The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-12-18

REV. WALTER MOwBRAY-FCNERAIl ORA
TlDS AND CEREMONIES


TlOS AND CEREMONIES.
Leaving my father engaged in making
his many improvements in his plot Of
ground in the Pasonagessit cemetery,
aided by the friendly counsel of Rev.
Nantuciet Sperm, Captain Shrimp and
half tho village besides, | went up to
New York to look after Rev. Walter
Mowbray.
| found him in excellent health and
spirits He was so improved in appear
ance that l hardly knew him. Both
face and form had pumped out, and he
had we'll to do look The mau actual
ly looked 10 years Younger than when
had last seen him. lie uniformed me hat
he felt nothing but disgust for all kinds
of liquors and for his former course in
life. He said this feeling was 50 marked
and decided that he was confident it was
due to his having been hypnotized, and
added "Iour father was right in what
he did. 1t has made my new course easy
for me-indeed my easiest course"
lie had finished the funeral Grafton to
his entire satisfaction and was anxious
to deliver it. 1t had been labor of love
with him.
Not only was he glad of an opportuni-
ty of pleasing and obliging my father,
but also of The chance afforded for MAX
ing his exit from his former life in man
rer so conspicuous and decided. At his
first step he would rise to respectability.
All being { hus favorable, l wrote and
Informed my father that he might safely
announce in PasDnagessit that on the oc-
casion of the Teilterment of the ashes of
our ancestor there would bea discourse,
historical and explanatory, by Rev. Wal
fer Nowbray, n clergyman Of English
descent who had Travelled in many lands,
and who had been for few months So
journiI : i'll New York.
My next care was to provide for my
reslrrectad minister a new suit from
top TO toe MS fine as could he made in
the city. In this suit he might safely
have ascended any pulpit in the Union
and would have been pronounced rler.
gylman Of most distinguished appear
ance. Not only was he now a man Of
Cod in outward appearance. but also
inwardly-at heart.
Indeed he one day informed me, with
tears Of joy in his eyes, of what he
thought a strange phenomenon if not an
actual miracle wrought in his case.
This was the fact that all his old reli-
gious fcryor had returned 10 him or had
been i'll some way revived in his heart;
also with this had been restored TO him
much Of his youthful reli 5ioEs lsnowl-
edgo-the love of the good men of all
times. When | spoke Of ali this few
days later to my father, he said, "Sam.
my boy, there i morein hypnotism than
is 'dreamt of in our philosophy"
When returned 10 Pasonagcssit with
the magnificent caslcts containing the
remains of Sir Archibald and Lady
Eleanor, accompanied by the fine and
benevolent looking clergyman, Rev Wal
ter Mowbray, nothing else was talked of
III the village. The undertaken at once
became the most popular man in town.
Nearly every man and about half of the
women Of the place invented some ex-
cuse in order to get glimpse Of the cas-
kets and tomhstones. The tombstones
effectualiy dispelled whatever doubts
may have arisen in the minds Of any
Pasona8essit person. They showed for
themselves, and there was no disputiug
their antiquity. The undertaken would
have made good thing could lie have
ventured upon charging small admis-
sion fee. However, ho contented him
self with the glory of the commission
= that had fallen TO him and made the
most of it. even caught a glimpse one
day Of the Bradford Of ali the Brad.
fords as he vanished witffa tbs doors
of the undertaken. Prudence aud pu.
this down as a good sign u
At my fathers house Rev. Mr.. Now
bray was treated as an honoled guest.
My mother and sisters were delighted