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A Clergyman, who lived in the Massachusetts, and had entertaining an opinion, for more than fifty years, that such stories were only the vapours of distempered and weak brains, was convinced at last in the following manner: Being in his own garden, he saw his own likeness or apparition, dressed just as he then was, passed by him, and looked him full in the face. He ran into the house in a great surprise, told his family what he had seen, that he was convinced of his former errors, and that he feared he should live but a few days. His words proved true, for he died in a short time after.