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1914.] JAINA GAZETTE.
257 S-a tall, dark figure at my head-2 I-William's back at my side-S
“I caught a glimpse of a fine pale face like ushoring him along, and indistinctly another, I felt frightened, and called out, “Is he angry''Oh, no! • Is he going away?' Answered, 'Yes,' by the same someone."
Mrs. Storie heard of her brother's death a week afterwards, and later it transpired that the Rev. J. C. Johnstone, of Echaca, a friend of the Stories, actually was in the train which killed Mr. Hunter, though he knew nothing of the accident till some time afterwards.
Professor Sidgwick, who personally cross-examined Mrs. Storie, made some notes of the case, in the course of which he says of Mrs. Storie:
“ She never had a series of scenes in a dream at any other time, and she has never had anything like a hallucination. They were introduced by a voice in a whisper, not recognised as her: brother's. The engine she saw behind him bad a chimney of peculiar shape, such as she had not at that time seen, and she remembers that Mr. Storie thought her foolish about insisting ou the: chimney-unlike, he said, any which existed. But he informed her when he came back froin Victoria, where her brother was, that engines of this kind had just been introduced there."
Mr. E. Gurney-a sceptic-in dealing with this case, has to admit that the difficulty of referring the elements of the dream : to the mind of William Hunter whilst alive is very great. “For;": he says, “ Mr. Hunter was asleep, and even if we can conceive : that the image of the advancing engine"—to account for the corroboration as to its chimney-"may have had some place in his mind, the presence of Dir. Johnstone in the train could not have been perceived by him.” To get over this difficulty without adnitting the possibility of survival after death, Mr. Gurney has to treat Mr. Johnstone's presence in the train, and his appearing in the visions, as a mere coincidence. Surely on the top of the very unconvincing supposition as to a sleeping - man “seeing” the chimney of the train that killed him, this is
stretching credulity to the breaking-point ? Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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