952 Dynamic Theory. 



There was one department of her memory belonging to her first state, 

 which, though lost like the rest, appears to have been rather suddenly 

 recovered, and that was her knowledge of the Bible. One Sunday, 

 soon after she had fallen into her second state, she wanted to'go with 

 the rest of the family to church at Titusville, for which she saw them 

 getting ready, although she did not then know anything about the 

 church, or what preaching meant. To her great dissatisfaction she was 

 not allowed to go, but the following night she had a very vivid dream, 

 in which was pictured a great, green plain covered with a throng of peo- 

 ple dressed in white. There was also a fine river, and there was de- 

 lightful music of people singing as the}^ passed to and from the river. 

 In the middle was a platform, to which a preacher of majestic bearing 

 ascended, and from which he delivered a sermon. She even remem- 

 bered the text, Rev. 3-20. She also in this dream thought she saw a 

 sister who was dead ; and in subsequent dreams she often seemed to 

 see this sister and another particular friend also dead, neither of whom 

 were known to her at all in the waking hours of her second state. 

 After this remarkable dream, which evidently marked a refunctioning 

 of that particular patch of brain relating to this special memory, she 

 was able to quote the scripture she had been familiar with in her first 

 state, and this long before she had learned to read in her second state. 



The following anecdote illustrates her condition : Her brother John, 

 afterwards father of Dr. John Y. , had settled at Meadville, and was 

 living in the family of Mrs. Kennedy, then a widow, to whom he was 

 afterward married. Miss Nancy Dewey was also an inmate of the same 

 family. Over a year after Mary's first change, and while she was in 

 her second state, she stole away on horseback from her home in Ven- 

 ango Co. and made her way to Meadville, nearly 30 miles, to visit her 

 brother John, to whom she was much attached. Her friends, finding 

 out where she was, allowed her to remain a few weeks. She and Miss 

 Dewey soon got to be great friends, and one day, in a rollicking mood, 

 they contrived some practical joke to be perpetrated on John during the 

 night. During the night, however, Miss Mary had a relapse into her 

 first state, sleeping soundly as usual. Miss Nancy also failed to wake 

 till morning. On awaking, Mary perceived that she was in a strange 

 place. She knew nothing of her surroundings, nor of her room-mate 

 Nancy, nor of the joke they were to have played on John, of which 

 Miss Nancy at once commenced to speak. She dressed herself, and, in 

 a state of silence and uncertainty, waited for something to turn up 

 which would show her where she was. As soon as she saw her brother, 

 she knew she must be in Meadville. He soon perceived the state of af- 

 fairs and introduced her again to her friends. After her return to Ven- 

 ango, which happened soon after, she roomed with a sister, and one 



