shouts back 'eternity.'" Ah, no! the greatest torments of this life, how horrible soever they may seem, bear no kind of proportion to the tortures of hell. Christ our Lord described hell in these words: "Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire," but only a God could express so much in so few words. In them He tells us there are three kinds of torments in hell; first, the pain of the senses; secondly, the pain of the loss of God — " Depart from Me," and thirdly, and worst of all, the fact that these pains are eternal — everlasting. " In what things soever a man shall have sinned, in these also shall he be punished." Hence, I will be tortured in every one of my five senses. These eyes, through which the devil so often gained admission to my soul — so eager for filthy and adulterous sights, so baneful, probably, to my neighbor's salvation — ah, what horrid things will these eyes then see! Were I to find myself alone in a cemetery at midnight and there to be confronted by a grim spectre — a living skeleton half hidden, only, in its snowy shroud — what would be my terror! Now, if the devil is so frightful in human shape, what must he be in his own native ugliness? If so unpleasant to look at here on earth, what will he be when I see him at home in hell? The lost souls, too, what a shocking sight they will present and that, too, in the dim light of hell, for the hell-fire gives not light enough to comfort the eye, but only enough to reveal to it everything that may torment it. Oh, if I am ever to go to hell, it is small comfort for me to reflect I will
