347. THAT ONLY THE LITTLE CHILDREN OF MAHOMEDANS COME INTO HEAVEN IMMEDIATELY, BUT NOT SO THE BOYS AND GIRLS A misgiving arose with regard to Mahomedan children, whether their boys and girls of a few years old were also carried away into the heaven of God Messiah. I was told, however, that their little children were taken up, but the boys and girls about ten years old, more or less, were taken up according to their education, capacity and nature. The latter are not immediately elevated into heaven, but are transferred to their spirits, and thus are gradually perfected, and raised up. I also heard it said that they did not know whither many of those they had before known have gone. I also perceived that the reason why the boys and girls cannot be taken up so quickly is that they are firmly imbued with paganism. 1747, Dec. 15.