The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14

Impression on his mind.
AT the time of the occurrences" he
said, Il was working on the church.
1 was only a laborer in those days.
One of my mates was a man named
Hope. l called him my walking mate,
because We both had our homes at
Hay, and though We lived in Llantnony
during the week We used to walk home
to Hay on the Saturday and return
again to work on Monday.
Laborer Falls Dead.
"One day cannot remember quite
which day of the week it was-I was
at work inside the church and Hope
was working outside.
''All of a sudden there was a shout.
We knew that there had been an &C.
cident, and all rushed out of the half
finished building. There just before
what is now the west door we found
poor Hope, lying dead.
What had happened was just this,
and it is easily explained. Stone for
the building of the wall had to be
hoisted up in boxes to the height of
forty feet. There were two boxes
and Hope nad charge of the filling of
them.
"One box came down empty as one
went up FULL and it seems that owing
probably to carelessness, the edge of
the full one had caught on the edge
of the full one turned it over. and
snowered the heavy stones down on
poor Hope.
He must have bent his head or
lodged as the stones fell because his
head, though cut, and bleeding a little
was not crushed in, as it otherwise
must have been.
But his body was just a pulp. There
was no breath in his nostrils, and his
heart had ceased to beat. There was
no question that he was dead.
Revived BY the Priest
I'VE picked him up to lay him in
| limbs were so limp and so bent every
way that it seemed as though all his
bones had been crushed to pieces.
when We laid him down people
came hurrying up from all sides, as
| the news of the accident had spread
like wild fire. Some of the monks
gathered round. too, and then Father
| Ignatius hurried up.
I'VE made way for him to stand be-
side the dead man, and I think we
were all wondering what the reverend
| father would say or do.
| $50 when he bowed his head and
| prayed that the dead man might be
| raised to life, l think we were hardly
astonished Then when he had finished
this short prayer the reverend father
sprinkled some holy WHITEWATER
from Lourdes. l think it was-on the
corpse. and commanded the dead man
to arise in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
"Then-and I confess that we were
all amazed at that-a shudder seemed
to pass through the dead man. and ne
struggled to sit up.
I'VE were all so powerless to move.
owing to our amazement. that we did
not attempt to assist Hope to get up.
So he got up to his feet alone.
He Arose and Walked.
When he stood right up he seemed
dazed. and without speaking to any
one walked away. The reverend father
began to praise God for the wondrous
work that he had done. but as for us.
we were too utterly dumbfounded even
to open our mouths.
Hope did not work again that day.
but sat quietly apart and thanked God
but he was at work the next day, and
without any stiffness or pain. He
had not even any bruises to show,
though the stones had literally en-
quilted him.
"On the walk back to Hay next
Saturday 1 questioned him about the
affair. and he said that he had no re-
collection of anything that occurred
after the stones struck him.
He had however. not the slightest
doubt that he had been killed, and had
heen raised again from the dead
And have you any doubt the cor
respondent asked Evans
None" he said. None Whatever
1t was just the act OF Goa. peheFe
that all things are possible with the
Almighty. and l speak the truth