Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1839-04-18
APPEARANCE OF A DEPARTED
SPIRIT

SPIRIT.
Al the conference of Wesleyan ministers
held in Sheffield, in 1917, the Rev. Thorn
as Savage, one of the young preachers who
was received into fall connection, gave the
following account oflhe Appearance of HE
departed spirit his brother-in-law After
Il very appropriate Introduction, in which
the Rev. gent asserted dat the " solemn
fact wtich he was about to relate, " was
the first grand means of lending his mind
10 think seriously OF The solemn realities Of
death, Judgment, aud eternity. He pro-
ceeded as follows:
a sister being married 10 gentleman in
the army, we received intelligence that the
regiment to which he belonged had orders
for one of the Spanish Isles in the Mediter-
raneah. One night about ten O'Clock, six
teen years since, in the town of Doncaster,
in Yorkshire, England. as bis wife, his
chil9, an elder sister, and my self, were sit
ting in a backroom; the shutters were closed,
barred, and bolted, and the yard door lock-
ed suddenly light shone through the win
dow and Illuminated the room in which we
were sitting: we looked-started-- be-
held the spirit ola murdered brother, his
eye was fixed on his wife and child atcrna-
tely,--he waved his hand; smiled continued
about halfa minute; an d then vanished
from our sight. The moment before the
spirit disappeared, my sister Cried
"He's dead He's dcad," and fainted a
away. Her little boy ran towards the APP
partition. and wept because it would not
stay. A short time after this, we received a
letter from the colonel ofthe regiment. sealed
with black seal; the dark emblemof death
bearing the doleful but expected news that,
on such a night, answering to the same on
which we saw his spirit, my brother-in-law
was found welerng in his blood, having
been murdered by some Spaniard when re-
turning from the mess-room, the spark of
his life was not quite extinct, when he was
heard 10 breath it was that he might see his
wife and child once again, which was gran
ted him, in certain sense. for the very hour
he died in the Island Of Minorca, iii thai
same hour his spirit appeared to his wife
his child, an eldest sister, and myself
Before this event, though boy of nine
years only, was complete atheist'having
been taught by my father to dsbelieve every
thing except what | saw; but by this SOL
was CoiNllSGu vi tue
reality of another worlds existence; and by
the solemn impression that it made upon
my mind, was led to pray for niercy;which
| found at the foot of the cross, and now
feel the Holy Spirit preparing my soul to
enter those eternal and invisible regions,
the world OF spirts.--My sister from the
night she saw the spirit Of her husband
and before she received, any intelligence
of his heath, went into mourning for him,
nor could my father prevent it by any ar
gument--He endeavored to persuade us we
were all deluded and deceived, yet he ac-
knowledged that the testimony which the
child gave staggered him; but when the let
ter arrived from the colonel of the regiment
with the awful tidings Of our brothers death
he was struck dumb, so to speak and had
nothing moro to say. My two sisters are yet
living, and can testify to the truth of this
accounts besides which at least an hundred
persons can prove our mentioning the hour
the spirit appeared, several weeks before
we received the melancholy letter, and that
the letter mentioned the ight and the hour
as The same in which we behed his spirit.