Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-26


heard directly or indirectly from him for
the nine years last past, and certainly had
not once thought of MIN for as many
months. This apparition made such an
impression upon me, that on coming TO
my desk III the county clerks office on
Friday morning made a memoranda Of
u, locked the paper up in a private
drawer, awaiting to learn if it would prove
true as believed 1t would.
On Wednesday last | received from a
friend a copy of the Washington EUeninq
StdF OF Saturday the 18th inst, from which
cut the following:
DEATH OF JOSEPH REYNOLDS, SIR.
Mr.. Joseph Reynolds, ST., one of the old
est citizens OF the district, died at his
residence on II street, Thursday evening.
He was born in Philadelphia, Pa, July
70. 1905. and came with his father, Enoch
Reynolds, to this city In 1910. But nine
years OF age at the time the British
burned the capitol, his remarkable
memory enabled HIM to describe with
Ylvidness the scenes attending the oc-
casion. Mr.. Reynolds settled in George
town, d. c., and was associated as clerk
with w. w. CorcOran. Esq, then engaged
in mercantile pursuits. NJ. REYNOLDS was
member of the celebrated Georgetown
military company, of which Mr.. COrcOran
was the commander. Mr.. Reynolds. in
early life, married Lavina, daughter of
Judge Bett, OF Cincinnati, o., and shortly
thereafter moved to the residence,
93l H street, which he oc-
cupied at the time of his
death. He entered the government employ
about this time and continued herein for
forty years. Fer seventeen years ne was
with the secretary of the senate as engros-
sing clerk. For many years he sat- as did
his father, on the board of trustees of the
Columbian university. He was also for
a time the business partner of Joseph +.
Brown, Esq. Subsequently, his eyes fail
ing him he retired from business, but
gave his still active faculties to the in
terests Of the Thirteenth street Baptist
church as member and deacon. For the
past ten years he was entirely blind. The
funeral will take place tomorrow after
noon.
In view Of the foregoing, venture to
ask this question:
Is the adamantine wall, which separates
the finite from the infinite, the seen from
the unseen, so absolutely impossible that
even the celestial soldiers who, like my
dead friend, have ''putOn the whole armor
OF God" may not occasionally scale it
and appear to those who have not yet
reached the eternal shOrel Can this
question be truthtully answered in the
light of the fragmentary and uncertain
knowledge which the lamp of this mortal
life sheds upon it, or must we wait until
having passed the Jordan of death, our
eyes can catch that fixed and purer
radiance which beams forever upon the
battlements of our final home?
JOsEPH,F. BROWN.
Indianapolis, Juty "a.
A THEORY.
The London Society for Psychical Re-
r-ak.
what they consider we'll authenticated re-
ports OF apparitions brought to their notice.
There are some 800 or 600 cases reported
and they are now being grouped and
CLASSIFIED according to their different
peculiarities, circumstances under which
& apparitiOns were seen, the number of
persons seeing them, temperament OF the
persons, etc. Some were seen in sleep
and one similar to the case reported
above, but in most cases the person wit
Messing the apparition was awake. That
the apparitiOns were actually seen there
IS no longer any doubt in the minds of the
committee who have given their special
attention to the subject-and they are
scientists and trained Investigators in eX-
perimental physics-but whether seen
effectively or subjectively is still matter
of doubt. Telepathy, or the power of
transmitting to and receiving thought
Impressions and brain pictures ICON
sciOusly or unconscIously) from a dis
lance, has been fully established, at least
to the satisfaction Of the society, and the
committee on apparitions have been try
ing TO make the cases reported fit into
what is called the telepathic theory.
Many Of the cases hit in very nicely, but
not all OF them as yet. According TO this
theory the scene witnessed by Mr.. Brown
was first pictured in the brain Of MIR.
a.
present in the death chamber. and was
transmitted by telepathy in whole or in
part TO Mr.. Browns mind. This is only
one of several theories which the society
10 working on to account scientifically for
such apparitions as MIR. Brown saw.