Identifier: moderndevilhispl00cham (find matches)
Title: The modern devil, his play between the false and the good;
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Chambers, Isaiah Mench, 1865- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, International publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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who looked for life eternal throughthe Eedeemer of Mankind. SATAN SITS IN COUNCIL He had now thrown off the guise of man and sat in all his demonmajesty,—the dark and terrible compeller of sin and foe of virtue. Those around him were of low and impish aspect, and lookedwith awe and reverence upon their gloom-surrounded sovereign.There was grandeur in his words, but the language of Pandemon-ium is not for earthly ears, yet I will translate it as best I canin words of our common speech. ^All has gone amiss this day, said Satan from his throne. Strongly have we wrought, but the powers above have baffled usat every point. ^^Our toil, I fear, has been for naught, responded one high inSatans favor. We obeyed thy command and instigated Hypo--crite, that foolish wise-man who unknowingly does thy work, tobuy freely of alluring but unsettling books, and place them in thehands of certain young people who are yet in the mist of doubt,but that pestilent book, the Bible, has undone all our work.
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THE CEOSS ON THE LONELY HILL 57 advised Hypocrite to place a certain volume in the handsof Miss Sincere, rejoined Satan. He did so, but that meddlingmessenger from above, who seems sent to keep her in charge,swept the effect of its teachings from her mind. Not only that,but she sought to make her distrust my useful agent and friend,Hypocrite. I am sorely vexed, he went on, by the evangelistic workthat is now so active in the churches. It robs us of many whomwe might have employed in the work of unsettling the minds ofmen. But, he added thoughtfully, the Angel who guided thepen of old John Bunyan in Bedford jail, did me more harm thana multitude of modern dispensers of Gospel truth. THE DEVIL WILL NEVER FORGIVE LUTHER The Angel at the Diet of Augsburg, many years ago, saidone of the chief demons of the Pit, the one who went aroundwith Martin Luther, that man of mischief, was responsible forthe vast damage which was then done our cause. I know it too well, answered Satan. It was she who

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