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| MY WONDERFUL VISION
The story I am now about to relate
is so very unusual that many will be
skeptical. I will not blame them for,
although it came under my observa
tion, I, myself, am prone to doubt
its reality.
For some time I hesitated to dis
close the details of my strange ex
perience. lam fully aware that in
these days of advanced thinking and
scientific investigations that the more,
intelligent class looks upon ghosts, I
specters, phantoms, and apparitions;
as the result of a diseased mind.
But regardless of what may be- ■
thought or said, I have fully made up
my mind to write, as near as mem-,
ory will aid me, all that I saw and
heard on that memorable day. Yes it
happened in the day time, not a night.
I was in my study one morning
building a sermon for the coming
Sunday morning service, I was work
ing hard. If those who think a pr.e.iu’h
er’s task is an easy one were eompeJL
ed to prepare three or four sermons a
week, they would change their minds
about the preacher’s idleness. I am
speaking of preachers who are worthy
of the name, not ranters and bab
blers; but preachers who search the
Scriptures, seeking to be workmen
that needeth not to b? ashamed,
rightly dividing the word truth.
The text I hr.d chosen from whjcJ)
1 was to preach was John’s Gospel,
Chapter 14: verse 18 which reads, “I
will not leave you comfortless, I will
come again to you”. The marginal
Tendering is. 'T wfß not leave you
orphans”. These words were spoken
by Jesus to His sorrowing
the night before his crucifixion.
In my work as a public speaker 3
have learned or trained my mind to
concentrate on the subject matter in
hand. This is very neeoMsary to suc
cess in that work.
There is no such thing as having
the mind filled with thoughts and
mouth filled with words by some sup
ernatural source. God gives a man
intelligence and gives to him the
Bible and says to him, “Read, study”.
You cannot pour anything out of an
empty jug but disappointment; man
must fill his own mind with know
ledge or forever have an unfilled void.
I was very busy at my task that
morning. The words of the text had
warmed my heart in an unusual way.
Directly I became conscious of the
presence of someone. The feeling grew
so strong that I looked up from my
writing. “Oh,” I exclamed. There in
that room stood my dear father, who
went from us over forty years ago.
There he stood near the entrance to
the room.
He looked the same as the last lime i
I saw him alive. There he stood before
me, the same form and figure, with ■
Van Dyke beard, black wavy hair
slightly graying on the temples, uwl
the same large brown eyes and kindly
expression on his face.
I started from my ichajr and at the
same time cried, “Father, you here!”
He answered in the same soft, musjr
cal voice I loved so much in my child
-“ Yes, my son, I have come to visit you
for a brief moment.”
My first impulse was to rush over
and take him In my arms; but some j
power held me back —a force I could
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not resist. I cannot explain it but
such an action would have been very
much out of place now.
I invited him to sit on a chair. No,
he said, “I will remain here standing
fur I must be going soon.” He never
took his loving eyes off me. It seem
ed that they were searching for the
boy he knew years ago, but now had
grown into a man.
After some moments which seemed
to me hours he spoke again. This
time he asked how I had been and
! how life had served me. "Has the
I world been kind to you, my son? Tell
me all. I would love to know.”
I told him of the struggles I had
encountered of the sadness and lone
liness that followed his going away,
on that August night. Os being at
j work on that Monday morning when
! the news of his death was brought by
a friend who came to me and said,
“Clifford, your father died last night,
go tell your mother.” (My father was
away from home when he died) How
well I remember with sorrowing heart
I reached home and told Mother. I
shall neyey f.orget her grief and the
I wail of my yuung
Then the funeral—Your sttil, peaep«
ful body lying there in the casket,
clad in dark suit. With the other mem
bers of the family I looked at all that
remained of my dear parent and said
with millions of otther bereaved ones,
“You are being put away in the
gjtHtpl where I will never see you a
gain,’’ ”tJst 19 yff!) are here before
my very eyes,"
I related to him the struggle my
mother had in rearing six children up
to where we could look after our
selves. How I was compelled to leave
school for awhile and seek work so
so help Mother make a living for
us an. i&frpry Saturday night I would
bring my earning (y |ier, and some
times would ask for 25 cents to b r J}ve
money in my pocket.
As time moved on mother and sisters
I were able to care for themselves and
I launched out ihtS life for myself
and after a while married.-
In a few years I went into the niin
listry but not until I had almost ruin
ied my health studying at night some
times to early morning hours after
! having worked ten hours during the
(day.-
> 1 further told him of my struggle as
a minister of the and as pastor
|of congregations. I also related to hjm
jof the perfidy of some who professed
to be followers of the loving Christ
and whom I thought were my friends
but found tb«p to be false, hypocritb
cal, and cruel.
