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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... recollection of occurrences during the fit . In this state , she possesses a distinct recollection of all her religious information . She goes further . She exercises the faculty of invention , by combining her ideas in new ways , by ...
... recollection of occurrences during the fit . In this state , she possesses a distinct recollection of all her religious information . She goes further . She exercises the faculty of invention , by combining her ideas in new ways , by ...
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... recollection of any such consciousness . They have this peculiarity , that when he has ended his sermon , he gives notice to his sup- posed audience , that the next meeting , for the special purpose he assigns , will be held at a ...
... recollection of any such consciousness . They have this peculiarity , that when he has ended his sermon , he gives notice to his sup- posed audience , that the next meeting , for the special purpose he assigns , will be held at a ...
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... recollection during that dream . A boy very much exercised by somnambulism , fell asleep one day in the religious meeting he was atten- ding . During that sleep , his somnambulism invad- ed him . It continued through the rising of the ...
... recollection during that dream . A boy very much exercised by somnambulism , fell asleep one day in the religious meeting he was atten- ding . During that sleep , his somnambulism invad- ed him . It continued through the rising of the ...
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... recollection of events from the moment of falling asleep until the instant of coming to himself in the school . He had no recollection whatever of taking food , walking and talking , or of making calculations in Arithmetic . I know a ...
... recollection of events from the moment of falling asleep until the instant of coming to himself in the school . He had no recollection whatever of taking food , walking and talking , or of making calculations in Arithmetic . I know a ...
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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.
Page 2 - The surprising case of Rachel Baker, who prays and preaches in her sleep...
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.