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 the present moment every nation upon earth is plot¬ ting secretly how it can best poison the others. Did God create the planet for this end, and is it likely that He will allow it to go on from bad to worse ? ”

“ Is it you or Miromar who is talking now ? ”

“ Well, I have myself been brooding over the mat¬ ter, and all my thoughts seem to justify his conclusions. I read a spirit message which Charles Mason wrote. It was : ‘ The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual.’ Is that not exactly the condition of the world to-day ? ”

“ And how will it come ? ”

“ Ah, there I can only take Miromar’s word for it. He speaks of a breaking of all the phials. There is war, famine, pestilence, earthquake, flood, tidal waves — all ending in peace and glory unutterable.”

The great purple streamers were right across the sky. A dull crimson glare, a lurid angry glow, was spreading in the west. Enid shuddered as she watched it.

“ One thing we have learned,” said he. “ It is that two souls, where real love exists, go on and on without a break through all the spheres. Why, then, should you and I fear death, or anything which life or death can bring ? ”

She smiled and put her hand in his.

“ Why, indeed ? ” said she.

THE END