Angels and Women (1924)

THE STORY OF JAVAN 243
In the night there was a commotion in the
royal pavilion. The attendants of my
mother were summoned. Hastily I entered
the chamber and raised my mother in my
arms. Her life was rapidly departing. Once
more the old prophetic fire flashed from her
eyes and wondrous words came from her
quivering lips:
"Again I have a vision of the future. I
behold coming to the earth the promised
seed of the woman, born from a favored one,
a descendant of our kinsman Abraham.
This marks the opening of the Divine purpose
effecting the deliverance of our family
and not ours only, but all the families of the
earth. 1
"He is the Messenger of Jehovah. He announces
that he comes not to do his own will
but the will of his Father, who sent him. He
is the chief of all creation. He is the Right
Hand of Almighty God. In some marvelous
way, which is not now revealed, he
1 See Appendix, Note 32.