Intra Muro: My Dream of Heaven

Intra Muro: My Dream of Heaven

The pages of this little volume contain no fancy sketch, written to while away an idle hour; but are the true, though greatly condensed, record of an experience during days when life hung in the balance between Time and Eternity, with the scales dipping decidedly toward the Eternity side. I am painfully aware of the fact that I can never paint for others the scenes as they appeared to me during those wonderful days. If I can only dimly show the close linking of the two lives—the mortal with the divine—as they then appeared to me, I may be able to partly tear the veil from the death we so dread and show it to be only an open door into a new and beautiful phase of the life we now live. If any of the scenes depicted should seem irreverent in view of our religious training here, I can only say that I give it as it came to me. In those strange, happy hours, the close blending of the two lives, so wrapped about with the Father’s watchful care and tender love; the reunion of friends, with the dear earth-ties unchanged; the satisfied desires, the glad surprises, and the divine joys—all intensified and illumined by the reverence, love, and adoration that all hearts gave to the blessed Trinity, appeared to me the most perfect revelation of that blessed life of which here we so fondly dream. With the hope that it may comfort and uplift some who read, even as it then did, and as its memory ever will do for me, I submit this imperfect sketch of a most perfect vision. - Rebecca Ruter Springer