The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-06-16
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Dts Nucu tcll6 W tlNt WueU ~ Wo9 called
upon to attend, on their dea.h- he -
Swedes, who for forty, ffty, and sixty yeam IA
lost tue use Of their native tongue, The lOnS
preaching death. and they would talk, pray
IN Swedish. Dir. johnson also, VIXEN II caiue
his turn to die, spoke not in the march u kh
own majestic rhetoric paesed BY even tl6o
cadences Of those Latin hymns in which he cu(ce
had SO much loved 10 dweli--bu was heard
with his sinking voice niuttesing thi.dt
prayer which le hnd learned on his m0tler,ss
knee. Strange, indeed, is the prvyidelce, aid
yet so wisely illustrative Of the absence II tine
as an eleMnt in The divine economy, Mich
thus brings together the two extreme roints 81
human history birth and death! 1hn came
remarkable tua ity is thus touched upon by
'Coicridge; 9 4 q l'S
In 4 Roman Catholic town ID Germany, !
young woman Of four or Ave and.twenty, Who
scpuld neither rad nor write, was seiDpd with -
nervous fever, during which she continued in
cessantly talking Latin, Greek. and Hebrew, "a
very ptumpous tones, aud with most distinct
enu.ciatipn. The case lad attracted The tar.
iicular attention Of young physician, aud hy
his statement many eminent lhysiolORists aid
Psychologists visited the town, and examined y
the tase on ,he spot. Sheets full II her nyinrs I
were taken down from Der mouth, aud wese /.
found TO consist Of sentences coherent and intel
llgble each for itseif, but with little or no con.
teotion with each other. All trick or conspi.
racy wns ont u the question. Not only had
me young woman ever been harmless, simple
creature, bu she was evidently laboring With
neiN"us lever. In Q town in which she had
o'sl' y resident Tor many years as = servant, Ia
ttiieIcn' families, no solution presented itself
The young physician, however, determined :
~ iia,e her pat life step BY step i for the
ml'n 'l"seli was iEcalable of returning 4
m loEal answer. He at length succeeded in
recovering ne Face where l,r layents hud
lea AlaNe,d thl,her; found them dead, but
I'LL uic 9 surviving, and from him learned that I
'le tatlHen' had been charitably talen in by an
ou lrties'ant .lf ast'r at nine years DID, aid
'epsaintd with him some wears, even till the old
man s DEATH With great difficulty he tlis.
covered niece Of the pastor, Of whom anxious
Inquiries were made concerning his habits, and
the solution Of the phenomenon was soon OBJ
aninetl. For it appeared tint Il had been the
old mans custom tor years to walk up and
down passage It his house into which the
kitchen door olened, ard to read 10 himself
with loud voice out Of his favoTite' books. "A I
considerable number Of these were still Il, The
niece's possession, and tho physician succeeded
I'D ldenlllying SO many passages with thuse
taken down ut the young w0mans bedside, that
no doubt could remain in any rational mind,
concerning the true origin u the impressions
made on her nervous system.
"Ths authenticated case furnishes both :
proof and instance, that relics Of sentatson may
exist for an indefinite time in latent state, in
the very same order IN which they we're origin.
ally impressed and az We cannot nationally
suppose the teverish state Of The brain, to oct in
any other way than US stimulus, this fact land
i would not be difficult to addlce seyeraI Of
the same kild) contributes 10 make il even
probable that thou. hts are in themselves imrer-
lsIabie, aid tlia,t # the ineligible faculty
should be rendered molec nprehensve, il would
require only different and appor,i' ned orgur-
i:ntion-Iae dody celest a., iisled o The boz
te'restr'ai--to bring before every human soul
thecxpericnce Of its y hole ast existence. And
this-this, per cha'ce, is the dread book If
Judgment in whose mysterious h erpgyphics
every idle word is recorded Yea, in the very
nature Of living spirit, it may be more y. ssI.
bic that heaven and Garth should lass away,
than that a single act, a single thought, should
be loosened or lost u nsbyt, rian. s3''s5
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