A CELEBRATED preacher of the seventeenth century, in a sermon to a crowded audience, described the terrors of the last Judgment with such eloquence, pathos and force of diction, that some of his audience not only burst into tears, but sent forth piercing cries, as if the Judge himself had been present, and was about to pass upon them their final sentence. In the height of this excitement the preacher called upon them to dry their tears and cease their cries, as he was about to add something still more awful and astonishing than anything he had brought before them. Silence being obtained, he with an agitated countenance and solemn voice addressed them thus: “In one quarter of an hour from this time the emotions which you have just now exhibited will be stifled; the remembrance of the fearful truths which excited them will vanish; you will return to your carnal occupations or sinful pleasures with your usual avidity, and you will treat all you have heard ‘as a tale that is told.’”