DEUTERONOMY 



1780 



DEVILS LAKE 



they sought the oracle at Delphi for informa- 

 tion as to how they could repeople the earth. 

 They were told to throw behind them the bones 

 of their mother. Interpreting that to mean 

 their mother earth, they threw stones over 

 their shoulders, which on striking the earth 

 became men and women, strong and hardy. 

 Deucalion became the ancestor of the Greeks 

 through his son Hellen. 



DEUTERONOMY, duteron'omi, the fifth 

 book of the Old Testament, in which Moses 

 imparted to the Israelites, whom he had led 

 through the Wilderness, the law of their nation. 

 It is therefore known as the Book of the Law. 

 These people, most of whom were children 

 when they left Egypt, had traveled nearly 

 forty years and were on the eve of entering 

 Canaan, the Promised Land. Before they 

 crossed the Jordan, Moses gathered them 

 around him in the valley to deliver his fare- 

 well address, for God had told him that he 

 could not enter with them because of his diso- 

 bedience (see MOSES). Moses wished the peo- 

 ple to understand the principles of their 

 national law, which was given to their fathers 

 on Mount Sinai. After giving his address, 

 Moses appointed Joshua as his successor to 

 rule the people when they entered the Prom- 

 ised Land. In the last chapter there is a 

 record of Moses' death and burial in the land 

 of Moab. The language of this book is re- 

 markable for its strength and beauty. It is 

 supposed that a portion of Deuteronomy was 

 discovered during the reign of Josiah (77 

 Kings XXII, 8). 



DEVIL, also called SATAN, the chief evil 

 spirit, the author of evil and the opposer of 

 God. The word comes from the Greek and 

 means slanderer or jalse accuser. Satan in 

 Hebrew means enemy, and when used in this 

 sense means the enemy of God and man. But 

 Satan as used in Job means an accuser, and is 

 applied to one of God's messengers who appear 

 before God (Job I, 6). In the third chapter 

 of Genesis the serpent is represented as the 

 author and introducer of evil to man, and for 

 this reason the Devil is sometimes called the 

 Serpent. 



Most religions recognize one or more evil 

 spirits and acknowledge in their creeds a con- 

 stant warfare between the good and the evil 

 spirits. In most instances this warfare is 

 moral; but among some peoples disease, suffer- 

 ing and such . calamities as famine, hail and 

 flood are attributed to evil spirits, and among 

 the early Christians these were believed to be 



the work of the Devil. There are doubtless 

 some still who hold to that belief. 



There is a distinction between evil spirits 

 and the evil spirit who is the Prince of Dark- 

 ness; evil spirits are demons emissaries or 

 aids of the Devil. The devils so often men- 

 tioned in the New Testament were demons who 

 possessed certain people, according to popular 

 belief, and whom Christ cast out. This be- 

 lief in demons among the Jews is similar to 

 the beliefs of the ancient Greeks, Romans and 

 other European peoples in various gods to 

 whom they attributed all sorts of character- 

 istics. The ancient Germans believed in the 

 personality of the evil spirit and had a com- 

 mon proverb, "Where the Devil cannot come 

 he sends his grandmother." Others believe the 

 Devil to be a fallen angel. This is Milton's 

 idea, in Paradise Lost, where he says: 



From morn 



To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve 

 A summer day : and with the setting sun, 

 Dropt from the zenith like a falling star. 



DEVIL FISH, a name given to various spe- 

 cies of sea monsters of weird appearance, often 

 specified as the angler, sea-devil, toad-fish, etc. 

 In the United States and Canada the term is 

 applied to the ray, a fish of huge proportions, 

 which propels itself in the ocean by flapping 

 its pectoral fins, or sides, up and down. It is 

 occasionally hunted with harpoons for sport. 

 In California the name is sometimes given to 

 the gray whale. 



DEVILS LAKE, N. D., the county seat of 

 Ramsey County, is situated on the north shore 

 of Devils Lake, in the northeastern part of the 

 state. It is eighty-nine miles northwest of 

 Grand Forks and 260 miles southwest of Winni- 

 peg, and is served by the Great Northern Rail- 

 road, built in 1883, and the Soo Line, built 

 in 1912. The Farmers' Grain and Shipping 

 Company also operates a short line of railroad. 

 The population in 1910 was 5,157. 



The city covers an area of about three square 

 miles along the lake. This body of water, with 

 shores crooked and picturesque, is forty miles 

 in length. The surrounding land is a rich 

 agricultural country, and diversified farming 

 and stock raising furnish the city produce for 

 its most important industrial plants, which are 

 creameries and grist mills. Railroad .shops of 

 the Great Northern are located here. 



Near the town are a number of places of 

 interest, among which are Devils Lake Chau- 

 tauqua Grounds; Sully 's Hill National Park; 

 old Fort Totton, now used as an Indian school ; 



