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debtor, and with real regret; yet the sum was
small, and with this I became reconciled.

'' ' Not lona; after his decease I was visited
with a dream, important to all the world to
know, and I therefore desire to make it public.
Judgment was opened to my view ; the beauty
of heaven was displayed on one side, and
the torments of hell on the other. My dream
presented many people waiting their award,
whom I had known in life, and amongst the
number my creditor the Banker ; he was stand-
ing on the brink of that fiery yawning gulf
which is prepared for the wicked and unjust.
His attendant angels produced the documents
of their faithful keeping,-—good and evil actions
of every mortal are thus registered,—one ex-
hibited a small blank book in which not one
good deed had been recorded, and that pre-
sented by the other, containing the evils of his
ways on earth, appeared to me an immense
volume filled throughout.

" ' Take him to his merited torments! was
pronounced in an awful tone of command.—
Have mercy! have pity! cried the Banker,

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