Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
Things Flying
E. Taylor is a conductor on the sleeping cars on the Southern Pacific Railway in California… He says, While on the train between Mojave and Barstow, on the night of October 4th, about 11 p.m., the moon shining very brightly and no cloud in sight, and no wind, I was sitting by the car window looking out, when my eye fell on the moon which was as clear as I ever saw it.
Right across the face of the moon was a large cross, as plain as my hand before me. I rubbed my eyes and looked again, and saw it as before. I then raised both windows, put my head out and saw not only the cross but a man on the cross with his arms extended, and the lower part of the cross dripping with fresh blood, very red. I then called for the porter… and asked him to look at the moon and tell me what he saw.
He replied, describing the cross with a man on it and the blood dripping from it and asked, “What are the things flying about with wings?”
Mr. Taylor looked out again, and the air between him and the moon was filled with moving objects in the distance, like the multitude of butterflies. The porter inquired, “What does this mean?” and opened a window for a lady from Chicago, who gazed in astonishment and described the same objects. Then they heard singing surpassing anything they had ever heard on earth, which could be distinctly heard above the rumbling of the train.
This scene lasted for nearly an hour, these people watching and describing what they saw and heard. Mr. Taylor says he broke out in a profuse perspiration, until his clothing was wet. He became so filled with joy that he wanted to shout aloud, but refrained as the car was filled with sleeping passengers.
In the course of nearly an hour, the scene gradually faded away. The lower part of the cross was the last of the scene, but the singing continued for some time longer.[1]
William James Roop, M.A.B.S.
[1] Seymour,
William Joseph. The Azusa Street
Newsletter. Published by the
Apostolic Faith Mission in Los Angeles, California from 1906-1908.
