AN EARLY WILL | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 26.

AN EARLY WILL.

At Kahun, Egypt, says an exchange, has been unearthed a will made 2548 B.C., yet so curiously modern that it might be probated today. The testator settles upon his wife, Theta, his property, given to him by his brother in the accompanying document, but forbids her “to pull down the houses my brother built for me,” tho she may give these houses to any of her children she pleases. This will is of interest, not only as being the oldest one known, but because it recognizes the property rights of women. But there is an older will than this, namely, the will of God, which not only recognizes the rights of all, but gives all the right to become the children and heirs of the Most High.