Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865
On the evening of
I saw in the south west quarter of the heavens
a stream of light in the form of a broad sword
with the hilt downwards and the blade raised
pointing from west south west at an angle of
45 degrees from the horison and extending within
two or three degrees to the zenith of the degree where
the sign appeared. It was descovered at 7 o'clock
and gradually disappeared from half past seven
and at nine o'clock it was entirely gone.
This sign of a drawn sword
in the heavens appeared for several evenings
