Show L c at MIJWS SENT THROUGH SPACE I 1L or H Addington Bruce describes tho I tu attempt of an English clergyman in named Clarence Godfrey to r elect J himself into the presence of a > end at a distance The attempt was made R < on the night of Nov 15 1886 of The result of his attempt as described de-scribed in the account written out at 10 his request by tho percipient who ne it should perhaps be added had had no Intimation of the experiment was 10 it as follows Yesterdayvlz the ry morning of Nov 16 188G about half 10 past 3 oclock I woke up with a start and nn Idea that someone had come into the room I heard a curious 8 Ie sound but fancied It might be tho 0 birds in the ivy outside Next I experienced In ex-perienced a strange restlesS longing to leave tho room and go downstairs y This feeling became so overpowering that at last I arose and lit a candle c and went clown thinking that If I could r II get some soda water it might have i g a quieting effect e On returning to my room I saw o Mr Godfrey standing under tho largo 0 window on tho staircase He was o dressed In his usual style and with d an expression on his fact that I havo y noticed when ho has been looking If very earnestly at anything Ho stood r there and I held up tho candle and gazed at him for three or four seconds In utter amazement and then us 1 passed up the staircase he disappeared disap-peared The Impression left on my mind was so vivid that I fully intended In-tended wuklng a friend who occupied tho same room as myself but remeia boring that I should only bo laughed at as romantic atd Imaginative I refrained re-frained from doing so Arguing from analogy It wan held by those advancing tho telepathic hypothesis hy-pothesis that tho mind of a dying person per-son In reverting to a distant friend convoyed to the friends mind a distinct dis-tinct Impression which took tho form of a vivid visual hallucination To the reply that the apparitions wero by no means uniformly coincident with tho moment of death and not infrequently infre-quently occurred onjy after a lapse of several hours It was deemed sufficient suf-ficient to point to such cases as that of Rev IIr Godfrey as lUustratlv pf similar deferment of experimental hallucinations In tho Godfrey cano tho willing begun at 1046 p m on tho night of Nov 16 and lasted only eight minutes after which Mr God frey fell asleep whereas it wan not until 330 a m of the following I morning morn-ing that the hallucinatory vision appeared ap-peared to the percipient Pafclic Opinion |