The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-02-20
A VISION OF HELL.
4 Young Man Apparently Dies; Then Re-
wives, Saying That He Had Seen the

4 YounR Man Apparently Dies; Then Re-
wives, Saying That He Had Seen the
Bottomless Pit.
WHEELING, w. Va, Feb. 11.-Rew
John T. johnson, the celebrated mount
ain evangelist who has been travelling
this state for nearly forty years, states
that during revival at Round Bottom,
Monongalia county, a young man OF
that place who had been ill with con.
sumption for some time died, descended
into hell, returned to life in an hour,
and after describing his trip embraced
religion, and died again, happily in the
full belief of his future salvation. After
stating that the young man, who was one
of the most intelligent in the county,
was a skeptic, Mr. johnson says: "He
was apparently lying at the point of
death. Rev. Mr.. O'Daniels and myself
were called upon to endeavor to bring
him to Christ. While Mr.. O'Daniels
was talking to him, and holding him by
the hand, he seemingly expired. and
was pronounced dead by all in the
room. He remained in this condition
for some time, when he suddenly began
breathing heavily and then struggling
as though with some mighty monster.
He seemed endowed with supernatural
strength, and it required the utmost
exertions of several powerful men to
keep him on the bed.
THE struggle continued for an hour,
when he calmed down, and, regaining
his senses, requested we sing and pray
with him. After the exercises were
over he told us that when he became
insensible to earth he found himself at
the brink of yawning black chasm-
fires seemed to be burning at great
distance down, and shrieks of the most
unearthly kind greeted his ears. After
remaining quiet for short time he felt
a thread by his hand, he grasped it
and had hardly done so when a mighty
wind struck his body, almost tearing
his limbs out of their sockets and DASH
ing him down into the mouth of the pit,
where he swayed from side to side
clinging to the thread, which alone
kept him from falling into the flames
below. He knew that should the thread
break or he lose his grasp, he was
doomed forever, and he thought to him
self: 1 have been a skeptic and God AL
mighty is showing me that there is a hell
of darkness and fire to which unbeliev-
ers are exposed and he grasped the
thread the tighter. After what seemed
to him an interminable time the wind
ceased, and he knew nothing until he
requested the minister to pray with
him. Shortly after his return to life,
Mr. Johnson says, he made his peace
with God, and after giving full direc-
tions regarding his burial, bidding his
friends goodbye and requesting Mr.
0'Daniels when he officiated at his fun
eral to relate his remarkable exper-
ience for the benefit of others, died
peacefully in his Saviors arms"
That Messrs Johnson. O'Daniels and
all the others who witnessed this
strange affair believe actually in its
supernaturalness is unquestioned.
They are all persons whose veracity
is beyond question, and even the
assert the young man
was actually dead. The relating
of the story at the funeral caused
considerable excitement, and the peo-
pie are focking to the churches
throughout the vicinity, meetings being
held day and night since Thursday, the
day upon which the young man was
buried. 1t is said that the final request
of the youth was that report of his
experience be published broadcast, so
that all men might know there was
hell