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both cases a trance more prolonged than
usual was taken for actual death. The
other instances | give in the words Of the
Archbishop -
"The next case that occurred to me
was at Bordeaux. A young lady, who
bore one of the most distinguished names
in the department, had passed through
what was believed TO be the last agony,
and as, apparently, all was over, the
father and mother were torn away from
the heartrendlng spectacle. AS God
willeh it, | happened to pass by the door
OF the house at the moment, when it oc-
cured 10 me TO call and inquire how the
young lady was going on. When I en-
tered the room the nurse, finding the body
GREATNESS, was in the act Of covering the
face, and, indeed, there was every appear
ance that life had departed. Somehow
or other, 1t did not seem to me so certain
as 10 the bystanders. | resolved to try.
! raised my voice, called loudly upon the
young lady not to give up all hope that
| was come to care her, and that I was
about to pray by her side. You do not
see me- said, but you hear what / am
saying My presentlmenls were not un-
foundrd. The word of hope I altered
reached her ear and effected a marvellous
change or, rather, called backed the
life that was departing. The young girl
Survived, she is now q wife and the mother
OF children, and is this day the happiness
OF two most respectable families The
Archbishop mentioned another instance
OF a similar revival in a town of Hungary
during the cholera Of 1881, which he had
heard that day from one OF his colleagues
ot'the Senate as they were mounting the
staircase. But The last he related is so
interesting and made such "A sensation
that 1t deserves to be repeated in his own
words -
'In the summer of 1926, on a close
and sultry day, in u church which was
excessively crowded, a young priest who
was IN the act Of preaching was suddenly
seized with giddiness in The pulpit. The
words he was u~ttering became indistinct.
he soon lost the power of speech, and
sunk down on The floor. He was taken
out of the church and carried home. All
was thought to he over. Some hours
after the funeral bell was tolled, and the
usual preparations made for the inter
ment. His eyesight was gone !; but if he
could see nothing, like the Young lady
have alluded to, he could hear, and I
need not say that what reached his ears
was not calculated to re-assure him.
The doctor came, examined him, and pro-
nounced him dead and after the usual
Inquiries as 10 his age and The place of
MS oirth, &C., gave permission for his in
terment next morning. The venerable
bishop IN whose cathedral the young
priest was preaching when he was seized
with the fit came to his bedside to recitc
the lie PrCtunds. The body was mea-
sured for the coffin. Night came on,
and you will easily feel how inexpressi-
BILE was the anguish of the living being in
such a situation. At last, amid the voices
murmuring around him, he distinguished
that of one whom he had known from
infancy. That voice produced a marvel
lous effect and a superhuman effort. IF
what followed I need say no more than
that the seemingly dead man stood NEXT
day IN the same pulpit. That young
priest, gentlemen, is the same Young man
who is now speaking before YOU. and
who, more than 40 years after that event
lmplores those in authority, not merely to
watch vigiIantly over the careful exeen-