HOW THE DEVIL LOST A SOUL.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 678, 30 June 1870, Page 3

HOW THE DEVIL LOST A SOUL.

The following, which we clip from a Quebec paper, is too good to be lost: —A young man who already desired wealth, was visited by his Satanic Majesty, who tempted him to promise his soul for eternity if he could be supplied on this earth with all the money he could use. The bargain was concluded ; the devil was to supply the money, and was at last to have the soul, unless the young man could spend more money than the devil could furnish. Years passed away; the man married, was extravagant in his living, built palaces, speculated widely, lost and gave away fortunes, and yet his coffers were always full. He turned politician, and bribed his way to power and fame, without reducing his pile of gold. He became a " fillibuster," and fitted out ships and armies, but his banker honored all his drafts. He went to St. Paul to live, and paid unusual rates of interest for all the money he could borrow, but though the devil made wry faces when he came to pay bills, yet they were all paid. One expedient after another failed ; the devil counted the time only two years, that he must wait for the soul, and mocked the efforts of the despairing man. One more trial was resolved upon —the man started a newspaper. The devil growled at the bill at the end of the first quarter, was savage in six months, melancholy in nine, and broke—dead broke at the end of the year. So the newspaper went down, but the soul was saved.