PASTOR FALLS DEAD
DRAMATIC CHAPEL SCENE EMOTIONAL INCIDENTS LONDON, Aus. 8 Two Australian evangelists, Misses H. Ellis and B. Scott, were among the hundreds who saw Mr. Thomas Mercy, pastor, of Crosskey, fall dead to-day as he uttered the words: "We are now about to enter Bethlehem." The pastor was reopening the Bethlehem chapel at Trealaw, Glamorganshire. The chapel had been closed for a year owing to lack of support and had been taken over by a Baptist Pentecostal mission. Emotional sceres followed when prayers were offered for the dead pastor.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22198, 27 August 1935, Page 10
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