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CHAPTER XII--THAT VARLET ILL-PAUSE, THE DEVIL'S ORATOR
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When Ill-pause gets his new honours paid him in hell; when there is a new joy in hell over another sinner that has not yet repented, your name will be heard sounding among the infernal cheers.
Just think of your baptismal name and your pet name at home giving them joy to-night at their supper in hell! And yet one would not at first sight think that such triumphs and such toasts, such medals, and clasps, and garters were to be won on earth or in hell just by saying such simple- sounding and such commonplace things as those are for which Ill-pause receives his decorations.

'Take time,' he says.

'Yes,' he admits, 'but there is no such hurry; to-morrow will do; next year will do; after you are old will do quite as well.

The darkness shall cover you, and your sin will not find you out.

Christ died for sin, and it is a faithful saying that His blood will cleanse you later on from all this sin.' Everyday and well-known words, indeed, but a true orator is seen in nothing more than in this, that he can take up what everybody knows and says, and put it so as to carry everybody captive.


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