A Spiritist announcement.

We received from Le Havre an announcement of a death with this subscription:

“We pray “That God Almighty and merciful and the good Spirits may deign to receive her favorably.”

“The letter bore the mention: ‘Provided with the sacraments of the Church.’”

It is the first time, at least to our knowledge, that such a public profession of faith has been made in such a circumstance. One must be grateful to the family for the good example it has just given. In general few persons, with the exception of the closest relatives, take into account the request, contained in the announcement, to pray for the deceased. We are convinced that all the Spiritists, even those who are strangers to the family, who received it, will have considered it a duty to fulfill the wish expressed there. For them prayer is not a banal formula; they know the influence it exerts, at the moment of death, upon the detachment of the soul.