LIGHTS OUT.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10563, 17 April 1928, Page 4

LIGHTS OUT.

REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE. / ' REKINDLING TOG H. LAMP OF REMEMBRANCE. - CHURCH DARKENED NOT BY « HUMAN AGENCY. ELECTRIC SUPPLY FAILS AT RIGHT MINUTE. (Special to the Times. - ) AUCKLAND, April 16. A remarkable coincidence attended the ceremony of rekindling the Toe H Lamp of Remembrance in St. Matthew’s Church last- evening. The lights of the church, which were to he put out for three minutes while the lamp was being lit and dedicated by Archbishop Averill, were extinguished at exactly the right time, notby human agency but by the convenient failure of the electric supplyThe cue had been given for the switch w to be turned off. 'y- # When the power failed as it did f throughout the city area, and the church was plunged into darkness at precisely the right minute while the brief ceremony lasted, the vergers scenting a grave predicament, rushed madly in search of candles. What was tlieir amazement when the lights came on at the precise psychological moment in the sendee P

The miracle was completely lost on the congregation, which, of course, saw nothing amiss. It was one of those almost miraculous coincidences which the average person would scout as absurd when encountered in fiction. Scarcely less remarkable was the manner in which the lights, flashed bn at St. Paul’s .Church just at the moment when the altar server was about to extinguish. the serried rows of candles on the High Altar in . accordance with the old custom of snuffing tlie tapers prior to the sermon. ’