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complete, should have included a denial of his own existence, for, verily, a perverse genius that can so hate God and scoff so at religion lacks little of the malice of a Lucifer. It would seem to have been a stroke of Providence that on that very Sunday from every Catholic pulpit should have been read the gospel of Our Lord's temptation by a demon, living and actually present. You know what arguments that tempter used- — appeals to sensuousness, to presumption and to pride, and truly Satan's disciple is not above his master, for he used the selfsame weapons but more clumsily. It is an eloquent commentary on the spirit of the age that men, supposedly intelligent, can be swayed by, and applaud, such shallow sophistry. The irreverence of it, too,( that men, Christians, Catholics perhaps, though God forbid, — that men, I say, should relish seeing Christ mocked and scourged and spat upon, relish hearing the Scriptures ridiculed or wrested round against our sacredest beliefs! The demon tempter of Our Saviour quoted Scripture, and likewise, too, his follower. Ah! the Bible is indeed an inexhaustible mine of facts, but if the miner have not on his forehead the lamp of faith, he finds no golden ingots of truth, but only useless dirt, — the ruins of the past and the bones of many an error long since dead. Refutation of such errors and flimsy arguments is time misspent. For us it is sufficient that the word of God infallibly says the devil does exist, and every miserable temptation and fall in our sinful lives proclaims his active presence. The doctrine of the