After I had related these things to
Jiim he looked at me with such tender
eyes that I was melted
Ito tears, not j<; ggjf-pity but because
it reminded me of my ghliultdkd
I when I came to him with all my t rou
| hies and he always comforted me.
After quieting ray emotion I told
ihim |;ow much I missed hi’.? through
ithe years, flinch so that my dreams
'at night were tuu t,*/ seekings for
him. “By night on my bed i s.qjrght
him whom my soul lovetii; I sought
him but found him not.”
I told him of many other happen
ings, of the death of my mother, and
i our oldest daughter and of others of
our family connection not growing
into a multitude.
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After relating the above mentioned .
things I said, “You have heard me. j
Now I want to know about you. Has I
it been well with you all these years
you have been away?”
He smiled and said, “Yes, my son,;
I have been so happy. I would not live ‘
on earth again if all it is or could j
produce was at ray disposal. Even ‘
that could not compare with my celes- .
tial abode and supply.”
I interrupted him. “Father tell me,
are there many others dwelling where
you have been ? ” He answered, “Oh ■
yes, my son. a great host, no man can !
number, who like myself, have lived ‘
on earth but are now in that other I
world,’’
“Father, tell me, did you see moth-1
er? Is she there? My four brothers J
my sisters Mary and Mildred, are they
there?” “Yes”, he said, “they are
there, I see them often, but it does!
not effect one in the same way as it i
I does when you see loved ones on earth.
We see and know them but there we j
see all others the same way. There we
know as we are known. All human
relationships are suspended at the
death of the body. Wives, husbands,i
parents, children will know each
other but there are no earthly ties |
there. For in heaven there is no mar- i
| Tying nor giving in marriage, all will
i be like the angels.
“Father, is this the first time you '
have been back to earth since you
went away?” I asked. “No, my son,
this is not the first time. I have been
near you many times. I was near you
i,|;p fjpie you lay at death’s door of
pneumonia also when you were m
St. Joseph’ Hospital in Lexington, Ky.
■and almost lost your life. I was near
j you that time you came near dying,
'of pneumonia, right by your bed, but
you did not see me. I was near you i
that October night when you lay un-;
der the railroad wreck almost crush
j ed to death. I was in the room of the
1 Hospital when you fought your way
back to life and health. I was near
you that morning, the 10th of April
wl)ep you were received into the
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jof the Gospel. Many a time since,
j have I stood close to you on Sunday
■ mornings while you endeavored to
I preach.”
“Why is it that I never saw you?”
I I asked. He anwered, “You were not
.in the proper spiritual attitude, but
| now you are and that is why you see
'me here.”
I He continued, “My son, when you
come down to your time to depart
this life and soar to another world, 1
will be near you to escort your spirit
' upward and present you to Him who
i loved you and gave Himself for you.
He who said “I will not leave you or-
! phans, I will come to you.”
j These words so touched me that
imy eyes were dimmed with tears. I
leaned my head on my arms and wept
a long time. When I raised my head
I and brushed away the tears, the
Heavenly visittor was gone.
Oh how sweet was that hour I spent
with that spirit, 1 shall never forget
, the sweet solemn joy that flooded my
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i SEED SUBSTITUTIONS
WILL BE PERMITTED
ON WINTER LEGUMES
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Fitting the continued need for soil
building to an apparent shortage of
winter legume seed, Bill Brigham,
, county agent of Seminole county, this
week announced a revision of agricul
• j tural conservation program provisions
| which will permit farmers to substi-
■ tute certain small grains for a part
lof the required seeding of Austrian
■ winter peas, vetch, vr eriinson clover.
“It appears”, Mr. Brigham said,
j “that the western markets will be un-
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j the coming season. To meet this sit
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rate of 30 pounds per acre, vetch at
the rate of 20 pounds, and clean crim
son clover at the rate of 5 pounds.
In lieu of these requirements, the
j county agent said, farmers may sub
j stitute the following: Twenty pounds:
of Austrian winterpeas, 15 pounds of
vetch, or 10 pounds of clean crimson
clover seed, in connection with (a)
1 1-2 bushels of oats, (b) one bushel
of barley, (c) three pecks of rye, or
(d) a combination of equivalent
amounts of the three small grains,
named.
Because of the possibility of :t
shortage, farmers have been urged!
to make use of all available winter
legume seed supplies, and to increase
their use, wherever possible, and thus
cut fertilizer costs while enriching’
their soil.