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Late Missionary of the American Board to India; author of
History;" "The Palace of the Great King;" "Commerce
and Christianity;""The Coming Crisis of the
World" "India and its People;" etc.

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh
about, seeking whom he may devour."-1 Pet. v. 8.

"An enemy hath done this."-Mat. xiii. 28.

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PREFACE.

IN former treatises, which have been very kindly received by the reading public, the writer endeavoured to illustrate the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as seen in his wonder-working Providence, and in his no less wonderful works of creation. The following pages are devoted to the great Antagonistic Power, that riots in the Apostacy-that reigns among the children of disobedience.

We have seen how completely benevolence pervades all the works of the Divine hand-how all the works of creation-all the variations, uses and adaptations of these works, and all the ways of Providence, if left unperverted to work out their own legitimate ends, are instinct with the Goodness of God. We shall see, on the other hand, how a great opposing Power, by usurpation the god of this world, has been allowed to try his hand at the management of the affairs of this lower world. We have seen what God has done; and from what he has done we may very safely infer that the end to be achieved by the Divine plans is one of infinite benevolence-that it involves the greatest amount of happiness to man, as well

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as the supreme glory of God. We shall now see whe Satan, armed with power, and pervaded by the poison sin, can do what he is doing, and what, if not foiled, h will do. He has been the ceaseless systematic oppose of all good. His chief business has been to pervert th works, the providences and the grace of God. Malignity misery, characterize the one system; benevolence and in finite happiness the other.

And never perhaps could we more fittingly call atten tion to the doings of the redoubtable Hero of our tale Never was his Satanic Majesty more thoroughly roused to a desperate onset upon the sons of men. "The Devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." Most unmistakably do we trace his foot-prints in the events of the last few years as the instigator of the Slaveholders' Rebellion; as the prime and successful advocate, in the late Ecumenical Council at Rome, of the Dogma of Papal Infallibility; as chief leader in the late Commune Rebellion in Paris; and more conspicuously yet as a true inspiration of the political corruption in New York. Never before did he come down with so "great wrath”— never were his acts more determined and daring. When in the history of our race were fraud, violence, earthquakes, tempests, murders, intemperance, so rife in our world? The prince and power of the air seems, as never before, let loose to devastate and destroy.

The rightful Proprietor of this world no doubt permits the Adversary to exhibit the malignity and mischief and

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