The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-29
TWAS BUT A DREAM,
But it All Came True in a
Strange Manner.
McNEAL's VISION OF HEAVEN.
Meeting an Acquaintance Who Died
on the Day Specified Ia the
Spirit Talk.

days ago the Herald contained special
from this city. detailing the particulars
of a wonderful dream, which came to
Abram F. McNeal, well-known citizen
of the adjoining village of Rawson, on
the night OF January 28th.
1t recorded the remarkable fact that
the death Of this gentleman on March
18th was full and complete verifiGation
of the vision, as indicated by manu-
script which was found in his desk by
his wife previous to his death, but kept
a secret until after that unhappy event,
which occurred as foretold, on Monday,
March 26th.
Mrs. 4huNeal then disclosed to few
intimate friends the facts regarding the
dream, and showed them the manu-
script her husband prepared the morn
ing following the remarkable revelation
which was made to him whilo he SUM
barred and slept, on the night Of January
28th.
Tnis document the HeraLd'S CORE
spondent was to-day permitted to copy,
against the wishes of Mrs. McNeal, who
regards 1t as something almost too
s,cred for mortal hands or vision.
With the exception of corrections in
punctuation and quotation marks, the
following is q verbatim copy Of this
truly remarkable document:
M'NEAL's WONDERFUL VISION.
RAwsoN, January 90, 1883.
To My Family and Friends:
81 had such strange dream last night
which worries me very much.
Il am going 10 write IL Down, because l
some way feel 1t will come true. l dreamed
| took sick, and in five or SIX days, died. !
thought was but a little time getting to
heaven after l left the earth. 1 can remem-
Der felt glad l was leaving my old body
thous hit that as soon as l got to heaven,
everything that was good in me Oh earth
came back TO me saw Jesus on great
white throne. and millions of angels were
coming and going all the time from in front
of the throne. Built eem5 didn'G know any
of them. But joined in the multitude and
walled around. Oh, So happy! All al once
[ met Mahlon Povenmire, of Ada He
new me right away, and said, as we shook
hands:
"'Auram, I'm mighty glad to see you
"Why, MahlQp, l said, 81 didn't know
you had left the world. When did you
reach here?'
"Just week ago tc-jay, Abram,' SAID
he, and am So happy and CAD you came,
for knew you would soon follow me.
II then thought in my dream that Mahlon
,ked me when l left the world, snd re
membs r that 1 said on Monday, March 20;
md this is what has worried me SO much.
that am writing it all down just as 1t came
to me last night.
! II then thought Mahlon and me talked
and walked together, and spoke of things
on the earth, but 1t didn't ZEN we sorrowed
for the friends we had left bshind as.
"In my dream, MRhlon asked me how
long had been sick before l died, aud
remember Just as we'll that told him five
or six days, and that had pneumonia.
Thought that when died, mother (his
wife) and the children were around my
bed, and that mother said. oh, Gud. just
knew this was going to happen
ON the day | was buried. 1t seemed to
me could look down from heaven and see
snow on the ground in the graveyard where
got awake, but the dream was so real and
seemed so queer that l couldn't sleep any
more.
1T vas about O'CLOCK when got awake,
and from that time until morning, l lay in
bed and thought of the dresm. l am sure
it is going to come true, and l am sure Nah
lon Povenmire is going to die. too; and
though | never believed much in dreams,
this was so different from all others l ewes
had, that am sure it was warning from
heaven. and l write this out so that If
should die on March 10Th, my family and
friends will know that am prepared; and
if IL don't come true, why no ha m will be
done But l can't ges over it that am go
ing 10 die on Marcn Goth. and that MahtOn
will die q week before me, but won't say
any thing 10 him or anybody else about it.
"IS may be foolish to write all this, huti
it comes tr4e let who sver finds this believe
that am ready to go when the messenger
came after me.
ADRIAN f. McNFAL "