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Forest Hill ; St. Paul, at MillwaU, West- bourne Grove, and Croydon ; St. Augustine, at Xew Barnet; St. George, at Palmer's

16 May, 1883, about an instance in Algeria, all of which abound in hearsay. John Howard testifies that

Green and Croydon ; St. James, at Wood ! supposed to be dead of jail fever, on being

. mes, a oo suppose to e ea o a fever, on being bt. Andrew, at Battersea Rise, j brought out for burial, now and then returned Upper Norwood, Woolwich, and Wembley; j to life when the bodies were washed with St. MJ rk, at. Greenwich ; and St Peter, at cold water. An infant daughter of Henry

Tooting. There is also a United Methodist Church of St. James at Forest Hill.

F. A. RUSSELL. 116, Arran Road, Catford, S.E.

Dedications of Nonconformist churches of the kind mentioned by the querist are I think, not uncommon. One of two Congregational churches at Wimbledon is called Christ Church ; and another at Addis combe, Croydon, bears the same name There is a Trinity Congregational Church at Walthamstow, and I feel sure these cannot be isolated examples. Dedications of Pres byterian churches are quite common.

G. L. APPERSON.

My impression is that dedications of Nonconformist places of worship are not unusual, especially in the country. The following occur in local directories : United Methodist (B. Christian) St. James, Forest Hill ; Trinity Church, Forest Hill. Pres- byterian St. John, Forest Hill; St. An- drew, Upper Norwood ; St. Cuthbert, Upper Norwood ; Trinity, Streatham.

J. PARSONS.

There is a chapel dedicated to St. Paul in Hawley Road, Kentish Town,N.W. The late Edward White was minister there formerly. W. B. S.

At royal Tunbridge Wells there is a

Baptist chapel Church.

named St. John's Free

^ It would be interesting to know whether Nonconformists hold any special service in connexion with the dedication ; also, if the practice can be traced to ecclesiasticism. The founders of the church referred to, including their first minister, seceded from the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, and during his pastorate a liturgical service

was used.

S. M. E. C.

APPARENT DEATH (US. v. 428; yi. 16, 58, 133). Since my previous reply (vi. 16) I have found my notes on this subject. The cutting relating to Madame Nathalie is from The Times, 20 Nov., 1885. I have other cuttings from The Times, 12 Feb., 1883, and 6 Feb., 1883, relating to cases in Naples and Russia ; and from Tlie Globe,

Laurens, first President of the American Congress, returned to life after being believed to be dead of smallpox.

In answer to Y. T. (vi. 134), who asks for " personal " instances, and gives a remote one of her own, I can say that the case of John Hudson, in my answer at vi. 16, was- told to me by his daughter, who is a hospital

nurse. Mr.

PIERPOINT asks for the name of

the bishop who addressed the French Legis- lature on premature burial, and gave his own escape from such a fate. It was Cardinal Donnet, Archbishop of Bordeaux, who collapsed while preaching on a sultry day in 1826, and was prepared for burial ; and forty years later, in 1866, related his experiences for he had been conscious of the said preparation to an astonished Senate.

The case of Cardinal Donnet and several other interesting instances of revival from apparent death, chiefly from French sources, are set forth at length in an article which appeared on 3 July, 1869, in All the Year Round. WILLIAM BRADBROOK.

Bletchley.

The interesting remarks on this important subject at the last reference remind one that the uncertainty of the so-called signs of death relied upon by doctors and under- takers, and the reality of the dangers of premature burial (which are not restricted to warm climates, as many suppose), have received from time to time startling con- firmation.

It is not generally known that one of the founders of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, Ebenezer Erskine, was born after his mother had been buried alive. Mrs. Erskine happened to have a valuable ring, which excited the cupidity of the gravedigger ; he opened the coffin, and was n the act of amputating the finger to aossess himself of the ring when the lady awoke from her trance. She arose, and went into her house without meeting any one ; but her footsteps overhead led her lusband to exclaim, " If I didna ken my wife wis lyin' in the kirkyard, I wad say .hat wis her fitstip."' Mrs. Erskine lived o become the mother of Ebenezer.