A Vision Of Heaven

A utory comea from San .Tose poor lü ti" si.'k girl there who firmly believed that sin' had been in heaven, and who, in the' intervals of lier lasi illn.'ss. descrlbed to her family wha1 she had seen and heard there. The Bays that lier family a1 Hre1 belleved that her vsi!:i n-as the resuit of delirium, bui that they anuovr eonvlneed that she was neve dellrious during her illurss. and that her story was Iruc and correct. It is noi possible, saya the San Francisco Chroniele, to apply to a story oí tiiis kind the rules oí evidence which govern in ordlnary transitlons. No one can af.'irm with absolute eertainty thai the child dld nol tli'1. that her soul or spirit dld nol go to heaven, or that was nni reatored to life mi earth, tor tliere are no data cn wliirii 10 base a deníal or an affirmation. Wc can say only that such things are opposed to the eurrent of human observatlon, and experience; thai there is no well-authenticated evidence ol the ehlel actor in the cene is nol enough to prove the case We may, however, test the probabiHty oí the event by examining the toternal evldence. In th case ander discussten the ehlld sald, among other things, tli.-u Bhe s;iw ;i host oí angela flylng in every dlrectlon with the swiftness ol Ught; that the angela In heaven were jnst like men; that Bhe saw there her little Bister who had died smiii' months before, and tha1 Jesua had glven het a message to her father to direct him to stop s-wearlng and he would be saved. This and other thlnge the child Baid furnish vciy Btrong evldence that nho liad only a visión, such as are nol uHcommon in cases (iï Bevere illness, ::u.i that her Impresslons were purely reflexive. It i morally lasposslble, assaming a tuture state to be con, lusively provecí, that a visitor bo the celestial reglons should ser only sin-ii thinga as she must have Been or learned in the preseni Ufe. -V visión oí tiiis kind must necessarily be a glorification, so to speak, of ihings seen and known. jnsi as the most vivid and bnlliant lmaginatlon mol projeel Ltself beyond the Bphere of knoTvlege and experfence. No doubi t!,,. case ol thla sick chiid will be clted ; i mi enlarged upon as glvlng prooi ol the actuallty of a hitare state of bliss, bul the proot is lnsufflcient. No orne oí a candid mlnd can accept the statements made onder siuii condltions as eoncluslve ol anythlng, thoogh it inay bc concluded that the llttle chlld spoke in the utmost slncerlty and wlth the ttrmeBi iMiiiviciiim tii.-it ahe was relatlng an actual experlence.