River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-07-24

magnetized me when she was IN health,
and was in the elairvoyant 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 failing health admoniShed
her that her end, for this life, was near
but she viewed ii with calmness, for her
thoughts We're full of tn, 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 | 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 We're
present, watching over her. Their faces
were radiant with bliss, and their gilt
tering robes were like transparent snow.
| could feel them as material, and yet,
they communicated sensation | 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 ii was sweet
to look at them, as they watched the
change now taking place in my mother.
Il 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 to
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. \
ball of light was now gathering just
above her head; and this continued TO in
crease rs 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 to |
assume the human form; and | could see |
my mother again! Rut. oh, how changed +! |
She was light and glorious-arrayed in |
robes of dazzling whitenesS; free from |
disease, pain and death. She seemed to |
he welcomed by attending spirits, with |
the Joy of mother over the birth Of a
child. She paid no attention to me, or
any earthly object, but joined her com
panions; and they seemed to 60 away |
through the air, | 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 a
mist came over my sight and saw them
no more.
II returned and soon awoke-but not |
to sorrow, as those who have no hope.
The vision, far more beautiful than Ian
guage can express, remains stamped upon
my memory. 1t is an unfailing comfort
to me in my bereavement"
That is beautiful revelation. If we
had read that in a book that had been
handed down to us, stamped with the sa-
cred seal of authority and the churches,
how the people would have welcomed it,
But why shouldn't we receive it to-day
is God deadl Are there no revelations
to this nineteenth century?