CALLED BACK. WHAT THE NATIVE MISSIONARY SAW IN HEAVEN.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 430, 21 December 1889, Page 4

CALLED BACK. WHAT THE NATIVE MISSIONARY SAW IN HEAVEN.

News comes from Tai Levu, says the Fiji " Times," that a native teacher or missionary, who late on a Saturday evening was writing his sermon for the following Sunday, fell backwards, with his pen in his hand, apparently dead. The body was kept until Monday, when just as his friends were about making arrangements for its interment, the apparently deceased revived. He said that he had been to heaven, outside of which he observed a great number of likus, pinafores, etc. He found St. Petev at the gate, who told him to go back to earth. He, however, asked permission to have a peep inside, which was granted. He saw a great number of Fijians, chiefs and commoners, also Europeans whom he had known in life; bub no women. On inquiring where the females were whoso garments he had seen, he was informed by Sfc, Peter that there were no women in heaven ; that after death they each re-entered the_ body of a man, becoming one of his ribs. He could get no information about the lower regions, as the sainb did not know such a place. It seems almost a pity that Fijian was not buried. His lively imagination appears calculated to bring him to grief.