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shall die," he answered. "And have all those little boys and girls that we have seen, sinned?" I said. "Certainly they have; there is none that liveth and sinneth not," the angel answered. "But is there no way to save them from this death?" I asked.
The angel then reminded me of the story of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, and told me how God at first made them both happy and immortal, but they disobeyed God and forgot his threatening saying, "In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die." So he said it must be with all these children; they have sinned
