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LONDON, De. 20. REV. MAURICE ELLIOTT, rlear Li . village of Enitterby, Lincolnshire, bellevei In his guardian angel with the eaiae certainty that he belives In the existence of his Tillage grocer. For the clergyman, according: to his worn testimony, has aeen this angel with his own eyes, has heard the louad cf his voice, hai touched his glistening robe. The angel came at a crisis in the clergyman's life and by his good counsel enabled him and his wife to meet the situation without disaster. The revelation of Mr. ElUott treated eonsidtrable talk all over England, bat a sensation was caused when it became known that many of the facts of his vir'tation had been corroborated by a celebrated London physician. Sh.ce that time a cumber of other physicians declare that they hare met "with similar cases and believe Mr. Elliott's story implicitly. There is as much season to believe that a person has a g-uardian angel, they say, as it is to believe any of the commonly accepted physical facts of life. They contend that Fach a belief Is as provable, by resort to the ordinary senses, as, for instance, the law of specific gravity. Dr. Elliott is a popular member of the clergy ai is highly regarded as a thinker. His interview with his guardian angel came at a time, he taid, when his wife was about to have a child and her life was In serious danger. lie was very fearful regarding htr condition aad sought the advice of a London specialist. The specialist advised an immediate operation, but admitted that such an operation would involve a dangerous risk. ."My wife and I," cald Dr. Elliott, "prayed müh all our hearts for guidance in this troubled

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The Late Rev. George C. Lorimer, D. DM Whose Spirit Is Alleged to Be Speaking Through the Lips of a Boston Preacher. hour. Wo prayed that if there was an angel specially appointed to protect and guide me and mine that he appear to us and counsel us. And the evening before my wife was to go into a cursing home he did appear. "The angel was a male. His figure was more majestic than that of men on earth. His eyes were extraordinary in their beauty and brightness. He spoke with a voice that was bell-like. He came to us in our room and at his appearance we felt not the slightest sense of terror only a feeling of complete calm. He spoke in everyday language. It was as if a link between cs and heaven had been estabÜ5hed. "We asked him what we must do about the specialist's advice. He replied that the specialist was wrong in advising an operation and that t uch a course would be fatal. 'Don't have it he told us. The physician's diagnosis is wrong.' "The angel's visit decided us. When the phyician came the next day to see us about the removal of my wife to the nursing home, we told him what had happened and that Mrs. Elliott had made up h?r mind to forego the operation. "Naturally, the doctor was astonished beyond measure, but did not arguo the matter with us. I might add that he has, himself, taken a keen interest in the case ever since. "A few days later we again asked Divine guidance. We wanted the angel to direct us to a medical man who would confirm the angel's ftatemenr. Again our prayers were answered. The argel appeared to us as he had on his first visit and told us to go to Brighton where we could meet the doctor we so much desired to see. "Following these instructions we packed our bags s d left the next day for Brighton. Before we arrived at the station the angel came to us in our compartment. I do not imagine anyone else in the coach saw him, for nothing was said of it. The angel walked with us through the town and guided Uj to a hotel. He walked normally. There was no gliding or passing through substances. I noticed that he wore sandals. He conversed with us a good rart f,f tle time. "After giving us full instructions as to the doctor we would meet there, what the doctor would look like and when we should approach him, the angel dematerialized and since then has not appeared to us." The second day at the hotel, Dr. Elliott says, he recognized the physician from the angel's description as the man passed down the corridor into the drawing-room. Dr. Elliott followed him

