A GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2742, 8 February 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

A GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN.

News comes from Tai Levu, says the Fiji Times, that a Native teacher or missionary, who late on Saturday evening was writing his sermons 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 his interment, the apparently deceased revived. He said that he had been to Heaven, outside of which he observed a great number oflikus, pinafores, etc. He found St. Peter at the gate, who told him to go back to the earth. He, however, asked permission to have a peep inside, which was granted. He saw a great number of Fijians, chiefs and commoners, also Europeaus whom he hnd known in life; but no women. On enquiring where the females were whose garments he had seen, he was informed by St. Peter that there were no women in Heaven ; that after death they each reenter the body of a man, becoming one of hie ribs. He could get no information about tho lower regions as the saint did not know such a place. It seems almost a pity that the Fijian was not buried. His lively imagination appears calculated to bring him to grief.