Angels and Women (1924)

THE STORY OF JAVAN 243In the night there was a commotion in theroyal pavilion. The attendants of mymother were summoned. Hastily I enteredthe chamber and raised my mother in myarms. Her life was rapidly departing. Oncemore the old prophetic fire flashed from hereyes and wondrous words came from herquivering lips:"Again I have a vision of the future. Ibehold coming to the earth the promisedseed of the woman, born from a favored one,a descendant of our kinsman Abraham.This marks the opening of the Divine purposeeffecting the deliverance of our familyand not ours only, but all the families of theearth. 1"He is the Messenger of Jehovah. He announcesthat he comes not to do his own willbut the will of his Father, who sent him. Heis the chief of all creation. He is the RightHand of Almighty God. In some marvelousway, which is not now revealed, he1 See Appendix, Note 32.