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Gone West:

Three Narratives of After-Death

ExperiencesCOMMUNICATED THROUGH THE MEDIUMSHIP OFJ. S. M. WARD, B.A.

LATE SCHOLAR AND FREEMAN OF TRINITY HALL, CAMBRIDGE

THIRD IMPRESSION

LONDON

WILLIAM RIDER & SON, LIMITED

8 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C4

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DEDICATION

THIS WOR6 BY ME IS INSCRIBED TO REGINALD

LUCIEN WARD,

WHO FELL IN THE TIDE OF BATTLE WHERE

FLANDERS MERGES IN FRANCE7

AND PASSED FROM UNDER TIMES FINGER WITH

NEER A BAC6WARD GLANCE,

FOR LOE OF HIS NATIE LAND IN BATTLE AGAINST

A HORDE.

AND UNTO HIS COMRADES IN ARMS OF EERY RAN6

AND CREED,

WHO GAE THEIR ALL IN THE CAUSE OF JUSTICE,

HONOUR, AND TRUTH,

AGAINST THE POWERS OF EIL THAT 6NOW NEITHER

PITY NOR TRUTH.

TO THE MEN WHO HELD THE BREACH IN THE HOUR

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CONTENTS

PART I COMMUNICATIONS FROM H. J. L. ........................................1

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PART I

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