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Show 2 CM STCOD IN PULPTT: . ,v Peculiar Request of Dead t Preacher Carried Out in Funeral. EVAN3VILLE, Ind,' Feb. tl. In ' compliance with hie dying request, the' funeral sermon over the body of the Rev. James Hart, for fifty-five years a preacher in the general Baptist church at Folsomville, Ind, was preached, with him standing stark dead In the pulpit? The dying request of the old man was made to Mr. Bullup. the village undertaker, under-taker, and he compiled so far as he. could. During the funeral the coffin contain- ing the dead minister was tilted at a degree de-gree that would prevent his falling from' the casket, and all through the ceremony cere-mony the corpse stood, lifelike In appearance, ap-pearance, in the pulpit which for so many years the' preacher had occupied in life. The congregation that had listened to him during the years of his pastorate looked on him in death as though he were sleeping. Three pastors occupied ' the pulpit with the dead man. |