Weekly Trinity journal., 1878-03-02
NUMBER 9.
RETURNED TO LIFE.


For the last FIVE months Mr.. j. Harry
Schrack, a young married man of Phila-
delphia, has been seriously i'll with spasms
Of the heart, and last Sunday he appar.
emily died. Crspe was hung on his door
bell and the neighboring gossips specula
ted whether his widow would marry
again. -Four hours later tho Grape was
torn down and it was announced that
Mr.. Schraok had returned to life. While
the apparently dead man was being pre-
pared for :he undertaken some one heard
faint groan, and restorativos being ap
piled, Mr.. Schrack was soon sitting up.
OF course he was interviewed and this is
the story he tells:
Last September l had terrible at
tack ofhemorrhage of the lungs, and since
then l have not been able 20 do anything,
except for one period of three wooks.--
My health Mt times was fair, blE three
weeks ago felt that was going fast
My flesh left my body. My entire ap-
pearanco changed. My appetite was
gone. Everything l swallowed was ut
once thrown otfmy stomach. Last Thurs
day week ago | found | would have TO
give up. | felt as though the power of
action in my limbs was leaving mo. l
was fearful Of going to bed, and so sat
In chair for three days and three nights.
| then made up my mind that | would
have to die and asked to be put to bod -
"Wednesday night was taken with some
thing like a chill and spasms at the heart.
After coming through that seemed to
revive until last Saturday. Every hour
during that day experienced change.
While tho right hand would be purple
the left would DO white. When tho loft
hand became dark the right became white
again. Tho entire left side of my body
was numb and almost useless. A bout
O'Clock on Saturday night my eyesight
began to fail mo. lost my hearing aud
my speech became thick, my tongue be
ing greatly swollen. l had fully made
up my mind that | had to die. About 4
O'Clock on Sunday morning the tips OF
my fingers became like load. My sight
was now entirely gone. My stomach wns
terribly swollen aud inlamed. Each sue
ceedng cramp was more severe and
reached higher up into tho stomach. All
tho passages Of my throat seemed to bo
closed. Shortly boloro o'clOcl, | asked
to be moved to tho foot of the bed. My
head had scarcely touched the pillow
whom | exclaimed, "throw mo over 7"
and thon-I found myself in another
land. The vision | looked upon was tho
most beautiful that man over saw. It
would bo impossible for mo to give n des
cription that would do it justice. My FIRST
feeling was that of falling down II great
hight, and then | found myself in val
Icy. | walked along until came TO u
terrible, dark, black river. Mt sight OF
which | shuddered and foared. Before
me and beyond tho river wns black
cloud. Others were walking over tho
river, ard although | dreaded il, some
thing urged mo on, and | lelt that had
to go with the others. AS ] got nearer
tho dark cloud it became bright and bonu
tiful, and expanding, it opened ard dis
closed the most beautiful sight. The first
| saw was Jesus. l saw great temple
and n great throne. | saw my little boy
who was drowned two years ago, and my
other child. | saw my dead wifo but
could not touch them. | saw people
whom had almost forgotten. sawmy
old gray haired grandfather, who died
when | was but two years old. There
were many whom | looked for, but did
not SEQ them. Then tho vision began re-
ceding, and | never can describe the tor
rible disappointment | felt when | found
myself again in bed felt, indeed,
grioved. IL was II o'clock when | re
gained consciousness, and at once felt
as though my life had been renewed. /
was now man. had not then, nor have
now, an ache or pain. My oyeright,
my hearing and my speech ha1 fully re-
turned, and | feel now as we'll as cyor
did in my life."