The Surprising Case of Rachel Baker, who Prays and Preaches in Her Sleep, with Specimens of Her Extraordinary Performances Taken Down Accurately in Short Hand at the Time: And Showing the Unparelleled Powers She Possesses to Pray, Exhort, and Answer Questions, During Her Unconscious State. The Whole Authenticated by the Most Respectable Testimony of Living Witnesses |
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... observation , enables you to gratify the public curiosity . I beg you to excuse this request of an individual , who , though unknown to you , anticipates from your general courtesy , a favourable issue , and subscribes himself most ...
... observation , enables you to gratify the public curiosity . I beg you to excuse this request of an individual , who , though unknown to you , anticipates from your general courtesy , a favourable issue , and subscribes himself most ...
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... observe ; after which she again returns to her customary tenor of discourse . In this way I have received from her , answers in . terms devotionally appropriate to half a dozen suc- cessive questions on serious subjects . Her pulse ...
... observe ; after which she again returns to her customary tenor of discourse . In this way I have received from her , answers in . terms devotionally appropriate to half a dozen suc- cessive questions on serious subjects . Her pulse ...
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... observed to be turned up- wards , and their muscles in a tremulous spasm . She is insensible to all the stimuli which it has been thought prudent to apply , for the purpose of rousing her . At the end of the exercise , she had a few ...
... observed to be turned up- wards , and their muscles in a tremulous spasm . She is insensible to all the stimuli which it has been thought prudent to apply , for the purpose of rousing her . At the end of the exercise , she had a few ...
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... observed , during her sermon , that she ought to be silent and not talk so long and so loud in her sleep . She heard me and denied that she was asleep . Her eye lids were , as usual , accurately closed , and there was no sign of winking ...
... observed , during her sermon , that she ought to be silent and not talk so long and so loud in her sleep . She heard me and denied that she was asleep . Her eye lids were , as usual , accurately closed , and there was no sign of winking ...
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... observed a profound submission of every thing to the disposal and govern- ment of the Most High ; without entering into moral , political , or economical details . Such general re- plies of humility and reverence are the easiest of all 12.
... observed a profound submission of every thing to the disposal and govern- ment of the Most High ; without entering into moral , political , or economical details . Such general re- plies of humility and reverence are the easiest of all 12.
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Page 30 - And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. And on my servants and on my handmaidens, I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.
Page 29 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Page 27 - Father in heaven ; for he maketh his sun to rise upon the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Page 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the...
Page 29 - For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons ; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not ? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all ar§ partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
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Page 2 - Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act entitled "an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the...
Page 25 - And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Page 25 - His head in the day when the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our GOD, and of His CHRIST, and He shall reign for ever and ever.
Page 26 - they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, ' know the Lord ;' for all shall know him, from the least to the greatest.