We have tried to do it again, but without success; we were evidently unable to bring about the right combination of forces.

ON NEW YEAR’S EVE, at about 6:30, I went to the kitchen to get a drink, and as I was about to draw the water, my friend, Mrs. M———, who was killed in front of our home last July, appeared to me. She carried in her right hand the Crux Ansata, symbol of Eternal Life, and said these words, “Tell Rose (her daughter-in-law) that life IS eternal,” stressing the word “is”, and disappeared.

Not knowing the daughter-in-law very well, and fearing I might frighten her, I was a little hesitant about telling her, but decided I must do so; so phoned her on New Year’s Day and gave her the message. She thanked me and said it made her very happy. Two days later her husband phoned and asked if I would call on Rose, as she was anxious to talk to me. I said I would be glad to do so, and went over the next day. This is what she told me:

She said she had always believed in the continuity of life, but had never thought much about it until Mrs. M———’s death. Then all of a sudden it came over her perhaps death ended all; that perhaps her mother-in-law had ceased to exist; and the more she thought about it the more she feared the truth of her doubts.

She said she kept it all to herself, but that it haunted her and she worried over it a good deal. So she said when I phoned her and told her the message she was astonished, for she knew I had no way of knowing her thoughts when I had neither seen or talked to her for months. She said the message made her so happy that she spent the most joyous New Year’s Day imaginable, for she felt she