The Jersey City news., 1889-08-26
HE HAS SEEN HEAVEN.
FAITH CURE BROTHER EDWARDS'
REMARKABLB TIsION.

He Describes the Abode of the Blest to
an Audience in the Faith Cure Sane
-tuary--It Resembles Sweden's Royal
Palace.
Brother Haneox is at Poughkeepsie at
tending camp meeting, and in conse-
quence he was unable to be present at the
services held by the Faith Curists last
night He was represented by Brother
Robert Edwards, who is the only living
man in Jersey City that claims to have
seen heaven. He saw it in vision.
1t was eight o'clock when the very
heavy whiskered usher had seated about
two hundred persons in the Sanctuary at
the corner of Montgomery and Grove
streets, and the four persons in the choir
sang hymn. When it was over, Evange-
list Edwards, who wore gray suit and
white vest, said that he would like to hear
the congregation sing, eve are never,
never weary of the grand old song"
1t was sung and then Brother jackson
prayed. He made special petition for
Brother Hancox and hoped his work
would be successful. Some more hymns
were sung and then Brother Edwards
take for his stext:-"Whosoever will may
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ANTI-CHRISrIAN INFLUENCES.
Brother Edwards speaks with an accent
which plainly shows his Swedish origin.
The first part of his discourse was occu-
pied with the enquiry why, there were SO
few Christians. Among the causes he
placed the immortality of ministers 1t is
hardly possible to take up a daily paper,
he declared, without reading of case
where a minister has run away with
another mans wife. This painful state
of affairs kept many away from Christi
anity.
Other adverse influences were horse
racing and baseball. He was particularly
severe upon the latter sport, which he re-
garded as a stumbling block to religion.
A friend had told him that he saw two
protesting Christians at Sunday game.
He had made note of the offenders.
"Wait till catch 'em, said Brother Ed
wards, "and III go for 'em. I love sim
ner, but hate hypocrite."
The wickedness of the theatre was also
strongly condemned. Brother Edwards
confessed that he had been stage struck
himself at one time and mad appeared for
one consecutive night at Stockholm. That
satisfied him as well as the public, and at
his fathers intercession he withdrew
from the boards.
Despite all these anti-C Christian infiu-
ences Brother Edwards believed that the
millennium was coming. The date, he
said, was known to him, but he would
not divulge it,
THE HEAVENLY VISION.
After the sermon came the story of the
heavenly vision He said that at ten
O'Clock on the night of July Is he went
to bed after having prayed until the tears
were streaming down his cheeks. He
Immediately went to sleep and did not
awaken until two in the morning. Then
he thought the house was on fire for the
room was filed with what looked like
smoke. He tried to awaken his wife but
could not. The mist passed from the
room and he saw Heaven, or a part
of it.
He said 1t looked like the palace occu-
pied by the King of Sweden, only it was
a hundred times larger. Every thing was
beautiful In the vision he saw hundreds
of the saved entering Its doors, and also
saw nine angels carrying in q woman.
"She did not have bangs, frizzes OF
hairpins, either,' said he, eniphatically.
He further added that he could not un-
derstand what the saved were talking
about, for the language was unknown to
him.
This vision is true, and during it my
soul left my body and fled to Heaven, " he
said, as he finished.