men, knowing their
wickedness, had nothing to say. 1t
seemed long before the sun was down,
for they feared greatly. Yet no rain
had fallen, nor were their hearts faith
full, for many are minded if the evil
passed over them to keep to the old
gods.
And now, 0 white man." said the
old man, losing his politeness in his
earnestness, see the greatness of Allah.
As the sun touched the sand there came
a moving and shaking above the grave
like as the top of the water is disturbed
when two crocodiles fight beneath the
surface. The sand twisted and spun
round and round and began to form
great pit, falling away like the water
falls down a hole in the river bed.
"The people covered their heads They
thought that this was Adjulai, who had
obtained his gift, coming up to take
vengeance on his slayers. The sand flew
round and round, and the hole widened
and deepened. When, as the sun touched
the plain, 10! great wonder! from
the bottom of the pit came vast squirt
OF water! 1t filed the pit and, over
flowing, rushed down the valley.
The people ran crying through the
dark back to the town. Not till the
morning did they dare to return. Then
they saw this stream flowing peace
fully, and never since has it died away. |
They rushed for the water, but before |
any man was allowed to drink, the |
king babe all of them stand together !
on the bank, and in this wise he spoke:
Ho, Adjulai!' he said, instead OF |
death thou hast given us life. From |
this day thy God is the God of this
and his worship shall prevail |
On this day when in each year i: comes |
round, the people shall here assemble I
TO give thanks and remember the good |
Admlai, who demanded as his gift not A /
curse but blessing on the people that
forsook and killed him.
$50, my father, it has always been.
Dry seasons come and go, but the old I,
water holes never fiji, nor does this riv.