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BPIBITUALBC1E.NT1BT.<br />
nrUcle shonld ba.e been millen, be was<br />
mnde to wIllet '''Go to Mrs. S!s, on C"<br />
atreet. I •• ar tbe Shot Tower." I .. stantly tbe<br />
power le!t blm. lie read tho line and th.u<br />
clumpled up the luvoice alld put It inlO bis<br />
pocket, taking up another bil,l-head alld requesting<br />
lbe calling· clerk to call again, Kay<br />
Ing. "I have m"de a mlotake." Commenc<br />
Ing to write again, hL. band Wall immediately<br />
sslzed as before, and he wrote a Becond tlm ..,<br />
"Go to Mrs. S.'s, on C. street, neat tbe Shot<br />
Tower." 110 Impatiently Bnatebed up thl.<br />
also aud put it 1111.0 bi. pocket wit.h tbe other,<br />
asking a clRrk to take bis place. and'relUarklng<br />
tbat he felt "very que.r, and must<br />
go bom.... IUs burror at being eOlllpelled<br />
to write against hi. will made bim f,..,1 quito<br />
sick. lie tbougbt that ho must be "olllg out<br />
of bl. mh.d, but tbere nev.r. b;"villG beeo a<br />
casee of Insanity in bls' family. tbe faet conyoled<br />
blml10l n 1I1\1e. nll~ be tbought he<br />
would be better lIe1t day. lIe mentloned<br />
the ea..e to a bosom friend of bis. and tho result<br />
was tbey vi>ltcd the place named. whe.·o<br />
they found and relloved a starv!pg womatl.<br />
She bad known good circumstanceS, but ber<br />
busband died and revsrses bad reduced hgr<br />
to tbls state. She re\Darked. that she "knew<br />
Goo would belp tbem. for sbo dreamed lbe<br />
nlgbt b.fore sbe saW her hUl'baltd rolling up<br />
a barrel of ftour alld bringIng In som .. other<br />
things; and b.,..ald to bert 'I ha.vo had bard<br />
work to get tbis to you.'" Ottler h,ve,Uga·<br />
tlon Itldlcated ~baL the busba.nd bad eon trullcd<br />
tb" mali's hand, he being a writlng medh.nI<br />
wilbout koowing it. Tho account oays that<br />
bo La a member of 000 of· our most co.tly and<br />
f ... bloo3oble cburch .... alld tba.t a spirit should<br />
control blm .~med perfectly dreadful to him.<br />
as be bad .. Datural (~dllc.wd) borror of Spiritualism<br />
and thought It one of tllo great humbut>"<br />
of the age. .<br />
bls cbnract.er, bQwever, bnd been of the supeTllcial<br />
or ,.orldly nature, bo wore n troubl·<br />
ed BlIl>cct. . The bewildered BIelv!"a Spellt<br />
largo .umo of mo"oy!n the cbnreb, for tbe<br />
repOlie of 1110 oOnl, but without nvall. Rnd<br />
she ~n a Spbitllrulot all would ha.e been<br />
ninde clear aud shown 10 be natural; but<br />
these appariUollS oC the adored GlI$tave<br />
proved ber rllin. At the It.BllsaUou of ber<br />
confessor, to appease a suffering BOlli, ~he entered<br />
a cOII.ent. The priest bnd only In<br />
viow ber immense !O'tUDe. But III beCIIming<br />
tbe "bride of tbe :t..rd" tire ""bit of ber<br />
buSband became' more and Inore lrrltat.e
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