Variety Of Hells

The Chinese have a sufficieDtly varied and intense notion of heil tormenta to nearly aqual.Rev. Jonathan Edwards' sermón on "Sinners in the Hunda of an Angry God." The Phrenologkal Journal saya that the place of suffering to which wioked human beings are doomed is generally called in Chinese "earth'g prison" - that is. heil in Euglish. It hss ten departmcDts, also called "earth prisons," named according to the mode of punUhment cmployed in thcm. Thero is a presidiog judge, who decides ia hades, or tbe place into which the wieked go just after death, in regard to tho prison which each is to enter. Flogging, bastinadoiup, transportation, banishment, and death are the five punishments which are borne in this life ; heil, hungry demons, and the state of brutos, are three ways of suffering after death. The ten kings of heil have each a heil in which to punish those who are condemned to t hem : 1. The heil in which are hills stuck full of knives. 2. The heil which has au iron boiler filled with scalding water. 3. The heil of cold ice. 4. The heli of trees stuck full of swords. 5. Tho liell where men's tongues aro plucked out, as a puuishment for the sins of the tongue. 6. Tüe heil of poisoned serpcntB. 7. The heil of euttiog and grinding to pieces 8. The heil of 6awing into pieces. 9. The heli with ron beds. 10. The heli of blackness and darknecs. lies'dcs thoise above nnmed tbere are many ethers, l'or ingtanoe, thosn who killed pigs and dogs will be lom to pieces by pigs aud dogs.