Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-24

behind that we have never seen. Blu
there are eyes that can see it. There
an interior vision that can be exercise
| by many persons. A person whose visio
is so developed as to enable him to Sc
the spirit, learns, absolutely and scienti
tically, that man has spirit behind al
this that is externally visible, and tina
that spirit is deathless; that death ha
no power over it.
| When they said to Socrates, ''Wher
shall we bury yous" he replied, "Bury M
anywhere if you can catch me-" Blu
they never have caught him.
What grand thing that we can LAY
off this body when the time comesl
There is the old man, feeble and worr
out. His eyes are dim and his ears heavy
sounds can hardly make their way to thu
indwelling spirit. o, he wants to sleep
long sleep. Come, o Death Angel to thu
old man; it is just what the old mar
wants. Give him new eyes to see with
new ears to hear with, and new legs tt
walk with. He has a new body now
Does he want that old one any more
You couldn't hire him to go back into it
You might as well expect an eagle thai
is soaring in the sky to come back anC
get into his old she'll. There is deac
man, as you call him-but there is ne
man there; there is the eye, but no see
ing; the ear, but no hearing; the body il
there, but not the man. Back to the
earth-let it go back to the bosom of oul
universal mother, and help make mate
rial for the new men and women that are
still to come
There is the dying man; his eyes are
dim, his cheek pale; his friends stand
weeping round, as they look upon what
seems to be the death agony of the de-
parting. This is what makes death SC
terrible. But there is something we do
not sea radiant spirit doing its best to
rid itself of the old body. Did you ever
see chicken trying to struggle out OF
the shell? We see such struggle in the
birth OF the departing spirit. This strug-
gle of the man seems terrible. But there
is the radiant spirit, calm as the morning
| 1t looks down and smiles sadly to see
them weeping over what is no longer a
man, but corpse. My sister Anna Den
ton Cridge, was clairvoyant. 1 have
had her describe the spirit departing, as
she saw it with her spiritual eyes. She
saw every step of the process by which
the spirit passes from the body-a slen-
der, golden cord, which attaches it Just
as the umbilical cord attaches the newly
born-babe to the mother. When the
golden thread is severed the spirit can
never again go back into the body.
MOTHERS DEPARTURE SEEN BY HER
DAUGHTER.
A much more complete description OF
the spirits departure from the body was
given by Myra Carpenter, in letter to
Mr.. Joseph Baker. She was treated by
mesmerism for epileptic fits, and soon be-
came good clairvoyant, and eventually
a seer of spirits:
"My mother and / had often talked of
death and immortality. She frequently
magnetized me when she was in health,
and was in the clairvoyant state, by her
assistance, when the spiritual light was
first given me. By your assistance (Ba-
ker's) acquired the power Of putting
myself in that state without the assistance
of an operator. She had often requested
that would at the time of her decease,
put myself in that state, and carefully
notice the departure of the spirit from
the body. Her falling health admonished
her that her end, for this life, was near:
but she viewed it with calmness, for her
thoughts were full of the life to come,
and her hopes placed on her Father in
Heaven. Death had no terrors for her.
When she felt its approach, she sent for
me, as l was absent attending an invalid.
| came and remained constantly with
her, until she left us for better home.
Her last words were addressed to me.
Perceiving that she was dying, seated
myself in the room, and was soon in a
spiritual clairvoyance. With the opening
OF the inner sight, the painful scene of a
mothers death was changed to vision
of glory. Beautiful angelic spirits were
present, watching over her. Their faces
were radiant with bliss, and their gilt
tering robes were like transparent snow
l could feel them as material, and yet
they communicated sensation I can
only describe by saying it seemed like
compressed air. Some of these heavenly
| attendants stood at her head, and some
at her feet, while others seemed to be
lowering over her form. They did not
| appear with the wings of fowls, as angels
are commonly painted, but they were in
| the perfected human form. They seemed
so pure, so full of love, that it was sweet
to look at them, as they watched the
change now taking place in my mother.
II now turned my attention more di.
rectly to my mother, and saw the exter.
nal senses leave her. First, the power Of
sight departed, and then veil seemed tc
drop over the eyes; then the hearing
ceased, and next the sense of feeling
The spirit began to leave the limbs. as
| they died first; and the light that filled
each part, in every fibre, drew up towards
the chest. AS fast as this took place the
veil seemed to drop over the part from
whence spiritual light was removed A
ball of light was now gathering just
above her head; and this continued to in.
crease as long as the spirit was connected
with the body. The light left the brain
last; and then the silver cord was loosed
The luminous appearance soon began tt
assume the human form; and could see
my mother againl Rut, oh, how changed
She was light and glorious arrayed il
robes of dazzling whiteness; free from
disease, pain and death. She seemed tc
be welcomed by attending spirits, with
the joy of mother over the birth OF {
child. She paid no attention to me, o.
any earthly object, but joined her com
panions; and they seemed to 60 away
through the air. l attempted to follow
them, in the spirit, for felt strongly at
tracted and longed to go with my moth
er. saw them ascend till they seemed
to pass through an open space, when