My Dream of Heaven - Softcover

Rebecca Ruter Springer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907355111 ISBN 13: 9781907355110

Publisher: White Crow Books, 2010

Synopsis

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 her spiritual home. In 1859, two years before the Civil War, she married William Springer, who went on to become a lawyer, and member of the Illinois General Assembly. They had one son, also called William, but Rebecca's health was never good, and described by one person as 'feeble'. In 1868, the couple went on a two-year European tour to improve her health, but it remained poor until her death. It was amidst ill health that her classic work was born. 'Intra Muros' (Between the walls) or My Dream of heaven was written in 1898. It was a vision given to her during severe illness; and she was unconscious for some days as she received the vision - which in the telling, covers a period of years. On reflection, she came to understand the short book as a series of basic truths about heaven, offering readers both confidence that God had prepared a place for them; and that awaiting them there was a wonderful reunion with loved ones who had gone before. Springer did not bestow the status of 'prophecy' on her work; but rather intended it as comfort. As she said, she wrote the book with 'the hope that it may comfort and uplift some who read, even as it did, and as its memory will ever do, for me. I submit the imperfect sketch of a most perfect vision.'

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Review:

"My Dream of Heaven...captures Biblical truths with emotional impressions." - Rev. Billy Graham Facing Death and the Life After

About the Author:

Rebecca Ruter Springer (1832-1904) wrote My Dream of Heaven, originally entitled, IntraMuros, as a result of an inspiration she had when she was ill. The subtitle is presented as a dream, and the story itself is presented as a vision. She herself said that the story was not meant to be taken with the weight of the prophetic, but as a comfort and an idea of heaven in a general way. She took the dream and turned it into a story that has comforted many in their grief since 1898 when it was first published. Springer was a Methodist writer who also wrote other works: Beachwood, Self, Songs by the Seas, Leon, and others.

About this edition

• Publisher: White Crow Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1907355111
• ISBN 13: 9781907355110
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144