The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-01-19


: commanded tie Jews to believe ,ha
: the serpen. ia the garden Of Eden wa
, fallen angel.
But what shall be said Of the en-
! platte language in Isaiah, which stand
) as our text:
. "Hov art thou fallen from Heaven
r o Lucifer, son Of The morning! How
| art thou cut down to the ground
. which did weaken the nations p
| But was that Lucifer an angel o.
lightf No, he was king Of Babylon,
Take your Bibles and examine The
18th chapter Of Isaiah, and you will
all DO satisfied.
"Thou shall. take up this proysrt
against the king Of Babylon, and say
| How hath the opprossor ceased! The
golden city ceased! :, The whole
earth is at rest and is quiet. Thy pomF
10 brought down to the grave. The
worm Is spread under thee, and worms
cover thee. How art thou fallen
from Heaven. o Luciter, son Of the
morning. How art thou cut down TO
ground, which did weaken the ma.
tons, ). They that sec thee shall
narrowly look upon thee, saying, Il
this the man tha. made the earth to
trembls, and that did shake kingdoms;
that made the earth as Z wilderness
and destroyed the cities thereof"
That Luoifer, therefore, the faint Of
whose garments gave an early uane to
car friction matches, was only man.
He ruled kingdoms. He thought him.
sslfa god. ae said in bis heart. II
will eIllt my throne above the stars Of
God. Twill ascend above the height,
Of tho clouds. Twill DO like the Most
High" Blu. hs was only man; q
conceited and q rain.gloriouI man, 10
DO covered with worms in the sides OIL
the pit,
But the most significant passage OIL
all Is the 18th chapter Of tho Book oil
RerOlitions-
"And there was war in Heaven
Michael and bis angels fought against
the dragon, and the dragon fought, and
bis angels, and prevailed not, neither
was there peace found any more in
Heaven. And The great dragon Nar
cas-. out, that old serpent called tho
Devil and Satan, which deesivsth The
whole world /; he was cast out into The
earth, and bis angels were cast sut
with REV. iii. 8. etc.
The langu,g. Ia The 20ih chapter o.
Revelations should also be read in con
neetion with this
"Aud 1 saw an angel come down
from heaven. having The key Of ID,
bot.omlsss pit, and q great chain il
his hand. And he laid hold on The
Dragon, that old serpent. which Is the
\ Devil aud Satan, and bound him ,
thousand years, and cast him into The
bottomless pit, and shu. him up, and
set seal upon him, chat be should
deceive the nations no more till The
thousand years should DO fulfilled, and
after that be must DO loosed little
seliSu," Rev. II. 1. etc.
Now, IL any Christian believer cdu.
css these passages in proof Of tho orig.
ipal fall Of Satan, the passages unfor-
.uuatsly como too lsta IN the history
Of our race. ST. John saw visions o.
the future. But Adam aud Eve had
been tempted, aud had fallen some
4 900 years before. How, therefore,
shosld tho war IN heaven, which wsI
witnessed on the Isle Of Pstmos, OF
years after the birth Of Christ, DO re.
gardsd as the occasion Of the Original
f.ll ot.hs Dsyil2 If there DO any
Methodisss within the sound Of my
voice, or any devout persons who hav.
faith in the integrity and learning o.
their great biblical cxpouuder. Dr.
1 Clarke, I desire them 10 notice .ha
this illustrious commentator eouldn mo-
restrain his irony at tho idea that these
passage, refer 70 the original fall o.
che Devil. Dr.. Clarke uses delicate
BIT Of sarcasm a, Tho folly Of supposine
that either passage hath a reference q
q literal Satan at all. he claims ID,
whole language to be highly nllegori
cal, referring 10 tho contentious be-
tween the heather powers aud Christi.
anity. And, aside from the historica
absardity which | have Just mentioned
do Christian believers ever reflect upsr
tho wicked folly Of iupposing that God
our gracious aud lsving Father, would
allow Michael aud his angels to cas-
the Devil aud his angels into th.
e,r.h7 Then might We expect a ten
der mother to turn q wolf aud hsi
whelps into the nursery amspg hsl
blessed little children. II . loving
heavenly Father sent angels at all,
would they no. be tho blessed ant
beautiful angels fllod with the boil!
spirisi
Last weeks N,w Ysrk papers tol
Of A moor crazy woman who was iounC
wandering among The mountains o
Bavaria. Her husband had commit
ted crime he asd from The officers o
tho law; tho wife and two Jounl
children followed with him; tht
youngest was an infant they bid in I
thicket near the road; The little darl
! ing in II, mother's arms began 10 cry
lha Fs.reh nnlicnnan thoae frichtfu