One more page and it will be finished. Its inspiration withdrawn from me, my life will be more desolate than ever. I shall seal it up carefully, and conceal it in some safe place for the eyes and ears of a future generation wiser and better than this. I shall then turn to Death and say, “I salute thee.” I shall not wait long. After I left my prison in Antioch and mingled with the turbulent tide of human life, my spiritual visions left me, my spiritual senses were closed. They are opening again. I have the old, beautiful dreams. I hear the same heavenly music. I see the same auroral and rainbow flashes of light. These now are prophecies of death—nay, rather of life, of heaven. The gates stand ajar. My eyes, my hopes, my heart are steadily fixed on that Land of Beauty, where the Son of the Desert will be united to Martha; and John the Baptist to Mary; and Lazarus to Magdalen; and all—all to Christ! _BY THE AUTHOR OF THIS VOLUME._ OUR CHILDREN IN HEAVEN. A BOOK FOR THE BEREAVED. It divests theology of its gloom: It robs death of its terror: It brings genuine light and comfort: It is an antidote to spiritualism: It vindicates the Divine Providence. CONTENTS. I. Is there no light? II. How are they raised? III. What bodies have they? IV. Where do they go? V. Who takes care of them? VI. What are they doing? VII. Can we communicate? VIII. Why did not the Lord prevent? IX. Why did they die? X. What good can come of it? OPINIONS. “Eloquent and intelligible; clear and graceful.”—_Boston Evening Transcript._ “New, refreshing, and elevated thoughts.”—_Round Table._ “Its sweet pathos and comforting sympathy at once warm and interest us.”—_Albany Journal._ “Rational, beautiful, soothing, and uplifted too.”—_N. Y. Liberal Christian._ “A beautiful and touching book.”—_Philadelphia Presbyterian._ “A high-toned religious book, well written, and which will be of real service to sorrow-vexed hearts.”—_St. Louis Democrat._ “A work of genius sanctified by sorrow.”—_New Orleans Crescent._ “Dr. Holcombe is a fine writer: a master of style, with a marvelous command of choice phrases. He appears in this book to great advantage. Striking at times the deeper and finer chords of the human heart, he causes them to vibrate in unison with all that is pure and holy in heaven and earth.”—_Southern Quarterly Review._ THE SEXES: HERE AND HEREAFTER. This book is philosophic, poetic, religious, without a word about medicine or physiology. It is for young and old lovers, for single and married, for husbands and wives upon earth who would be husbands and wives hereafter. OPINIONS.