The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-28
the conversation mainly referring TO
President Roosevelt and the United
States.
IOWA GIRL VISITS HEAVEN.
Goes in 3 Trance Daily After Attend
ing Revival Meetings.

A series Of revival meetings conduct
ed in Alton. Iowa. by Rev A. A. Ath-
ington, a California evangelist, have
had a strange effect upon Miss Mae
Mutchlar, a pretty 18-year-old high
school girl of that town and daughter
of Town Marshal Mutchlar, says the
Chicago Chronicle.
Miss Mutchlar up to the present time
has always seemed a healthy and we'll
balanced girl, except that she was of
a rather high-strung nature, and has
always been a good student and a gen.
eral social favorite.
Rev. Mr.. Arlington is said to be a
man of commanding and imposing ap-
pearance, with much personal magnet
ISM His voice is strong and musical
and he thrills his listeners with his
impressive sermons.
One of the most faithful attendants
at these meetings was Miss MutchIar.
Her lessons, social pleasures and all
other interests were forgotten, and her
whole mind seemed concentrated upon
the discourses.
At the close of one of the regular
meetings Miss Mutchlar suddenly went
into a strange sort of a trance which
lasted three days. Upon awakening
from this sleep it was found that she
had lost her power of speech. The
minister attributed this to a direct
manifestation of the divine power, and
prophesied that when her power of
q
strange tongue. True to this predic-
ton she began to talk in a peculiar
and hardly Ineligible manner one day.
Rev. Mr.. Arlington was Immediately
sent for and took her remarkable
story in writing. Since this time she
has gone into a trance daily, and upon
awakening has a story to tell of new
experiences.
studied the case thinks that the girl
was hypnotized by the minister an6
while in this hypnotic state sees these
strange visions. However, no matter
what the solution of the mystery may
be, Miss Mutchlar's story is an inter-
esting one.
Upon losing consciousness the girl
claims she had feeling of being car
ried upward by unseen hands. When
she reached the portals of heaven she
was surprised to see not a golden
city" as has always been taught, but
a place that looked like a beautiful
spot on this earth. Mountains and lakes
dotted the landscape, while beautiful
villas were built in the semblance of
earthly architecture. The atmosphere
was warm and balmy, very much like
summer day on earth.
A very dear girl friend who had dird
some years ago met her with these
words:
Dear Mae, I have been waiting for
you SO long. Now you must come and
live with me always"
The queer part of 1t was that the
people in heaven lived in families just
the same as on earth and dwelt togeth-
er in modern-looking homes. The peo
pie were all gowned in silken robes
made very much like the dress of the
Japanese women and seemed water
proof
The lakes were deep and clear and
used by the people to battle in, and
great was her surprise when she found
herself walking under water without
the slightest sensation Of choking. Ex-
quisite submarine flowers and plants
grew on the bottom OF these lakes.
Vegetation was much the same as
upon the earth according to her story,
only with a greater tropical luxuri-
ance, and the only difference she
found in the people was that no one
showed extreme old age. The differ
ent stages from childhood to the adult
age were all portrayed, but old age
wos nowhere to be seen. The ability
to soar through the air like the birds
was one of the peculiar Characters
tics of this strange people and to wish
for thing meant to realize 1t.
The air seemed to vibrate with the
sweetest strains of music imaginable
and no night ever came; instead soft
glow as of twilight spread over the
place.
When the wonderful story told by
Miss Mutchlar was made known to the
residents of Alton many f1ocked to her
bedside begging for messages from de-
parted loved ones or requesting her
to take some message to them during
her next fight into the hidden world.
Weird as it sounds, this is the power
claimed by the young woman. When
in a trance she can find anyone in the
spirit world and exchange messages
with the spirit transmitting those she
received in heaven to the friends upon
earth when she awakens from insen-
During one of her visits to heaven
she claims to have questioned one OF
the apostles regarding the strange
phenomena that allowed her to vi
brate as it were twixt heaven and
earth The following is her own YER
sion of his answer;
my dear child he said. the two
in the earth life think. Their souls
really do not leave the earth at all, but
only seek more favored regions.
Heaven is all about them If they
only knew it. in the ethereal blue
above the clouds, in the rosy glow of
sunrise and sunset, in the cool quiet
depths of the sea, in the luxuriant
shades of the tropics, on mountain
tops and amid silent woods.
q" The disembodied soul has to obey
no material laws, so 1t flies at will from
mountain peak to ocean depth like the
shark of thought of the mortal mind or
like the message flashed by wireless
telegraphy across seas or by the cable
under seas.
".You see more beauty in heaven be-
cause you have finer senses to perceive
it.
In the earthly life you are made up |
of many personalities. There is the
chfldself that you first grow into, then
youth and maturity, all more or less an
animal life. The soul life slurnbers and |
awakens and grows slowly. but this |
survives when the other life withers |
and dies like the butterfly emerging |
from the worm.
ITO a few like you is given the |
privilege of hearing messages between |
the two worlds-because your soul life