What, do you suppose, were Deacon Peabody's sins?

The Devil exposes Deacon Peabody as an unrepentant hypocrite, who needs to look to his own sins in the same way he concerns himself with the sins of others. The Deacon is also exposed as a cheat for taking advantage of the Native Americans, as well as a fraud, who falsely assumed a position in the church by taking advantage of the people around him.