Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1869 — Rcmarkable Effect of Lightning—The Gift of Preaching. [ARTICLE]

Rcmarkable Effect of Lightning—The Gift of Preaching.

The ease of Mrs. Birney, hear TippctAnoe, Harrison county, Ohio, is a remarkable one. At the nge of eighteen, while pitching a load of hay from a wagon into a ’ mow, she was struck by ’lightning, which paralyzed the right half us : her body, from the crown of her head down. She was entirely insensible for the space of two hours. She recovered froth tlfc effects of the stroke, and at the age,of twenty-three years married lion husband. About twenty-three years ago she was suddenly taken ill, as was# supposed, and while in an unconscious state delivered a religious discourse. ;J From that time until the present those spells have come upon her regularly every two weeks. At first they occurred on week days, but for the past twenty years they have invariabjy happened on Bunday at ten o’clock a. in., When, raip pr shine, summer or winter, whether there be a crowd or only her family present, she regularly passes into an unconscious state, and delivers a religkmf rtjtacourse always one hour to an hour and 'thirty minutes in duration, and of truest orthodox stamp. She always feels unwell for hours before and ashy thes delivery of a sermon. She says she feels a painful, prickling sensation in the right half of her body, which hcgifiS several hours before, and lasts until luicgnscfotisness takes place. Between the spells She feels perfectly well, and . performs ilmr household labors as vigorously as if’she were many years younger thai) retjlly is—being now in her eighty-*ecorttl year. —Exchange.