Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-02-18


men His enemies and trample them
ruthlessly under foot but to destroy
His and their enemy: Sin, "For this
purpose was the Son of God manifest
ed that He might destroy the works Of
the Devil" Christ's rule is not tenn
poral one but spiritual The text
plainly indicates that the end is not yet;
that there are enemies yet unsubdued
The sway Of Christ is not yet unhin-
dered. Let us briefly notice these
enemies of Christ who are preventing
the full sway Of King Emanuel They
are legion but may be summarized un-
der the following classes:
SATAN AND HIS KINGDOM.
The arch enemy of Christ's
king is Satan. Cast out of heaven
because of sin he seeks to ruin all man
kind The word says: "He goes
about as roaring lion seeking whom
he may devour." He not only goes
about as a personal agent doing work
himself but he has set up his. kingdom in
the world. 1t consists of the works of
the flesh, carnality and all the means
used to destroy men mentally, morally
and physically He is the father of
lies He is the inception and incitor
Of all low and devilish acts and crimes.
His kingdom is one of darkness, and
all that blinds men to the truth. How
striking the contrast Christ is the
author and source of light. He gives
men holy thoughts, noble characters,
and incites in them all God-like ac-
tions.
Satan delights in exactly the opposite
He is an iconoclast and joys in the
destruction of all good. In rout and
ruin he finds supreme happiness. He
is in every drunken brawl in all forms
of sin and crime. He is not content
with personal work but has organized
opposition to the truth. Even the
Church militant is not more thoroughly
organized than his minions. The best
disciplined army Of Europe does not
even favorably compare with his. His
best organized force to-day is the liquor
traffic. See how shamelessly he assays
to break down all righteous temperance
laws. What means this but his work
and plan. Every saloon keeper in the
United States belongs to a protective
Union and all the talent and wealth OF
that mighty organization are sworn to
protect the meanest member against
the righteousness of sobriety, law and
order. See how he seeks to rule the
great cities of the world by wicked and
designing men. The Tweed ring
of New York. Mackin the ballot
box thief of Chicago The great whis-
key rings of Brooklyn and St. Louis.
The suborning of the great Offices oI
State to fraud and wickedness and
black conspiracy. The scheme to
keep in bondage four millions of black:
and with what hellish delight he wit
messed the shedding of the hearts
blood of million sons of the
'Land of the free and the brave
This violent and bloody opposition
to truth and equal liberty was not borr
= &c Christ but of Satan. Note further
the sttempr 10 puursn ana cas.-..t,....,
for the purpose of corrupting tht
youths of the land of pernicious liter
ature. How even under the name o.
right and law he attempted to justify
and defend Bennett and his confreres
in using the United States mails fol
impure purposes. Cast your eye over
the world and see how by organizations,
by wealth and talent, he is seeking to
bre { down government, society and
cha cter. This gathering of his forces
of darkness together means conflict
with light and truth. Our text tells
US that Jesus must reign until he has put
all these under his feet
| The second great enemy of Christ is
FALSE CONCEPTIONS OF RELIGION WITH
FALSE RELIGIONS.
Satan is shrewd. He well knows that
many good people cannot be led into
his nefarious and wicked schemes. He
seeks their influence for his kingdom.
He gives them loose and imperfec,
views of religion He distorts solemn
truth and blinds them TO its true sig
nihcance. He catches them by high
sounding and beautiful sentences. He
paints in rainbow colors the word.
liberality, science, philosophy, reason
If by these higher and partial grea
truths he can turn their eyes away from
Christ upon Calvary he has ruined
them. This man cannot destroy by
passion and crime, but / will guild the
canopy of human reason with the ricf
colors Of mans thought until blinded
and infatuated by its very beauty; l viii
lead him along until he drops into The
gulf of endless misery and then laugh
to scorn his tears and prayers. Thu
he is determined to ruin if not b,
wickedness by fractional views of truth
The most violent enemy the orthodo,
church has to-day is the Devil. He il
radically, conscientiously P) opposed
to any form of evangelical truth Do no
for moment, Beloved, think that be
lief in my Calvanistic creed j
the way to heaven, but do de
clare that any view that takes til,
eye away from Christ the Incarnate
from Christ the Sacrifice, from Chris
the Savior, works irreparable and eter