The early Hebrew literature speaks of gods, not God. We find the following names ascribed to them: El; Elohim; El Shaddai; Shaddai; Elvoh; Yahve, or Jah. The following is a personal photograph as nearly as we can draw it, of the Jewish Jehovah as described in the Bible: "There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it." (Ps. 18 : 8.) "Round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies." (Ps. 18 : 11.) "His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire." (Rev. 1 : 14.) "And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace." (Rev. 1 : 15.) "He had horns coming out of his hand." (Hab. 3 : 4.) "And burning coals went forth at his feet." (Hab. 3 : 5.) "In the midst of the seven candle-sticks one like unto the son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot and girt about the paps with a golden girdle." (Rev. 1 : 13.) "And he had in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword." (Rev. 1 : 16.) This God has violated all the moral laws he ever gave to man. He approved of lying, robbing, adultery, murder, war, and all the great crimes known to man. Is it any wonder that Theodore Parker should say to the Calvinist who was trying to convert him, "The difference between us is simple,--your God is my Devil." The reader has his choice--or he may say "good Lord good Devil," and float with the current. There is, however, no disguising the fact that between God and the Devil, as described in the Bible, the Devil sustains the better moral character of the two. He is not spotless and clean, it is true, but he has infinitely less bloodshed to answer for than Jehovah. Where the Devil did he come from? I am reminded of this form of expression by a little incident related of a Scotch preacher, who took for his text, on one occasion, the following passage: "The Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour." (1 Peter 5 : 8.) It must be borne in mind, in order to better understand the full force and beauty of the preacher's division of the text into three heads, that it was common in earlier times to repeat the pronoun in a sentence, for example, John Smith, his book, Mary she has come home, etc. In charming accord with this old style, the minister divided his text into three parts. He said, "My brethren, we will first inquire where the Devil he was walking to? and secondly, who the Devil he wanted to devour? and thirdly, what the Devil he was roaring about?" Having gratuitously thrown in this gem, we proceed to answer the question, "Where the Devil, did he come from?" It is evident that the earlier Hebrew literature is almost wholly free from any traces of a personal Devil, and that later writings of the same people show strong outline of such a personality of evil.