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 unparalleled powers she possesses to pray, exhort, and answer questions, during her unconscious state : the whole authenticated by the most respectable testimony of living witnesses / by Charles Mais.

  • Mais, Charles.
Date:
1814
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Credit: 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 unparalleled powers she possesses to pray, exhort, and answer questions, during her unconscious state : the whole authenticated by the most respectable testimony of living witnesses / by Charles Mais. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    we may be enabled to cleanse our hands from every thing that appears like evil. I leave you in the hands of the Lord, and when you pray, forget me not; praying that I may be kept to the end, for the prayer of the righteous availeth much. I will there* fore turn my attention to poor sinners. Here she icas interrupted by a second question. Rachel! Jlns. What do you want my friend. Can you address the people of New York, for you are in New York, and they are now about you? Answer, I am at Scipio (the town of her residence) and am talking to my brothers and sisters, and repeated, I will therefore turn ray atten- tion to poor sinners, and in a few words exhort you if haply I may be an instrument of turning them from the evil of their ways. Sinners continue no longer in sin, lay down the weapons of your rebellion, and fly to Christ. Many times have I taken words and ex- horted you. What, more sinners shall I say, shall I spend this vile body of mine and you not hearken un- to my voice ? I, even I, would be willing to spend this body, if I could be the instrument of turning one soul unto the Lord, I perceive thy soul is worth more than hundreds and thousands of worlds. What pro- fit is unto a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul. What profit unto you to gain this earth and lose your soul ? we read the rich man had the love of this earth and it bound him down to the dark regions of endless wo. He lifted up his eyes in hell, being in torment, he beheld Father Abraham afar off with Lazarus, who was a beggar and would have eaten the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table, but now after death he was in glory, and the rich man was in hell. This rich man was like unto the tool who saith in his heart, there is no God. H© said no doubt, eat, drink and be merry, for I have enough, and what careth I. He did truly make a god of this world, but at last the grim messenger, death, came and deprived him of this life, and he was plunged into wo because he would not hearken to the voice of our God. Will it not be more dreadful for