This is a very joyous piece. A celebratory yet light-and-quick polyphonic coronation trumpets the entrance of the former prostitute into Heaven, at the gates of which she is greeted by the angel with the Book.

As she approaches the angel, the spotlight that shone down from directly over her in “Life For Ever After” follows her, symbolizing and celebrating her sanctification.

As he did twice before, the angel looks scrupulously inside the Book. He then smiles broadly at her, and brings both of the Book’s covers together at once, so that it closes vertically.

All the stage lights turn off the instant the Book is closed, and the opera is over.

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The young Christian woman locates her friends at their local haunt, and, one by one, gently shares with them the truth of the Salvation that Jesus has already has provided for them. It is her fondest hope that at least one of them will make the ultimate decision to embrace their Creator and accept His greatest of all gifts to His children: Life, for ever after.

All of her friends reject her message. But, an overhearing woman — a prostitute — is fascinated by the words, and, soon after, privately commits her life to Christ in prayer. A spotlight then shines down upon her from directly above, signifying her new Salvation.

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