The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-26


 N SERIES of revival meetings con P0 ducted in Alton, Iowa, by the Rev. A. A. Arlington, a Cali fornia evangelist have had strange 1 effect upon Miss Mae Mutchlar, pretty 18-year-old high school girl of that town and daughter of Town Marshal Mutchlar Miss Mutchlar up to the present time has always seemed healthy and we'll balanced girl, except that she was of a rather high-strung nature. and has al ways been a good student and general | social favorite.
 1 The Rev. MT. Arlington Is said to be man of commanding and imposing ap- pearance, with much personal magnetism.
 His voice is strong and musical and he thrills his listeners with his impressive
 sermons.
 1 One of the most faithful attendants at
 these meetings was Miss Mutchlar. Her lessons, social pleasures and all other ln- 1 terests were forgotten and her whole mind
 seemed concentrated upon the dscourses. l At the close of one of the regular meet l ngs Miss Mutchlar suddenly went into q | strange sort of a trance, which lasted
 three days. Upon awakening from this sleep 1t was found that she had lost | her power of speech. The minister at- l tributed this to a direct manifestation of the divine power, and prophesied that
 when her power of speech would return it would be in a strange tongue. True to this prediction, she began to talk in a pe-
 culiar and hardly intelligible manner one day The Rev. MT. Arlington was i'm mediately sent for and took her remark able story in writing. Since this time she has gone into a trance daily, and upon awakening has a story to tell of new ex- perience.
 A Chicago psychologist who has studied the case thinks that the girl was hypno- tized by the minister and while in this hypnotic state sees these strange visions.
 However no matter what the solution of the mystery may be, Miss Mutchlars story is an interesting one.
 Upon losing consciousness the girl claims she had a feeling of being carried upward by unseen hands. When she reached the portals of heaven she was surprised to see not 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 sem blance of earthly architecture. The atmos- phere was warm and balmy, very much like a summer day on-earth-
 A very dear girl friend who had died
 some years ago met her with these words: Dear Mae, have been waiting for you so long. Now you must come and live with me always
 The queer part of it was that the people in Heaven lived in families, just the
 same as on earth, and dwelt together in modern looking homes. The people were all gowned in silken robes made very
 much like the dress of the Japanese
 women, and seemed waterproof. The lakes were deep and clear and used
 by the people to bathe in, and great was
 her surprise when she found herself walk 1 ing under water without the slightest
 sensation of choking. Exquisite subma-
 rine flowers and plants grew on the bot
 tom of these lakes.
 Vegetation was much the same as upon
 the earth, according to her story, only 1 with a greater tropical luxuriance, and | the only difference she found in the peo- i ple was that no one showed extreme
 old age. The different stages from child hood to the adult age were all portrayed,
 but old age was nowhere to be seen. The ability to soar through the air like the birds was one of the peculiar character
 istics 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 l no night ever came; instead soft glow