Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-11-04
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UAL VIsw.-Judge Edmonds, of N. Y,
is one Of the most intelligent and de-
voted Of the Spiritual faith. He pro-
fesses . knowledge and certainty touch
ing spiritual manifestations and phen.
omena that is rarely met with. He
knows whereof he. af6rms, and we be-
lieve all who know him give the seer
and revelstor credit for sincerity and
honesty. That he is strangely infatu-
ated and deceived, outsiders who have
resd his works and his Communications
on Spiritualism to the press fully agree.
His vagaries are past comprehension.
Judge Edmonds recently lectured in
New York on Death, and gave what he
claims to know touching the period of
inconsistencies. The Evening Post
gives sketch of his lecture, containing
passages from the Judges Spiritual
experience. He claimed that Is the
views of no two of the many millions
who live are precisely alike, SO the death
Of no two is precisely the same, and
that Spiritualism has established the
fact that when man dies he passes to
another state Of existence and, also,
that there il . great diversity in the
experience Of different spirits in the pas
sage. MIR. Edmonds stated several
cases, the Post says, to illustrate his po-
sitien, among which were the following:
A spirit once came to the speaker
who had awakened in q place Of utter
desolatioE and solitude, and had re-
NAMED there for months. Having been
taught that the condition in which the
soul finds itself after death is eternal,
he labored under the painful belief that
he must stay there forever. He had
been hard, selfish man, who left his
vito and children and went to Califor-
MIA in search of gold, and while there
died. assn " @
The spirit of strict Sunday-keep.
ing deacon came to him and COM
menced upbraiding him for, not OBJ
serving the FIRST day Of the week in q
stricter manner; and he assertained
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 re-
NAMED in state of Inconsistencies.
A young lady died of heart disease
in ball room in England, and was un-
conscious 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. SIM /
The speaker was riding up town in
an omnibus one afternoon when q friend
of his came to him and told him he
was dead. Soon after he learned that
the person in question had died only
4 an hour before this occurrence, from
which it appeared that his period of un-
consciousness was very brief. 81 :
The spirit Of Isaac 7. Hopper was net
unconscious, for a moment. On the day
of his death the speaker was at his
bedside, and left him to a spiritual
circle. While in that circle the spirit
of Mr.. Hopper came and announced
his death, and stated that he was per-
fectly conscious of everything which
passed; that he fully realized the
change, and Immediately met the spir-
its Of many who had been the objects
of his charity, and who now FASTENED
| to bless HIM.
The speaker gave several other in.
stances illustrative Of his theory, an
drew the conclusion that those whose
lives are passed in the pursuit of good
and noble objects-those who love
truth and labor to disseminate knowl-
edge and the SPIRIT of charity, expert
ence hut brief period Of unconscious
ness; while those sordid and grovelline
men, whose aims are selfish and whose
hearts are closed to charity, are otter
unconscious for months.
| Do ToADs AND WORMS RAIN Down.
AT the risk Of being called old-fo-
gyish, superstitious, nonsensical, and
the like, We are going to put on record
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