Man and Woman | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 6, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 19.

Man and Woman.

IN the beginning God made the heavens and the earth. He lit up the heavens with the sun by day and the stars by night. He created the birds of the air, the beasts of the forest, and the fish of the sea. He made the beautiful hills and the smiling valleys, the shady groves and the babbling brooks, the gorgeous rainbow and the warbling birds, in short, a beautiful and plenteous world, a garden of Eden.

Then He created man, and made him ruler over all. He surveyed the picture and was not satisfied. There was something missing, something without which all else was nothing. He saw the sun was king of the day, the moon queen of the night, the stars like a great family of bright-eyed children. In all nature was sex and companionship; but man was alone. Then God made woman, and gave her to man as a companion, friend, wife, the last, but best, of His creations, as the connecting link between heaven and earth, between man and his God.

From that day to this, she has been his guardian angel. From the cradle to the grave—

"She sits by his heart, when it sinks in sorrow, Singing out the dark night, singing in the bright morrow."

She says unto him, as Ruth said to Naomi: "Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God."

—Jewish Ledger.