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Show GIVES CONGREGATION GL1PSEJF -DEATH" Venerable Archdeacon Startles ! W orshipers With Astound- mg Ceremony, i I Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Jan. 2". Never In 'he history his-tory of the Church of F.ncland. or. in- deodi of Chrlsltanlty, has a. more as-toundlng as-toundlng ceremony ien witnessed trum I thai presented the other Bunday for ifie "edification' of il" fonrepaiion assembled as-sembled In the Church of Bt. Michael' 6 land All Angels, Stockton. Warwickshire. A i the -lo.se of the eveiuru; service the rector, the venerable Archdeacon Colley, tpok hip place In a coffin, which i had previously been prepared, and, car-rled car-rled by four of his parishioners, was eat- I nlblted to the gaxe of tli worshipers I Tie v.;is .-!ad in the canonicals he had worn during the service arid M features I were plainly irlalble through the glass covering of the wooden cabinet In which ! he -was Incloaed for burial. Borne of the congregation were obl-ously obl-ously seized with consternation at the weird spei tai le. Others, knowing Uielr rector's amlnbli Idiosyncrasies, sicer'.-d half hysterically. And a few, shocked at the mockery of death, hastily left the I hnrt-h. I The service had been of the ordinary character, the sormon beim; from tim ! text In Genesis. "Hon old are you?" and . from Revelation. "Sol thy house in order, or-der, for thou i-iialt die and not live." Returning io the music desk which Is a special feature of 'he church, and faidnc the" large congregation, the rector rec-tor made the following extraordinary Btalemi nl : "Not reeling to be getting any younger eory day. I base bad mv coffin which many of you tor ...in eight r.aix have known bas been made for me brought over frpp) Uw rectory music room, and now it i before you In thr chancel, in the year if"! 1 Wt my body lo bo given up to the University of BLrmbufnam f"i i medical students' use, and to j.e eut up in tne interest of anatomical arid ;mri:i- cal srieii' c " (laving Rot SO far in bi.c Strange address ad-dress the archdeacon called for 'nis. "bearers" to rom" forward, Still .-io-hed in full canonicals, consisting or . ,.'-or;. surplice, rtoir ;Mlri hood, witii the ran-terburs1 ran-terburs1 blretta, b stepped Into the cniinre box-shsped coffin, whu h had been reared on end., and the i,-ia?s cover was fixed in rn.nt of him. Upon a .'-icn from the coffin ed rector the four stalwart parishioners look their places at thr ddea ot the coffin, which was lowered into honsetital position. Each bearer took in one hand an end of the Iron bars thai were threaded through rincs m the side, and Uut ".-tin ".-tin whs zrmoh borne from thr rhancel down the chUrch to (.he wSBt dOOT a d 1 then back to the chaiieei. The ecclesi- ! as tic was about vair hlc). -.r the beai era and in full view of every tn mber I of the congregation. A it passed ; after seat the startled worshipers a-ed I j noellbound Bt t lacle Borne of 11 were ss overcome h theh emo-lions emo-lions that the- sne waj to audible I sobs, n.-iin; returned i" th.. chancel, the glass cover wa again removed from the casket, which had been reared on end. end the "-body." quickly orovlng it atui maintained normal condition was heard to ejaculat". "For this r-lief. much thanks. |