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in pieces.” At other times she cried out, “ He is tearing off my breasts; he is pouring melted lead down my throat. Now I suffer what the martyrs suffered ; but I have not the martyrs’ faith.” She frequently spoke as if she was another person, saying to her father, “ This girl is not thine, but mine. I have got possession of her, and I will keep her;” with many expressions of the same kind. She often seemed to be in a trance, and said she saw many visions; sometimes of heaven or hell, or judgment; | sometimes of things which she said would shortly come to pass. ; In the beginning of March, Mrs. G. came over to Rotherham, who herself gave me the following account :--‘‘ Soon after I came in, she fell into a raging fit, blaspheming and cursing her father and me. She added, ‘ft was I that made Green’s horse so bad the other day : (which had been taken ill in a most unaccountable manner, as soon as he was put into the stable:) I did it that thou mightest have the preaching no more; and I had almost persuaded thee to it. It wasI that made thee bad last night.’ I was then taken in an unusual way. All the time she spoke she was violently convulsed, and appeared to be in strong agony. «After about a quarter of an hour she brake out into prayer, and then came to herself ; only still dull and heavy.” John Thorpe, of Rotherham, had often a desire to pray for her in the congregation; but he was as often hindered, by a strong and sudden impression on his mind that she was dead. When he came to Woodseats, and began to mention what a desire he had had, the girl being then in a raging fit, cried out, “I have made a fool of Thorpe!” and burst out into a loud laughter. In the beginning of May all these symptoms ceased ; and she continues in health both of soul and body.