“A
man, traveling through the country, came to a large city, very rich and
splendid; he looked at it and said to his guide, ‘This must be a very
righteous people, for I can only see but one little devil in this great
city.’
“The
guide replied, ‘You do not understand, sir; this city is so perfectly
given up to wickedness, corruption, degradation and abomination of every
kind that it only requires one devil to keep them all in subjection.’
“Traveling
on a little further he came to a rugged path and saw an old man trying
to get up the hill side, surrounded by seven great, big, coarse looking
devils.
“‘Why,’ says the traveller, ‘this must be a tremendously wicked old man, only see how many devils there are around him!’
“‘This,’
replied the guide, ‘is the only righteous man in the country and there
are seven of the biggest devils trying to turn him out of his path and
they all cannot do it’” (in Deseret News, 11 Nov. 1857, 7:287).
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