- The Disciples Wail Mournfully
- 1 When Jeung-san Sahng-jeh-nim passed away, the disciples looked up to the sky, wailing and beating the ground.
- 2 It was June 24, 1909. He was thirty-nine years of age.
- 3 “How empty!” Gohng-ooh cried. “How can the death of the great person be so much like His usual sleep?”
- 4 All the disciples felt as if the sky had collapsed and the earth had torn apart.
- 5 Not long after Sahng-jeh-nim’s ascension, the weather cleared as if nothing had happened.
- 6 For seven days, brilliant, colorful light stretched from the roof toward the sky.
- (JSD Dojeon 10,48)