Mrs. Alexander Taylor

News from Wheeling, W. Va., tells of a Mrs. Alexander Taylor, a widow, thirty-five years old, residing at Toronto, near Wheeling, who has been slowly dying of consumption. On the 9th inst. she became unconscious.

A doctor pronounced her dead and funeral preparations were begun. About midnight her friends were astounded to see Mrs. Taylor move, open her eyes and ask for water. She asked that a favourite niece, who lives in Iowa, be summoned at once to receive a message from her mother, who has been dead several years.

Mrs. Taylor says her spirit was disembodied and soared through space till a brilliant and beautiful grove was reached. Here angels were guarding what seemed the entrance to heaven. She was refused admittance, but was allowed to converse at a short distance with her husband, who died last winter, and with her sister, the mother of the favourite niece. The message sent for the niece she refuses to disclose except to the young woman. Mrs. Taylor says she was promised that she should come to paradise very soon. Mrs. Taylor is an educated woman, and is in ecstasy over the belief that she will soon join her friends gone before.

Light, (September 23, 1899) p. 455.