was as if travelling a long journey, and passing through a lane that I did not recollect, I beheld a multitude of beasts, and horned cattle, that could not be numbered; one differing from another in shape, size, or colour, looking downward and very harmless. They were all lying down, I turned round and saw one of a very great size, having a gold chain round its neck; its appearance terrified me much, so that I thought I shed many tears. I thought that I walked about a mile among these beasts, until I returned to my former place, where my guide met me. He then took me into a large place, where I saw a great number of books, placed on their edges, having gilt letters. There also appeared large altars full of such letters, but I could not read them. I begged that I might be enabled to read and understand what I had seen, and there appeared another, the letters of which were black print or old English, with the word Jeremiah on the top of it, and the letter L. I wrote on the wall with my finger at the time, as I lay in bed; the people who were present observing me, concluded that I wished to write. I was dumb, for my tongue was fastened in my mouth as before. They gave me a piece of board and chalk, and I wrote Jeremiah 50th chapter. I had never read this chapter, or heard it read, or seen it before, to my recollection; but when I came to myself, I could without looking at it, repeat nearly every word in it, and which indeed I did.

My guide turned to me and said, "I will tell thee the meaning of this chapter, thou shalt set up a standard, conceal not my words, but publish them in the streets; this chapter shall fall upon the land."

He then took me through a large passage, and I saw an innumerable company of soldiers. I also saw kings in chariots and on horseback, with stars on their breasts, and like men armed for battle; and I beheld another large body of men on the contrary side, but not in uniform; they had long beards, and were in front of the armed men; and a flash, as it

were issued from the clouds, and cut off all the men that were in uniform. I saw them and the kings weltering in their blood, which ran in streams; and my guide said to me, "This day is the battle of the Lord." Then there appeared another altar, with letters in black print, as before, and I saw Isaiah 55th chapter, and wrote on the wall as formerly. On being observed, a piece of chalk and a board were handed to me, and I wrote Isaiah 55th chapter. The angel said, "I will tell thee the meaning of this chapter: It is the time when the thousand years shall be revealed on earth, and at that time you shall want no king, every person will think himself lower than another. He that shall rule over you shall be King, and as he was seen going, so in like manner shall he come unto you." There came a gloom over the place, and I returned. In this vision I could not hear as before.

On the 29th of November, 1819, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, I was struck blind as in the former visions, and my tongue became quite fastened in my mouth as before. I saw angels who seemed to be all moving from one place to another; they held books in their hands, and turned the printed side to me, saying, "Canst thou read and understand them?” My guide shewed me Moses and Aaron, with the twelve patriarchs; but Moses seemed to me to be the highest. I saw numbers beside, which were in companies, and in each company one shone brighter than another; the angel then said, "Thou seest how far one differeth from another in glory; it is according as they have spent their lives on earth."

I saw the throne of God, and the glory thereof; it appeared to me as a place arched with precious stones, which shone with such lustre that my eyes could scarcely behold it. There were numbers of angels on each side of the throne. My guide shewed me the Father and the Son in the midst of it. I then heard the sweetest music I ever witnessed, and which continued for some time. The whole company that

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surrounded the throne sung as with one voice. Silence was again resumed, and I saw a white horse stand before the throne, and the angel said, "He that sitteth on the white horse shall judge the great whore which corrupted the world.”

Angels then appeared with golden sickles in their hands, and my guide said to them, "Put forth the sickles, and gather the weeds from the corn, for the corn is nearly ripe." Then there appeared other angels, having sickles in their hands, which shone like silver, and my guide said to them, "Search the corn, until there be no weed left." He then turned to me and said, "Spirit, return unto thy body, and be not thou rebellious, like that rebellious house; but set up a standard in the open streets: conceal not the things which thou hast heard or seen.” There came a darkness over the place, and I came to myself. I wrote the chapters which I have mentioned on a board as before; but could not hear anything that was said by any person in the house, during the period in which I heard and saw what is here related.

On the 14th of December, 1819, I was again struck blind, at about ten o'clock in the forenoon, and remained more like a corpse thán a living man for twenty-four hours, when I came to myself by degrees, but continued blind for five days. After many things the angel said to me, "Thou shalt be blind for six days, and on the seventh day thy father shall come to thee and many people with him; he shall lay his right thumb on thy right eye, and his fourth finger on thy left, as a token, that he may remember his former sins and wickedness; and if not, it will be a witness against him at the day of judgment, and thou shalt receive thy sight."

He then conducted me to the place in which he had been with me in the third vision, and said, “I will now tell thee the meaning of the beasts that thou sawest. They are emblems of two things: the first refers to the government and the rich, that they

shall be brought low in mind: the second alludes to the thousand years of rest, when Satan shall be chained down, and his power of tempting man be taken away. I will also inform thee the meaning of the books which thou sawest; they contain the works of the world. The angels which thou beheld moving to and fro, descending and ascending, are the spirits of the righteous, which are striving with man against the spirits of the devil. The soldiers which thou hast seen, and the kings, &c., are the nations that will combine, one against another, to prevent any person from buying or selling but from them. The angels which thou hast seen with their sickles, gathering the weeds out of the corn, the weeds are the wicked, which shall be taken from the righteous. But before that day arrives, "Every one that calleth on the name of the Lord shall be saved:" and those were they who stood opposite the great army when the flash which thou observed came out of heaven and destroyed that army; but the others who had called upon the name of the Lord were not injured, but returned every one to his own land. And when the wicked are all destroyed, then will that righteousness be revealed which thou sawest, and all the crooked places shall be made straight, and the whole earth become more glorious than what was shewn thee at that time, and it will exceed the garden of Eden, and the angels shall ascend and descend, as thou sawest them, and God himself will reign over you."

He then said to me, "Thou shalt return, and publish what thou hast seen and heard, and be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house."

During the six days in which I was blind, my wife at one time was reading a hymn for me, and when she had read it, I desired her to read it again, but before she had done so I fainted, and saw the elements separated, and there appeared before me a large open square, I saw our Saviour nailed on the cross, and the tears trickling down his face, and at

that time I thought he was weeping for the wicked people upon the earth.

An angel then appeared, holding a man by a single hair of his head, who had a very large sword in his hand, which he waved backward and forward. I then saw a large pair of scales let down to the earth, and a great bundle was placed in one side of it, which I thought was the sins of the people, I then saw a great number of weights placed in the other, but the bundle was so much heavier, that the weights bounced out, and the scales were drawn up into heaven. Then the man that was held up by the hair of his head by the angel, brandished his sword six or seven times as formerly, and disappeared.

I afterwards saw Moses and Aaron, accompanied by a great number of people, attended by angels, and I heard such delightful music as it would be impossible to describe. There was darkness over the place soon after, and I lost sight of all in a moment.

He continued blind for exactly six days, and on the seventh his father came, according to what the angel told him; several persons were present in the house when his father placed his right thumb on his right eye, and his fourth finger on his left, and to the astonishment of all present he immediately received his sight. The moment his father placed his thumb and finger on his eyes he fainted, and beheld a very glorious scene. As soon as he received his sight, the people who surrounded him inquired if he really could see? He found that with one eye he could see as distinctly as ever, but with the other very imperfectly, occasioned, he believes, by a person having endeavoured three days before to force it

open.

Samuel Muff, a spectator, says, "During the twenty-four hours that John Wroe was in this trance, reports of the circumstance frequently reached my house, adding that he was likely to die. I accordingly went to see him, and he came to himself when I was in the house, but was entirely blind.