The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-16
TIE BIRTH OF A SPIRIT.
& Strange Phenomenon Seen at a
Baby's Death.


From the Religio- Philosophical Journal
! WAS losing a little baby under pecu-
Harly distressing circumstances. Two
friends came to stay with me the last
night of her life, aud this article is a
statement of phenomenon seen by them
Calling them by their initials they were
Mrs. II, and a Mrs. C., who had never
met before that night, and. / think, have
never met since They live atan extreme
distance from each other, on different
sides of the city. They are both practi-
cal, matter-Of-fact intelligent ladies', full
Of common sense and Gruthfuluess with
not one particle Of seusdtionalism about
them, nor had they the slightest knowl-
edge of or belief IN amy form or part Of
spirituaism.
Each told me her version of the follow
ing at difercut times, when she had not
met The other, consequently compare
son was not made-and neither know
what the other had really seen until |
told her some days after the relation.
The story. as told by Mrs. II. is: As she
was quietly looking at the baby she saw
"a most peculiar vapor coming from her
mouth and nOstrls and thought at first
her brain was weary and she was imaqin-
ing this, therefore saying nothing, left
The room and rested a short while.
thing, only in more distinct form. She
then said the only thing that in any way
bore upon the subject until after the
death Of nv baby. She remarked that
the medicine (highly indicated hOmUpa-
thic) must be having n very peculiar
effect, as it caused this steam or vapor TO
come from the mouth and nOstrils. Mrs.
G. hastily replied that she also had seen
il for sometime and could not account for
IL, s,,l-
me, nothing more was said. My baby
died that night.
The next day Mrs. II. tosd me that
there appeared to come from the mouth
and nOSuils and, in q lesser degree, from
the eyes, an Illuminated or phO5phores-
cent vdpOr; that it arose a short distance
from the face, but was never separated
from the baby, seeming TO form a line of
light from her until it became a luminous
body that might be described as a large
halO-fOr want Of something better to
call it was never still for one moment,
quiyaring constantly over her head until
death came Mrs C's story is very
much the same, but goes a little further
The same light is descNbed, only to
her it had the appearance of a spiral
vapOr with beautiful effect Of moon
beam. To see if it was the moon she went
to the window, but found the shades
liz
looking out-the night dark and stormy
she says that this brilliant spiral rose
higher and higher, until it settled just
back of the baby (WhO was lying in her
lap and il seemed to her to take the
shape Of an illuminated urn, but was al
ways connected with the mouth and nos
trils | suggested that she had seen
spiritual birth and body She replied that
she should never have thought of that
al l,4tf hot . nj NJ a
fined IN the urn shape, but only from the
shoulders down.
| madebo N Of these friends read A J.
Davis account of the Birth of the Spir-
il. given in his Great HarmOnia,' pa
ecs 172-173, causing each to believe that
she had seen part of the wonderful
thing so vividly described by him. In
Louisa NJ. Alcott's Letters pd Autobi-
og1aphv." she states in about three lines
that she and her mother witnessed the
spirit birth Of her sister Beth, and makes
the statement as though from their ply
sician's standpoint, it was not Il very I'M
common thing for two persons to have
seen the same thing. There were others
in the room including myself-and l, to
a great extent, am student and be-
lever of spirituaistic occurrences.
Colonel Bundy said that my friends
were prOpably harmonious and COngenial;
that both were very clairvoyant, Mrs. G.
POSSIBLY the more so. He thought that
they had seen the spirit birth, but the il
Eliminated ''urnaura" described was prob
ably dim expression of another spirit
form, waiting to take the baby. In relat-
ing this to Others the greatest interest
seemed to center in the fact that not one,
but two, non Spirltualists saw these
things at the same time. / have been
asked to write out a statement of the oc-
currence several times; once by one in au-
thority for the "A. S. p. r. but its per-
sonal sacredness has made il hard to
write about. in closing will only say
that Mr. Bundy has all Of the full names
or the parties Interested and knows them