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'Then the, Angel of the Lord yent Forth and Smote in
the Gamp of the Acsynana-
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Herewith Is Reprimted Verbatim the
Text of Remarkable Statements by
Men, Who PaLrticipated in. the Battle,
as Chronicled in Two Chuarch Pub-
lications. They Tell of the .Descent
r of Angels to the Field. These Stories
Are Supplemented ? by Comment
From Bishop Samuel IFalloWs and
Dr. William ; S. Sadler, Professor of
Physiologic Therapeutics
HE following is reprinted from the American Catholic, an Episcopal
pablication:
THEDOLY ANGELS
Teople who really believe in the angels will at least be Inter
ested in the accounts which have been received from 'England that
there are persijtent rumorst'that "during the British retreat ; from
!SJ Mons at the begmning of the war material assistaaeejwas-TeeiWdj'
from the holy angels which had ifce'effecTof saving the English forces. .
v f.The story, briefly told, runs as follows: t
"At a certain moment of the retreat the whole of the British force was. in great
danger of being surrounded and annihilated.; The critical point was a certain corner,
which if it had been crushed and broken the whole of the English army would inevi
tably have been shattered and the left wing jof the allied forces turned with disastrous
results.
"This corner was held by an English regiment which was attacked by enormously
overwhelming forces. 5 Only 500 of the English were left, while some 10,000 Germans
were opposing them, and to every one the position of the little band of soldiers looked
absolutely desperate. At this, moment, the story runs, one of the British soldiers
evoked the aid of St. George and the holy angels, and then beheld a vision of the angels
coming to the rescue.
"What we are told happened was that 'there were 10,000 dead German soldiers left
before this salient of the English army. In Germany the general staff decided that the
contemptible English must have employed turpinite shells, as no wounds were discern
ible on the bodies of the dead soldiers
"Other people besides-the soldier who invoked their aid seem " to have seen the
angels. In a letter quoted in the Canadian Church Life there is an account of how two
officers saw the angel host. They expected anihilation, as they were almost helpless,
when, to their amazement, the Germans stood like dazed men, never so much as touched
their guns nor stirred till they, had turned round and escaped by. somjs ross-roads
"One of them related that he had seen 'a troop of angels between us and the enemy'
and the other that he had" seen the angels himself, as, while he and his company were'
retreating, they heard the German cavalry tearing after them, and. ran for a place where
they thought they might make a stand with some hopes of safety,'but before they
could reach it the German cavalry were upon sthem, so they, turned and faced the enemy,
expecting instant death; .when, to their wonder, they saw between them and the enemy
a-whole troop of-angels, and - the horses of the Germans turned round terrified out of
their senses and regularly stampeded, their men tugging at their bridles' while the poor
horses tore away id every direction from our menl He swore he'saW the angels whom
the horses saw plainly enough, and this gave time to reach the little fort, or whatever
it was, , and save themselves." " -
- Bishop Samuel Fallows, the ' widely known ec- '
'clesiaat. said that the soldiers at Mons, If called '
upon to prove that they had seen' angels, would be
"in the game predicament : as the court bailiff who,
'when' a witness told of having been informed o, cer
tain facts by an angel, was ordered to subpoena the
angeL Yet the bishop does, not deem it improbable
that some of the British troops saw an angelic host
on the battlefield. . His Tiews are Incorporated in
the following contribution: . , , , ,
'.- By. BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS. ;
IN THE Second Book of the Kings, sixth! chapter, ,
we- are told that the King of Syria sent a Vast '
.army to apprehend Elisha, who was 'in Dothan.
. .. "And when the servant of the man of God was
risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host com-'.
' passed the city both with horses and chariots. 'And
his servant said unto him, Alas, my master 1 how '
" shall we do? '
"And he answered. Fear not; for they that be
with us are more than they that be with them.
Thee, with ' blindness. And He 5 smote them - with
blindness" according td the' word of Elisha. ..
' I am not going to put any limitation on' the power
of the" angelic host in these days to do " what was
done in the days of old, as related in the Bible.
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' Dr. William S. Sadler, the - well-known author, of
psychic and mental, literature, was asked 1 for V a I
scientific And' psychological . explanation of the article
printed in the" American Catholic: . Following is the
way ,in which scientists would account for the story
told by- the Mons -soldiers, 'providing it was not a
supernatural occurrence- says Dr. Sadler, and, there
fore, his contribution should: not be regarded as an
attempt to belittle or refute religious belief in the
.matter:- . -
f By DR. WILLIAM S. SADLER. : ,
Gustave Dore'm Famous Conception of the Angel DeAroying the Army, of Sennacherib
CM
Biblical Storp oT a Visitation of an Jflngel In War
Book of Isaiah, Chapter 33 to 38 - .
