text:  By this sermon it appears to have occurred to the philosophic mind of the reverend divine that mesmeric marvels may be accounted for as accomplished by the direct agency of Satan! Doubtless Satan is as actively at work in this the nineteenth century as in any anterior period of our history; but we are inclined to think the progress of civilization has opened a sufficient number of channels for his ingenuity without rendering it necessary that he should alarm the devout by miraculously interfering to assuage human suffering