and be the means of his destruction. Should he be on
horseback, she will induce him to take her up behind him; after which,
when an opportunity offers, she throws the noose over his head, leaps
from the horse, drags him to the ground, and strangles him. I will
mention an instance. It happened that a horseman of Coorg, in the Madras
presidency, was passing by a spot where one of these interesting-looking
girls was stationed. She told him a piteous story of having been robbed
and badly treated, and begged him to assist her. Feeling sorry for her,
he offered to take her behind him, on his horse, and thus assist her a
few miles on her journey. She expressed much gratitude for his kindness,
and mounted. Soon afterwards she suddenly passed a noose over his head,
and, drawing it with all her might, endeavored to pull him from his
saddle. At this moment, a number of Phansiagars started from the
neighboring thicket and surrounded him. The murderess then slipped from
the horse; but the Coorg striking his heels into the horse's sides, it
threw out its hind legs with great violence, and struck to the ground
the girl, who immediately let go the cord. He then drew his sword, and,
cutting his way through the robbers, effected his escape. He wounded two
of them severely. These men were shortly afterwards taken, and, through
their means, twelve others fell into the hands of the judicial officers
of the king of Coorg, including the girl who attempted the murder. They
were all put to death.

And is it possible that such persons can go to heaven? How could such
ever relish its pure joys? What would they do, could they be admitted
there? My dear children, it is a charity which has no foundation, to
suppose that the heathen can go to heaven. I have preached the Gospel to
tens of thousands of them, but I never saw one who had the least atom of
a qualification for that holy place. "They have all gone out of the
way." Every crime which the apostle Paul speaks of in the latter part of
the first chapter of his epistle to the Romans, they commit, and crimes
of so dreadful a nature that I cannot mention them--crimes which, should
they be written in the Bible, would cause the Bible to be a sealed book
for ever.

CHAPTER XV.

SELF-TORTURES OF THE HINDOOS.

My dear Children--As the heathen have no Bible to direct them, they have
devised various means by which they expect to obtain the favor of their
gods, and get to heaven. I will mention