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WONDERFUL HISTORY OF A SWEDISH WOMAN.
the desire of her parents, and assuring her that God would
be her physician and comforter.
This apparition, which lasted two hours, was attended
with another the same day. She saw in the evening a
brightness, like a beautiful morning star. She has seen
it ever since: it shines in her chamber every day, from
sun setting to sun rising. When she is very much cast
down, there appears in that brightness a kind of face,
which looking upon her, gives her great ease and comfort.
The brightness fills the whole room with light, but nobody
else perceives it: every body else is in the dark, while she
sees the star. To prove the truth of it, those that are in
the room take a piece of money in one hand, and another
in the other ; which she plainly distinguishes, tells ex-
actly what it is and never misses. At first she saw the
star in the ceiling of the room, but it has since comedown
lower and lower, and appears now on her bed.
About Midsummer, in the same year 1705, she began to
swoon away or fall into extasies, which happens eight or
ten times in an hour : each extasy lasts almost two mi-
nutes and a half at a time. When she awakes, she fetches
a deep sigh, and with folded hands, thanks her Saviour
who has saved and delivered her, and then she repeats
some passages out of the word of God. She often prays
for the King.
She says that whenever she falls into a swoon, she is
carried into a beautiful white church, where every thing
“ shines bright and glorious ; and there is an inexpressible
joy, sweetly singing and playing upon music to the.praise
and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.” She adds that many
persons appear in that church dressed in white, and that
their number continually increases. She knows them, but
is not allowed to name them, and that whenever she has
a mind to do it, her words are immediately snatched out
of her mouth.
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WONDERFUL HISTORY OF A SWEDISH WOMAN.
the desire of her parents, and assuring her that God would
be her physician and comforter.
This apparition, which lasted two hours, was attended
with another the same day. She saw in the evening a
brightness, like a beautiful morning star. She has seen
it ever since: it shines in her chamber every day, from
sun setting to sun rising. When she is very much cast
down, there appears in that brightness a kind of face,
which looking upon her, gives her great ease and comfort.
The brightness fills the whole room with light, but nobody
else perceives it: every body else is in the dark, while she
sees the star. To prove the truth of it, those that are in
the room take a piece of money in one hand, and another
in the other ; which she plainly distinguishes, tells ex-
actly what it is and never misses. At first she saw the
star in the ceiling of the room, but it has since comedown
lower and lower, and appears now on her bed.
About Midsummer, in the same year 1705, she began to
swoon away or fall into extasies, which happens eight or
ten times in an hour : each extasy lasts almost two mi-
nutes and a half at a time. When she awakes, she fetches
a deep sigh, and with folded hands, thanks her Saviour
who has saved and delivered her, and then she repeats
some passages out of the word of God. She often prays
for the King.
She says that whenever she falls into a swoon, she is
carried into a beautiful white church, where every thing
“ shines bright and glorious ; and there is an inexpressible
joy, sweetly singing and playing upon music to the.praise
and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.” She adds that many
persons appear in that church dressed in white, and that
their number continually increases. She knows them, but
is not allowed to name them, and that whenever she has
a mind to do it, her words are immediately snatched out
of her mouth.
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