Aurelia Jones's Final Spiritual Experience and Manifestation of Peace

“As the gentle, soft hands of the school teacher touched her brow, she looked up with a sudden lifting of pain from her face. She closed her eyes gently as he spoke the few direct pleading words with our Heavenly Father for her life or painless death, and after he had ceased she glanced around the room, seeing all the loved faces, and with a brief motion of her lips she whispered: 'Good-by, dear ones; be good children. Mother loves darlings.' The greyness of her face was deepening, the heavy, labored breathing was still heavier, the lips were losing power to move. But her eyes glanced from the school teacher, who stood at the foot of the bed, to her eldest daughter, who was sobbing at her side. She looked earnestly at him, and whispered faintly: 'Your wife, your—' ... And the Scotch girl watched the pain loose its hold upon the dying face, while peace, infinite peace, laid its veil of glory over the marble features. And in silent, tearful prayer the spirit of Aurelia Jones separated from the mortal tabernacle, leaving the clay to return to dust, while the spirit was free to soar from earth to Paradise, the place of rest and judgment. — The Young Woman's Journal 5:1”