The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-06

she was six years old and was not very
strong at ten years of age. Still we sent
her TO school to the First ward school.
Allegheny. She went to school steadily
for four years. making fair progress. and
was apparently an average school girl.
neither too frisky in disposition nor too
morose.
"One evening she was sitting at the table
here in our home writing a letter to a girl
friend who had moved away. All at once
she sWooned. l screamed, for We were
alone. Help came. We applied simple RENE
dies, and we worked with Emma for a long
time. When she came. to she said she had
been having a most delicious sleep. This
was but the beginning. She swooned at
school. She swooned on the street and was
went around the neighborhood that Emma,
my bright, beautiful Emma, had cataleptic
eryth Inr dnna fo were tba m nS;1d t,a put l cd mao ey- -
ford. l took her from school and put her
under medical treatment. She had baths,
electric treatment and massage. But to no
avail. So We lived quietly alone and in a
her swoons. The She would tell me on
recovery OF strange places where she had
been, how she could see herself sitting or
lying in our room but yet she fit that
homes, she said. and once on awakening
she told me of a certain lady who was In
great distress, crying in her own home
found tnat the lady in question actually
had been In distress at that time. l was
In absolute terror, and kept my child near
me and as closely in the house as possible.
When she hrst began to talk she carried
messages from her dead father. These
frightened mC more than ever, for most of
the messages were concerning things watch
the child had never known. 1 began to
question Tanns ne hsr While she was IN th.se
me intelligently. She thus became a go
between for regular communication botween
myself and her dead father.
For one year 1 suffered all this distress
and 1t drove me from the church and from
friends. When Emma returned TO her other
see h sne now aIway gen asezn and r swsstl rea as y for
any of the little household duties that fell
to her lot.
Last year she began to preach the beau
tiful truths which / have noted. BY and
by these beautiful things soothed my mind,
and as the weeks and months went on 1
sion of good in it all. Timidly at first /
asked my friends to come and hear her.
All were awed. Finally people began to
a stop TO visitors. But lately again so
many people are coming, and from distant
points to hear her, that have been forced
knock at our door now, except on the one
afternoon. which the stranger or curious
does not belong 10 the curious. 1 permitted
her to go TO Ohio some time since. She was
tested before fifteen hundred people. No
the close"
While the mother spoke Emma was grad
uauD pecoserlng ner normal state; Her
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its deep spirituality, though her face was
still pretty and attractive When Ques-
toned as TO her feelings while in the trance,
or swoon, Emma said:
Il have 20 feelings. 1t is TO me a deep
and refreshing sleep, and ] always awaken
feeling In excellent spirits. Often I can
look at my own body as Ii lies quietly in
this ROOM but the scenes i visit are as
dreams when 1 awake. Only sometimes !
have met people whom / lave seen in these
dreams. and once I visited a home on earth
where l mber having seen every
thing in Ii before while absent from the
body. When l drst swooned IL came to me
suddenly. and / thought thousands OF fin
gers were tugging ar my nerves. Then ]
lost All feeling and began. to ascend w
and up, until I could no onger breathe.
The sensation was delicious / could re-
member nothing that / saw or heard. only
that delightful sensation. ! was not q par
ticle frightened when I swooned the sec.
ond time, and by and by 1 rather liked
this slipping away from earth for an hour
or so now and then. and ] soon found mat
I could do so by simply remaining passive
and withdrawing my thoughts from every.
thing This is the course / now pursue
whenever l Wis to voluntarily enter into
any other self i remain passive; then my
hands get cold: then my feet. and BY and
by l am cold all over: then comes unconr
not know it: have seen myself talking
however. and Know that I really do talk
One time saw myself singing and M