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    268 THE CHUECH OF THE WOMAN.

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    About Sidered Themselves Half A Century ...

    % a t \} t _ffiltmatg at JOANNA SOUTHCOTT _,

    Who departed this life December 27 ih , 1814 , AGED 65 YEARS .

    " Heaven When through and earth , all thy wondrous tured days " While vain sages think enrap they know gaze ,

    Time Secrets alone Thou will alone tell canst the hour show ; _Thou'lt appear in greater power .

    What now is our own verdict as to the character of Joanna b predicted Southcott ut do not ? , with We think believe respect she that was to she an the had impostor particular thoroug . hl This event y delu is d which ed the her most s she elf ,

    chari Charity table _"b construction elieveth all things that , can hope be th all put things upon , endure the matter th all . failethto this view the

    h m things e i nd ow — n illi charity Joanna terate never had interpre beco t m at ion deranged . " of t According he prop throug hecies h . dwelling Following up the on ht to know bettert

    the exam predictions ple of those of wh the o oug Apocalypse referred , she to the considered present age hat . She thouglit until about them becam , she dreamed fatall about t hem , she her talked

    wea about k brain them . , Particularl they y did e she f y impress hersel e f cal upo led n upon po t o fulfil should the bear character the man of -ch the ild . Woman Her diseased in the im A ag pocal ination ypse , acted who

    ce thus rtain so strong and ly upon her bodil of the y fra state me in which to prod she u actuall ce in i y t appearances

    believed gns herself to be . We have analagous cases of the force instances of a diseased of the imag Stigmata ination of St acting . Francis upon and the the body mark , s in up the on I

    the Convulsionaries of Paris . Joanna Southcott was not an I the impostor last , , and but was her the self- cause delusion of her was death comp the . Church * lete , was of continued the to I I

    The remarkable fact remains that Woman I strange has day . continued Althoug effects offaith , h and founde numbers and d upon many a hets delusion and thousands , it goes hetesses at on the to are show present raised the I I I

    propprop particular the up to nature direct way of its of the various exp child _^ laining sects which the . visitation Each they of all these of suppose the Woman has was its , born own and I I I

    into however according heaven , beneath to in her a the prediction manner term , the invisible , althoug Church to h of mysteriousl mortal the Woman eyes y . , seized Ther a further e up is , 1 1 I

    the " There _G-azette is of an Health interesting " a medical article publication on the dissection of 1817 of . Joann Vol . ii a ., Southcott p . 661 . in I I ,

    268 The Chuech Of The Woman.

    268 THE CHUECH OF THE WOMAN .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 268, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/52/