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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