41/44 Will you, my sisters, trust to the comeliness of visage and splendor of raiment in which such a woman as this can outshine you? Ask yourself again and again, how can Satan cast out Satan? I trust there are few among you who have done such crime. But I know full well that it may be said of London to-day '_Thou art full of stirs, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle_.' No. Our young men are slain by the poison of Beelzebub, the prince of the devils. |