Immortality proved by the testimony of sense : $b In which is contemplated the doctrine of spectres and the existence of a particular spectreCummings, Abraham
Religion
Immortality proved by the testimony of sense : $b In which is contemplated the doctrine of spectres and the existence of a particular spectre
Cummings, Abraham
Apparitions; Immortality; Spiritualism
The next day I received the same message by three other persons, two
of which belonged to two other families, and returned the same answer.
Nevertheless, to give satisfaction, Capt. Butler, Mr. Wentworth and I
went with them to that house. Capt. Butler and I examined the cellar
with a candle, and in a few minutes after, Lydia and I went down
there. Capt. S----n and some others, went with us, but none of them
stood before us. While I held Lydia by the arm, we heard the sound
of knocking. Lydia spoke, and a voice answered, the sound of which
brought fresh to my mind that of my sister’s voice, in an instant; but
I could not understand it at all; though it was within the compass of
my embrace, and, had it been a creature which breathed, it would have
breathed in my face, and I had no impediment of hearing. But Lydia
told me that it said, “We must live in peace and be united.” Then we
came up. But Capt. S----n with Lydia and others, went down again. I
passed through the room which led to the cellar into another room, and
there I was much surprised when I plainly understood by the same kind
of voice, still speaking in the cellar, these words, “I am the voice
of one crying in the wilderness;” and other sentences, which I cannot
remember. This is testified by several others who were with me.[30]
From this time I cleared Lydia as to the voice, and accused the devil.
August 8, I was there again with about thirty others, and heard much
conversation. Her voice was still hoarse and thick, like that of my
sister on her death bed,[31] but more hollow. Sometimes it was clear,
and always pleasant. A certain person did, in my opinion very unwisely,
ask her whether I was a true Christian. The reply was, “She thinks she
is, she thinks she is. She is my sister.”
August 13-14, I heard the same voice in the same place, and did then
believe it was that of my sister. She talked much with Capt. S----n,
and exhorted the people. Mr. Sp----r asked her if I believed that she
was my sister. The answer was, “She believes now.” By the direction of
the Spirit we went to Capt. M----r’s, but I never saw her.
Sometime after this, Mr. Butler brought to me from the Spectre,
the private conversation which I know I had with my sister in her
lifetime, at a certain hour, when we were alone together, and which he
declares he never knew before; as a token that I was her sister. It
is true I had never revealed it to any person, and I do not believe
that my sister ever did; but could not some evil spirit hear that
conversation, and afterwards personate my sister, and reveal it to
Capt. Butler? For what purpose should my sister become visible to
us?--There was certainly no dispute nor difficulty in my father’s
family or that of Mr. Butler’s, which could be any reason for her
coming. SALLY WENTWORTH.
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