The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-12-02

YOUNG GIRLS STRANGE DREAM.
Says She Was Cured Of Fever I'm a
vision-C1aimcd That She Saw
Heaven. and Also Visited Her Dead
Father.
The following story Ia furnished u
By Mr. Thomas l. wnlinghAm. O.
Wilson. n. c.. formerly Of Green
Vile:
was at Black Creek. n. c.. q nice
little town about six miles south OF
Wilson. n. c.. and Mr.. A. A. Ayeock.
Q young merchant At that point. told
me that his sister. Mfs. Addison. who
lives near Kenly. n c., had recent
ly told him OF little girl who had q
very strange vision. expressed q
desire to zee the child and see IL /
could get her TO tell me the story OF
her vision from her own lips. The
young merchant told me that his
brother was going over near there on
Saturday and that could very likely
get him to take me TO the place where
the child lived. This was done.
found things as they were stated
to me; l found a small girl. who will
be eleven next January. gave her a
Sunday-school paper which she SEEM
ed to appreciate: but she said that
she couldn't read.
Spiritual things are spiritually
discerned:" there will be some peo-
pie that will question the truth of
this; as for myself, find no explana-
t!on of the story; l merely state the
facts as they were given to me from
the mouth Of the little girl herself.
Her parents are In very humble
circumstances: she has had no ad-
vantages whatever. Her parents are
tenants On Mr.. Addison Wigg's farm.
near Kenly. Her father died some
years ago. and her mother having
married a second husband. She says
in her vision she saw her own father
in torment She says that she was
sick in bed for two weeks with scar
let fever, and was very low at the
ime Of her vision, not having eaten
anything from Sunday till Thursday.
Her mother, came into the room
where the child lay and heard the
little girl break out In a laugh and
say: Mamma, am relieved of pain"
This young girl is named Smithie
Elizabeth Deans, but Is generally
called Elizabeth or Lizzie. Lizzie
vent on to tell me: II was up there
with Jesus when l rose from my bed
that was my dying-bed. Jesus was
the one that came to me; l said
Lord, there is Jesus and I said:
Lord Jesus please heal my pain
and He said: I WILL and eased IL.
And He took all my feelings away
and left the body lying there on the
bed. and I could see 1t as He took
my spirit away. When I got up there
to Heaven. 1 said that did not want
to go back. and He said-( Jesus and
God were begging of meD to go back
and tell my people and warn them
how to do"
Although this little girl had not
eaten anything from Sunday until
Thursday and had been very low with
scarlet fever for two weeks. after
the Great Physician had visited her
she got right up and to use her own
words again "eat a big mess Of col
lards and some chicken stew"
Papa is in torment, and asked me
to bring a drop of water to put on
his parched tongue. God has water;
the people up there want nothing to
eat. Mama wanted me to go visiting
today, but 1 told her no, that some
people would be here to see me today.
Next, after I got to Heaven I saw
God, saw so many pretty things"
A lady that was also in the room
while l was recording the above said
to Mr.. William Aycock and myself.
that we ought to have heard her talk
Just after her vision, of the pretty
things that she saw. and she looked
up and said: 81 can see 1t now, Coo,
says what to say right now, I can't
talk and tell them unless what He
says tell them. He told me last night
I could not stay here long"
have the names OF two ladies liv-
ing in Wilson that she says that she
has q message for. People are flock
ing out there to see her.
ST do hereby certify to the fact
that the above L. true. w. r. Aycock,
Black Creek, N. c"