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, of the city of New-York, stenographer.

  • 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, of the city of New-York, stenographer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    you in the day of judgment than for Sodom and Go- morrah ? Will not you come and be partakers of the gospel feast ? lay down the arras of rebellion and turn unto the Lord. Dearly beloved friends, you are the beloved of ray soul. As I do love my own soul, so I love you. Come, be partakers of riches, yea durable riches, and honour, and when I pray unto my Father, I will pray that he would direct me how to pray; for, if I should take words and not offer my heart, it will not profit me any thing. Therefore, I will desire to reverence my God, with my heart; also it becometh us to honour him with our hearts, that the words of our lips may be right before him ; for our God will not be mocked by such things. CONCLUDING PRAYER. O ! thou that d wellest in dazzling light and makest the throne above the place of thy rest, thou didst create all nature by the word of thy power. The heav- ens and the earth are the Avork of thy'hands; the fishes that swim in the sea, the beasts that walk on the earth ; the great waters and the dry land, also the creeping thing: and they ought to praise thee, yea they do seem to speak thy praise. The winged fowls do praise thee for thou art worthy ; thou didst create the sun, moon, and stars, and they speak forth thy wisdom. Thou didst place them in their proper order, thou speakest unto them and they cease not to obey thee, thou didst create man out of the dust of the earth, thou breathedst into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a being a living soul, thou didst place him in a state where he could enjoy thee, but be fell, and by the fall of our forefather sin entered into the world, and if not for the sake of thy beloved son, we must have perished. Thou didst make thy son, to come into this world ; he took upon him the pains of death for his children; thanks be to thy nnn&e that there is such a glorious way of salvation