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Rebecca Ruter Springer is part of a rich tradition of female Christian mystics. In Intra Muros she lays out her personal revelation on the nature and content of a Christian heaven. Like Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich before her, she brings an emotional dynamic to her faith. Whilst this precious work is considered non canonical by some, all are moved by her personal description of the way in which Jesus greets the children in Heaven. Tho...

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Excerpt from Beechwood With many hopes, and some misgivings, I start my little bark adrift upon the great sea of literature, feeling that some besides myself will watch its course with wistful eyes and prayerful hearts. It may be that, driven hither and thither by adverse winds, it will soon be engulfed in the waves, and so lost forever being met by a favor ing gale, it may be borne gently onward to a shore rich with luxuriant fields of wavin...

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Rebecca Ruter Springer was 29 when the American Civil War started in 1861. When the war ended five years later, 620, 000 soldiers and countless civilians lay dead. It is not surprising, therefore, that the dead and heaven were much considered over the next forty years in the USA. And it was this spiritual climate that created Springer's classic, 'Intra Muros', or as it is now generally known, 'My dream of heaven.' Rebecca was born in 1832, in ...

Publisher: Elgin, Ill.: David C. Cook Pub. Co. Publication date: 1898 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

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