"How vill it be? If Gott not know ven I die, and if he bees not here,
vill zey keep me von day and von day, vile he come?"
"O yes, dear Jakey," I said; "but God will be here. He is here now. Let
me explain it to you. God is a great Spirit, and he is everywhere. You
have a little spirit in you, too, Jakey, that makes you talk and think
and feel; now, while your spirit is shut up in your little body here,
it cannot see God, but when this little body dies, your spirit will
come out, and then it will see God, and see everything, and have wings
and rise up, like the angels, and fly away to heaven, or Himmel, as you
call it."
I was wondering what Little Jakey was thinking of this, when, after a
moment, he exclaimed,--
"Vy! ven my moder have make me in ze pic-sure, ce make me mit vings,
but ce not say dot I have ze vings, ven I come im Himmel. Heaven bees
in America, but Himmel bees in Germany. My moder go dare, and ce say
dot Gott vill come, and he vill bring me mit him dare, vare ce be. I
vish I come dare now!"
"Darling, you must shut your sweet eyes now and go to sleep."
"No," he said, "ven I sut my eyes, zey not sut, and ven I tink I sleep,
I not sleep. I bees cold; too cold I bees. I tink I die; I tink I go im
Himmel now mit my moder, and mit ze baby, and mit Meme. Vill Gott come,
and vill he fine me here? How vill it be? How--vill--it--be?"
We sprang to him, and, leaning over his little form, felt that his
pulse was really still, and his sweet breath hushed forever.