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Whilst the ceremony was performing, and although he recognized among the witnesses some whom he knew to be living, and a lot of whom he knew to be dead, darkness came on, succeeded by the shining of a tremendous light. It broke from one particular line in the table of commandments at the altar, and illuminated the building with the words. They had been sounded via the church, as well, as if there have been voices in the fiery letters. Upon this, the complete look before him and about him changed, and nothing at all was left as it had...