BF 1352 .G7 Copy 1 NARRATIVE , and whose voice had been held thus long in silent admiration of those scenes she has described. Ber Mother prepared her a cup of bread and coffee, of which she took i»nt a few sips, and remained out of bed, cheerfully entertain- 23 ing the numerous ones who called to see her and hear her wonderous; revelation. At noon she sat at the taMe and partook lightly of that meal, and until a late hour of the night she pleasurably enjoj^ecl conversing about the happy state of these who die in the Lord. The reader will doubtless notice in reading this beautiful narrative how sublimely vivid are the scenes of that celestial world. If WATTS,the writer of the following beautiful sentiment, could have had a like transit from this to that unexplored field of glory, he would scarcely have been better able to express its rapture by the following lines. "Now the full glories of the Lamb, Adorn the heavenly plains : Bright seraphs learn Immanuers name, , And try their choicest strains." ' We feel, that in presenting this narrative of scenes and enjoy- ments in a future state, words more appropriate and sublime than those of St. Paul, cannot be used in their interpretation, INFERENCE FROM ST. PAUL. ''Behold, I show you a mystery, we shall not all sleep,but we shall be changed in a moment ; in a twinkle of an eye at the last Trump,for the Trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on Immortality." Again we see a similar intervention in the laws of Psyco-Phys- iological economy recorded in the experience of the same author. "And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a Trance ; and I saw. Him the Saviour, saying unto me, make haste and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me." And that also of Peter "rehearsing the matter from the beginning 24 and expounding it by order unto them, saying I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a Trance I saw a vision. INFERENCE FROM ST . JOHN. "I Ibeheld, and lo a great multitude, which no man could number of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the Throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and palms in their hands." FROM ESDRA.S. "And in the midst of them there was a young Man of an High Stature, taller than all the rest, and upon every one of their heads he set Crowns and was more exalted ; which I marveled at greatty. So I asked the Angel, and said, Sir, what are these ? He answered me, these are they that have put off the Mortal Cloth- ing and put on the Immortal, and have confessed the name of God ! now are they Crowned and receive Palms. Then said I unto the Angel,what young person is it that crowneth them, and giveth them palms in their hands ? So he answered and said unto me, it is the Son of God whom they have confessed in the world. Then the Angel said unto me,go thy way and tell my people what manner of things, and how great wonders of the Lord thy God thou hast seen." — Esdras II., 43, 48. THE DEVOTED PAYSON EXCLAIMED ! "The battle's fought ! the battle's fought ! and the victory is won ! I am going to bathe in an ocean of purity, and benevolence, and happiness, to all Eternity." Its Glories beam upon me, Its breezes •fan me,its Music strikes upon my Ear and its Spirit breathes into my heart. Nothing separates me from it, but the River of Death. God dealeth familiarly with man! I feel his Mercy ; I sec his Majesty; whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell — Gcd know- eth— but I see things thai are unutterable." 25 INQUIRY AND EEPLY. 4 'Tell me what hues the immortal shore Can wear, fair gladsome child, Ere yet one shadow hath passed o'er Thy glance and spirit mild ? ■"O, beautiful is heaven, and bright, "With long, long summer days ; I see its lillies gleam in light, Where many a fountain plays. "And there, unchecked, me thinks I rove And seek where young flowers lie In vale and golden fruited grove Flowers that are not to die. "Thou poet of the lonely thought, Sad heir of gifts divine I Say, with what solemn fraught Is heaven in dreams of thine ?" "O woman ! with the soft sad eye, Of spiritual gleam, Tell me, of those bright worlds on high, How doth thy faint heart dream ? -'The burdens of a stranger's heart Which here along I bear, Like the night-shadow shall depart, With my first wakening there ; "Where every severed wreath is bound ; W r here none have heard th e knell That smites the heart with that deep sound, Farewell. * * * Farewell." 