Rev. Dwight L. Moody

Professor Bozzano, in the Annals of Psychical Science, gives twenty-two cases in all, three of which are found in this discussion… [James H. Hyslop]

The first instance is taken from the life of the Rev. Dwight L. Moody, the celebrated evangelical preacher of the United States, written by his son. In it his last moments are described as follows:—

Suddenly he murmured: “Earth recedes, heaven opens up before me. I have been beyond the gates. God is calling. Don’t call me back. It is beautiful. It is like a trance. If this is death it is sweet.

Then his face lit up and he said in a voice of joyful rapture: “Dwight! Irene! I see the children’s faces” (referring to two little grandchildren, gone before). Turning to his wife he said, “Mamma, you have been a good wife to me,” and with that he became unconscious.

James Hyslop, Psychical Research and the Resurrection (Boston: Small, Maynard, and Company, 1908), 95.