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12 rest of us; the scriptures are open to him as well as to others;—and 'If he hear not them, neither will he hear though one rose from the dead.' And, remember, Helen," continued she solemnly, "'The wicked shall be turned into hell, and they that forget God!" And suppose, even, that he should continue to love you, and you him, and that you should pass through life together with tolerable comfort,—how will it be in the end, when you see yourselves parted for ever; you, perhaps, taken into eternal bliss, and he cast into the lake that burneth with unquenchable fire—there for ever to—"

"Not for ever," I exclaimed, "'only till he has paid the uttermost farthing;' for 'If any man's work abide not the fire, he shall suffer loss, yet himself shall be saved, but so as by fire,' and he that 'is able to subdue all things to himself, will have all men to be saved,' and 'will in the fulness of time, gather together in one all things in Christ Jesus, who tasted death for every man, and in whom God will reconcile all things to