This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...was no doubt in her mind that the Black Man was before them. They could see his form and almost hear him breathe. Perhaps he had come to take them away. It was like him to transport them into the forest, and there force them into his service. There had been a sort of dread fascination in the thing as they read about it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...was no doubt in her mind that the Black Man was before them. They could see his form and almost hear him breathe. Perhaps he had come to take them away. It was like him to transport them into the forest, and there force them into his service. There had been a sort of dread fascination in the thing as they read about it and talked concerning the marvellous powers with which he was able to endow his minions. But when the children came face to face, as it were, with his Satanic Majesty, it was too awful an ordeal for them to accept. Sapphira, with one of those quick transitions characteristic of childhood, suddenly longed for the things which are good and true. A great hatred of the Devil and all his work flamed within her bosom. Master Johnes was her ideal soul. He belonged to God. She loved him in her own strange way. If she went with the Black Man a wide gulf must forever separate her from this blessed friend. What were all the tedious catechisings, and the little lectures on behavior, and the inevitable readings of the Bible, and the regular goings to meeting, and everything else pertaining to religion, grievous and burdensome as they might be to her, when offset by the kindness, the interest, the affection, the friendship of such a good man as the minister? If they went with the Black Man they might have a great deal of fun and see all kinds of wild things, but they could never be friends with Master Johnes again. And that meant the loss to them of the best thing in life. Now all these thoughts, and many akin to them, passed through the active brain of the child in the moment that she seemed spellbound by the presence of the black figure at the kitchen window. With a swift movement which Ananias in his terror tried to prevent, Sapphira raised the window a...
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