text:  No long interval weakens the impression no long space holds out the vague prospect of repentance and amendment and compensatory acts of goodness; but if he will lift the knife if he will mingle the poison there is the earthly executioner at hand to transfer him to the still more dreadful sentence of the after-world! The same opinion which condemns the crime of murder here on earth as the most atrocious that can be committed follows him to that other tribunal; and all that his imagination has been accustomed to depict of the horrors of internal and eternal punishment rushes at once upon him