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Loud rang the plaudits, as the fiend sa
i down. and the rest obseqtious, gave place
not doubling that Apollyon should be ruler Q
the Earth The tumult was hushed, and a
waited intent, their great Masters decision
when suddenly, from beetling cliff, far on
in the burning lake, arose blue, lamben
fame-which, while they gazed, took shape
a horrid shape, and stood before the Assem-
bled fiends.
II was clad in vesture wet with blood; th,
lgore hung heavy from its matted locks, ant
the fiercest fires of hell shot from its burning
leye-balls. Even Satan started and turnet
pale with fear, and Hell shrank back will
horror.
ola! Ye fear me, then; - hissed the horrit
monster. ''Well might ye fear, were / not 8
friend and an ally" But thou knowest me
not Satan, for / am an earthborn spirit
and have long hid myself-aye, for thou
| sand years-but now come to offer service
and allegiance, and to claim the offered prize
Fear not, but listen, and let me be ruler OF
| the Earth, for none hath power like me- in
all thy dark dominions.
Moioeh and Belial and Mammon, and Apol-
/ lyon promise much, but they shall be my SER
wants, and subalterns. Their power is weak
| ness compared with mine. o listen, till |
tell thee of my strength, and how will WELD
| it. My shapes and names are legion, and /
| change them at will, so that men shall offimes
| hug me to their bosoms as an angel of light.
| | will be the greatest of all hypocrites and
| deceivers, betraying ever with kiss; pro-
| Tossing love and kindness, when my only aim
| is ruin. viii be the patron and sole support
of the gambling den, and of her 'swhose house
inclineth unto death. and her paths unto the
dead And | will, through her portals, bring
| the very flower of manhood, to blight and
shame and everlasting contempt
On every foot of earth and sea will I fol
low my victims. Where discord and anarchy
prevail, there viii l be- where cruelty is,
| there will / come, and burn out from the
hearts of men every yestige of mercy till they
become fiends incarnate, and devise unima-
ginable horrors. / will stand beneath the
gallows-tree, and even while the death rattle
is in the throat of the criminal, will drive men
to robbery and murder. Twill lie in wait in
the streets cities, and plan the midnight fire
| and assassination. | will plunge my victims
into prisons and hospitals viii steep them
in poverty and degradation to the very lips.
| will cast forth their families to want and
wintry winds, and the babe shall perish in its
mothers arms, with its tears frozen to ice
drops upon her bosom. / will turn the dag
ger of the husband against the heart of his
wife, and her blood shall stain the cradle of
his children. Stimulated and urged ON by
me, the father shall dance in maniac glee over
the mangled bodies of his murdered babes,
and laugh to see their fair locks dabbled in
blood; the mother shall ''forget her sucking
child slain by her hand, and mock at the
tender years and helplessness of her own off
spring.
On whatsoever hearth my foot shall
be planted the gladstone fire shall go out, to
be lighted no more forever; and the roof-tree
sh hal oil and Of oh ha
hushed, and all that men cluster around them,
to make their earthly homes so much like
heaven, shall vanish like wreath of smoke,
and desolation brood. over The ~,'i..g. 1 WIN
point the sons knife against the fathers
throat and his grey hair shall drip with gore.
Where war and vengeance are, / win rouse
their fury to n-fold rage, and blot from the
soldiers breast the last vestige of humanity
| The incendary's torch shall be my banner
the cracking flames of burning villages, and
| the shrek of murdered innocence, the music
ofmy march!
Pestilence shall follow me as a shadow ;
| and will open unto him the gates of mil
| lion dwellings, which else had been secure
l will spread famine and disease even in lands
of plenty and health, and will seal up the eyes
| of all my victims so that they shall not seenOr
know that their next plunge is into perdition.
will sweep whole continents of their inhabi-
| tants; and give woes and sorrows and
| ''wounds without cause to the whole race of
man. Yet, whOsoever is wounded by me-,
shall seek me as hid treasures to be wounded
| yet again. l will bind upon their brows the
iron crown of suffering, burning with hell
| fire, that shall scorch and scar and eat into
their brain and heart and soul, yet shall they
| fall down and worship me, and, for my sake,
| part with houses and lands, and wife and
| children, and hope and heaven.
| OF Jabovah cand forth cDirits MIRO 10
| snow flake, to dwell in earthly bodies; will
seek them out, and kindle in their hearts an
unquenchable fire that shall consume them
/ and the cherubim shall watch long for their
return, at heavens gate, but they shall never
again look upon their Father in Heaven. The
| student at his books, the mechanic at his
tolls, the laborer at the plow, will | destroy,
and none shall stay me. | will coil myself i'll
the brain of the sea captain, and seal up his
| eyes, or SO distort them that he shall know
neither chart nor compass, and his vessel and
all on board shall be engulfed, and the bones
of the mariners whiten the bottom of the
ocean. Twill be the omnipresent curse of hui
manity, and under my guidance the race
shall walk forever as i'll the shadow of an
eclipse Eyes they have, but shall see not,
ana ears they have, but shall hear not, the
end and the purport of the crooked paths
through which | will lead them.
L VIII take the sons of the kings and the
mighty men, and the captains, and the great
| ones OF earth, and will mangle them with hor-
rid wounds, strip them of wealth. reputation.
life itself, and fill their last hour with tor.
ment Around their dying couches I will
send serpent forms, unfolding coil after coil
from out the darkness, brandisbine the;r
forked tongues to sting them and lick their
blood as a fierce fame licks up its f,,el =
| Thoughts shall become things, icing fhinos
TO mock and curse them. And some in n, 81,
agony shall leap into this burning lake in
hope to escape still greater torture; and some
win hold upon the brink, and rejoice when
| see every nerve shrieking with agony. az
open to their startled gaze the horrors oi
that pit in which plunge them forever,
Yet, this is not all. 1 know that you viii
| laugh (if fiends can laugh) when l tell Won
| that viii so manage that mankind shall ali
afong think me their. frieads Though it il
my mission to torture and destroy the whole
race of Adam yet so will mix with their bu-
| siness, their pleasures and their daily habits;
so fatter and delude their stupid senses, that
| they shall pronounce me good creature =
nay q ''ezeattwe Of God - At their wed
ding feasts will be the source OF JOY, and at
the funeral gathering, tine solace OF their sor-
row. The rank grass shall grow over those
slain by my hand. and the mourners shall for
| get it, and fall in their turn. The father shall
commend me to his son. and reeling TO his
| grave, shall leave him as an inheritance, a
| fbndness for nae and the son shall follow in
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