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Vision of the dying

There is one possible moment, when those living on the earth and those called dead, can commune together, and that is the moment previous to the transition, - the moment when the link between their op- posite beliefs is being sundered. In the vestibule through which we pass from one dream to another dream, or when we awake from earth's sleep to the grand verities of Life, the departing may hear the glad welcome of those

who have gone before. The ones departing may whisper this vision, name the face that smiles on them and the hand which beckons them, as one at Niagara, with eyes open only to that wonder, forgets all else and breathes aloud his rapture.