In 1848, Berlin, New York State (USA), 25-year-old Marietta Davis fell into an unconscious state, from which neither family nor physician could arouse her. She awoke nine days later, to describe in detail her fascinating journey in another world. The story was all but lost from today's bookshelves because of the flowery, repetitive and convoluted language (see below), a formidable barrier to easy reading.
This rewrite has retained the essence of the story and placed it in an exciting readable form. It unlocks remarkable details of:.
Strange and provocative, theis story demands above all, an open mind. It contains issues that relate to eternity..
Here are some of the daunting words and phrases that have kept this book out of the public eye for decades... Try your knowledge of interest...
Habilments, vouchsafed, perponderating, suppliant, holden, daguerrotyped, euphony, insatiate, verdure, umbrage, effulgence, fian, anatomic, animadversion, dissever, subtile.
'As imortality is the intellectual sensation of man unincumbered with physical sense, and vastly superior in its ability to endure to mortality, in like proportion is the consciousness and capability of suffering here, superior to human suffering...'
"The indulgence of propensities that folded around the soul the elements of evil magnetism and pervaded the spirit with its deadly miasm."
"Can he descend the maelstrom of death and arrest the heavy tide whose broad current thence rolls to the bottomless abyss?"
There are events in the lives of men and women that can set in motion things of eternal destiny. This book could provide one such event for you.
The author is Melbourne pastor Dennis Prince, assisted over a three year long marathon rewrite by his wife Noeline. The Princes - well known across Australia - for many years pastored an independant congregation, handing over the reins a few years ago to concentrate on producing worship material and publications for the wider Body of Christ.
Their "baby", Resource Christian Music, has existed in parallel with their pastoral work for around twenty years, and in addition to contributing their own compositions to the smörgåsbord of other worship music, they have also conducted many worship seminars across Australian state capitals and regional centres during that period.
It is a delightful pleasure to acknowledge Dennis as a "postal" friend for the last ten years!