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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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ng the seed of a lingering pain,Sowing the seed of a maddened brain.Sowing tha seed of a tarnished name,Sowing the seed of eternal shame,What shall the harvest be ?Ah, what shall the harvest be? Sick at heart, I turned away and walked forth under the silentstars. I heard the sea. sounding on the shore, the green sea, whiteflecked, which great ships tore into tattered foam-laces as theypassed by and were lost in the night. Its tirelessness and cease-less motion rested me, and I thanked God for the glory of it, andfor the stars—broad Orion and flashing Sirius and all the lesserhosts—the unknown in space. I prayed that each might give meof their knowledge of the All-father; that they might give mefresh vigor of soul. SATANs GII2DED ATTRACTIONS Thousands of souls daih strolled back and forth on the ocean-front boardwalk and crowded the pavilions at the bathinghour to watch the scene; thousands, for lack of anything else todo, spent their time in investigating the attractions Satan had
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BUTTEEFLIES IN VACATION TIME 223 lavishly provided. Children and youth whose minds were yetuntarnished were there, and though under the surveillance ofparents, or more often of hired attendants, were being touched forthe first time by sights and suggestions of evil. As I wended my way from the beach to the city of Long-shore, I came to a wide and well-paved avenue on which stoodrows of costly dwellings, separated by lawns to which the floristsart had given an added beauty. One whom I met told me in an-swer to my question, that this was the fashionable section of thecity, and only those resided there who could boast of blue bloodwhich had coursed through an ancestry dating back a century ormore. ^Here, said my informant, dwell for the summer the aris-tocracy of our larger cities. There is nt another place like this in all the world, headded. They say there is one in Europe that comes pretty nearto it, but I dont believe it. A JOHN THE BAPTIST IS NEEDED Determination and his band of fai

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