The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1824-01-01

she continued to lay b. If helpless besr The
meeting house door half On hoss siier meet
ing wss over she wss ,hen taken in her pss-
sive state and carried ~ two persons In .
ehsiss TO The house OF o fellow disciple,
where she remsioed, speseblsss, and help =
ls.s, % was pretended, Lying IN state In bed,
in the pame dSsss she bad worn 81 meeting,
end so continued from that day (23d Nov. 10
Nov. sob T: she spoke to no one and snswef-
ed no one by words, but would reply to ques.
tiops by writing her answers on 0 sisle some
Of her spswerS sio pfeserved when asked
whether che would tske iood, she wrote,
+" How can { want soy thing, that sm feeding
On angels food ]"
She wrote TO ono Of her neighbors thot
" her speech wss taken away BY wicked men,
and would be heard no more, un,ii il wss
hsa,d io heaven, prsi,iog God" 1t hos 90,
been minated that she was hardly used by
those who removed her ther friends scknow.
ledge she vas removed % easily as possbie
" the wicked men" she complains Of we'o
those who refused to allow her to continue
her preaching.
During Saturday, she prophssied that she
should die before the going down Of snolher
SUM-" and her sdheron,s professed TO put I'm.
piieit Gih in the swfoi prediction, which
spread like wild6fe through tho town.
On the morning Of her Z" dying day" she
sept q solemn message in " ling 10 90 sc.
qssin,sDcc, that 10 "a few hours and this
hand, which now pens this, will b. cold in
death, but the spirit which detected IL crown.
ed with eternal iife"
The 'umor that sno was to die on that dsy
had spread through tho town end excited
great buz and general suention. She rose
tina, ming, washed and si,ired herself IN
what she termed her grave clothes, which
had been previously prepared for her, and
W, ote that " she should die by the going down
Of he sun," and requested after death she
should be Isid out on a sofs, and be buried in
a tomb after being kept . num5o' OF days 80
tha, oil who wished might be sdrnitted TO see
her. The town was in com o,icn that day
the house was threnged by hundreds and hun.
dieds Of spects,ors, who rushed from oil parts
TO see the wooder rful women chsises and
loot psssangsrs, some from a considers
Distance, we're gcing TO end fro as q. q train"
ing : all desired 20 be in o, her last moments.
Within 0 shor, time Of The awful period
she had Sc, for her A. ght trom this woi Id, she
wrote, 4" You nov behold the exit 1T one
whose life has been devo,cd 10 tho good II
souls. bres,hing this exhor'atiop, GIo,y TO
God in he highest, peace on earth and good
will 70 men :" Near that lime she spoke and
sudby ssid, Z" My wo'k " Flushed and there
10 crown laid up for me which ! am going
to iohe IN" and toId her friends "not TO
noun her esrly exit, for her body was to re-
turn To dust and bor soul TO him who gave h.
Her friends were overwhelmed with tcars
and grief by This iast sole mn pauing scensv
70 gOsp. % " dying. and remained 10 tho
sans dos,biiko posture, With closed eyes, I'll
the night OF Monday, when The corpse took .
h.ie vine, snd soon after spoke since which
she has disappeared. Some say she went
su, Of the top Of the chimney.
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