FUTURE LIFE.
GARDENER’S GLIDIPSE. “I never saw people so happy. 1 felt awkward, but they smiled at me. and the awkwardness disappeared.” Thus, in a statement to the Sunday Dispatch, John Puckering, Birmingham gardener, described his glimpse into the “future life.” Puckering’s heart and breathing' stopped for five minutes while lie was under an operation, and he was “brought back to life” by heart massage and artificial respiration. The case is recorded in the British Medical Journal.
“1 found myself in a great room under a soft comforting light,” said Puckering. “In it was a multitude of people—all grown-ups—wearing ordinary clothes and looking most healthy, as if they lived out of doors. “I saw my wife, who died last year. She looked happy. I saw the postman of our village, who lias been dead for five years, and another old friend, who had been dead for seven years. “I used to le.nr death, hut I will never think it terrible again.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 65, 13 February 1935, Page 8
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