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years, she has been experiencing ~visitat1ons o~ the spirit“. These do not ooeur with any degree of regularity, but they do always oôou~r in “the dead hours o~ the night“ atter she has retired, and impel her to rise and write in an unknown hand. These strange writings of her‘s now cover eight pages of letter paper and bear a marked resemblance to crud.e shorthand notes. Off-hand ‚ she can “cipher“ (interpret or translate ) abowt half o:~ these strange writings; the other half, however, she can make neither heads nor tails of except when the spirit is u~pon her. When the spirit eases off, she again becomes totally ignorant of the significance of that mysteriou.s half of her spirit-directed writings.

“Aunt“ Mary appears to be very well posted on a number of sub j e o s • Sh e I s uxrnsually fami li ai‘ wi th t h e Bible ‚ and q~io tes soriptu.re freely and correctly. Shealso uses beautiful language, totally void of slang and Negro jargon, “big“ words and labored expressions.

She I s a seventh Day Adventist ; is not a psychic ‚ but is a rather mysterious personage. She lives alone, and eke8 out a living by taking in washing. She is of the opinion that “we are now living in the last days“; that, as she interprets the “Si~fl8“, the “end of time“ is drawing close. Her conversion to Christianity was the result of a hair-raising experience with a ghost - about forty years ago, and she has never — from that day to this ~ faUen from grace for as “long as a minute“.

To know “Aunt“ Mary is to be impressed with her utter sincerity and, to like her. $he is very proud of one of her grandmothers,