The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-08-12
AVIsIT TO HEAVEN.
The Singular Mission of a BackwOOds
Child in Alabama.

The Singular Mission of a BackwOOds
Child in Alabama.
Globe-Democrat
The little town OF Vernon, TWEEN
ty-eight miles from here in Lamar
county, Ala, is the scene of an ex-
element unparalleled in the histo-
ry of the nineteenth century, occa-
stoned by little Mollie Pennington,
daughter of George Pennington, a
farmer. Early in the spring OF the
present year she was taken Violent
ly i'll. Drs. Burns, Morton and
Brown were called in to see her and
they pronounced her sickness re-
sembling that of hydrophobia, she
attempting to bite those around her
and even herself. For several days
she lay in an unchanged condition.
On the morning of the Oath ult. she
declared she would die for an hour,
and during the time asked her
friends to chafe her hands and feet,
and that she would return to life.
She swooned away and the physl-
clan states that it was impossible
for him to detect any respiratory
movement; that by using the stethe-
scope the heart could not be heard,
and that she was pulseless. Exact
" at the expiration of sixty min
utes she amazed all by opening her
eyes and jumping nimbly from the
bed, and thereat the crowd of neigh
bors who had assembled began ex-
horting, declaring she had been to
heaven, had been cured by God and
that He had sent her back into the
world to proclaim His word to His
people. Her wonderful sayings Gre
ated CONSERVATION and her name
was reverborated over the old clay
hills of Alabama until the entire
country was in a fame of excite
meDt. Ever since then crowds from
all over the northern portion of the
state have been pouring in to see
her.
She says she was sent to heaven
that she might see the beautiful
city of the angels and tell her peo-
pie of it. She describes her transit
ton from earth to heaven In Ian
guage that is beautiful, and her de-
scription of heaven is as Revela-
tons last chapter declares it. She
says she recognized her friends and
relatives there who had gone before.
When asked their general appear
ance, she said they were the size of
two-year-old child; that they were
not winged, but moved around, each
one crowned and singing praises to
God. She says they we're not flesh,
but spirit, and described God as be-
ing the size of an ordinary man.
When asked if heaven contained
rivers and trees she seemed surpris-
ed at such an Interrogation and in.
terpretted that part of Revelations
wherein it describes heaven as con-
tanning rivers and trees, and said
the trees were Gods throne and the
rivers his love.
She has been attending religious
meetings in her neighborhood got
ten up especially for her, and has
been the means of converting sew
eral. She has now gone to her
home, she says from a command of
God, and refuses to talk in public,
yet quite willing to answer any
questions propounded to her by ia
dividuals. She says God will soon
command her to preach to the
world. She claims to be prophet
and a healer of the sick. Two sick
babies, who had baffled the skill of
physicians, were carried to her and
by simply moving her hands over
their bodies their cries were hushed
and they turned over to their moth
ers well. She declares the world
will soon be finished, and it is sur
prising to hear her tell of the sins
committed in this fast age of ours.
She claims TO be a mind-reader,
and that she can tell Immediately
on sight whether q person is a
christian or not, and remarked that
the devil had possession of your
correspondent, which Is not true.
She denounced sin in all its forms
and declares that God will not let
the world live much longer.
The girl is about thirteen years |
of age, authenticated, with bright
features, about three feet, eight |
inches tall and weighs about forty |
eight pounds. She has never been |
to school but two days in her life |
and doesn't know her alphabet. She
never heard but two sermons, and |
she heard them when she was too |
young to know what they meant.
Her parents are the poorest of peo-
Pile and live in a small hut among
the pines. Neither of them can
read nor write. They live in a
secluded from religi-
Gus worship and the child has Meth
err been taught nor has never heard |
a prayer or bible teaching, yet the
most inextricable parts of the bible
are explained by her satisfactorily
to her audience and she solicits
questions from anyone. Several
passages from the bible were quot
ed by your correspondent for her to
explain, and without hesitation she
gave answers not unintelligently
BUT in words that would sound
for even one elderly and
an educated person. Rev. Thomas
Springfield, postmaster at Vernon
and pastor of the Baptist church,
declares the girl to be inspired, and /