St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-03

for we were alone. Help came. We
applied simple remedies. aud we
worked with Emma for long time.
When she came to she said she had
been having the most delicious sleep.
This was but the beginning. She
sWooned on the street. and was carried
in by the policeman,and the report went
around the nelghborhood that Emma.
my bright, beautiful Emma, had cata-
leptlc fits. Our means were modest, but
had everything done for my child that
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
! few months Emma began to talk while
In her swoons. Then she would tell me
on recovery of strange places where
she had been. how she could see hir-
self sitting or lying in our room, but yet
she felt that she was elsewhere. She
could enter other homes. she said, and
once on awakening she told Inc of
certain lady who was in great distress.
crying i'll her own home some distance
lady i'll question actually had been
III 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
first began to talk she carried messages
from her dead father. These frightened
me more than ever. for most of the mes.
sages were concerning things of which
the child had never known. l began to
question her while she was in these
swoons, and found that she could an
swer me intelligently. She thus became
a gO.between for regular commuuica.
hat vnucolf and
father.
For one year l suffered all this dis
tress. and it drove me from the church
and from friends. When Emma re-
turned to her other self she always
seemed refreshed. as you see her
now, gentle and sweet. ready
for any of the little household
duties that fell to her lot.".
While the mother spoke Emma was
gradually recovering her normal state.
Her countenance seemed to lose some
what of its deep spirituality. though
her face was still pretty and attractive. 1
while in the trance, or swoon, Emma
said:
Il have no feelings. 1t is to me deep
awaken feeling in excellent spirits
Often can look at my own body as it
lies quietly in this room. but the scenes
L visit are as dreams when l awake
Only sometimes l have met people
whom have seen in these dreams. and
once visited a home on earth where l
remembered having seen everything in
it before while absent from the body.
When l first swooned. it came to me
suddenly, and L thought thousands of
fingers were tugging at my nerves.
Then l lost all feeling and began to
ascend up and up until could no
longer breathe. The sensation was de-
! licious. 1 could remember nothing that
l saw or heard, only that delightful
sensation. | was not a particle fright
ened when l swooDed the. second
time, and by and by l rather
liked this slipping away from earth
for ali hour or so now and then, and [
soon found that could do so by simply
remaining passive and withdrawing my
thoughts from everything. This is the
! course 1 now pursue whenever wish
to voluntarily enter into my other self.
cold, then my feet, and by and by am
, cold all over; then comes unconscious
ness. If the self on earth talks | do
not know it. | have seen myself talk
ing. however, and know that l really do
! talk.
Zone time l saw myself singing, ana
my mother tolG me that did sing. but
in strange language. My mother tells
| me that many tests have been put to
me while l have been away from
earth.
Zone day clergyman called, and to
satisfy his request 1 left the body.
While absent from it he ordered a Bible
placed i'll my hands, then for nearly an
hour he called for the location of differ
ent passages in the Bible. My mother
| told me that l never failed to give him
the right place. And when | came to
he told me the same thing himself, and
said that | was mystery he could not
comprehend"