nces seems very like
this life, and follows from it quite naturally. He depicts it as a
clear, conscious life. They are not dead nor asleep nor unconscious.
They are very much alive. He represents them as thinking and speaking
and feeling. Lazarus is feeling "comforted." Dives is feeling
"tormented," and thinking keenly of his own misery and of his brothers'
danger on earth at that moment. So actively alive are they all to him
that he wants one of them to go back to earth to tell his brothers
about it.

Be quite clear about this. Challenge every statement as I go on. Is
this a mere speculation of mine or have we Christ's authority for
saying that in the new environment men are living a life as clear and
vivid and conscious as on this earth--that death makes no break?

Section 4

Next I learn that each feels himself the same continuous "I" that he
was on earth. Lazarus feels himself the same Lazarus, Dives feels
himself the same Dives, the brother of those five boys. I shall still
keep on saying "I." I am not somebody else over there. That is what
Jesus said from the other side of the grave--"Handle Me and see--it is
I, Myself."

Section 5

Next I read on His authority that there is no break in memory. Of
course there could not be if I am still "I." But our Lord confirms
this. Lazarus remembers Dives. Dives remembers Lazarus so well that
he wants him to go back to convert his brothers. Aye, he remembers the
brothers in the old Jerusalem home, the five boys that grew up beside
him. He remembers sorrowfully that they have grown to be selfish men
like himself, perhaps through his fault. He is thinking about them and
troubling about them. And Abraham assumes this memory as a matter of
course. "My son, remember that thou in thy lifetime, etc."

Does not all this confirm our statement in Chapter I, that memory is
something more than impressions on the gray matter of the brain; that
memory is in the man himself who is behind the brain and, therefore,
must go on with him.

Section 6

I read on, "Now he is comforted and thou art tormented." That again is
just what I should expect. It is all quite natural. If "I" am still
the same "I" in full vivid conscious life, in full memory of the
past--if I have passed out of the mists of earth into the full light of
the Eternal, where everything is seen at its full value, where money
counts for nothing and love counts for everything, it is of course