Note: A version was published July 1915 in US monthly magazine The Century as "The Lost Last Trump" by Reginald Bliss, with two full-page illustrations by Henry Raleigh, pp. 369-78 (viewed at HathiTrust). Notes below this line are left intact, pending hoped-for comparisoin of versions. --2020-05-17 ---- First published in 1915 as part of Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump by Reginald Bliss (that is, Wells). That work is not a collection. As of April 2019 it is a non-genre novel at ISFDB (see). This story is likely to be an extract from, or otherwise modified version of, the last chapter of Boon:   Chapter the Tenth: The Story of the Last Trump or pp. 295-342 in the 1st ed. (viewed at HathiTrust). The chapter contains 14 numbered sections, and the first 13 appear to constitute Boon's purported story. Section 14 begins (p. 336): "There was something of invalid peevishness even in the handwriting of Boon's last story, the Story of the Last Trump. Of course, I see exactly what Boon is driving at in this fragment. ..."

Synopsis: "Boon concludes with two humorous symbolic tales entitled "The Wild Asses of the Devil" and "The Last Trump". The latter tale engages theological themes that Wells would soon be developing in a serious vein in God the Invisible King (1917)." --closing of Wikipedia book summary (May 2020)