of them severely. These men were shortly afterwards taken, and, through
their means, twelve others fell into the hands of the judicial officers
of the king of Coorg, including the girl who attempted the murder. They
were all put to death.

And is it possible that such persons can go to heaven? How could such
ever relish its pure joys? What would they do, could they be admitted
there? My dear children, it is a charity which has no foundation, to
suppose that the heathen can go to heaven. I have preached the Gospel to
tens of thousands of them, but I never saw one who had the least atom of
a qualification for that holy place. "They have all gone out of the
way." Every crime which the apostle Paul speaks of in the latter part of
the first chapter of his epistle to the Romans, they commit, and crimes
of so dreadful a nature that I cannot mention them--crimes which, should
they be written in the Bible, would cause the Bible to be a sealed book
for ever.




CHAPTER XV.

SELF-TORTURES OF THE HINDOOS.


My dear Children--As the heathen have no Bible to direct them, they have
devised various means by which they expect to obtain the favor of their
gods, and get to heaven. I will mention some of these.

Some burn a lamp in a temple. They think that this is a very meritorious