Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-09-17
Judge EdmOnds on Deatn---spIrItunl vie,

Judge EdmOnds on Death---SpirItunI view
Judge Edmonds, ofN. Y, is one of the most
intelligent and devoted of the Spiritual faith
He proie,ses knowledge aud certainty touch
ing spiritual manifestations and phenomena
that is rarely met with He knows whereof he
afiirms, and we believe all who know him give
the seer and reveator credit for sincerity and hon
esty. That he is strangely infatuated aud decei'
we'd, outsiders who have read his works and his
communications on Spiritualism to the press
fully agree. His yagaries are pact comprehen.
sion.
Judge Edmonds recently lectured in New
York on Death, and gave what he claims to
know touching the period of unconsciousness
The Evening Post gives sketch Of his lecture,
containing passages from the Judges Spiritual
experience. lie claimed that as the views of
no two of the many millions who live are pre-
cisely alike, so the death of no two is precisely
the same, and that Spiiitualism has established
the fact that when a man dies he passes to an.
other state of existence and, also, that there
is great diversity in the experience of differ
eEt spirits in the passage. MIR. Edmonds sta
ted several cases the Post says to illustrate his
position, among which were the following:
A spirit once came to the speaker who had
awakened in place of utter desolation and
solitude. and had remained there for months -
Having been taught that the condition in which
the soul finds itself after death is eternal he la
bored under the painful belief that he must
stay there forever lie had been a hard, sell
ish man. who left his wife and children and
went to California in search of gold, and while
there died.
The spirit of "a strict Sundayskeepng deacon
came TO him and commenced upbradng him for
not observing the first day of the week in
stricter manner; and he ascertained that this
spirit had been in the other world some time,
and WAS only conscious of existence on Sunday.
During the remaining six days Of the week he
remained in a state of unconsciousness
A young lady died of heart disease in ball
room in England, aud was unconscious for three
weeks. She came to him and began to talk as
though she were in the green room, for which
she started when attacked.
The speaker was riding up town in an omni.
bus one afternoon when friend Of his came to
him and told him he was dead. Soon alter he
learned that the person in question had died
only an hour before this occurrence, from which
it appeared that his period of unconsciousness
was very brief.
The spirit OF Isaac T. Hopper was not uncon.
scious for moment. On the day Of his death
the speaker was at his bedside, aud left him to
attend spiritual circle While in that circle
the spirit Of Mr. Hopper came and announced
his death, and stated that he was perfectly con
scious of everything whi Ia passed; that he fully
realized the change, and Immediately met the
spirits of many who had been the objects of
his charity, and who now hastened to bless
him.
The speaker gave several other instances H.
Illustrative of his theory, and drew the clnclu-
sion that those whose lives are passed in the
pursuit. of good and noble objects-those who
love truth and labor to dssemnat knowledge
and the spirit of charity, experience but brief
period of Inconsistencies; while those sOrdid
and grovelling men, whose aims are selfish and
conscious for months