26 TEMPER AMEXT AND IDIOSYXCRA.CY OF MISS EMILIXE TAYLOR. She is of sanguine nervous temperament : eyes bluish grey, and beautifully clear. Hair a light reddish auburn, lengthy and inclined to frizzle, naturally would hang in wringlets. Head, medium in size, well formed and symmetrical ; mouth small and naturally set with a pleasing feature of modest}'. Social disposition, humorous, but not assuming, reservedly careful of invirtuous presentments, or idle ex- pressions. Loves Music, and cheerfully engages in singing hymns and religious songs, affable and kind as a sister,obedient and loving as a daughter, sought after and loved by associates, admired by all who know her. She is about five feet four inches in height, spare of liesh, and weighed on the morning previous to her third trance, one hundred and thirteen pounds ; was Seventeen years of age on the second day of August, 1871, was never sick except when she had the measles, and consequently never took much medicine,but found it necessary to adopt a mild alterative by advice of a physician, a few days after her return to conciousness from the third trance; had a slight Laryn- geal affection during and after her recovery, which since has almost disappeared ; she has since her fourteenth year, been in perfect enjo} r - ment of Catimenial regularity, and Uteric health. Her educational attainment, that of a common school course, usually attained by scholars of her age. • She partakes of no hereditary idiqsyncracy, other than the physi- cal health and ability of her parents — as no constitutional disease has as yet marked a perceptible patho-genesis upon her health. i ild it become necessary at any time in the future to report a recurrence of this phenomenon, we will promise the reader an ap- pended Scientific Psycho-Pathological paper on the causes of this, and other like mysteries. AUTHOR. ****'# &****• "The talk they had with the Shining Ones was about the glory of the place, >ho told them that the beauty and the glory of it was inexpressible. There, said they, is the Mount Zion, the Heavenly Jerusalem, the innumera- ble company of angels and just men made perfect. You are going now* said they, to the Paradise of God wherein you shall seethe Tree of Life," and eat of the never fading fruits tkerof; and when you come there you shall have white robes given you, and your walk and talk shall be every day with the King over all the days of eternity. There you shall not see again such things as you saw when you were in the lower region of earth, to wit • sorrow, sickness, affliction and death— "for the former things are passed aioay. ,y In that place you must wear crowns of gold, and enjoy the perfect sight and vision of the Holy One; for there "you shall see him as he is." * * * "Now jnst as the gates were opened to let in the men, I looked in after them, and behold the city shone like the sun; the streets also were paved with gold, in them walked many men with crowns on their Heads, Palms in their hands, and golden Harps to sing praises withal. After that they shut up the gates. Which when I had seen, I wished myself among them. 28 BY J. B. AKEES, A. M. Divine revelation give us some bright views of unseen and eternal reali- ties. "Among these we find a description of the city of God, the throne of His glory, the palace of His angels, and the Home of His children." The statements of Miss Taylor are orthodox with all such divine senti- ments. And although she does not declare the form and capacity of that heavenly city, her silence does not change the revelation that it lieth four squares 12,000 furlongs in extent, and that the length, breadth, and height thereof are equal. Such an observation, and survey of area, having been made by St. John, whose flight of perception, in scaning the multitude of a city built for the redeemed, has undebateably fixed its capacity. Like the dimension given to Moses for construction of the Ark which we admit to have been sufficiently large and commodious for the completion of his objects — so heavens capacity is brought to our understanding by the figures used by the Revclator, and whether of sufficient size, we will only be the more fully convinced, after we have spent the period of everlasting