Cbtzttott t5u0 aft& tht HotD concerning tbe
king of a0?tia. &e 0&aU not come into tbi
dtp, not boot an artoto tfiere, nor come oefore it
toitft s5ielD0 nor cat a Sank against it ;
ifot 3 toill DefenO thi citp to satie jt fot mine
oton sake, and tot m? 0etoant OatiiD sake
r ; J " if-".- , - i -- "-. : . ; ".',- 't ... ; - 7-.- A - .-r. & -,-
cijen tfie angel of t&e ILorO tent fortli, ano
0mote in tje camp of tfie 300prian0 a ftunoteo anD
fout 0core anD fioe t&oitfanO: and tofien tijep aro0e
earlp in tfte morning, beftom, tfie? toete oil Oeati
COtp0C0 k
o ennacfietio king of 300ptia OeparteO, anD
toent anD returned, and Dtoelt at Jl3ineue
3nD ft came fo pa00, a0v ie toa0 toowbiping
in tfte ftou0e of J0i0rocj) ft0 goo, tftat aorammelecj)
anD 'ijarejer W 0ojp?0mote dim toitft tfte 0toorD t
atfD tfte? e0capeo into tfteIanD of Armenia: anD
C0arftaDDon fti0 s6n reigneD in fti0 0teaD . ?. .
1
These thoughts or images are projected outward
! from the Inner consciousness and take hold of the
semi-hypnotized individual after the fashion of an
ordinary hallucination. That . ls,f the .crysUl-gaaer
' has" his subconscious -images apparently ., projected
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and with their mtnaa rendered unstable by the to- Were you to ask those who practice crystal-gas-tense
and terrific straggle, the stage was all set for s lug or shell-hearing to write about what they see'
the British soldiers to see just such a vision of the, and hear they would do so . as if writing of some
angellc hosts at Mons.' They became, in a measure, thing that actually happened. To them it is a real
auto-hypnotized. ' In such a peculiar mental state ; experience. - likewise did the - British soldiers . who
groups of -thoughts and intensified . images were .were at-Mons think that the appearance, of angels
Into the crystaL' so that he sees images, pictures and
rrtHE scientists would say that the so-called vision t other things which, in i his ignorance,' he-believes transmitted upward and outward from the marginal originated in the external world and not in their
JL; beheld by the British soldiers at Mons was noth- . originate and actually exist in the crystaL. . . , . consciousness to the central consciousness,' and came msrglnal or. subconscious minds. i -;
Ing more or less than a psychic delusion. .Let me ex-; .. The old practice of shell-hearing Is another in- to overwhelmingly possess the minds and souls of This is the explanaticra,of the woTklns of ttf
plain what is meant by psychic" delusion. : 4 - ' : stance of this same sort of reversion of psychic be- half-erased,' fear-ridden, semi-hypnotized soldiers. '. human .mind. under, the influence of great excito-
: Certain - persons with unstable nervous systems,- havior. In thls.case voices foriglnate in the mar-Why did they see angels? " Why not a vision of meut and high nervous tension, when the individusi
"And EUsha frayed, and said, Lord, I pray Thee, become, ln a. measure, auto-hypnotised.. In such a t. projected outward .into- the shell, cand -,thus the , pie reason that the soldiers had their, subconscious of men together at such times as on the battle-
open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord- gtate groups of thoughts and Images may be trans-.;. listener hallucinations. ' He ' minds fixed on seeing angels. . From earliest infancy field only aerres greatly to heighten and furttxe?
opened the eyes of the young man; and h saw; and, mitted from the: marginal consciousness (subcon- actually thinks he hears strange and andlble voices . the. thought of angels had been associated in their to increase all these tendencies toward seliWecep-
behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots sdous mind) to the central consciousness with such coming out from the shelL. - ' ) - ; " . minds with.death and heaven. They probably would tloa and that failure closely to discriminate between,
of fire round Elisha. ' a suddenesa and vividness as to linpress the crystal- . :i So it is with angels on a hattlefleld, .the scientists have seen the Image , of Christ had they, 1n-aueh a those .mental experiences which are based on fac
. fAnd when they cam down to him. EHsha prajed gazer with the idea that they; actually originated of escape apparently,, state of nervous ecstasy, invoked His aid instead ol.. and logical thinking and those based on-excitedrr
mto the Lord,sandald, Smite this people,.! pray, the external world. I ' 4cutoC wIt tMgic'eath staring