The plunderers of the poor plundered in their turn by worse devourers than themselves.

Every attempt at reform the parent of worse scandals; every mercy begetting fresh cruelties; every persecutor silenced, only to enable others to persecute him in their turn: every devil who is exorcised, returning with seven others worsethan himself; falsehood and selfishness, spite and lust, confusion seven times confounded, Satan casting out Satan everywhere--from the emperor who wantons on his throne, to the slave who blasphemes beneath his fetters.' 'If Satan cast out Satan, his kingdom shall not stand.' 'In the world to come.

But in this world it shall stand and conquer, even worse and worse, until the end.

These are the last days spoken of by the prophets,--the beginning of woes such as never have been on the earth before--"On earth distress of nations with perplexity, men's hearts failing them for fear, and for the dread of those things which are coming on the earth." I have seen it long.

Year after year I have watched them coming nearer and ever nearer in their course like the whirling sand-storms of the desert, which sweep past the caravan, and past again, and yet overwhelm it after all--that black flood of the northern barbarians.