TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES IN PARADISE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1737, 11 January 1888, Page 2

TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES IN PARADISE

» There is one young lady, 'Miss Delia Street, of Gtfea County, Term , who claims to have' " spread her white wings and sailedjover the sea ' to the Celestial City las>Maroh:. About February Ist of the current year Misa Street informed her patents that on March 27th fpllpwing, at four o'olock m .the afternoon, ;Shofhould be taken riolently ill; that she would grow worse until the following day at 9 o'clock p.m., at which time ehe would die and remain m a state of death for twentyfive minutes, and that during of suspended animation she' would *visit ,that;" house not made with haudaj eternal m the, heavens." - She^askjjct her* father not ; to Bond; for doctors,^ as human instrumentality could / not: prevent her j ourney to Paradise ; iM «b^ told him not to , be alarmed, deolarjng with moat implicit confidence that -after Enduring the sting of death for twenty five minutes her mortal and immortal natures would reunite and she would again return to her earthly home. On the arrival of the day on which she announced she would be taken ill her parents ovinced great solioitude, - inquiring hourly as to her condition. ' She answered oheerfully, and continued to admonish them not to be alarmed. The hands of the olook tolled round till four was finally reached. While the tlme-pfooe was upon the stroke of- the hour the young lady was/ prostrated with Blokness and violent pains racked her body. Despite he* entreaties the father sont for skilled physicians, who vainly administered Ihelr moat potent remedies, and at nine o'olook ontha. 28 th they pronounced life 'extinct. The sickness and death occurred as she had predicted, and, in time so did the resuscitation. The father remembered the dsolaratton that she would return to life and looked at tho olook, and lo I the pendulum had ceased to vibrate, and the old tlnte-pleoa that had for years faithfully tolled off the hours had stopped while upon the stroke of nlue. When • the gicl returned to consciousness thß clock smarted of its own accord, finished striking the hour, and has ran ainoe without interruption^ By reference to the watph of one pf the dootqrs it wan found that she had been insensible— shall we say dead— for 5)5 minutes. After the return of animation her tongue was paralysed, and she Indicated by signs that writing material wav wanted, whloh ■ w«s provided) and she wrote a description of the heavenly Jerusalem, clothed In the most elegant and chaste language, and describing a country more gloriqas than any . upon whioh fne feet of fancy have ever trod, The whole covers 19 pages, of foolaoap paper. She sayq she is commissioned to read her manuscript wherever she goes. While m the home of the blest she was asked by a worn m to write, after return* ing to earth, to her great grand-daughter, Mrs Annie B. Shelton, of Klnterbush, Sumter County, Ala., and tell her how anxious her great«grand-dame awaited her coming, Oar inform<mt is not positive as to the oorreotness of these names, bat thinks that of the old lady was Mrs Annie Belmont, who said she had been dead ninety-five years. By writing to the address the girl gave It was learned that a woman of that name had died In that plnoe In 1792, and that she had a great granddaughter resident there Miss S raet says she will be told In 1839 the dato of her death, The statements at given above are established by uninv peaohnbla wltßesiai.-^Qtaauga.