Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... LETTERS FROM JULIA FIEST SERIES, TO HER FRIEND* I. CROSSING THE BAR. When I left you, darling, you thought I was gone from you forever, or at least till you also passed over. But I was never so near to you as after I had, what you called, died. How You Feel After Death. I found myself free from my body. It was such a strange new feeling. I was standing close to the bedside on which my body was lying; I saw everything in the room just as before I closed my eyes. How She Felt In Dying. I did not feel any pain in "dying;" I felt only a great calm and peace. Then I awoke, and I was standing outside my old body in the room. There was no one there at first, just myself and my old body. At first I wondered I was so strangely well. Then I saw that I had passed over. I waited about a little; then the door opened and Mrs. H. came in. She was very sad; she addressed my poor body as if it was myself. I was standing looking at her, but all her thoughts were upon the poor old body I had left behind. It seemed so absurd I could not help laughing. I did not try to speak at first; I waited to see what would happen. An Angel and Her Mission. Then I felt as though a great warm flood of light had come into the room, and I saw an angel. She, * These "Letters" are partially made up from extracts from letters written with my hand, by Julia to her friend Ellen in 1892-3, together with others addressed to me. As these grew out of the correspondence with Ellen, I have included them in the first series. The black-letter headings are, of course, my own. for at first she seemed to be a female, came to me and said: "I am sent to teach you the laws of the new life." And as I looked, she gently touched me and said: "We must go." Then I left the room and my poor..."
