Oh, Mrs.Davis, do you point out to him the future he is preparing for himself ?" "Yes," she said, "I'm tellin' him he'll go to hell all the time; but it don't do no good.

Tom's afraid of hell, though; it's the only thing as ever did keep him straight.

After one o' them sermons of yours, I've known him swear off as long as two months.

I ain't been to church this long time, till last Sabbath; and I was hopin' I'd hear one of that kind, all about hell, Mr.Ward, so I could tell Tom, but you didn't preach that way.

Not but what it was good, though," she added, with an evident wish to be polite.
John's face suddenly flushed.