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nd, Ye aiblins might—I dinna ken— Still hae a stake: I'm wae to think upon yon den E'en for your sake. The old schoolmen and fathers seem to agree that the Devil and his ministers have bodies in some sort material, subject to passions and liable to injury and pain. Origen has a curious notion that any evil spirit who, in a contest with a human being, is defeated, loses from thenceforth all his power of mischief, and may be compared to a wasp who has lost his sting. The Devil, said Samson Occum, the famous Indian preacher, in a discourse on temperance, is a gentleman, and never drinks. Nevertheless it is a remarkable fact, and worthy of the serious consideration of all who tarry long at the wine, that, in that state of the drunkard's malady known as delirium tremens, the adversary, in some shape or other, is generally visible to the sufferers, or at least, as Winslow says of the Powahs, he appeareth more familiarly to them than to others. I recollect a statement made to me by