A COLLECTION WILL BE TAKEN
The bell-book-and-candlc ceremonial adopted by two Norfolk clergymen to rid their parishes of alleged ghostly influences might have drawn a smile from Archbishop Thomson, who once claimed to have found a very much simpler method of exorcism, says the "Manchester Guardian."' On one occasion, when, staying at an old country house, he was put into an alleged haunted chamber. In the morning his hostess asked anxiously if he had been disturbed. "Well, yes," said Dr. Thomson. "About midnight I heard a knock at the door." "Oh, that would be the ghost," exclaimed she. "That is exactly how he acts. Whatever did you do"" "I said, 'Come in,' and in came an old sallow-looking m^n. I got out of oeci and went up to hhii. "Do you belong to this house?' I asked, and he nodded assent. . 'Are you a parishioner?' I asked, and again he nodded. 'Then,' said I, 'I am anxious to build a new school-house. Will you give me a subscription?' And, my dear lady, he immediately vanished, and 1 saw no more of him."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 12, 14 July 1939, Page 10
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182A COLLECTION WILL BE TAKEN Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 12, 14 July 1939, Page 10
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