- Saving Gim Ja-hyun’s Daughter from Smallpox
- 1 Gim Ja-hyun’s daughter, suffering from smallpox, wailed throughout the night. It seemed likely she would die. As was the custom, the family hung a flag outside the room to appease the spirit of the disease, but the child showed no sign of improvement.
- 2 Hyung-yul informed Sahng-jeh-nim, “Ja-hyun’s daughter is dying of smallpox. She cries constantly and will not eat.”
- 3 “Let us go and have a look,” Sahng-jeh-nim said, and went to the house accompanied by some of His disciples.
Upon their arrival, Sahng-jeh-nim broke the flag in half and threw it into the yard. The family trembled in fear, mouths agape. One of them said, “Oh no! After the spirit has been treated like that, what will happen?”
- 4 Sahng-jeh-nim went into the center room, stamped loudly upon the wooden floor, and said, “Why are you crying?” Then, He slapped the child on the cheek. The child stopped crying and the disease soon disappeared.
- 5 Afterward, Sahng-jeh-nim said, “From now on, I will take charge of the spirits of smallpox.
- 6 I will send all the spirits of smallpox to the West.”
- 7 That day, while leaving Ja-hyun’s house, Sahng-jeh-nim said, “When smallpox breaks out on a wide scale, know that My world has arrived.”
- (JSD Dojeon 2,66)
