until it unconsciously strikes the blaze with its little wings, and is
swallowed up in the flame; so you are dazzled with the pleasures of the
world, thinking nothing of the flames which may swallow you up in a
moment, and put a stop to all your joys for ever. O, that the death-bed
scene of Miss Matthews might have a happy effect upon you. O, that the
solemn warning which she gave to her young friend, not to put off
repentance as she had done, until a dying hour, might continue to sound
in your ears, until you would no longer delay repentance. My dear
children, this young lady, though dead, yet speaketh. She speaks to you.
She calls upon you from her tomb--from the eternal world, to delay
repentance no longer. Will you, then, be so mad as to turn a deaf ear to
this call? Will you ever take another sip from the cup of unhallowed
pleasure? Will you ever direct your little feet to the ballroom, or
other places of sinful amusement? Will you hereafter prefer your worldly
joys to Christ? O, you must not, you must not. It will not do for you to
be lost. Who, O who can lie down in everlasting burnings? Who can dwell
for ever with devouring flames?




CHAPTER XIV.

THE GODDESS KARLE.


My dear Children--In the preceding chapter I spoke of Karle. She, as I
there mentioned, is the wife of Siva, and, like her husband, has the
power of destruction. From the images made of her, it would appear that
she is a female, of a black or dark blue color. She has four arms. In