The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-01-12
SPIRIT WRITES
Former Mayor oston Tells Of Life
Beyond the Grave
saw HIS OWN FUNERAL

He Describes the Other World n
Being Most Beautiful, With Bird.
and Flowers in Profusion-.l
Place Was Given Him to Live in
and He Was Happy.
4 man now dead tells the sensa.
ton OF death he experienced and
how he woke up in spiritual world
what life IS like there. and many 9TH
e- ghos,ly things in Both Sides OF
the Veil. book published By
Sherman French & Co.. Of Boston.
The disem bodied person who describ-
es the land beyond the grave is said
by the author OF the book. one
Manning Robbins. to be none other
than the late Gen. Augustus P. Mar
tin. former mayor OF Boston. for
mer police commissioner and forme.
| wafer commissioner OF that city.
He was one OF the best known Bos-
,onians for nearly half century.
Gen. Martin was blufr. big-oodied
man with nothing ethereal. occult O..
esoteric about him in the flesh.
Miss Robbins. the author OF this re-
markable book. was stenographer for
the Boston police board FOR many
years and afterward Gen. Martins
secretary at City Hall. She took
down a stenographer reprt OF the
words parpo-sing 10 be uttered by
spirits through the medium Of Mrs.
Leonora E. Piper. the celebrated
Arlington clairroyant-
The reports made by Miss Robbins
were for the Society for Psychical
Research. General Martin IS quot
ed for many thousand words OF spirit
utterances IN this book. Extracts
in which he tells about what he re-
members about his own death and
the eternal life which IS now his
own in another sphere are appended.
Through living Mrs. Piper. and re-
ported by living Miss Robbins. dead
Gen. Martin Is quoted as saying
When ! first passed out my mind
was cloudy. rather confused. felt
as though I was going Into space.
did not know where. drifting as Il
were. for few hours-.hat was all
and then felt as though there
vas a strong hand g-asn!ns ne ana
said 70 me:
Its all right: it is all over
And I said. What is orer?' could
not seem to understand what il all
meant. and after little while. per
hans an hour. possibly an hour or
two. oh such a !i9ht. You cannot
imagine il: cannot conceive what It
IS like. Il is the most brilliant and
vet the sottest moonlight that you
ever saw. and I thought what a
beautiful light It was! And al! OF
sudden saw people moving about
saw their heads. their fgures.
Then they seemed all clad IN white.
and could not seem 20 make them
out. They were moving IN the air.
And I said. What Is this place?
Where / am? What am I? Wha;
has happened? /, was all such q
puzzle TO me.
Did you know anything about
your funeral a: the time
Yes. I knew it." said Gen. Mar
tin. and saw the body and saw
the flowers. saw the way IN
which /, was laid out. saw-dou't
you think /, looked we'll? looked
rs though I was asleep. dor't you
think SO? And I don't think the
face showed suEeving-that is. the
clay did no: show the sufferer. the
body itself: but felt. Oh. was so
pleased 20 be out and away
from The atmosphere. felt so
choke6 and so distressed for breath.
and the moment I was released from
the imprisoning body then could
breathe perfectly. felt-I could
not describe Il 10 you.
'.Wha. happened just after yor
went out. either on this side or on
your siaeo" asked Miss Robbins. who
vas taking down n shorthand what
he was saying while dead. just as
she had for years taken his utter
ances when he was living. Gen
Martin continued TO describe his own
death By saying:
You know the actual passing out
OF the body. there IS little feeling
OF sort. OF depression. as 4 were.
and then when passed out. just as
passed out. began 20 fee! uplifted.
| I te!: as though the air was filled
with perfume. and I was (soarinS) :.
rising. rising. rising above my body.
unit! ! passed behind simply veil.
II is thin. 1t blinds your vision.
Il obS;ructs the vision for q moment
from the earthly world. Then. after
We have passed beyond il. why the
| music. the flowers the trees. n"
birds. the lakes. the rivers. the hills.
the gardens. the walks arc perfectly
magnificent. perfectly magnificent.
and nothing N the earthly world
hardly can ever correspond 20 them.
And We are taken up perhaps
| nv = nriest. man that acts IL the
capacity o: what you would under
stand as clergyman. and they say
This IS a state OF transition. You
will not see the face Of the Father
| for many. many years. but He will
give you strength and power 70 so
back and see those whom YOU have
left behind. AND the feeling o!
ecs;acy is beyond description. and
no spirit that ever returned 10 earth
could begin 70 describe il for the