Thus in ever-changing glories the vision of the heavens above continued,
while Oowikapun, awed and subdued in spirit, felt thankful that he was
only a spectator upon such scenes of ghostly carnage and blood. But
impressive and glorious as what had already been revealed, the auroras
had yet in reserve the climax of their display, and when it came it
nearly froze his blood in his veins, and threw him trembling and
terrified on his face upon the ground. Suddenly did the change come.
With, the rapidity of a lightning flash, the great quivering arch of
light transformed itself, into a corona of such dazzling splendour that
no words can describe it. From purest white the multitudes of
streamers, of which it was now composed, suddenly changed to pink and
blue, and green and yellow, all the time flitting and scintillating so
rapidly that the eyes were pained in their vain efforts to follow the
rapid flights.

Then in a twinkling of an eye the whole changed to a deep, blood-red
crimson--so bloodlike, so terrible, so dazzling, so awful, that the
brave man was crushed down, terrified and subdued before this blinding
display of the omnipotent power of the Great Spirit.

The dauntless courage that had made him exult at the prospect of meeting
the fiercest bear in the forest, with no other weapon than his trusty
hunting knife, or the most hostile foe of his tribe, was of no avail
here, and so, a crushed and vanquished man, as soon as he could, he
cowered back to his wigwam, where, wrapping himself in his blanket, he
long remained. He trembled at the thought of having been in such
apparent contact with the spirit land, while his unhappy soul chided him
with a sense of his unfitness for that unknown life beyond.

Poor Oowikapun, he was like many who, although they live under happier
influences and amid the blaze of Gospel day, yet foolishly think that if
some heavenly manifestation of the glory beyond, some glimpse of the
land that is afar off, or some sight of its celestial inhabitants, were
given them to enjoy, very quickly would they be convinced and converted.

John, the beloved disciple, saw the New Jerusalem and its inhabitants;
dazzled and confused he fell at the feet of one of those redeemed ones,
and worshipped the creature instead of the Creator.

Something more than the mere visions of heaven's glories or northern
auroras are necessary to give peace to the troubled soul. Even so found
unhappy Oowikapun, for when