Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1852-06-10

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There | saw the murderer, with
his drawn dagger, with fendish hate
pursuing his victim until ne struck
him 10 the heart. When 'iol his
blow had alighted upon impalpable
air, and he had missed the darling
object OF his pursuit. Rage and des-
pair devoured him at his failure, and
he fled bowling, his intended victim
pursuing him in turn, with revenge
and hatred ranking in him.
saw the adulterer, pursuing the
object Of his raging lust with a fury
that was frigttiul TO behold. But it
was nought 6Ga empty air that he
embraced, and he threw her from
him with a loathing that was unut-
terable, while she turned from him
with scorn. and 6endish gladness
at his sufferings.
saw the miser, unheeding all that
was around him, sitting on the
ground, grovelling in the soil of that
unholy place, and gathering up
sparkling atoms, and laying them in
a heap carefully by his side. At
length he turned TO his cherished
and piled up treasure, and found that
it had turned to dust. He threw
himself, in despair, PROSTATE upon
this useless emblem of his wealth,
and howled wildly in the madness OF
his disappointed cupidity.
saw the hypocrite essaying, and,
as he fancied, successfully, to hide the
diabolical purposes Of his heart, yet
as he approached his victim, he lelt
and knew tina! his every thought
was revealed. He fled in horror al
the picture which himself had made.
And learned that he was ever en-
gagged in the same fruitless effort
ever deceivisg himself with the
same belief in his success-ever
meeting the same terrible disclosure
of himself.
saw the seducer approach with
bland and subtle arts, and when or
the point OF success, his arms were
filled with nothingness. and his heart
riven with the reproachlul looks Of
BETRAYED affection, before which he
withered and fell down.
| saw the warrior heading an
army, which, rioting in Wild confu-
sion, refused 20 obey him, and u. TIE
vain pursuit of an enemy that was
nowhere to be found.
saw the suicide bound still TO the
earth which he had quilted in his
despair, bound there by the spiritual
umbilical cord which he found it inn
possible to sever.
| saw the assassin, attended ever
by the spirits Of those whom his
violence had slain-ever presenting
to his view their misery, caused by
him-ever reproaching him, and he
again ard again, but in vain. seeking
by the same violence 10 rid himself
of their presence.
saw the hard and callous man Of
the world who had carried with him
into the spirit land the selfish disre-
gard for others which had marked
his earthly career. saw him aP-
proach. He was an outcast even in
that horrible place. His cold selfish
ness stood out upon him in bold re-
lief, and all, even there, abhorred
and Stunned his company. Wearied
with the utter desolation 10 which
he was condemned, he persisted in
thrusting himself upon that society,
fiendish and revolving as it was, and
they turned upon him in their wrath.
Abandoning each his favorite pursuit,
they with one accord drove him
from their presence with shouts and
yells OF execration.
Amid the turmoil and confusion,
| saw a good spirit approach. He
was one. thought, whose enthusi-
asm was stronger than his judgment,
and he approached that awful society
in the vain hope that he might be
able to wean them from their evil
wavs. The contrast between the
brightness of his appearance and the
darkness OF theirs, was most strik-
ing. He seemed like a solitary star
amid the blackness OF midnight
His presence was beyond measure
offensive to them. They arrested
his progress in crowds. They me;
his advance with bold and impudent
looks. They received his entreaiies
with derision and laughed his remon-
strances to scorn. They insisted
that he should leave them, but he
refused. They then turned and fled
his presence with shouts of laughter.
All 50 hed-all save one. And he
was observed by that good spirit
PROSTATE in the dust. The good
spirit approached him and lifted him
up, and spake words OF comfort TO
him. 1t was one who had begun to
progress in goodness--whose eyes
were beginning to open 10 the evil
of his wavs. 1t was one who had
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