He saw himself again as he sat and looked into the sweet and lifeless face of his darling girl, and he remembered how he resolved on that day to live in such a way as to be reunited with his child.

But his resolves had all been unfilled, and he saw the path of his past strewn with broken vows.

In reality, God was speaking to the man's soul.

Jake saw himself in his true condition, a lost sinner.

His sins seemed like horrid black mountains rearing themselves eternally between him and his child.