Life and labor in the spirit world: Being a description of localities, employments, surroundings, and conditions in the spheres.Longley, Mary T. (Mary Theresa)
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Life and labor in the spirit world: Being a description of localities, employments, surroundings, and conditions in the spheres.
Longley, Mary T. (Mary Theresa)
Spirit writings; Spirits
Our little spirit girl, Flora, sometimes takes her harp into earthly
homes where want or misery or pain are felt, and in the quiet hours of
night, when the tired inmates are what you call asleep, she plays and
sings to them, and their spirits, which are not asleep, though their
bodies are wrapped in slumber, listen to the sweet sounds and grow
strong and happy; for they gain power from the spirit sounds to go on in
their weary life on earth. These poor, sad people do not in their waking
hours remember that they heard such heavenly music and singing, but they
sometimes recollect that they had dreamed pleasant things, and they
often wonder why they feel so happy when they awake and so strong to go
through with the toils of the day. It is because they had been visited
in their sleep by an angel child.
There is a large hospital in one of your cities where poor, sick,
suffering people lie on beds of anguish. Men and women, and sometimes
little children, are taken there to find relief from pain and fever, or
perhaps to die and go to the spirit world. Kind nurses and doctors do
all they can for these sick people, but, ah, they do not know how they
are assisted by the little spirits who, like Flora, take their tiny
harps and play upon them, or set them where the breeze can sweep over
them, thus invoking sweet sounds that are heard by the spirit ears of
the sufferers, and which lull their fevered fancies or soothe their
burning pain.
I will tell you of one case where great good was accomplished by our
little friend Flora. A strong man lay very ill in the hospital ward. His
brain seemed to be on fire, for all the fever which had attacked his
system had mounted there. His suffering was intense, his ravings were
terrible to listen to; he had been given up to die by the doctors,—that
is, they could do nothing to save his life. Dear little Flora visited
the side of this man constantly. She had placed her spirit-harp above
his cot, and the faint breeze that was allowed to circulate around it
was sufficient to cause a vibration of the strings of the instrument.
Time passed; the man grew worse and worse; the physicians were compelled
to minister opiates to him to ease his sufferings. At length, when he
had succumbed to the power of the drug, he sank away into a deep stupor;
but though his outer senses were numb, his spirit-hearing was alive.
Sounds from the spirit-harp fell upon his hearing, perceiving which
Flora began to sing a soft, sweet melody. The man listened and grew calm
and quiet. The doctors watching his sleeping form, dreaded its
awakening; but when the patient did arouse from his slumber, it was with
cooled brain and stilled pulse. “Doctor,” he cried, “I have seen an
angel; I have heard her sing to me; I shall get well!”
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