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What an awful thing it is if people can have power from the evil spirit to inflict such calamity!

Awful indeed!

How can they purchase such power?

The ruin of a Christian soul is price enough for any thing. Satan, in return for this, will bestow power enough to do whatever his bondswoman or bondsman listeth.

Yet they are always miserable and poor.

Not always; but malignant gratifications are what they delight in, and nothing else is of much value to them.

It may be so:—it is strange and fearful!

I must go to my closet now, and mix the medicine for poor Jessie, to be ready at the proper time; for I expect the minister to pray by her to-night, and would have every thing prepared before he comes.[Exit.