Frederick William Hurst received visits from his two dead brothers who were desirous of having him perform vicarious work on their behalf in the temple:
“In the fall and winter of 1892-3, I worked at painting in the Salt Lake Temple. Although sick, I felt strongly impressed to go and do my very best..
Along about the 1st of March, 1893, I found myself alone in the dining room, all had gone to bed. I was sitting at the table when to my great surprise my elder Brother Alfred walked in and sat down opposite me at the table and smiled. I said to him (he looked so natural). "When did you arrive in Utah?"
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
From Liahona The Elders Journal
“The following experience occurred while the writer was laboring as a missionary in the state of Wisconsin, in 1899.
On the 22nd of October of that year my father died in Salt Lake City, surrounded by some of the members of his family. Word was sent to me next day, but owing to my having changed my place of residence, I did not receive the message until the day of the funeral, too late to have gone home to be in attendance. My mind naturally reverted to my last visit with him and the pleasant parting as he bade me God-speed on my mission, and to what I would find when I returned home.
On the 22nd of October of that year my father died in Salt Lake City, surrounded by some of the members of his family. Word was sent to me next day, but owing to my having changed my place of residence, I did not receive the message until the day of the funeral, too late to have gone home to be in attendance. My mind naturally reverted to my last visit with him and the pleasant parting as he bade me God-speed on my mission, and to what I would find when I returned home.
Edward James Wood
This occurrence took place in Canada in 1921 following an agreement between Alberta Stake President Edward J. Wood and Stake Patriarch Henry L. Hinman They had promised that whichever of the two died first would return and tell the other about the work being performed in the spirit world:
“Another of the memorable occasions in the life of President Wood occurred in 1921. “Uncle" Henry L. Hinman, Stake Patriarch and last living personal witness of Joseph Smith the Prophet among the Canadian Saints, half-jokingly made an agreement with Edward Wood. The two men, while speaking of the spirit world, agreed that the first to die should return and tell the other about the work going on there. “Uncle" Henry died shortly thereafter.
“Another of the memorable occasions in the life of President Wood occurred in 1921. “Uncle" Henry L. Hinman, Stake Patriarch and last living personal witness of Joseph Smith the Prophet among the Canadian Saints, half-jokingly made an agreement with Edward Wood. The two men, while speaking of the spirit world, agreed that the first to die should return and tell the other about the work going on there. “Uncle" Henry died shortly thereafter.
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
David Lynn Brooks
The wife of David Lynn Brooks, who returned to visit her bereaved husband two years after her death which occurred May 26, 1945. Elder Brooks recorded,
YOUR PROGENITORS WILL BE PLEASED
Peter B. Johnson
I was called on a mission to the Southern States in the spring of 1898. I reached Mississippi the twenty-second of June, 1898. On the eighth of August I was taken down with the chills and fever, which turned to malaria. I became so low that the president sent his counselor and two elders to see me in relation to being released and sent home. The yellow fever quarantine came on; I was not able to leave; and then I had the following experience:
I was called on a mission to the Southern States in the spring of 1898. I reached Mississippi the twenty-second of June, 1898. On the eighth of August I was taken down with the chills and fever, which turned to malaria. I became so low that the president sent his counselor and two elders to see me in relation to being released and sent home. The yellow fever quarantine came on; I was not able to leave; and then I had the following experience:
Sunday, 20 January 2013
Near Death Experience of Lorenzo Dow Young (1828) brother of Brigham Young
While at Watertown, I married, and afterwards removed to Mendon, Monroe County. At this place I had a remarkable dream or vision. I fancied that I died. In a moment I was out of the body, and fully conscious that I had made the change. At once, a heavenly messenger, or guide, was by me. I thought and acted as naturally as I had done in the body, and all my sensations seemed as complete without as with it. The personage with me was dressed in the purest white. For a short time I remained in the room where my body lay. My sister Fanny (who was living with me when I had this dream and my wife were weeping bitterly over my death. I sympathized with them deeply in their sorrow, and desired to comfort them. I realized that I was under the control of the man who was by me. I begged of him the privilege of speaking to them, but he said he could not grant it. My guide, for so I will call him, said "Now let us go."
RAISED FROM THE DEAD
By LeRoi C. Snow
INTRODUCTION: These are the people who participated most prominently in the following
remarkable experience, now published for the first time:
Lorenzo Snow was the fifth president of the Church.
Ella Jensen, now Mrs. Henry Wight, living in Juniper, Idaho. She is fifty-eight years of age, the mother of eight children, six of whom are now living, and has six grandchildren.
Jacob and Althea Jensen, Ella's parents, and her Uncle Hans Jensen, all of Brigham City, Utah, and all now dead.
Rudger Clawson, of Salt Lake City and president of the Council of Twelve.
Leah Rees, now Mrs. Wilford Reeder, of Brigham City. Mrs. Hattie Critchlow Jensen, of Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, now on a visit to Palestine.
A lphonzo H. Snow, of Salt Lake City, father of little Alphie, who died the morning of Ella's restoration to life.(dated 1929)
INTRODUCTION: These are the people who participated most prominently in the following
remarkable experience, now published for the first time:
Lorenzo Snow was the fifth president of the Church.
Ella Jensen, now Mrs. Henry Wight, living in Juniper, Idaho. She is fifty-eight years of age, the mother of eight children, six of whom are now living, and has six grandchildren.
Jacob and Althea Jensen, Ella's parents, and her Uncle Hans Jensen, all of Brigham City, Utah, and all now dead.
Rudger Clawson, of Salt Lake City and president of the Council of Twelve.
Leah Rees, now Mrs. Wilford Reeder, of Brigham City. Mrs. Hattie Critchlow Jensen, of Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, now on a visit to Palestine.
A lphonzo H. Snow, of Salt Lake City, father of little Alphie, who died the morning of Ella's restoration to life.(dated 1929)
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)