A British Clergyman and His Wife Tell About a Most Remarkable Visitation and All

A fnto the drawing-room and stated his case without askiirg him if he were a physician, so sure was he that the angel was correct. The physician was naturally much astonished at being approached by a man who didn't even know his name, but though he had come to Brighton for a rest, finally consented to make an examination of Mrs. Elliott and a diagnosis of her case. He did not think an operation was necessary in fact, he advised strongly against it. The child born after this remarkable experience i a strong, healthy girl. Dr. Elliott says that when the baby was christened in Winchester Cathedral a company of angels was plainly manifest to himself and his wife. A Vision of the Savior For reasons of medical ethics, the physician who attended Mrs. Elliott would not permit the use of his name, but he confirmed the Brighton occurrence in detail. Having a large practise the physician said he had gone to Brighton for a few weeks' rest. He did not register as a medical man and nobody connected with the hotel or in the town knew him as such. "Being on a holiday which I much needed he said, "I naturally did not care to accept any cases. But when I asked Dr. Elliott how he knew I was a physician he told me his remarkable story. It interested me so much that I agreed to see his wife. I examined her and my own diagnosis of ihe case accorded exactly with what the anarel had told them. They appeared much relieved when I gave them my opinion. 'While I have had no experience with spiritualism, in fact, I know scarcely nothing about it, 1 believe that with CioJ all things are possible." Concurrent with the Elliott case is that which is vouched for by Rev. W. J. L. Sheppard. who has been preaching at Braintrce parish church, fifiy miles out of London. A member of the congregation, a business man who had been associated in no way with spiritualism, told the pastor that he had sen a vision of Christ on the cross behind the chancel rail, during the progress of the service. Rev. Dr. Shepp.ird recently announced the vision from the pulpit, saying to his startled congregation: "During the evening service last Sunday a well known Braintree business man in the congregation saw a vision of the crucified Savior in the chancel of this church. He said he first saw the vision while kneeling in prayer. A bright light from a halo on the head of the crucified Christ filled the whole chancel and blotted out every other object. This is not a case of an emotiona1 noman soeing a vision, but of a hardheaded man. The vision must be taken as a divine revelation." The business man told Mr. Sheppard that when he first saw the vision he bowed his head to collect his thoughts. He thought at first that it might be an optical illusion. When he looked up again the vision of the crucified Christ still filled the chancel. He looked at it about four minutes

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Rev. Maurice Elliott, the British Clergyman Whose Prayer tor Heavenly (iuid.ince to Proper Medical Treatment for His Wife Was Answered, He Says, by an Angel Visitor, and His Wife Whom the Angels Counsel Saved from Death.

the second time. The vision did not speak or beckon to him, but looked with pleading eyes. Finally, the light from the halo faded gradually away and the vision disappeared. The man became quite ill and broke into a violent perspiration. Death Merely a Transition Is "Word" of Dead Boston Pastor VILE thp experiences of Dr. Elliott and the Braintree business man have been advanced by British spiritists as valid physical proof of the existence of another world, psychic manifestations are still being reported in the United States as competent evidence. In Boston, Mass., a series of lectures are bef wpaper KMtur "lce.

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- . . , . M 1 7 !1 c r; 1 V"N; .y or'.-r-X-'The Angel Was a Male. He Came to Us in Our Room. We Felt Not the Slightest Sense of Terror Only a Feeling of Complete Calm." (Excrrt from th ClTcyrnan' Accurt of th Anjrfll'? Visitation. j v; .v 4 ing delivered by what is represented as the personalities of various mm and women who have died, through the body nf the Kev. F. A. Wiggin, pastor of Unity Church. The fir?t of thee lectures was given recently when Dr. George C. Lorimer, late pastor of Trcmont Temple, wha died in 1004, supposedly spoke. There was nothing uncanny about this service. After congregaticnal sinking and a prayer, Rev. Mr. Wiggin stepped forward, closed his eyei and announced his text from thf seventeenth verse of the seventh chapter of Corinthians the Lord hath called every one ?n r him valk." It was Rev. Dr. Lorimer who wa3 now talking through Mr. Wiggin. As Dr. Wigirin lifted his head the whole gesture wa3 undeniably reminiscent of Rev. Dr. Lorimer, according to tho.-e whs knew that well known j.aster.

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. - xvr r.f X H .-v -7:-. vvi A!i:XViXX:ij-VX; o.:-v::'.-.wis.' kTi'O--.---7---: . X -V B it. "Dr. Lorimer" made no refercr.e to th unusual fact that he was addressing a Boston audience for the first time sir.ee he had died in 100, nor that he found anything new and strange in the Boston cf 1921, r.or to the fact that the world had been through one of the greatest war cf all times. He "spoke" as he might have apeken in 1000. using such references and analogies in the application of his text and the development of his theme as were common at that time. "Dr. Lorimer" cid assure his hearers that death meant nothing except a sort cf transition into another world, in which men continue th work rf this world in much the same way as they had worked and lived here. And Christ was juat as much of p. force for good and just as much of a mystery there a3 here.