Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-04-20
A VISION OF HEAVEN.

/ KaWSOU, OulOs wac ouN So"'
plete veriGcation of a vision, as in
dicated by manuscript which wal
found in his desk by his wife pre-
vious to his death, bat kept
secret until after that unhappy
event, which occurred, as foretold
on Monday, March 90. Mrs. Nc
Neal then disclosed % few init
mate frien DIS the facts regarding
the drea m, and showed them th'
manuscript her husband prepared
the morning following the remark
able revelation which was made tC
him while he slept on the night o
January 2S. The following is
verbatim copy of this truly remark
able document:
RAwsoN, o., Jan. 30, 1888.
To My Family an Friends -
| had such a .ange dream las
night, which worries me very
much. I am going to write II
down, because | some way feel II
will como true. | dreamed l tool
sick and in five or six days died.
thought | was but a little time
getting to heaven after | left the
earth. can remember | felt glad
| was leaving my old body.
thought that as soon as | got tC
heaven everything that was good
IN me on earth came back to me-
| saw Jesus on a great white throne
and millions of angels we're coming
and going all the time from in from
of the throne. But 1t seems
didn't know any of them. Bnt
ioined in the multitude and walked
around. Oh, so happy All a.
once met Mahlon Povenmire.-
He knew me right away and said
as we shook hands: "Abram, I'm
mighty glad to see you"
"Why, Mahlon," l said, 81 didn'
know You had left the world.-
When did you reach here ?"
"Just week ago to day, Abram,
said he, "and am so happy an(
glad you came, for | knew yot
would soon follow me-"
then thought in my dream tina
Mahlon asked me when / left tb'
world, and l remember that l sai(
on Monday, March 26; and thi'
is what has worried mo so mucl
that | am writing it all down JUS
az it came to me last night. theI
thought MahlOn and me talked
and walked together, and spoke o
things on the earth, but 1t didn'
seem we sorrOwed for the friends
we had left behind us. In mI
dream MahlOn asked me how lcnl
| had been sick before died, ant
/ remember just as well that | tolC
him five or six days, and that
had pneumonia. | thought tha
when died, my wife and the chill
dren we're around my bed, anC
that my wife said, ooh, God,
| Just knew this was going T.
happen"
On the day was buried it seem
ed to me could look down from
heaven and see snow on the groun'
in the graveyard where they wer
putting my body.
1t was about three o'clock whel
| got awake, and the time on unit
morning | lay in bed and though
of the dream. | am sure it is goini
to come true, and am sure Mahlol
Povenmire is gong to die, too
and though | never believed mucI
in dreams this was 20 dlfleren
from all others | ever had that
am sure it was a warning iron
heaven, and l write this out s.
that if I should die on March 9
my family and friends will knoV
that l am prepared and if it don
come true, why no harm will b
done. ABRAM f. McNEAL.
About week before March 2
Mr.. McNeal, who had been in hi
usual good health took a sever
cold, which developed into pneu
mona, and on Monday March q
he died just exactly as indicated /
his dream.
What is still more strange, on
week before this his friend Mahlo
Poyenmire sickened and died, bu
Mr.. McNeal being himself ill O
that time his wife would not pei
NIT him to become acquainted wit
this intelligence, and he died with
oat knowing that this part Of hi
dream had been fnlfilled.
Another remarkable feature
found in the fact that the day o.
which Mr.. McNeaPs remains wer
inferred the ground was covere
with snow, thus filling out in ever
particular the substance Of wha
came to him in a dream two month
previous.
On the whole it can be said tina
rarely, if ever before, has a recorC
ed dream been 80 wonderfully an
rem arkably fulfilled by subsequer
events, and the marvellous occul
renee has excited comment, where
ever the details have been mad
known.-N. Y. Herald
at a teachers examination /
Jones county, Iowa, in answer I
the question, "What is hygiene
a young lady applicant for a certi
icate to teach school answered