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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 -K W’fe EE 'ScrnT' Ms /£33IE= —ggg ' 'Z5y Txgs, vE \ W‘ 1 ml If you want America’s strongest-pulling ton truck, gat a CMC with the new 236 cu. in. fcjhW | l U If ij‘B i engine. This new Super-Duty power plant dehv- R®|IWuUM L <T» >7 horsepower, and 192.5 ft.-lbs. maximum torque—a new high for trucks of this size! And remember—GMCs are priced jyith the lowest I Time payments through our own YMAC Fyrt} ot \ iovreti available rates ~ CITY MOTOR COMPANY . DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA * - - --t 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. DONALSONVILLE NEWS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH, 1941, 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 Presbytery qnd qpdajped minister ■ g*| ON DISPLAY SEPTEMBER 26 > K| H ■ .7 '■••■-'■ ■<Oi ww™»WMy v - -"" Z 7«r 1 KWI : ' R - •^’^ g iMmwr. I R •«* W A y / x >-—-\ ** 1| ,g| " / I |KM KfiSffg ■,. 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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 ’ j soul. Y'ou who read this will say, “I >: don’t believe it.” Just remember, I do ■ not ask you to. ’ J M. C. Liddell, z , i SEED SUBSTITUTIONS WILL BE PERMITTED ON WINTER LEGUMES I 11 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- I able to supply all the seed needed for j the coming season. To meet this sit i nation, a reduction in the seeding re- new grille treatment, with integral parking lights, and the smart new elongated front fender, which sweeps back into and opens with the front door, are design highlights. Interior appointments are in the modern mode. i quirements has been made.” Among the conservation practices in Georgia is the seeding of winter’ le gumes: American winter peas at the 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.