The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1851-05-10
REmARKABLE rEEuENrTMENTs.

Professor poehu, Of known reapeelAbihty
ia Giesen and MArburg, where he Pahllely
rad Hectares on mashematins---a man Of in
iogrity, religious sentiments, a friend Of truth
and AnydllBg elss but AA sathusiAst---ussd
frequently 10 relate the following tale
Being one afternoon ID pleasant society,
where he was smoking his pipe and taking
his tea, a,wthout rejecting upon any particular
subject, he oil At once felt an impulse In hin
mind to go homo, Now, az he had nothing 10
do at home, his mathematical reason told bin
he ought not to 20 home, but remain with the
cnHit Ellt tile inward nlaaiIar hnez1aa.
stronger and more urgent, 40 that ht length
oSery mathematical demonstration gave way
and he followed his inward impulse. On en-
tering his room and looking about him, he
could discover nothing particular but he felt
a new excitement within him, which told him
that the bed in which he slepi must he re-
moved from is place und transported into an
other corner. Here likewise reason began 10
operate, and represented to him that the bed
had alwaye stood there, besides which Il was
the fttcst place for IL and the other the most
unliti but all this AyAiled nothing, the moni-
tor gave him no rest hc was obliged 20 call
the servant who removed the bed to the de-
sired place, Upon this his mind was tran
quilted, he returned 20 the company be had
lcn, aud felt nothing more Of the impulse
lie stayed TO supper with the company, went
home about ten o'clock, then laid himself in
his bed, and went u sleep very quietly. A,
midnight he was awakened by dreadful
cracking and noise lie arose from his bed,
and then saw that heavy beam, with great
part Of the ceiling, had fallen exactly upon
the place where his bed had previously stood.
Boehm now gave thanks TO the mcrcihl Pa
thcr Of men for having graciouSly caused such
warning 10 be given him.
know very we'll how the matcriaIist will
explain this striking and rcmArkahlc present.
imont lie viii say that the bean. hal crack
cd the preceding night, and that Bochm had
heard Il indistinctly in his sleep, so that he
was not clearly conscious of Il. The obscure
idea Of danger, however, still lay in his soul ;
this idea became more lively the nearer the
period Of danger approached, and at length
manifested itself in the manner above stat
ed
This explanation hears upon its surface a
glcAm of probability similar 10 that when the
maieralist seeks TO explain light, a.
proceeding from iIlhmincd bodies But the
more strictly these ideas aTe investigated, tho
more groundlcss arc they found TO be, a,
length, contradictions are discovered, and
they are seen to be- impossible. IT, by the
cracking OF beam, confused idea Of danger
had dfisrH iff isBvfIT tiurir,y sleep, ha Ennld
have felt, on awaking, a secret anxiety, a
dread of something, of which ho was ignorant
of which he might afterward, perhaps, have
a confused recollection, and then, without
knowing why, might have ordered the bed 70
he removed 10 another place,
But this was far from being the case with
the mind Of the professor; it was at case, and
foroboded nothing and rs, toward evening
the impulse arose TO 90 home, no disputed
against IL, which would not certainly have
been the case, had this impulse originated IL
his own mind. The same thing happened
! likewise when the bod was transported 20 an
ather place Boehm found it to be improper
and ineonvenient
But TO such sophistry as this mdst the ma
terialist have recourse, when he attempts 4
apply his mechanical laws 10 that which i
supernatural Something of this kind ma,
! give satisfaction to persons Of this description
and to this superficial rcasoner; but to th'
Christian philosopher, by no means; thu
latter knows from his Bible, from the moutl
of Truth itself, that there arc whole hosts Of
good and evil angels, that can act upon thu
world and upon mahkind. Christ teaches u
expressly that children have guardian angel
which continually behold the face of his heav
emily Father (Mat ls; IO). These angel,
therefore, recognize in the face of God hi
will, and then accomplish il in the children
as far as they are able aud are not prevented
aud il is clear and evident, from Hebrews, ]
Ia, and from many other passages and hint
in the Holy Scriptures, that angels are instru
mcuts by which the Lord rules the whoie ere
alton, and therefore our visible world likewis,
and that they serve as guardians to man, an
warn him ofdangers ifit belongs to the pls
of the mans guidance, This warning take
place in various ways, so as the warning M
! gel can best act upon person, and it is the
called presentimenta
> 1t was probably such an angel that whi'
perod into Boehms soul, "Go home J" an
: again Nfterward, "'Move tho bed away in,
, yonder corner"
The merchant in whose employ was fol
5 merly, from the year 1863 10 l770, and whoE
: / have called "Spaner" in the narrative o.
my lille, frequently related to me a remarks
BILE presentiment he once had in Rotterdam
{ On commencing business, hc took journc
: into Holland for the purpose of forming cor
nections for his extensive iron works Bu
his attention was directed to Middleburg, i
! Zealand, to which place he had several roc