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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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he crowd and saw the ease with which he haddiverted it from the thought and teachings of the day. ^ Never before in the city have I seen such relaxation, nor suchabandonment of regard for the worship of the risen Christ as thisday, said the Archfiend to Deception, as the two watched thepassing show. OH ! SHOW THAT SIN TO ME But not all in the great City of Worldliness worshipped falsegods that day. In the consciences of thousands, the voice of theAngel had awakened a sense of personal duty, who otherwisewould have forgotten to fulfill their pledges to Christ that day. At her solicitation the eyes of thousands whom Satan hadblinded by the glare of other gods gazed with sorrow for theirmistakes into the face of Gods Anointed; and the dayspring of abetter life began to revive where the souls love had long beendead. With the Good Angel, on her mission of awakening, were ahost from above, who had concern for the household of faith,and who gave to the Lords children the touch of quickening.
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THE WORSHIP OF OTHER GODS 371 NEW OBSTACLES AKISE AND OMENS ILL Later in the day, Evangelist and Determination were in thestudy of Minister Good, and, unseen by them, I heard their con-versation. ^ Times have changed. The idea and habit of keeping the fes-tivals of the Church lack the old-time reverence, I can recordgreat changes here, within my own lifetime, said MinisterGood. Yes, answered the prophet, times have changed, and withthis change, the expression of Christian faith has been recast.The old truths, which are rock truths, of our religious faith arenot regarded in these days as of the same importance as in formeryears. Religious festivals are not now accorded the personalsacredness they received from the Fathers. The truths thesefestivals then conveyed wrought with much feeling upon the soul.Now we have these festivals in forms which gratify the aestheticside of our nature and from them comes very little of transfigur-ing vision to the life. Art has been lifted up as a false

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