world which God had created was to be filled with mortals doomed to
misery, sickness, and death, and there was no way of escape for the
offender. The whole family of Adam must die. I saw the lovely Jesus
and beheld an expression of sympathy and sorrow upon His countenance.
Soon I saw Him approach the exceeding bright light which enshrouded
the Father. Said my accompanying angel, He is in close converse with His
Father. The anxiety of the angels seemed to be intense while Jesus was
communing with His Father. Three times He was shut in by the glorious
light about the Father, and the third time He came out from the Father, His
person could be seen. His countenance was calm, free from all perplexity
and doubt, and shone with benevolence and loveliness, such as words
cannot express.
He then made known to the angelic host that a way of escape had
been made for lost man. He told them that He had been pleading with
His Father, and had offered to give His life a ransom, to take the sentence
of death upon Himself, that through Him man might find pardon; that
through the merits of His blood, and obed