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 founded on conjugial love, and on innocence, the destroyers of such love must needs be murderers interiorly.'

And after giving some account of the terrible punishment which this class of persons have to suffer in the other world, he continues:

"This punishment returns many times for a hundred and a thousand years, until they become affected with horror at these lusts. I have been informed that the offspring of such parents are worse than other children on account of their constitution, derived hereditarily from the father, partaking of his nature. Therefore children are seldom born from such connections; or if they are, they do not remain long in this world."—A. C. 828.

And what does he say of the innocent victims of these wicked persons, some of whom he met in the other world?

"There are young girls who have been enticed to prostitution, and persuaded that there was no evil in it, who in other respects were well disposed. These, not having yet attained to an age capable of knowing and judging correctly of the nature of this kind of life, have a certain instructor set over them in the other world, who is very severe, and chastises them whenever they give their thoughts to such wantonness, and of whom they are much afraid. In this way they become vastated." That is, they are carried through a certain reformatory course of discipline; and "when the time of vastation is over, they are taken up into heaven; and being novitiates,