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The Lord forbid! What would the people think,

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For the lost pathway leading to the If they should see the Reverend Cot

village.

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ton Mather

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Reverend sir, You are welcome, reverend sir, thrice

The village is near by. I'm going

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welcome here

Beneath my humble roof.

MATHER.

I thank your Worship.

HATHORNE.

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Touching these witchcrafts that so much afflict you;

And see with mine own eyes the wonders told

Multitudes in the Valley of Destruction !

But when our fervent, well-directed prayers,

Which are the great artillery of Heaven,

Of spectres and the shadows of the dead, That come back from their graves to Are brought into the field, I see them

speak with men.

HATHORNE.

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Some men there are, I have known

such, who think

scattered

And driven like autumn leaves before the wind.

HATHORNE.

That the two worlds- the seen and You, as a Minister of God, can meet

the unseen,

spirit

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The world of matter and the world of With spiritual weapons; but, alas!
I, as a Magistrate, must combat them
With weapons from the armory of the
flesh.

Are like the hemispheres upon our

maps,

And touch each other only at a point. But these two worlds are not divided thus,

Save for the purposes of common speech.

They form one globe, in which the parted seas

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All flow together and are intermingled, While the great continents remain distinct.

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It must be so. The death-pangs of the
Devil

The Unclean Spirit said, "My name is Will make him more a Devil than be

Legion !"

fore;

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