A STARTLING DEATH-CRY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 195, 22 December 1876, Page 15

A STARTLING DEATH-CRY.

Mb. Smith, the Assynologisfc, died at Aleppo on the 19fch of August, at or about the hour of six in the afternoon*. On the same day, and between three-quarters of an hour and an hour later, a friend and fellow-worker ot Mr. Smith's (Dr. Delitzsch) was going to the house of a third person, the author of the account of the labors of the Sffiuw? J ar fi W ICh »»««?* in a contemporary (the Academy ). In the course of his walk Dr. Delitzsch passed within a stone's throw of the house in which Mr. Smith lived when in London! and suddenly heard his own name uttered aloud in a "most piercing SSnJi l\ If i?" it im , fc If.the1 f. the marrow - The fact impressed him so strong^ that he looked at his watch, noted the hour, and, although he did not mention the circumstance at the time, recorded it in Eis note-book. In this particular case, as it is reported, the skeptic can scarcely make use of the fact that Dr. Delitzsch did not mention his" experience to any one at the time it happened. The record ia his note-book would b d amply sufficient evidence of the liveliness of the impression. Criticism would be better employed in discovering the possibility of a suggestion of Mr. Smith to Mr. Delitzscb/s mind° He was at the moment "passing the end of Crogsland road, in which Mr. George Smith lived." He was, however, not thinking of him, audit is difficult to imagine that an unconscious suggestion of the brain caused by the law of the association of ideas, could take the shape o" a seeming cry, not of his friend's name, but of his own, so piercing aS to thrill him to the marrow.—' London Daily News.' »»