But I am not prepared to
believe that God has left it to Satan to devise so fearful a scheme
for prosecuting his evil designs as that of making the demons
of Ashdod and Assyria take the names of mortal men, while teeming
to follow mortal occupations. It would be fearful tidings for our
poor race were this so. But if so, is it not seen that there is
a difference in the shapes of these persons. If either of these
brothers who blasphemously call themselves John and James, after
the manner of the apostles, shall be in very truth and certainty
that Dagon of the Philistines whom Jehovah smote before his altar,
will he not be made fishlike from the waist downward, and will
this not be seen by his followers and some of the thousands whom
he daily perverts to his evil purposes and so leads to eternal
destruction?"
"It may be that it is permitted to such a demon to put on what
shape he thinks proper," replied Stevens; "but even if it is not,
yet this would not be the subject of any difference--it would
scarcely prevent the prosecution of this evil purpose. You are to
remember, Mr.
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