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over a -month ago, she and Bister Poisel came to my house. Mr. Smith was at home, and to him Mrs. Cox declared that she had come to be prayed for. She said that something was troubling her conscience and that she could not find that peace of mind which had come to those about her. We allknelt d'vwn and my husband began a fervent prayer in which he asked God to quiet the troubled soul of Mrs. Cox, who was kneeling before a chair with her head buried between her arms, sobbing bitterly. Suddenly she fell over backwards and sprawled full length upon the tloor, ar.d the prayer came to a sudden eud-ing. I asked her what was wrong and she said ‘nothing.’ A lew days afterward she again came to mv houseand said that she wanted to make aconfession, but feared to do so. ] questioned her and she told me then that when she fell to the fioor it seemed as though some one had struck her a terrific blew on the head: that a vision appeared to her as she lay there, and that she saw the blood streaming from his throat. When I asked her who she was speaking about she would only say that m man shot him and a woman cut his throat.’ This was all she would over teii me -about it, aud she did Liot. make anv confession.V falthough she stated that, she hud come for that purpose. She was greatly excited over somethiugand repeatedly asserted that a man shot him aud a woman cut his throat. What it all meant 1 do not know, but Mrs. Cox should not deny that she lias made partial confessions to neighbors.”_ “Kow did the revivals break up?” ‘•Well, my husband preached only the truth from the gospel and some people didn’t like it. They wanted some smooth preaching.”“Did it result in hard feelings among the neighbors?”“Mo, T don’t think so. So far as I go, I am 011 good terms with all my neighbors and this story has not come out as the result of any spite work. There is a verv strange side to the af-* V—Jfair which 1 cannot fathom. That vision means something.”
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Indianapolis Sun
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Mon, Apr 18, 1892
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