SHE HAD A VIEW OF HELL.

A Vision of Heaven by a Wesleyan Lady
Recorded by Robert Young, Missionary

She was next conducted to a place, which she described in the most terrific language. She declared that the horrid shrieks of lost spirits still seemed to sound in her ears. As she approached the burning pit, a tremendous effort was made to draw her into it, but she felt herself safe under the protection of her guardian angel. She recognized many in that place of torment whom she had known on earth, even some who had been thought to be Christians! There were princes and peasants, rich and poor, learned and unlearned, writhing together in a dreadful and unquenchable fire, where all earthly distinctions and titles were forever ended. Among them she beheld a Miss W., who had occupied a prominent station in society, but had died during the trance of this young woman. She said that when Miss W. saw her approach, her shrieks were appalling beyond the power of language to describe, and that she made a desperate, but unsuccessful, effort to escape.

She described the punishment of lost souls as corresponding to the sins that occasioned their condemnation. Miss W., for instance, was condemned for her love of money (which I had every reason to believe was her besetting sin). She seemed to be robed in a garment of gold, all on fire. Mr. O., whom she saw, was lost through drunkenness, and he appeared to be punished by devils administering to him some boiling liquid. She said there was no sympathy among those unhappy spirits, but that pure hatred, in all its frightful forms, prevailed in every part of the fiery regions.

She beheld parents and children, husbands and wives, and those who had been companions in sin, exhibiting every mark of deep hatred toward each other. She heard their fiendish speech upbraiding and bitterly cursing one another. She saw nothing in hell but misery and despair, and she heard nothing there but the most disagreeable sounds, accompanied with weeping and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. While she gazed upon this revolting scene, many souls arrived from earth, and were greedily seized by innumerable devils of monstrous shapes and with horrid shouts of hellish triumph, and tortured according to their sins.