The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-23
A. VISION

Medical college, Sixty-third and tn
Eastern boulevard, has had an expe
rience which may result In the post
pcneme1t Of his actual labors after hi
graduation until he an be induced b
the several physical societies In tn
larger cities to deacribe the remarka
able mental condition into which b
fell, when he saw. as in q vision, hi
father at he point of death when tn
father was 5000 miles away
The death-bed scene was coroborat
ed two weeks later in every detail il
a Letter from England
DR., Rollings received his theologi
cal education in England and was or
dained in the Established church. I'll,
came to America with Bishop Sullivan
whose ecclesiastical title was the col
onial bishop of the Churcta OF Eng.
land. His first experience was among
the Hudson Bay Indians. He had nc
superstitious and did not believe in
hallucinations except those that came
from an impaired digestion, SO that his
subsequent experiences attested 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 pro-
cedures that he fell AN easy victim
to Dave Rothschild, to whom he en-
trusted a sum Of money intended orig
inally for the education of his son in
college. In addition to what he de-
posted in the Federal Bank, he turn
ed over $500 in Isl to the president.
of the bank without taking any re-
Ceipt.
After his investment with the Roths-
child gang had about impoverished him
he vent to Rochester and was ap-
pointed curate of st Andrews parish
Of which the Rev Algenon S. Crapsey
subsequently convicted of heresy for
the physical resurrection OF
the Saviour, vas rector. DR. Rollings
said yesterday:
my father was Godfrey Rollings,
Of Bedfordshire, England, and between
us the tie of consanguinity was strong.
We kept in constant communication by
mail, my father knew of all my trials
and all my triumphs-if | had any.
a particular ardous day | threw
myself On a bed, exhausted. [ had
fell into sLumber, which I was awaken
by a vivid picture. [ saG up in the
bed and saw my father as distinctively
as [ ever saw him in my life and
heard him call cut: My boy. ny boy.
am dying
The picture that was pl esented to
was that my father Lying in a bed
in a room I did not recognize Icould
tell by the general furnishj L ! that it
was English. | saw all Of Ivy relatives
there except my sister, and wondered
why she was absent at such Il moment.
The scene was as sharp ard as pain
as il / had ben in the au aMorium of
a playhouse watching the '3ct0rs on
the stage.
I saw my father sink faEk on the
pillOWs and I knew that he Has dead.
Then my second self or whatever
you see fit to cal lit, seemeds 20 resolve
itself back into my materiah body, and
[ awakened, arose from bed and cried
out thsS my father was dead / was
told that I was suffering frs1n nervous
prostration and should return to bed.
I obeyed and fell asleep for about :
nours.
when I got up the vision of my IA
ther came to me in my waking hours
with greater vividneas than when I
saw it in my ~subconscioua state.
~THo weeks from ttat date a 'otte:
came to me from England tellisg re
Of the death of my rather DIT the exact
hour and day When | had seen him.
and with additional information that
Just before he Dreathed his last he hst
seen me standing by his bedside.
"The letter announcing my fathe : :
death told me that the. family had re-
moved from the old homestead to an-
other house in B~edfoadshire, which I
neve had seen. Subsequent inquiry
showed that the ro0at as / saw IL in
my strange mental condition was pre-
cisely as it was in fact. My sisters
absence as [ l~earneexat the same time,
and which made a marked impression
upon me, was due. TO illness New
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