Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-15

| grandmother, nee Sarah Birkbeck, after
wards the wife of DR.. Fell, at Ulverstone
From her lips l heard the above almost
literally as | have repeated it. The other
was Morris Birkbeck, afterwards of Gull
| ford. Both these lived to old age, and re-
tanned to the last so solemn and reveren-
tial remembrance of the circumstance
that thew rarely would speak Of it. Esther,
| the Youngest died soon after Her brother
| and sister heard the child say that her
mother called her. but could not speak
| with any certainty of having themselves
heard the words nor were sensible Of more
than their mothers standing there and
looking on them"
We pass over now to the second great
family of cases: where the transterence Of
impressions is facilitated by some abnor-
nal condition on the side of the agent,
while the condition of the perez pient re-
mains normal. To this category belongs
the following singular dream, written
down by the dreamer, the Rev. Joseph
wilkins, dissenting minister at Wey-
mouth twho died in 1900, and Endorsed
by the late DR.. Abercrombie, of Edinburgh,
a man, we need hardly say, Of the greatest
scientific acumen:
"Joseph Wilkins, while a young man,
absent from home, dreamed without any
apparent reason, that he returned home,
reached the house at night, found the
front door locked, entered by the back
door visited his mothers room, found her
awake and said to her: Mother, | am 90
ing on a long journey, and am come to bid
you goodbye A day or two afterwards
this young man received letter from his
father asking how he was and alleging his
mothers anxiety on account of a vision
which had visited her on night which
WEB, in fact, that of the sons dream. The
mother, lying awake in bed, had heard
some one try the front door and enter by
the back door and had seen the son enter
her room, heard him say TO her, Mother,
| am going on a long journey, and am
come to bid you goodbye and had an
swered: oh, dear son, thou art dead |!
words which the son had also heard her
say in his dream
We have received the following account
from our friend Mr. John Addington Sy-
monds:
II was a boy in the sixth form at Har-
row, and, as the head of MIR. Rendell's
house, had room to myself. Ii was in
the summer of 1888. | woke about dawn
and felt for my books on a chair between
the bed and the window; when / knew
that | must turn my head the other way,
and there between me and the door stood
DR.. naclean dressed in clergyman's
black clothes. He bent his sallow face
little toward me and said am going
away-to take care of my SON. While !
was attending to him | suddenly saw the
door in the place where DR.. Maclean had
been. DIR. Maolean died that night (at
what hour | cannot say at Clifton. My
father, VINO was a great friend of his, was
with him. | was not aware that he was
more than usually i'll. He was chronic
invalid"
We received the next narrative from
Mrs. Hunter, OF Eilen5mere Villas, For
est Hill, who IS personally known to us:
Mrs. Hunter had had friend from
whom she had parted in GOODNESS, and
whom she had not since seen or CORE
sponded with. Poor L. was very far
from my thoughts when one night | had
Just got into bed. The fire burned bright
ly, and there was my usual night-light
was placing my head on the pillows when
beheld close to the side Of the bed and
on level with it rs head, and the same
wistful look on his face which il had worn
when we parted years before. Starting up
cried out, What do you want p ! did
not fear: anger was my feeling. Slowly
it retreated, and Just as it disappeared in
the shadow of the wall bright spark
of light shown for few seconds and slowly
expired. A few days after my sister wrote
. You will have heard Of poor Us death,
on his way to the south of France had
heard nothing about him for years. Special
reasons prevented my inquiring particu-
IarIy into the precise moment Of his death
Strange to say my bedfsllow was his great
pet among my children; she, however,
slept through this strange interview
We proceed now to give a few cases
where the agent was not at or near the
point of death, but in some condition Of
disturbance or excitement:
"On July 8, 1882, my wife went to Lon
don to have an operation (which we both
believed to be slight one) performed on
her eyes by the late Mr. Critchett The
operation was for 1870, and, knowing from
long previous experience the close sym
pathy of our minds, about that time |, at
Brighton, got rather tdgety, and was much !
perhaps little surprised
and disappointment not feeling any de-
cidea sensation which could construe as
sympathetic. Taking it, therefore, for
granted that all was well, ] went ont at
2:45 to conduct my concert at the Aquari- /
um, expecting to find there a telegram, as
had been arranged, to say that all was we'll |
On my way ! stopped, as usual, to com
pare my watch with the big clock outside !
LawsonS :, the clock-makerS. At that in |
slant | felt my cye5 flooded with water. !
Just as when chill wind gives one a sud |
den cold in the eyes, though it was a hot, |
still summers dav The affection was so /.
unusual and startling that my attention /
could not but be strongly directed to it /
vet, the time being then eleven minutes to !
3, ! was sure il could have nothing to do !
with my wile's operation, and As it con
inued for some little time, thought must |
lave taken cold. However it passed off, |
md the concert Immediately afterwards /
put it out of my mind At 4 received a |
elegram from my wife. 'All we'll over A /
great success, and this quite took away all /
anxiety. But on going to town in the /
evening | found her in a terrible state Of /
nervous prostration, and it appeared that |
he operation, though maryelously success
nj, had been Of a very severe character. !
quite accidentally it came ont that it was
lot till go that Mrs Corder entered the ,
'perating-room, and that the operation .
commenced after the due administration Of /
IN anesthetic, at about 30, Is near It's We
'ouid calculate
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