The Open court . TOMBSTONE OF SlEGFRIED VON EpPSTEIN (Henne am Rhyn.) THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OB DEATH. 761 ence who lived about 1450-1495) which characterises this concep-tion of the hour of death. The patient is surrounded by praying. Death, the Slayer. Woodcut of the sixteenth century. (By H. Burckmair. monks with candles and crucifix and sees in his imagination thepowers of both good and evil hover above him, both anxious to 762 THE OPEN COURT.

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