Account of Grandmother's last illness, continuation (page 3)

A single sheet of lined paper closely written in faded brown ink, in cursive. Several short marginal marks (small crosses or check-strokes) appear at the start of consecutive lines on the left, evidently inserted by the writer or a later reader to bracket the dream-vision passage.

family about her, repeating her blessings and calling upon God to be merciful & help them when she was gone — She drew Father towards her and repeated to him a dream, ^many times which she had previously described to me as very consolatory & having followed her in all her latter illness, so vivid as to be more like a vision she would say than a dream — it was produced by the impression made soon after the death of Aunt Ally’s little children in '34, by an Allegory called the “Dark River” — three children were coming to meet her and bear her on to the “most beautiful glorious light which shone on the hills beyond” oh! it was a “beautiful light (waving her hand in front of her face as she spoke & her whole expression of [warmth? & enthusiasm?] as though it were there before her eyes) like the light of the moon but a thousand times brighter” — and just as I was to pass into the river I was obliged to come back to this dark troublesome world. — Then her expression once became anxious became anxious as if looking for something, when asked, she replied “yes every now & then I remember something some verses come to my mind to comfort me — That — what is it?” “Vital Spark.” and my aunt Ally continued the hymn, when she came to the lines “Hark, they whisper, angels say — Sister Spirit come away” “oh yes that’s so appropriate”