But Abigail did not say perdition.

She left that to weak spirits.

She thought it a virtue to say "hell" with unction and emphasis, by way of alarming the consciences of sinners.

Mrs.Anderson's prayer is not reportable.

That sort of profanity is too bad to write.
She capped her climax--even as I have heard a revivalist pray for a scoffer that had vexed his righteous soul--by asking God to convert her daughter, or if she could not be converted to take her away, that she might not heap up wrath against the day of wrath.