The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-02-09
THE DEAD COME TO LIFE.

THE DEAD COME TO LIFE
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| Philadslphis Times: At Z O'Clock,
on sunday morning, Grape buug By
The door Of the dwelling l23 Mary
street. The peighbors who knew the
story of long and painful illness
sA ia: :" Poor Mr.. Schrsck has gone al
last ~ Word Was sent TO the doctor
/ that he need attend his patient no
/ longer. The undertaken Was Waited
TN old Swede'S church Ne. Schrsck's
death WAS announced and the SUNDAY
/ school scholars commented upon the
death Of the teacher they bad learned
to love AT II O'Clock, four hours
lAter, the Grape was torn down from
beside the dwelling in Mary street
I the order Tor the undertaken was
cuuntermsnded. The doctor was told
10 hurry 10 his patient
The story Ii remarkable one. J.
Harry Schrack, once wealthy merch
ant, lost nearly all his fortune by iu.
dorsi y the notes Of others who were
either ingratss or were themselves un.
| fortunate. For the last four months
he pas been seriously III, with nervous
spasms of the heart During the latter
part OF last eek he himself gave up
| aii hope OF living, and the attending
physician expected his patients death
| Homentariiy- Apparently Mr. Schrack
| died at twenty minutes Of seven O'clock
| on Sunday moTring. His limbs be.
came cold and rigid. his lips colored
| purple, and around his mouth as the
blue mark, generally supposed 10 be-
token death. A hsuu mirror was
| piaeed over hi. mouth, bur its shining
surface was not dimmed. His friepds
and neigh core who stood around pro
pouneed him dead and gT.eved for
him. a few hours sfterward the
body was completely stripped that IL
might bs prepared for the under ia ker's
habds. Before flashing the corpse e
WAS necessary TO remove IL from the
bed. A neiyhbor, Mr.. Charles shank
land, lifted the body, when. t. his
alarm, ne distinctly heard feeble
grosn, A hurried eSamiDstiou devel-
oped the fact that the man WAS not
dead In y short time MIR. Schrack
had Tegained consciousness, und war
sitting up il bed, but more than that,
the man who before vas lying AZ
deaths door, and who was terribly
afflicted with disease, was almost a
sound and we'll as ever he vas in life.
The Dead mans story--"Last Sep
| TENDER / had terrible ATTACH OF
hemorrhsge of the lungs aud since
then l have not teen aJle 10 40 any
| thing, except for one period of three
weeks. My health at time- Was fair,
but three weeks ago 1 felt that was
going fast My fiesh left my body
| My eutire appearance changed. NJ
| appetite was gone. Everything |
! swallowed was at once thrown of INV
stomach. Last Thursday a week |
| found would have to give up. felt
as though the power OF action In my
limbs Was leaving me. | was fearful
! OF going To ted, aud so i sat In q chair
! for three days aud three nights.
! then made up my mind thai ] wogld
have TO die and ! asked to be put to
bed. "Wednesday night | wss taken
with something like chill and
spamss at the hesrt. After coming
| through that, | seemed TO revive until
| iast Saturday. Every hour dUring
that day experienced n change. While
| the right hand would he purple the
| left wCCld be white. When the left
! hand became dark the right became
white again. The entire left si'ie of
my body was mum b and almost useless
| a bout nine O'Clock on Saturday night
| my eyesieht began failing me. | iost
my hearing aud my speech became
thick, my tongue being greatly swol
len. l had fully made up my mind
! that / had to die. AT about four o'clock,
on Sunday morning, the tips of my lin
l.ss h.
now entirely gone. My stomach was
terribly swollen and was greatly in
famed. Each succeeding crsmp was
mere severe aud reached higher up
into the stomach. All the Passages OF
my throat seemed to be closed. Short.
/ iy before seven O'clock l asked TO be
/ moved to the foot of the ted. My head
had scarcely touched the pillow then
| excIsimed: Throw me over ~ and
thep-I found myself in anoteer land
/ "rhe vision l looked upon was the
! most beautiful that man ever saw. Ii
would be Impossible for me 10 give IA
| description that would do IL justice.
My fret feeling was that of falling
down "A great height, aud then found
myself in valley. i walked along
1Dtil ] came To terrible, dark, black
1 river, at sight of which ] sbn fdered
til icaftu. fbcisIt
the river was black cloud. Other-
were walking over the river. aud, al
! though dreaded II, something urged
me on and felt that had to go with
the others. As got nearer 10 the dark
cloud IL became oTigh and beautiful,
aud expanding il o, eued and disclosed
the most beautiful sight. The first WAS
was Jesus. ] SAN great temple and n
great throne. | cav any little boy, who
was drowned two years ago, and my
other desd child saw my dead wife;
but | could not touch them. 1 saw
people whom had almost forgotten
saw my old gray haired grandfather,
who died when | wsE but two years
old There we're many whom i looked
for, hut did not rec them there. Then
the VISION began reeedirg and l never
can describe the terrible dissppoint-
rnent felt when found myself again
. in oed 1 ieit, indeed, grieved. Ii was
ii o'clock when I regaiuei conscious
ness, and Mt once | telt ~ though my
life had been renewed. / was q new
man. / had not then, nor have l now,
an ache or pain. Ny eyesigbt. my
bearing aud my speech mad fully re
: turned, and feel now as well as ever
! did in my lie F"
! Dc. James II. Csnlre,l the attend
; ing ply stefan, said that Mr. Schrack
! was attacked with nervous spasms of
= the heart. "I expected his death al
/ any moment He was in such u con
dition since Sunday week, that did
not dare to make an examinAfion of
his Iung-, Us knew lac could not stand
, it. Mr.. Schrack told mf that daring
he four tours of his Inconsistencies
he had tut one foot on earth, and he
was very sorry that had brought him
back, because he was 30 happy where
: he was.n Showing how fully lie has
o recovered, Mr.. Schrhck said ia.ghingly
: e-;erdsy that IL he Was 10 become the
: -uhiect of Dntnriety, perhaps people
I. would be tloe king Ia see him. "Iu
1 that case" aud here he laughed neart
e iiy, al will have To charge twenty fiv,
q cents for adm ission, and then perhaJ,'
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a THE Voice Of she rarsie.
a A Kentucky preacher rose to speak
IS sad opened the Bible. The first vers,
!. that met his eye happened to he. ''fh.
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