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 Indianapolis, Indiana; the daughter of a Methodist clergyman; she graduated from the Wesleyan Female College in 1850, and Methodist Christianity remained...
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 civilia...
In 1898 Rebecca Ruter Springer had an experience that uniquely revealed to her heaven's beauty and splendor. Her subsequent book, originally titled Intra Muros, detailed this very imaginative and personal journey. Her own words best set the stage for this inspiring book: I am painfully aware that I can never adequately describe the scenes that appeared to me during those days. But if I can show at all how closely linked the two lives-temporal and eternal-appeared to me, I may be able to dispel some of the mystery and fear most of us feel about death, and show it to be simply an open door into...
In 1898 Rebecca Ruter Springer had an experience that uniquely revealed to her heaven's beauty and splendor. Her subsequent book, originally titled In...
