The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-04
The -Anti-Mon0po1iSt.

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was a prophesy, and am now your
guardian angel. But, thanks to the
gods, Through our mutual oath to
eternal troth,) we are to be permitted
an exceptional privilege: that OF mu-
tual communion at brief intervals,
during the remainder Of your earth
life at the close Of which we will be
united forever and aye.
Gas she closed this speech, she
pressed kiss upon my forehead when
in my joy attempted to fold her to
my bosom, but the effort awoke
me from what / thought an ordinary
dream, but what l have since learned
was what is termed for want OF a
better name,) a trance, in which had
actually seen my beloved.
81 was overwhelmed with grief land
by this time it was growing light. /
dressed myself, and sought surcease
Of sorrow by telling my dream to my
mother, who tried to comfort me
with hope; but I could not be COM
forted in that way, for / felts that
Lillian was dead, and so it proved.
GA few days elapsed until received
letter from her parents confirming
account of her brief illness and sudden
death.
s'Her disease was malarial fever,
which assumed a most violent form.
aud caused her death in few day.
s'She died at five o'clock on the
afternoon preceding the night Of my
vision.
"My grief was so great as to destroy
my appetite, and deprive me of sleep,
the result of which was violent attack
of brain fever. was Unconscious for
twelve days; during the first week
raving maniac, when / gradually
Gained as the fever slowly subsidized,
and my strength failed, till on the
ninth day sank into state so much
resembling death as to leave little
hope in the minds of my friends that
/ would ever come out of it and this
opinion was confirmed by the fact
that / continued to sink.
my pulse grew febler and more
tremulous, my breathing fainter and
slower, till they both became imper-
ceptable, if not entirely suspended.
ssThe people thought me dead. all
save my mother, whose wishes were
doubtless the origin of her thought.
The physician came and after a
careful examination said he was in
doubt whether / was dead or in
cataleptic trance, from which / might
possible revive. My friends gave me
the benefit of the doubt, by postponing
my funeral indefinitely.
son the morning of the fourth day
of my trance, just at sunrise, my
mother visited me as usual and on
kissing my lips she was rejoiced to
find them warmed and more lifelike
than she had since l had ceased to
breathe. She grasped my hands, and
began to rub them, and was rewarded
by finding that they grew warm.
Thus encouraged she continued her
efforts at restoration for few minutes
when | opened my eyes, and looking
up into her face, said Good morning
MOTHER
''It seemed to me that had been
absent, .and just returned, I was
therefore surprised at the effect my
greeting produced upon my mother,
for she clasped me in her arms, and
amid sobs and tears, thanked God
that her dear boy had been restored
to her from the dead.
s'Why, MOTHER said you surely
did not think me dead!'
"sNo my son did not wholly give
you up, but my hopes were rapidly
giving way to dispair, when l saw you
lying here without sign of life, day
after day
son hearing my mother thus dis
course, began to be puzzled, but
instantly the whole truth flashed in
upon my understanding.
Il had been i'll, and had thus reached
the border land of the world of spirits,
where I had held sweet communion
with my beloved.
Il remembered my former vision,
the letter that confirmed Lillian's
death, my grief, my illness, the
darkness, that closed in upon my
senses, the awakening in her presence,
her joyous welcome, the rapturous
embrace, the kisses / had showered
upon her lips, the blissful hours had
spent with her, not in shadow land,
but in garden of the gods, (where
we had wandered at our own sweet
willy of our conversations about her
death. which had rendered our earthly
marriage impossible; of our last
meeting in her fathers garden. and
vows we then and there exchanged;
all this was now a most vivid and
delightful reality.
Il remember also, land this gave me
great joy.) that Lillian had assured me
that through special dispensation of
providence, / would be permitted to
visit her in her Heavenly home, from
time to time during the remainder of
my earth life. if | would observe
certain rules in which she carefully
! instructed me.
.sThese conditions were that |
should appoint definite hour on a
certain evening of each week, which
was to be held uniformly sacred
forever afterwards, that at that hour
I should go to my chamber. lock my
door. retire as usual. first turning off
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