CARRIED IN A COFFIN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1335, 12 January 1912, Page 5

CARRIED IN A COFFIN.

SENSATIONAL INCIDENT IN A CHURCH. "DEATH IS THE GATE OF LIFE." By Tclcsraph-Press ABsiiilati«n-C«jr;)*ht London, January 10. Desiring to enforce tho adage "Death is llie Gato of Life," at Saint Michael's Church in Stockton, Warwickshire, Archdeacon Colley entered a glass-covered coffin, and was carried around the aisleSj and then returned to tho chancel, where, raising the cover of tho coffin, Archdeacon Colley pronounced tho Benediction and closed tho service. Some of the congregation sobbed, whilst others were shocked and left the church. (E-ec. January 12, 0.45 a.m.) London, January 11. Archdeacon Colloy's Is that ho wished to rehearso a scheme which ho would liko to occur when ho was dead before his remains wero sent to the medical faculty at Birmingham University for dissection. His will directs that his bones aro to bo wired together and placed in tho psychic museum at, Leamington. SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY. Archdeacon Colley is a well-known believer in spiritualism, and his views on «;is subject havo inoro than onco brought mm prominently before the public. Archdeaeon Colley lectured some time ago on "Recent personal experiences in spirit-photography, and the scientific aspects ot spiritualism." There was a largo audience, chiefly of ladies. Mi\ Colley showed a number of photographs which, he suggested, had been tho result of some spiritual and occult agency working through-matter. They, wero, he said, laithtul portraits of nis deceased parents, and had been so identified by many people who had known them in their lifetime, ■rio also exhibited a spirit-writing photograph oi a long inessago which had been obtauKtf without a camera. It was difficult, owing to the somewhat inadequate arrangments which had been made, to see everything that Ifv. Colley exhibited, ns the audience crowded round his table Si nnj 'J i ft w,in l>' on chairsto obtain a view. Hie following is an extract from tho synopsis of the flowcrs, thought brooch, unknown spirit lorm, a positive and not negative photograph unexpectedly obtained without camera. Strango pieturo also secured without, camera, and found to bo a posishowing Angel-aided resuscitation of a spirit from the form of one drowned at sea, intimation of this being given May -8, 11)08, before Archdeacon Colley, who has in all the above instances taken his own iliamond-mark-cd quarter-plate in his own numbered photographic slide, never out of* his keeping for a moment, from nis own always-locked-up photographic room at Stockton Rcctorv, stroight-away to bo developed by him, three friends attending closely to observe in its development the coming up of tho fore-announced dramatised mystery of this spiritual resurrection." /