The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-11-09
.av kis own dsad body lying on couch

with TWO women RneellnS NY I1 slue'
he afterwards learned that these were
bis wife and sister, but at the time did
"not remember any conditions of rela.
tionship." He left the house rejoicing
In feeling 80 well, and In the thought
that he would be sick again; but he dis
covered that small cord like spiders
thread, ,htlll connected him with his body.
he saened to pass through the air up
held by in7i,ible hands at swift but
pleasant rate of speed and arrived on
narrow roadway, inclining upwards, but
without visible support. BE felt very
lonely and looked about for companion,
when face full of inehable love and ten
derness appeared to him. In front wore
grea. rocks blocking the way, and voice
told him: "Thig Is the road to the ster'
nal world; once you pass this you can
no more return to the body" There
were four entrances, one very dark, the
other three led into a cool, quiet and
beautiful country; but, as he was about
to enter, he YVES stopped and be came un'
conscious. When be avoke he waa lying
in bin bed. He awoks 10 consciousness
and soon recovered.
The experience Of the Rev. MIR. Ber'
traud, who was frozen to death In the
Alps and afterwards resuaticatsd, reGam-
bles In many particulars that Of DR..
Wiltss. BE studied the phenomena of
dying with the same critical interest and
felt the same sensations of life receeding
from the extrsmities, though with him
his heart was the laat part of the body
TO lose feeling; aud, at the final moment,
there gas an instant of acute pain. Then
came the relief of being released from
The body, and The same Indifference
to it and to those he had most cared for
in life. He wandered through beauti'
full world, but vaa always conscious of
the slender thread that kept him con.
nscted with the body he had left. Then
he felt himself being drawn most unvill-
iugly back to earth and forcsd to return
10 the corpse he hoped be had forever
quilted, and returned to consciousness
to find the guide making use of the usual
means 10 reatore life to those frozen in the
snow.
We may remark that In both these cases
there il the same profession of delight
at the feeling of being free from the body,
and The same reluctance to return to it.
The worst feature of these statements is
the indifference towards those they have
left behind, IS if all earthly ties we're
dissolved by death. At such an idea The
the hesrt reyolts. We refuse to believe
that the mourner can feel 10 deep an an
guish of grief for the dear ones he has
lost, and stretch forth departing hands
towards that silent land into which they
have gors, while the dissmbodied spirit
stands by coldly Indifferent to hia love
and despair. If this were true, would
our Lord in His parable Of the rich man
and Lazarus have Knocked our hopes Of
future recognition of friends by telling
of the solicitude of the former for the
brethren he had left on earth I? We can
not believe be would. Or can we think
that He would have left His Fathers
glory to save the human race, and that he
would send His angels to minister for
them who ahall be heirs of salvation"
and those heirs have no care for those
who were dsarer to them than life itself
In the days upon earth9 Surely this
cannot be.-Sunday Ne,cs.