The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-02-06
Millions of Devils.

If the children of Utah believe the
teachings of MILFORD Woodruff, the
successor of Brigham Young and John
Taylor in the presidency of the NOR
mon church, life must present a gloomy
outlook to their youthful eyes, with
small hope of salvation at the end, for
it is the deliberate calculation of this
aged teacher tina. each person now
upon the earth is individually beset
by 100 devils; whose mission it is to be-
tray him into torment. 1t is matter
of simple arithmetic: 100000, 600, 900
devils fell to the earth with Lucifer;
there are 1000, 900, 900 people on the
earth, which gives 100 imps to every
man, woman and child.
"Now, | want all our boys and
girls" said President Woodruff recent
" to the mormon children, Ito reflect
npon this and see what danger they are
in and the warfare they have to pass
through"
President Woodruff has an abiding
belief that these agents of Satan have
an actual form and can appear in the
body before the eyes of men, for he has
seen them and battled with them more
than once during his eventful career.
When in Liverpool in 1910, engaged in
missionary work for the mormon
church, he was called upon to labor
over a woman who was in a terrible
rage, tearing her clothes and requiring
the strength of three men to hold her
in bed. He laid hands upon her and
commanded the devil to depart, which
it did, and the woman fell into a sleep
and awoke restored. But the devil
who had lost his lodging remained
about the neighborhood and soon took
up his quarters in the body of a little
child. The missionary was again APP
pealed to.
Il found it," he relates, lin great
distress, writhing in its mothers arms.
laid hands upon it and cast the devil
out of it, and the evil spirits had no
power over the household afterward."
Single Blessedness.
A German paper some time ago in
vited all masculine readers over forty
who had remained single to make a
public statement of their reasons for
not entering into the matrimonial al
lance. The best and wittiest piece
was to receive prize of twenty marks.
The jury appointed to decide upon the
merits of the statements consisted of
three persons-a young girl, young
married lady and a mother-in-law. In
response to this invitation 124 answers
were received at the office of the pa
per. After long discussion and de-
liberation the jury awarded the prize
to the author of the following declara-
ton:
From my earliest youth was hot
tempered and vain, and never was sat
istied with the good things which en-
ioyed but always wished and strived
for better things; therefore l was guild
ed by the words of the gospel, which
says that he does well who gets wife
unto him, but that he who does not do
so acts still better. AS an idealist |
could be perfectly sure that the poets
words in reference to two hearts that
beat as one would never be justified in
matrimonv. As realist l could I'M
derstand that marriage was lottery,
and that, in view of the small chances
for success. it was not worth while to
take any riks. As an egotist / can say:
i entirely crafty my own self and
why should make any sacrifice? For
marriage is nothing but Il sacrifice of
the ego. As crank | add that girl
without a dowry | do not wish to
marry and girl with dowry l can
not get"