“‘Of a truth he _shall_ hear me. In the day of judgment he shall hear me when I say, Depart from me, thou worker of iniquity, into everlasting darkness, prepared for the devil and his angels.’ After these words I saw Him no more. The wind blew, and the sleety rain fell, and I went back to the inn. “In the night there was a knocking at my chamber. ‘Christmas _bach_!’ {410} cried my landlord, ‘get up! get up! You are wanted with a neighbour, who is at the point of death!’ “Away I hurried along the street, to the end of the village, to the very farm-house where the stranger had been knocking. But before I got there, I heard the voice of his agony: ‘Oh, Lord Jesus, save me! Oh, Lord Jesus, have mercy upon me! Yet a day—yet an hour for repentance! Oh, Lord, save me!’ “His wife was wringing her hands, his children were frightened out of their senses. ‘Pray! pray for me!’ he cried. ‘Oh, Christmas _bach_, cry to God for _me_! He will hear _you_; _me_! He will not hear!’ I knelt to pray; but it was too late. He was gone.” INDEX. ABBOT, JACOB, referred to, 176. Accidents, a series of, 42. Accursed from Christ, 150; Reply to criticisms on, 152. Action in oratory, 194. Age of chapel cases, an, 113. Age, the golden, 359; The iron, 359; Messiah’s, 359. Agent, the Divine, 363. Aim and success, 162. Allegoric preaching, 90. Allegories:—Bible regarded as a stone with seven eyes, 270; Church as an ark among the bulrushes, 337; Satan walking in dry places, 137; Saul of Tarsus and his seven ships, 332; Seeking the young Child, 133; World as a graveyard, 85. Allegory, Christmas Evans’s power of, 131. America, preachers in the backwoods of, 231.