Charles Hamlin Phelps

Date: September 29th, 1849.

Location: Ohio, USA.

Charles Hamlin Phelps, was born here in my home, and since his mother died has clung to me. Within the last three years he had several attacks of inflammatory rheumatism, and on April 5 the end came. His father was supporting him in bed, but he could not get air. He said, “Fan me as hard as you can!” and suddenly he reached forward, extending his arms upward, and cried out with a transfigured face, “Oh, there is Jesus and mamma!” He then said “Take me to the window,” breathed a few times, said “Good-by, papa,” and was gone. The boy’s mind was perfectly clear. No language can convey to you the gratitude and glory that filled our hearts in presence of this scene so real and heavenly.

Gail Hamilton, X Rays (Hamilton, Mass: 1896), p. 117-118.