INSPIRED BY A DREAM.

Cromwell Argus, Volume LXIV, Issue 3342, 26 November 1934, Page 7

INSPIRED BY A DREAM.

One of the chief sights of York Minster is the thirteenth-century Five Sisters’ Window, which has been restoi’ed as a memorial to the women of the Empire who gave their lives in the war. When the proposal was accepted by the Dean and Chapter it had an immediate response from all parts of the Empire. Within a few weeks 32,000 subscribei’s raised more than the £3OOO needed.

A woman who died in November, 1933, left a letter, with instructions that it should be sent to ‘The Times’ after her death, which I’eveals the strange fact that she, who was the one to suggest the restoration, was inspired by a vivid dream. After witnessing on many occasions the devotion of nui’ses to wounded men from the fi’ont, she often thought how those who, in common with the men who had made the supreme saci-ifice by their unremitting toil, had apparently been forgotten, and on November 20, 1922, she had a vision. She dreamed that she went to the cathedral for Evensong and saw, standing and beckoning to her and pointing to the window, two little figures in white whom she recognised as two of her sisters who had died as children. She saw the window open and reveal a lovely garden, where women and girls were sitting and moving about by a stream. “I looked down,” she says, “and saw that both my little sisters were pointing upwards to the window. I had risen in my sleep, and was standing when I woke, and cried out, ‘The Sisters’ Window for the Sisters.’ ” The letter is signed ‘Helen D. Little, and she was the widow of Colonel C. B. Little, C.M.G.