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Manifestations at All Saints’ Church. |
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WORSHIPPERS’
EXPERIENCES. |
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In the “ |
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In the
same issue of the “Echo” in which this appeared there was a quite sympathetic
leading article on “Angelic Visitations,” written in a reverent spirit. The
following day (Sunday) there were those in All Saints’
Church who had read the article and perhaps hoped to experience something
supernatural. One man in pain found his pain left him during the hymn
singing, and his wife threatened with an influenza attack found herself completely delivered. They both testified to this
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Great
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According
to Mr. Elliott’s story, a London specialist had declared that an immediate
operation was necessary, but the evening before she was to go into a nursing
home an angel, in response to their prayers, appeared to them. “The angel was
a male,” says the Vicar. ‘‘His figure was more majestic than that of men on
earth. His eyes were extraordinary in their beauty. He spoke with a voice
that was bell-like. He talked with us there in our room, using the ordinary language
of every-day conversation.” The angel declared that the specialist was wrong
in advising an operation, and later, in response to their requests for Divine
guidance to a medical man who would confirm the angel’s statement, the angel
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He came to
them in their carriage just before they arrived at the station, and walked
with them through the town, guiding them to an hotel
near the Aquarium. He walked normally and wore sandals and conversed with
them the whole time. At the hotel the angel dematerialised and was not seen
again. Strange to say, the vicar and his wife did meet another specialist at
the hotel, and upon examining Mrs. Elliott he found she was in an entirely
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APPEARANCES
AT MONKWEARMOUTH. |
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A number
of other clergymen in different parts of the country have, since these
remarkable statements were published, expressed their belief in the
appearance of angels. |
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The Rev. A.
A. Boddy, vicar of All Saints’, Monkwearmouth, who has always taken a deep
interest in the subject, when asked for his views on the general question,
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“In All
Saints’ Church angels have been seen during Divine worship. Not many Sundays
ago one was seen standing at the Communion rails at the south side facing the
congregation. One Sunday in 1907 an angel was seen by two members of the
congregation. He was standing beside the preacher (or partly behind him) and
seemed to be encouraging him, though the preacher was unconscious of the
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“A Welsh
Christian woman, now aged and not strong, saw in 1910 the Person of Christ
(it might have been an angel) standing on the chancel steps, at the close of
the service--when the choir in procession was passing down the middle aisle
singing. She was so much overcome with joy that she
feIl on her knees and buried her face in her hands. When she looked up again
He was gone. She often alludes to that vision as a wonderful encouragement. |
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“Whether
these angel appearances were objective or subjective one cannot say.
Occasions of tremendous stress, or great spiritual joy, seem to open the eyes
to see what is really there, but hidden by reason of our material and lower
spiritual condition. |
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“Some narrow
escapes from serious accidents in my own case I have attributed to angel
intervention.” |
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*Rev. G.
Maurice Elliott has published a book, “Angels Seen To-day.” |
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From: Confidence, No. 127, Oct.-Dec. 1921,
pag. 50, |