Connecticut western news., 1872-05-03
The Sight of Hell.

The Manchester EIramiaaer calls atten- tion to very interesting little book. en- titled "The Sight of He'll" It is by the Rev. Father Furness, C.SS.R., is printed "permissu superiorum," and is recom- mended to be used along with the Gate chism in Sunday-schools as a part of a course of religious instruction. It is one of series of Books for Children and Young Persons" From the following extracts it will be seen that the work is not of an inspiriting character. The Rev. father is supposed to be taking his young charges on little tour of inspection, during which he acts as cicerone. Among many things too disagreable to mention, he points out the Striking Devil:
 "Little child, if you go to hell there will be devil at your side to strike you. He will go on striking you every minute for ever and ever without stopping. The first stroke will make your body as bad as the body of Job. The second stroke will make your body twice as bad as the body of Job. The third stroke will make your body three times as bad as the body of Job. The fourth stroke will make your body four times as bad as the body of Job. How, then, will your body be after the devil has been striking it every moment for hundred millions of years without stopping?"
 He then shows them "A Dress of Fire.'
 "Job xxxviii.- Are not thy garments hot ? Come into this room. You see it is very small. But see in the midst of it there is a girl, perhaps about eighteen years old What terrible dress she has on-he1 dress is made of firel On her head she wears 8 bonnet of fire. It is pressed down all over her head; it burns her head; ii burns into the skin; it scorches the bone of the skull and makes it smoke. The red-hot> fiery heat goes into the brain and melts it. Ezek. xxii.-I will burn you in the fire of my wrath; you shall be melted in the midst thereof as silver is melted ir the fire. You do not, perhaps, like head ache. Think what headache that girI must have. But see more. She is wrap ped up in flames, for her frock is on fire If she were on earth she would be burned to cinder in moment. But she is in hell where fire burns everything, but burns nothing away. There she stands burning She counts with her fingers the moments as they pass away slowly, for each mo- ment seems like hundred years. As she counts the moments.she remembers that she will have to count them forever and ever"
 The children are favored with sight o1 a boiling boy:
 "But, listen, there is a sound just like that of kettle boiling. Is it really 2 kettle boiling? No. Then what is it Hear what it is. The blood is boiling ir the scalded veins of that boy. The brair is boiling and bubbling in his head. The marrow is boiling in his bones." This child is supposed to be boiling in accord. ance with Amos iv.: "The days shal come when they shall lift you up on bikes and put what remains of you in boiling pots." They also have peep at baby in red-hot oven: '' Hear how it scream: to come out See how it turns and twists itself about in the fire It beats it's head against the roof of the oven. It stamps its little feet on the floor of the oven You can see on the face of this littlt child what you see on the faces of all il hell-despair, desperate and horrible The compassionate face of Father Furnis looking through the bars at what he call "this pitiful sight," is the only cheerfu part of the picture.-PaU MaW Gazette.