The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-22
IN HER TRANCE
a Boston Woman Has Some
Strange Visions.
Is Certain Her Soul Visited the
Unseen World.
NEVER BEEN A MEDIUM
Doctors Are Very Much Inter-
ested In Her Case.
Predicts Her Awakening to a
Second.

Boston, June pa peculiar case is in
| teresting many persons here A young
woman, who is neither a Spiritualist, a
| Christian Scientist, a clairvoyant nor a
religious enthusiast, is certain her soul
] was separated from her body for three
! days last week while she was in a trance,
and scared to the unseen, returning to
| her body at an exact moment predicted
| by voice unlike her own, which came
| from her lips while she was unconscious
| Several physicians, among whom were
DR.. Harry c. Foster. No 160 Broadwa ~
/ Chestnut street, and DR.. Lewis N Bump,
| No. 1873 Central avenue, Somerville, OBJ
/ the woman awakened.
! PREDICTION CAME TRUE.
The witnesses, none of them Spiritual
| lists or anything of that sort, say the pre-
| diction of the strange voice came true 10
the st0ry IS B t9l3 as t3e Hride
! of Marine Boisner of the CharlestoWn
| Chelsea. She has been blind from birth:
| Mrs. Boisner went to bed at, her usual
i h9fr c6nsci 611 9t IN the morning her
| husband could not awaken her Dr. Harry
r. Foster. who lives in the same build
| ing. was called. Il, applied restoratlHes,
but in vain. DR.. George c. Hall of No.
13S Chestnut street was then called
! face paIlid and her expression fixed. The
| Of true trance All that day she did not
! move. AT $50 p. m she revived and
Il have been away, to learn things it is
necessary for me to know. Two guardlan
angels came and took me-JackS Cher
husband and mine-and they are waiting
for me now. 1 have only a minute 6at to
and tell you not to be frightened ABOUT
me. They are holding, me now, and L
must return with them
and said:
THOUGHT IT WAS DEATH"
''They made a litter of their hands and
lifted me gently between them thoughI
saw 81 ~S goodeb 5' but there was not time.
Presently 1 looked back into the room
from above and saw my body lying on the
''Then started through space and Wis
that that wanted to See Then we Went into
the world beyond, and discovered that
the her frst ec circle When felt you calling
to come back, and 1 had to come, though
under protest from my guardians
On the second day a strange voice COM
ing from her lips said she would return
Voice Continued. the body and face stin
continuing in the same trance state;
the. viii Of Almighty ,God, that the sogYl
millions of miles from here, in the imme-
date presence Of God. From a skepti-
cal, world she will be received into
@The world is unworthy at present to
know of the life beyond, but for the great
love borne her by one on earth, and his
intense desire for her to return, and for
e ae and d. his u Promise to ad her the
promise made at the altar, she will re-
- MANY MILES AWAY"
And place her h G0d ba The 9 hagd
OF her proIector- w nat Iou IL Jo S,T6a
woman's right hand, which had been rails
ed With the f 6 0th9T at tbs point fell into
This girl, after passing through seven
cycles Of nfe e, beyond is now st4 and p in
ence of God. 1t will take some time for
feE AFFIRM III nett that this is the only Instance
where a soul has made this journey and
here gatheped are re divinely commissioned
to give this to the world"
DIR. Bump went to the house on WedneS-
day afternoon, and resolved IS be on hand
with the others that night to see if the
" Witnessed the fulffiiment Of the prophecy.
DR.. Hall first diagnosed the case as one
Ges foResu or stimuanfs should be ap
piled. but the patient should be watched
That afternoon DR.. HaiI called again.
He then decided that the case was one of
MRS. BOISNER TALKS.
Mrs. Boisner is not yet in condition to
give any long interview of what she saw
said;
have never been a religious enthusiast. I
was always affiliated with the Methodist
ci ita5- Of faith. nor to any others could
not conScientiously accept as a whole any
one creed, though 1 am firm believer in
For some time previous to passing
through the strange experience nau not
given special though to religious matters,
nor was my mind specially directed to
spiritual problems.
There were some features in my ex-
perience closely following, the scheme of
Marie Corellfs story, A Romance of Two
Worlds The religious teachings of Swe-
denborg regarding the celestial regions
and the destination of the soul would
also seem to have been paralleled in part
in my visit to the other world.
Il do not profess to be a clairvoyant.
Self-induced frances have never been in
voked by me to help develop power. In
fact. / never was in a trance prior to this
experience. Not only 1 not a Spiri-
itualist. but always felt that had moth
ing in common with Spiritualism."
FOR STEALING BRASSES.