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evil deeds were weighed in the balance and its 

 fate determined according to its deserts." 



William Barrows. D.D.. in Purgatory, says: — 

 '"The ancient Egyptians were fully persuaded 

 of a life beyond the present, and a life, too, 

 affected by discriminating rewards and punish- 

 ments." Concerning the Hindoo belief Ward 

 says: — "The Hindoos in general manifest great 

 fear of future punishment. Sometimes, after 

 •committing a dreadful sin, these fears are 

 expressed to a friend in some such words as 

 these: ' I have committed a shocking crime, and 

 I must endure great and long-continued torments, 

 but what can I do? There is no remedy now/ 

 ^Sometimes these fears are so great that they 

 •drive a man to p>erform many works of merit, 

 particularly works of atonement.'*' (Quoted in 

 Purgatory). 



We get a very fair idea of the expectation of 

 the Hindoo sinner from an excerpt in Allen's 

 India p. 410.-111. The passage is as follows: — 

 "They have to travel six hundred and eighty- 

 eight thousand miles to the court of Yama (the 

 judge of the dead). In some places the road 

 consists of stones, mud and sand, burning hot 

 showers of sharp instruments, burning cinders, 

 and scalding water fall upon them. They fall 

 into concealed wells, grope their way through 

 darkness, and meet tigers and other dreaded 



