Struck by Lightning: No Messages from the Dead
Mr. Elmer L. Carpenter, of Sharon, Mass., who was struck by lightning and literally “electrocuted” at his home on July 2, telling his experience in the Chicago American, says: “I was as dead as I ever expect to be, for half an hour; but I have no message to bring back from the spirit land. All I saw or felt was before I lost my senses and after I came to.” Mr. Carpenter was revived only by medical stimulants pumped into him, which set his heart in motion after it had stopped beating. During the time his heart was motionless, which was half an hour, he knew exactly as much as any dead person knows; and, as he says, he knew nothing. These “messages from the spirit land” are frauds. “The dead know not anything.” Eccl. 9:5.