Angels and Women (1924)

214 ANGELS AND WOMEN
Our life within our marvelous Tebah now
began to be conducted in a more orderly
fashion. Every one went about his or her
duties more cheerfully, with a sense of deep
gratitude for so great a deliverance. Each
tried to make the other happy and 1 learned
that Noah’s sons were resourceful men,
adept in many arts and sciences acquired
from their ancestors.
My love of study was now somewhat gratified.
The family of Noah possessed many
rare and wonderful manuscripts containing
histories of former events. From these I
eagerly selected one written by Enoch before
his Translation. It appeared from this that
Enoch was only three hundred years old
when our first father Adam died and had
heard from Adam’s own lips of all that happened
from Creation down to his own day.
In reading this valued manuscript I shed
many tears over the account of the entrance
of sin into our world. How little did our
mother Eve realize what her beloved chil-