RESCUED FROM THE COFFIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2475, 13 December 1886, Page 2

RESCUED FROM THE COFFIN.

'Yes, it is trii'o ;,Idid ha«y» tranco while in Brooklyn aome days'JE and for acvoral hours I behoved I was dead 1" The speakor was the Eov. Father Smith, of the Ordor of Dominicians, writes the Montreal Stan Father Smith is young and intelligent. Ha ia a nativo of Ottawa, and from the Oblate Fathers in that oity ho received an honorary classical education. Being roligiously .inclined, he abandoned home aud. kindred, and left for France, where hstyas admitted in*o the order ho now'beldifijs to. Scarry had he been cloistered a few raorifh*, when, by a parliameatry deoree, thq Doininioaua and Jesuitea were banished from the country. .Father Smith, with several of his associates, ropalred to America, and has resided in Brooklyn ovorsinoe. Ifc' jßrooklyil. that he fell into a trance.., J-kn&. how did thi» unfortunate aflFair*.oqibujt' m.MIwL '■Well, you s^v'satcf'the reverend gentleman,'l.ami'Buffering from » malady which m»> r greatly j but novor; did ' it/fttuw'" me to enter_ into a before, except onoo in Italy. , j For setejal believed dead, but it .'was only when'trS chapelle ardenW.Aasbehji!' prepared thai I woke. In Brooklyn thV tranco-began in the tame matter. ' 11}»d betft ailing for several dayß, _ QnViovrainJßlien I was lying a great weaknoss byoreonte me. I Iried to call for „hejp. My mouth refused to articulate any Bound, '"Amoment after I had entered Into atraricelike ttaone I had had in Italy.. %Vihy Mends came into my room; they.foufad mo pale, and motionless They feit, ray heart,. but itfl pulsations could not : be'-felt,'' and they * conjectured that I musVJjtye passed awayl during their bedside. I could hear thorn walking about iny couoh, but I was so overcome with weakness that I was unable a finger. It is oustomary in religioiir-TOmmunities to bury one 'of their; members shortly after his' demise;' In acdb'rdance with the custom they wjred the news of my deattto my family; in Ottawa, and charged one of my confreres my funeral oration.. .'When* .the time came to place, me in my coffin 1 fully realised my horrible- position. I tried to move, but the effort proved, .fruitless. When in the ceffin I;mado B,' supreme effort, and called upon heaven to hear me and save me from such a horrible fate. I succeeded in partly raiainamy head, and this is what saved me.. Tho first to con« 'gratulate me was the priest who hadiaen summoned to preach my funeral ssrJstt."