Part 22 (2/2)

”Given by inspiration, at North Union, August, 1838, ten years prior to the Rochester Rappings.'

”The gifts continued increasing among the children. Among these were the gift of tongues, visiting the different cities in the 'spirit world,'

holding converse with the indwellers thereof, some of whom they once knew in the body. And in going to these cities they were accompanied by their guardian angels, and appeared to be flying, using their hands and arms for wings, moving with as much velocity as the wings of a bird.

”All of a sudden they stopped, and the following questions and answers were uttered through their vocal organism:

_Question_--'What city is this?'

_Answer_--'The City of Delight.'

_Question_--'Who live here?'

_Answer_--'The colored population.'

_Question_--'Can we go in and see them?'

_Answer_--'Certainly. For this purpose you were conducted here. They were admitted, their countenances changed.'

_Question_--'Who are all these?'

_Answer_--'They are those who were once slaves in the United States.'

_Question_--'Who are those behind them?'

_Answer_--'They are those who were once slaveholders.'

_Question_--'What are they doing here?'

_Answer_--'Serving the slaves, as the slaves served them while in the earth life. G.o.d is just; all wrongs have to be righted.'

_Question_--'Who are those in the corner?'

_Answer_--'They are those slaveholders who were unmerciful, and abused their slaves in the world, and are too proud to comply with the conditions.'

_Question_--'What were the conditions?'

_Answer_--'To make confession and ask forgiveness of the slaves, and right their wrongs; and this they are too proud to do.'

_Question_--'What will be done with them?'

_Answer_--'When their time expires they will be taken away and cast out, and will have to suffer until they repent; for all wrongs must be righted, either in the form or among the disembodied spirits, before souls can be happy.'

”And when the girls came out of vision, they would relate the same things, which, corresponded with what they had previously talked out.

”Now, we will leave the girls for the present and go into the boys'

department. Here we find them holding meetings by themselves, under the safe guidance of their care-takers, going in vision, some boys and some girls, for the work had progressed so as to reach adults, and all were called immediately into the work whose physical organizations would possibly admit of mediums.h.i.+p. The peculiar gift at this time was in visiting the different cities in the 'spirit world,' and in renewing acquaintances with many of their departed friends and relatives, who were the blissful and happy residents therein.

”But before we go any further we will let our mediums describe the first city they came to after crossing the river.

”_Question_--'What city is this?'

_Answer_--'The Blue City.'

_Question_--'Who lives here?'

_Answer_--'The Indians.'

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