GHOST-SEEING AND SPEAKING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 980, 21 January 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

GHOST-SEEING AND SPEAKING.

:" TTe have 'examples '6f' ghoatihea'ringi- of ghosts that present nb'yisible image,' but'address themselves to tlie,eafalorie, Captain Rogers,, commander of' a ship called The Society, bound to Virginia in. 1664, while asleep in his cabin dreamed'that some!one pulled him by the arm, calling to him to get up and look out for the safety of the'ship, I He Was awakened by ;thb dream, but paid ho I heed to the sulhmohs, : .;and went' to sleep again;whenthewarningwasrepeated/ This happened several' times/till at last/ though aware of no danger, ; h6 turned'out and went on'deck. 'The Wind wis fair;, a bounding taken a short, time previous had shown 'a ■hundred fathoms. There; seemed to be' iioj ground for alarm, .'and' he;w'a3 ; ibout ; to turn in again when a-voice from'an invisible speaker said to him: '.''Heave/'tho lead-l" ; It was done, -and; : eleven fathoms '■ reported. "Heaveagaihl" said tlie'voice, '• Nowitw'aa seven fathoms.." The captain' : immediately gave the order: '"Boirtship I" ahdby the time the order was executed : the' soiindirig was only four fathoms, • Evidently the ship, on her former tack, would -have soon ■riin aground,' Bobert- Dale : Owen has recorded anamazing story of -the rescue of a'w'r'eeked vessel off the Banks to Newfoundland' by means of a timely apparition; In 1828, tho mate of a barque in that'latitude, sitting in his state-room working l out his ; observations for the day, espies in the cabin some one whom he supposes to be the captain, writing on a slate. Going nearer,; he discovers that it is not the captain not any member of the barque's "companyi Tho'captain is called, but the stranger'has vanished. They examinethe slate; on itis written, " Steer to the nbr'w'est."; The wind permitting, curious t» know what' would como of it, they lay 1 their course.in that direction, ordering a sharp lookout from the masthead. In.ashort time, they come upona vessel fast bound in ice, threatened with -destruction l ; : crew, officers, and passengers nearly famished.

■—. ;•[,'. ■'l i i igTjT^3 -These aro taken'on^|hd J krdue!ittua) inoka of the passongora is Been ffie protmyp > ,oythe writer on the slato, wso had.bocii lying in a profound Bleep at the time whim barque. Sir John Lubliook'saya':l thAtlny reaming the spirit seems -toleave the-body.-The.peculiarity.in..this. case, supposing the narrative authentic, iff : thewant.of,a.preyiousconneotiop,'and.atitraoj', tion .arising! therefrom* ,thp, ghostly; i visitor and.the mate iof, th'e /barque, icase,.iaaa hard .to. .classify:as itjs,difficult, : of. belief.;::: The, strongest argument jor :i! its; authenticjiy.iß preclselyjts uniqueness jnihe strange for fiction.,, ( ;A !caroml ■ study 'of'trio,' recorqß/.of.apparitlops^will| ehpjv,' l[ thint^ 1 that such visitatiouVin'ost often occur in thV hours,of daylight, and notj according to pbp'u",' lar,7»u|ierßtit|on, at.'dead, of, night,'Andp what.M'.yerjr beat auth'enti-', cated paaea are those' pf living'persons,' or" persona vd'arliculo mortis,, or recently doparted, and'riot of' persona ibnjj deobteed.- 1 ™ ',,', ; ; '.' 'Apparitions of the living, onterrii porar'y leave of : abaehce from their bodies,'' present, if not a more'credible, a more' ab--ceptable phenomenon,'' That the'soul of ; a liying person possesses; this power of disengaging itself for 1 a time from the; fleshly body, and appearing at a distance by: means of 1 the more- ethereal body whioh is proper- 1 to it, and a semblance oi appeal with which: it invests itself, is confidently assumed by preumatologists. - The i; theory -of. these psyohieal outings explains, tke supposed.fact of; spcotral apparitions) and was evidently, framed .for .:,the,„purpose,; i.Deep,mutual, sympathy, between: two.'wideiy separated in ; ; dividuajs i may, it is,;beHeved,...,bring ; this, facu,ltyiinto .playwhen ■one ! of.;the.parties,ra. sore .distress craves:.theiQther's presence, and, aid; ..Captain,!Meadows; Taylor, relates,.,.ai ivjsion.whiohJie.ihadlin' India of .a dearly hv .loved English lady whomlib badliopedißOine, : time to call his wife: "One,evening Jlwas. a,t'tlie Village of iDewarlKudea, 1 . after A long afteraooniand eveningmarch'fromiKuktul.! Ilay;down,very; weary ;■-.• but thoibarkingol; ; village :dogs, thebaying' of jackalß, and over-; fatigue and heat, prevented" sleep.- I was i j wide awake au&restless;.! Suddenly, for my tent-door was wide open, I saw the face and! : figure so faiiiiliar to; me, but looking .older,. and with a sad and troubled expression; < .The ■ dress was white and seemedi.oov.ered.witli!a, profusion bf,ilaee,7and'.glistened in:the bright moonlights The : arms werei stretched,;Outji : and a low, plaintive ory, {■Dounofolet me go! do;not.letimeigdll-nreaohedimei!).! sprang forward', but the figure receded, grow-, ; ing fainter and fainter, till I could see.it no longer; but the low, : sadtones still sounded. ; i..'.• ..n,;,, I.wrote .to.(my. father. .I.wished to kriowiwhether.thore.was any hope for me, He wrote baok to me these words :-'.loo, late,my dear son ;:oh tho'.very dayOf the vision ' you '.describe; to ;me, / -r— : was. mat 1 -' ried,'": Of this aotja in distans,. Schopeni : hauer claims that tho; intervening space between tho agent and the object, whether full or void, i has no influence \ whatever on tho action; it< is all one whether that space ,bo tho distance of an inch or of a billion Uranus orbits, He supposes a nexus of beings which rest on a very different order—deeper, more original and immediate than that which, had tho laws of space, time, and oausalty for its basis; an order in which the first and most universal, because merely formal, laws of naturo are no longer valid j in which time and spaco no longer separate individuals, and by which, accordingly, tho individualization 1 and isolation wrought by thosfc forms no longer oppose impassablo bounds to tho coinmunication of thought and the immediate influence of tho will,— From" Ghost-seeing," % Professor F. '.'Hi'Hedge, in the North Ante- - rkan Review for September;