ABSTRACT
If a real baptism of fire makes them better equipped to serve God and fight the Devil, then what they have received, if it is as some people say, "Of the Devil", ought to make them more useful in the Devil's service. Such a mighty experience as this, through which they have passed, if of the Devil, must absolutely make them devilish, satanic, and that in a very extreme measure. But they themselves find, instead of that, that their delight is in the Lord and "His statutes are their songs in the house of their pilgrimage". Even if Satan had taken upon himself an angel's likeness, and given the outward colouring a rich religious glow, they would still be able to detect if they had become more worldly-minded, more self-conscious, more drawn to the lusts of the flesh, more prone to forsake God and serve the Devil; and if they did not see it themselves, their friends would.
