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The Devil, the Hardest Master

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 4, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 42.

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The Devil, the Hardest Master

THE hardest master in the world is the devil. He exacts more of his servants, and rewards them more meanly than any other master. He promises great things, which he keeps always far off in the future, and when by bitter experience the truth is discovered by the deceived soul, he finds himself to be, as another has well said, "as the fish, that at first tastes only the bait, but afterward feels the barbed hook."—Sel.