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of angel voices, and I said, oh, that I could be one of them. As I was
drinking from this cup of bliss it was suddenly dashed from my lips. I
was aroused from my slumbers. I was brought back from happy dreamland by
an inmate of my dark abode, who said to me that it was now time to enter
upon my future career. He bade me follow him. Retracing my steps I again
entered the dark passage way, and followed my guide for a time, when we
came to a door that opened in the side of the passage, and, going along
this, we finally found ourselves passing through another door, and lo!
I beheld the lake of fire. Just before me I could see, as far as the eye
could reach, that literal lake of fire and brimstone. Huge billows of
fire would roll over each other, and great waves of fiery flame would
dash against each other and leap high in the air like the waves of the
sea during a violent storm. On the crest of these waves I could see
human beings rise, but soon to be carried down again to the lowest depth
of this awful lake of fire. When borne on the crest, of these awful
billows for a time their curses against a just God would be appalling,
and their pitiful cries for water would be heartrending. This vast
region of fire echoed and re-echoed with the wails of these lost
spirits. Presently I turned my eyes to the door through which I had a
few moments before entered, and I read these awful words: 'This is thy
doom; Eternity never ends.' Shortly I began to feel the earth give way
beneath my feet, and I soon found myself sinking down into the lake of
fire. An indescribable thirst for water now seized upon me. And calling
for water, my eyes opened in the prison hospital.

"I have never told this experience of mine before, for fear the prison
officials would get hold of it, think me insane, and lock me up in the
crank-house. I passed through all this, and I am as well satisfied as
I am that I live, that there is a Heaven and there is a Hell, and a
regular old-fashioned Hell, the kind the Bible tells about. But there is
one thing certain, I am never going to that place any more. As soon as
I opened my eyes in the hospital, and I found that I was alive and on
earth once more, I immediately gave my heart to God, and I am going to
live and die a Christian. While the terrible sights of Hell can never
be banished from my memory, neither can the beautiful things of Heaven I
saw. I am going to meet my dear old mother after awhile. To be permitted
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