The morning times., 1896-08-23

.apse. and then heard a voice attic door
asking: rs 1t all right?'
II answered, No, IL is EOt all right
- Unlock the door and let me fn.'
% 4 cannot I am on the floor and can
not get up
HEARD BUT DID NOT SEE.
Another lapse Of time. and then famii-
lar voices were all around ME. / saw
nothing, but I seemed TO hear ever ything
lamentations that had iallen and hurt
myself told them that did not fall.
but let myself down. Much OF the time.
Immediately succeeding. / was in pas
sageway between two rooms. The room
on one side was this world, that on t he
other the next world The doors of both
were closed.
''Once / asked, Am 1 supposed to be
alive still:'
.'This question I did not afterward re-
mem Der until 1t was repeated to me. Then
remember not the question but the cir
cUmstances that lead to it. SO many
friends were around me who had gone out
OF this world that IL suddenly occurred to
me whether ] m yself might rot te already
gone. and / was about to ask, Am dead
or alive?' But thought II it should turn
ont that I was still alive the question
might sound rather harsh. and I deliber-
ateiy softened 1t to, Am / supposed to
be living stin?' Once in reply to morn
ing greeting, referring to two brothers
whom some OF you have known, and who
had died-one q fcw years. the other a few
weeks before. and using their full names.
which were not commonly spoke-I said:
LII can get rid or the Stanwood ghost
and the Brown ghost. and be left TO myseif,
I should feel very well l could get along
with my own ghost. but I don'tIike to have
so many ghosts following me around
HER SPIRIT JOURNEYS.
ITO myself IL seemed as il my spirit
were partially detached from my body
not absolutely freed from 1t, but floating
about, receiving Impressions with great
readiness. but not with entire accuracy. as
il the spirit were made TO receive impress
sions through the bodily organs, aud with
out them could not rely implicitly upon its
own observations. Many foolish things l
undoubtedly said. but many / distinctly
remember TO have refrained from 50 yiug,
because 1 knew they were foolish
To those who live in drea l OF death this
woman left much consolation
beloved, you. If any such there be, who
through fear OF death have been all your
lifetime subject to bondage. he Of good
cheer. For seven weeks ] lay eDcampcd
on the further. II not the fufthest, side OF
the Valley of the Shadow Of Death, and Il
was pleasant valley. Itstranquiiiity was
al gentle. az natural. as deep as sleep. Its
activities were as simple 80 gong into The
next room Its atmosphere was peace. It's
only gloom was my keenest pity for those
who must remain behind. hope and think
that its shadows mark the four dreams Of
life We are born into the Valley of the
Shadow of Death. and we die out nf 1T into
the life eterb al which is 10 Thee. the only
true God. and Jesus Christ. whom Thou
mast sent ..-.
WRITES OF FAILURE"
In the chapter entitled Failure" she
writes to Rev. DR.. Cyrus HamliD. missi"n-
ary IN Turkey. To him she told the story
OF her unsuccessful efforts IN behalf Il
Mrs Maybrick. and in Ter letter severely
scored the British government.
Man oil Il nd, SAID she. III there is ever
right to claim divine assistance. surely
such a cause is this On the one side inno-
cepce helpless. on the other side opprcs
sion powerful God thus far SIDED with
power Secretary Blaine. who worked
earnestly for the relief of the oppressed.
died Secn-tary Gresham gave it his prompt
attention. twice aving liis office and c ON
ing to me to inspect the new eridrHcr,
which he declared SO strong that II IL
could stand cruss-eXsn.in2t!on Grs. Nay
brick had perfect ease. But in the midst
of his efforts to press the British govern
mcnt into ordering cross-examinatinn
Secret AIRY resiam died Dr. Tidy ard Dr.
McNamara. eminent physicians in English
official service. who offered irrefra rihlc
evidence of her ;nnocence. suppiementing
it u pamphlet and press. died /, who could
offer, as results have proved no help saw
sympathy. but never failed in that. was in
one moment reduced to iuactiun and un-
consciousness. But Secretary Mathews,
who has Judged and imprison the vic
tim. lived in the sunshine of prui.,I.i'ia -
Lori Something or other. Secretary As
quith lives and his wife died. leaving him
TO marry the New Woman, TO whom his
his wife's discomfort thereat overfIuwed
into the gossip OF the drawing room and
the newspapers"
PROOFS OF A FUTURE LIFE.
Following her letter to DR. HanlIin,
Miss Dodge, under the title of ..Hints of
Heaven tells = number Of almost in
credible happenings that came under her
own obserya tion:
"a new rage in the Book Of Life was
opened to ne" she said AT first the
question arose: why has God given us such
an cagerr.,'ss to Know, vet withheld all
knowledge? Then tas lie: Has He so with
held knowledge. Has he not rather in this,
as In an other alters, given US hints an d
helps. but left 1t to human will 70 -"
themr Has Hc not created man with as
much knowledge Of the relation between
this world and the other world as between
the cathode rays and the human eve? As
between Mars and the earth9 Is not our
Ignorance due TO our trories and our stub
horn, stupid adherence to them in spite of
facts rather than OF Gods ordc,ings? Do
we not look uron the borderiaEd es fer
hidden ground and bar discovery by
mistaken sense of prohibited, and, there
fore, rDalioyed curiosity? Certainly, as 1
look back along my path, see many facts
which have direct bearing uEon this cues
ton, but which ] never classified, never
even narshalled, only looked ut as maryels.
inexpiicable and unrelated, with an orderly