life therein." "Twelve thousand furlongs would be 1,500 miles. This New City would then contain 8,875,000,000 cubic miles. This would bo 18,399,744,- (100,(100, 000, 000 cubic yards. If we allow one-half of this for the Throne of GOD, the RrVEB of Life, and the Streets, wo have still 9, 19!), 872, 000, 000, _ 000,000 cubic yards hit for the mansions of the redeemed. Supposing each 29 mansion to be a room 24 feet square and 12 feet high, making 256 cubic yards, and there would be 35,937,000,000,000,000 mansions. Is there not room enough for all ? Let us suppose the earlh to contain 1,200,000,000 of inhabitants, that each generation passes away on an average in 33^ years, and that the earth will exist as the scene of mans' probation for 1,000 centuries, then the earth would change its entire population 3,000 times in its strange and wonderful history. The sum total of the human family would then be 3,600,000,000,000, — and yet such are the astonishing dimensions of this mag- nificent city, that it would afford a mansion to every child of the human race, and not only so but would contain this vast assemblage of beings 9,982 times, and still there would be room. What a city ! with foundations of precious stones, gates of pearl, streets of gold, all lighted up with the glory of God, and seasoned with the songs of redemption, rapturous, thrilling, triumphant, forms a scene which even imagination itself fails adequately to portray. If such are some of the glimpses of that city, "what must it be to be there?" No song will be there broken, or suspended. No tokens of an approach- ing enemy will ever alarm a single worshiper. The duty of studying the intimations of Heaven that come to us, through such mediums as the subject of this Narrative is imperative, and not to be winked at, or passed by as an idle thought. And yet amid the practical schemes and intense activity of the present day, there is but little calm meditation. It is easier to speak lightly, and suppress the inquiry of cause and effect, than to give thought and investigation to them, and thereby reflect the accuracy of their thought and purpose. LOOK FOR THE THE INDEX. Preface 3 Certificate of Parents 4 " " Emiline Taylor 5 " " Neighbors 5 " " S. E. Green & others. 5 11 " Attendants Certificate of Boyle Family 5 Family History 7 " Eesidence 7 Religious History 8 Psycho-Physiological Mystery... .10 Pathology of Brain, &c 10 NARRATIVE OF FIRST TRANCE. River and Ship 11 Evergreen Shore 12 Bottomless Pit 12 Gates of Heaven 12 Worship in Heaven 12 Children in " 12 Numbers in u 13 Revs. Thomas & White in Heaven. 13 When they were converted 13 No Sickness or Death 13 Tree of Life 41 The Saviour at the Door 14 Palms and Crowns 14 Crown of Seven Stars 14 The Seventh day in Heaven 14 Return to Earth 14 Nine o'clock P. M 14 Golden Apple 15 Farewell 15 Only Doctor IS Fed with Milk and Honey 15 His Disclosure 16 Death of her Grandmother 16 Exclamation of Immortality 15 NARRATIVE OF SECOND TRANCE. Celestial Forms Approach 10 The same Ship K>' Crying for Water 17 Capacity of an Angel 17 Plain- of Eden 17 Fence of Gold 17 Heavenly Atmosphere 17 ( kites of Bdenfleld 17 Heavenly Manna 17 Advancing Ship IS Wanting to Remain is A Beautiful Angel is Lights of the Room is Eleven days without Food IS Fed with Spiritual Food IS Prelude to Third Trance 18 Saturday Night Dream 19 Startling Premonition 19 Emiline Admonished 11) Love of Sabbath School 19 Three miles to Church 10 House of Mr. J. Boyle 19 Eye— Bath— Cold 30 Dinner. Appel ite Suspended 20 31 THIRD TRANCE. Escort Angel 20 Crown of Gold 20 Luther at the River 20 Safe Safe at Home 21 Feeble Whisper 21 Psalmist' Voice 21 Wings of a Dove 21 Rest 21 Celestial Shore 21 Not done enough for Jesus 21 Not to Cross 21 Yonder World of Joy . . .21 Touching my Shoulder 21 A Sip of Milk 21 Dark Clouds 21 No Vision 21 Dull Hearing 22 Communications 22 Holy Ordinances 22 Unlawful to Utter 22 Hand upon her Eyes 22 Wide Awake 22 Family Rejoices 22 Sabbath Morning, 22 Dinner and Friends 23 The Vivid Scenes 23 Watts' Lines 23 St. Paul— Mystery 23 Psycho-Intervention 23 A Similar intervention 23 St. Peter Rehearsing 23 St. John's Inference 24 Devoted Payson 24 God Dealeth Familiarly with Man. 24 Lines of Inquiry and Reply 25 Temperament and Idiosyncracy. .26 Education, General Health, &c. ..26 Bunyan's Heaven ,27 THE BL