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Christian experience of one of the characters of the book-and I exclaimed, "Oh! why cannot I be like him! Oh! God, help me! wretched sinner that I am! I threw the novel into the corner? and took up the Bible and began to read. I commenced at the first of Mathew, and as I read the burden of sin became more and more oppressive until entirely exhausted by mental excitement and physical weariness I threw myself upon the sofa and slept; and in my sleep I thought I was going to some place of amusement with my wife, when, as we turned the corner of a street we came in full view of hell. Three immense furnaces, belching out the fiercest fire, were directly before us. In front of the furnace stood Satan-a hideous black object-with a huge knife in his right hand. I thought there was a kind of projection on the side opposite to where we stood, and behind this a man was placed, over whom Satan was triumphing with all the malic of his nature. Behind him stood three figures, one male and two females, all dressed in habitiments? of the most unclear hue. The foremost in the group, who stood in a supplicating manner, as if pleading for the life of the individual who was invisible, I recognized as my wife; and as soon as I had done this I thought that I could feel it