The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-07-25
SAW VISION OF DEATH
Rev. DR.. Rollings Has Remarkable
HaIlucinat ion.

missionary in the New York
Homeopathic Medical College,
SiXty-third street and the Eastern
Boulevard, has had an experience
which may result in the postpone
ment of his actual labors after his
graduation until he can be induced
by the several psych1cal societies
in the large cities to describe the
remarkable mental condition into
which he fell, when he saw, as in
vision, his father at the point of
death when the father was 5000
miles away. The death-bed scene
was corroborated two weeks later
in every detail in a letter from
England.
DR.. Rollings received his thelogi-
cal education in England and was
ordained in the Established Church
He came to America with Bishop
Sullivan, whose ecclesiastical title
was the Colonial Bishop of the
Church Of England. His first ex-
perience was among the Hudson
Bay Indians. He had no supersti-
lions and did not believe in hal
lucinaitOns except those that came
from an impaired digestion, so that
his subsequent experience, attest
ed as they were by documentary
evidence, are all the more startling.
His whole life had been devoted to
study and he was so ignorant of
business forms and procedures that
he fell an easy victim to Dave
Rothschild, to whom he intrusted
a sum of money intended originally
for the education of his son in col
lege. In addition to what he de-
position i'll the Federal Bank he
turned over $500 in cash to the
president Of the bank without TAX
ing any receipt.
After his investments with the
Rothschild gang had about i'm
poverished him, he went to Ro-
chester, and was appointed curate
of St. Andrews parish, of which
Rev. Algernon S. Crapsey, sub
sequently convicted of heresy for
denying the physical resurrection
of the Saviour, was the rector, DR..
Rollins said yesterday;
My father was Godfrey Rollins
of Bedfordshire, England, and be-
tween us the tie of consanguinity
was strong. We kept in constant
communication by mail, and my
father knew of all my trialsan all
my triumphs-if l had any After
particularly arduous day, l threw
myself on a bed exhausted. | fell
into a slumber, from which I was
awakened by. a vivid picture. I
sat up in the bed and saw my faith
er as distinctly as l ever saw him
in my life and heard him call out
MY boy, my boy, l am dying.
The picture that was presented
to me was that of my father lying
in bed in room l did not reconize
l could tell by the general furnish
ings that it was English saw all
my relatives there except my Sis
ter, and why she was absent at
such a moment. The scene was as
sharp and plain as if l had been in
the auditorium Of a playhouse
watching the actors on the stage.
81 saw my father sink back on
the pillows, and l knew that he
was dead.
Then my second self, or what
ever you see fit to call it, seemed
to revolve itself back into my mat
erial body and | awakened, arose
from the bed and cried out that
my father was dead. | was told
that l was suffering from nervous
prostration and should return to
bed. l obeyed and fell asleep for
about eight hours.
When l got up the vision of
my father came to me in my wax
ing hours with greater vividness
than when l saw it in my sub
conscious state.
1.-Two weeks from that day a
letter came from England telling
of the death of my father at the
exact hour and day when l had