Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-30
AN EXPERIENCE OF DEATH,
Bishop Simpsons Remarkable Vision
at the Point of Dissolution.
Philadelphia Press,


On my return from Japan" said Bishop
Simpson, Il preached in California, and
probably overworked myself, and on the last
Sunday in February, after holding divine ser
vice In my ST. Louis church, I returned
home, where | was Immediately taken sick
with lingering fever which the physician
predicted would end fatally. At this point
[ seemed to fall into kind of ecstacy, when
| actually did not know whether l was alive
or dead. | imagined that was on board
most magnificent ship and heard the Captain
say: stop herr' which I thought to be the
voice of my Divine Master, when my young
eighteen-months-old child, who had died
twenty years ago, came to me and said that
she had heard that | was coming and had
come to meet me. After some little CONVEX
satlon, which | do not recollect, she said :
| do you not think that | have grown, papa {?
She then rose in a form of glory which /
have never before witnessed and never more
expect to see until I die, and then returned
to her usual state, saying that she had come
in that shape to see if l would know her.
She then said that many friends had asked
after me and were awaiting my coming, and
that an old lady and gentlemen had taken
her up and kissed her, saying that her papa
was their boy. I then asked her where her
mamma was. %, she is off, doing something
for the Lord, but will be at the wharf to meet
us on our arrival All this left an impress
sion upon me by the magnifcence of the sur
roundlngs and it was a season of great pre-
ciousness to me- 1t seems that have come
back from the other world; and although it
is peculiar for me to say that was dead, it
seems as if was not in the body"
Record -Union.l
Mr.. Gladstone has carried the closure
proposition, though by a smaller majority
than he would have had but for his home
rule" speech of the previous day. The new
rule may be described broadly as an adapta
tion of the American rule of the previous
question: 1t has been very absurdly de-
scribed as being in the nature of an insidious
assault upon free speech. 1t is nothing of
the sort. What it aims at is simply the vim
dication Of the right of the majority to rule.
1t has been found that in the absence of such
a rule very small minority in the House of
Commons could block the business of the
session. and virtually bring the Government
to standstill Under the new closure rule
the Speaker will have the right of initiating
a motion to close the debate, but only when
he perceives that such a proceeding is in ac-
cordance with ''the evident sense of the
House" When the Speaker puts the ques-
ton the debate cannot be closed by simple
majority except when the number voting in
the affirmative is over 200. As this is case
which occurs very seldom, it will be seen
that the closure can only be resorted to upon
extraordinary occasions; and this is guar
antee against it's abuse. In fact the new rule
proposed by Mr.. Gladstone is not SO effective
or so sweeping as our previous question"
though nobody has ever discovered in the
latter a sinister machinery for the suppress
sion Of free speech. AS fact the previous
question" is absolutely indispensable to the
steady and useful prosecution of public busi- |
ness in legislative bodies, and the only cause
for surprise is that the House of Commons
should have been able to get on at all with !
out rule of the kind. Henceforth, how
ever, it will be useless for any faction to at
tempt the kind of obstructionist filibustering |
which was so successfully carried on by the
Irish members last year, and those who wish |
to gain the votes of the House will have to
trust to argument for their influence.