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have garments of fire fitted to them; boiling 

 water shall be poured on their heads; their 

 bowels shall be dissolved thereby, and also their 

 skin; and they shall be beaten with maces of iron. 

 So often as they shall endeavor to get out of hell 

 because of the anguish of their torments, they 

 shall be dragged back into the same, and their 

 tormentors shall say, " Taste ye the pains of 

 burning. " Koran, ch. XXII. Also, " It shall 

 be said unto them. Go ye into punishment which 

 ye denied as a falsehood: go ye into the smoke of 

 hell, which shall arise in three volumes, and 

 shall not shade you from the heat, neither shall 

 it be of service against the flame: but it shall 

 cast forth sparks as big as towers, resembling 

 yellow camels in color.'' Koran, ch. XXVII. 

 (Quoted from Evidences of Christianity by Hop- 

 kins p. 83.) 



: We also add to the testimony already given 

 .some estimable and worthy corroborative infor- 

 mation, which ought,, to the candid reader, to put 

 this feature of the question in such a relation to 

 the great facts that go to make a proof, as will 

 forever settle the attitude of the non-Christian 

 religions. 



" I remark, moreover, that the heathen had no 

 apprehension of deliverance from Tartarus. 

 Tantalus, Sisyphus, Ixion, and all others sent 



