The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-21
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Religious and Other Experiences that Tend to
Indicate that There Is More to Man Than
Appears on the Surface.
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true or have a basis of truth and which merely
halucinationsq One of the most remarkable stories
on the records of the Society of Psychica Research
concerns man named s. r. Wilmot, who crossing
the Atlantic on the steamer City of Limerick when
that ship was overtaken by storm. He writes;
s.Upon the night following the eighth day of the
storm the tempest moderated and for the first time
I enjoyed refreshing sleep. Toward morning
dreamed that saw my wife come to the door of my
stateroom. She seemed to discover that not the
only occupant, hesitated, then advanced, kissed me
and quietly withdrew.
upon waking surprised to see William j.
TAFT, whose berth was above mine but not directly
flowing to the fact that our room was at the
stern-leaning upon his elbow and looking at me.
6 'You re pretty fellow said he, 'to have lady
visit you in this way
Il pressed him for explanation and he related
what he had while lying wide awake in his BERTH
1t correspondent with my dream
.'The day after landing reached my wife, Almost
her first question Did you receive visit from
week ago Tuesday7'
My wife then told me that account of the
weather she had been extremely anxious On the night
which the storm had just begun to abate she had
lain awake and about O'Clock in the morning it
seemed to her that she went out to seek me-
Crossing the wide and stormy sea, she came to a
low, black steamship, whose side she went up, de-
scended into the cabin passed thru it to the
til she to my stateroom.
tt'Tell me-, said she, do they have state
tends farther back than the under ones
in the upper berth, looking right at me- and for
moment was afraid to go in, but soon went up to
the side of your BERTH bent down and kissed you and
then went away
If story like this is true-and how many similar
you hear then it is not unreasonable to suppose
that there is something that leave the body and
survive the grave.
The religious interest awakened In this city last
fall recalls that almost forgotten book the 'Auto
biography of Charles G. Finney.' It is of the
interesting books the of religious ex-
perience. DR.. Finney the leading American
evangelist of the first half of the nineteenth century
and for many years president of Oberlin college, The
phenomena surrounding the beginning of his religious
life were startling It seemed to him, he says, as
if he smet tie Lord Jesus Christ face as he
ttwould see any other man. 1t did not occur to him
for time afterward that it sswholly mental
state" Mr.. Finney alone in his law Office at the
time. His narrative goes on thus:
Gas about to take my seat, received a
mighty baptism of the Holy Ghost. Without any ex-
pectaton without having the thought in my mind that
there any such thing for me, without any reeol-
lection that had heard the thing mentioned by
any person in the world, the Holy Spirit descended
upon me in that seemed to go thru me body
and soul. could feel the impression like the waves
Of electricity going thru and thru Indeed it
seemed to come in waves and waves Of liquid love.
1t seemed like the very breath of God. I can recol.
lecC dlSC1ncJly Cnat seemed TO ian like
wings. No words express the wonderful love that
shed abroad in my heart wept aloud with JOY
and love. These waves me, and over me
and me, after another until recollect that
cried out Il shall die if these continue to pass
me- : Yet had no fear of DEATH
These ecstatic states required at intervals. The
narrative in one place says: sAs the day was dawn
ing, light perfectly ineffabe shone in on my soul
that almost Frustrated to the ground This light
seemed to be like the brightness of the SUM- It was
too intense for the eyes, It seemed if 1 could see
that all nature praised and worshiped God except
man.
Mr.. Finney could not make that the light was
not objective until he learned that companion saw
nothing.
The words of men with experiences like these would
naturally be effective They had the certainty that
from experience and insight. They would hard
ly have been satisfied with explanation that at
tributes such experiences to suggestion
"A. J. R.