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"But I know where he's gone," said Phelim, "an' may the divil's luck go wid him, an' God's curse on the day I ever had anything to do wid that hell-fire Ribbon business! 'Twas he first brought me into it, the villain; an' now I'd give the town land we're in to be fairly out of it." "Hanim an diouol!" said the father, "is the ten guineas gone? The curse of hell upon him, for a black desaver!

What of those countless millions of men that died before Christ came to save the world from damnation? If the Christian creed, that except a man believes in the Lord Jesus Christ he cannot be saved, is maintained, then it must be that those millions of human beings who lived before Christ and had no chance to believe, are in hell-fire.

If He left you, you would neither be good nor wicked, you would stop being; but He loves you in a bigger, closer way than you can think of loving anybody; and if you choose to go round the longest way you can, through the hell-fire of sin on earth and all the other worlds, He will suffer it all with you, and bring you in the end to be like Himself."

Something within him said that he ought to have gone further; that he ought to have singled out the Major, Caillaud, and Pauline; held them fast, looked straight into their eyes, and told them each one there and then that they were in the bonds of iniquity, sold unto Satan, and in danger of hell-fire. But, alas! he was at least a century and a half too late.

Besides, was the gospel so freely, so frequently, so fully tendered to thee, and yet hast thou rejected all these things? Hast thou valued sin at a higher rate than thy soul, than God, Christ, angels, saints, and communion with them in eternal blessedness and glory? Wast thou not told of hell-fire, those intolerable flames?

What is the man afraid of? 'Hell-fire. 'Why, he will go there in any case, the accursed Gentile! 'So I hinted to him, as delicately as I could; but, like the rest of the world, he had a sort of partiality for getting thither by his own road. 'Coward! And whom shall I get now?

It has made man odious in God's eyes, it has provoked the justice of God against him, and made him obnoxious to hell-fire. Yea, it so holds him, so binds him, so reserves him to this, that not he himself, nor yet all the angels of heaven, can deliver him from this deplorable condition. To say nothing of their pleasure and delight that it makes him take in that way to hell in which he walketh.

"Now tell me, fellow, what were you going to do with this?" inquired the man in a severe tone. "I sha'n't tell you," replied Vanslyperken. "Why that's the chap that I sees go in and out of the room where that old hell-fire witch lives, who curses all day long." "I thought as much," observed the man, who still held up the cur's tail.

Harry, your arm. An hour with the ladies will do us both good. The squire, he murmured, wiping his forehead as he went out, 'has a knack of bringing us into close proximity with hell-fire when he pleases. Julia screamed on beholding us, 'Aren't you two men as pale as death! Janet came and looked. 'Merely a dose, said the captain. 'We are anxious to play battledore and shuttlecock madly.

In his timidity and shrinking submission, with the spring of his heart broken, his spirit crushed, all independence strangled in his soul, he puts in the biggest corner of his heaven even, a hell! Nor does he pause there, but, stinging his slave imagination once more, he declares that this future of torture and hell-fire is everlasting. He cannot improve upon that.