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102 COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD.492. Subsequently to an address made by me at Franklin Ilall, he expressedhimself as follows :" Do not keep your light under a bushel. Iwas present and heard you speak last night.your personal experience.I wish you to say more aboutThat would weigh with the community at large.''I excused my course by answering, that I wished my experience to be riperbefore submitting it to the community.Narrative of Ms Spiritual Birth, hij W. W ,of the Fifth Sphere.a most benevolent Spirit493. '' Did you ever have a most delightful dream in which you sawyour near and dear friends about you, all seeming happy and contentedwith their condition ? If you have, then you can form an imperfect ideaof my state when I awoke to the reality of the change which opened uponmy entranced sight on being ushered into the spheres. I had been longsick, and was subject to periods of unconsciousness. Therefore I did notsoon perceive the change to be real.my spirit to bear.I felt almost too much happiness for'^ On looking around, I perceived my mother, with outstretched arms,ready to receive her welcome son to the mansion prepared for him.494. ^'Did I still dream? I asked: no! it was a blessed reality; allpain had fled, and my spirit rejoiced in new health. I could hardly containmyself from expressing my gratitude to God in verbal ejaculations.But I soon found that I had a much more delightful mode of expression.Each countenance beamed with love and intelligence, and the spirits couldinterpret my thoughts as readily as mortals can read a well-printed book.495. '^ One spirit, on whose countenance I could read volumes, ap-Opccancanough, tbc Indian cliief, was present, as he gave me to understand, and withoutknowing the names, described some of the parties who were present.Part of a Letter from Mrs. Gourlay to the Author.PniLADELPHiA, Novombcr 14, 1854." My Dear Sir : Ilaving finished reading your letter, I felt a very powerful influenceindicating the presence of spirits. Accordingly, seating myself at the instrument, [Plate 1.Fig. 2,] the following communication was rapidly given"'My dear sister, say toour beloved friend and brother that I was present at his lecturesin Boston, and was much pleased to hear him speak so nobly and fearlessly in theholy cause of Spiritualisni. * * * * * * * « * *" 'There was a great assemblage of elevated spirits convened at our friend's lectures inBoston. Among those whom I particularly recognised were B. Franklin, TV. E. Channing,J. Q. Adams, II. Kirk White, Byron, Burns, Moore, Dr. Physick, Dr. Rush, Dr.Chalmers, and a host of others. His chief supporters were his father and mother, hisloving sister Martha and brother Charles, and his friend Blodgett, Walter Gourlay, andmyself.W. W.'"My dear friend: The above is tho communication which I received, verbatim, andwhich 3'ou will please accept for what it is worth. I believe it came from the sourcewhence it purports to have emanated. I questioned W. W. regarding the nature of themarks of approbation, llis reply was, * We rapped several times.'"