AN EXPERIENCE
"I am not skilled in the use of the
pencil, but I would like to express my pleasure at the messages that
have come to us from earth.
You know the old earth has never countenanced anything so
mysterious before, and had I known
of spirit communication when I
was there, my life would have been far happier."
'Did you not believe in spirit
communication?'
"Not entirely. How can a person
believe in unseen powers when he is absorbed and narrowed by the
seen?—by the essentials of
that life? I did not, at all events. And I approached the close of life
with a fear that was almost horror. I was not wicked, as the world thinks
of wickedness, but bound by the material and visible. And when the final
test
came I could not find the spiritual and
unseen. So I passed. And my friends must have had little consolation in
the thought of my entering upon new conditions."
'How did it fare with you?'
"I sank, out of extreme pain, into a
sleep so gentle and peaceful, I think it would have been all right if I
had never awakened again. But the waking came slowly, hardly consciously,
until I finally knew that the terror was over, and about me were kindness
and helpfulness. You probably cannot imagine those first moments of
exquisite joy that I felt in the new
life, a new opportunity to "make
good," in a way, in a small way, but with such visions of larger
opportunity before me that the life here has become truly the great
adventure.
"I will go now; they tell me Mary and
Dee are coming. Good bye."
"We are here, Mary and Dee. Surprised
enough at your recent visitor. But there is no harm in his communicating;
and also his guides were with him. So you have had one more testimony, one
more experience as to entering
upon this unknown life."
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