The Hurst Brothers’ Visionary Manifestation of Mother’s Love

“Along about midnight, or a little after, I heard mother come into our room. She came straight to the bed so softly, and tucked us up, and smoothed down the bedclothes over our great, rough limbs, like she used to when we were little fellows. I held my breath all I could and pretended I was asleep; then she put her hand on each of our heads, to be sure we were there, I suppose. She patted Sam's head, for he was her favorite, then walked out as quietly as she came in. I knew Sam was a-blubbering, like a baby; but he tells that I was. We didn't speak for some time, but when we did 'God bless her' came from both our throats at once. We were on our way to St. George, and mother was very ill, and we were anxious to get there, but we did not know that she had passed away at that very hour, and that her spirit had come to see us, and to give us that last motherly blessing.”

— Joe Hurst, as recounted in The Young Woman's Journal