The man, changing his internal associates, receives by inflex a new order of influence, and passively acts therefrom.

He becomes, for the time, the human agent by which evil spirits effect their wicked purposes; and it usually happens that those who are nearest allied to him, and who have the first claims on him for support, protection, and love, are they who feel the heaviest weight of infernal malice.

The husband and father too often becomes, in the hands of his evil associates, the cruel persecutor of those he should love and guard with the tenderest solicitude.

So it was in the case of Henry Ellis.

His manly nature underwent a gradually progressing change, until the image of God was wellnigh obliterated from his soul.