Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-12-06

Z WHEN the LOru Salu unto MIN: "Whence
contest thoul" and Satan answered the Lord
and said: From going to and fro in the
earth, and from walkingup and down l., IL >,
In my text we have Satan on his travels
and am going to tell you some of the routes
he is apt to take. On his way down from
the palace whore he reported himself in an
swer to the question: Whence cometh thoug
the first range of mischief he may be ex
pected to take is the air. 1t was not a with
cism or slip of the pen when Paul in his
letter to the Ephesians called Satan the
"Prince of the Power of the Airn / think
it means that Satan works through condi.
tions of the atmosphere. The west wind is
full of angels the east wind is full of devils
Satan spreads abroad his black wings and
/ hurricanes and euroclydons ana Caribbean
whirlwinds and equinoctials are hatched out.
He takes the miasmas that float up from
swamps and matches them into typhoid
feyers. He takes the cold blasts and
matches them into pneumonias and
rheumatsms and cousumptious Not only
has he power in the upper air where highest
clouds float, but power over the lower air
I which we breathe, and as we breathe nine
teen times a minute and take in three hun
dred and fifty cubic feet of air in every
twenty-four hours, and much of this air af-
fects the arterial circulation, you see what
/ opportunities the Prince Of the Air has of
communicating and despoiling and democrat
izing man. Through atmospheric infiu.
ences he clouds the disposition and rasps
/ the nerves and covers the best of people
with relgio. dependency. as in the case
! of Edward Payson and William Cowper
and that beloved apostle Of evangelism,
/ James w. Alexander. His great delight is
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that way dus the preacher and stupefies
I the people and sees to it that the atmos-
/ phere Of not more than one out of hun
dred churches is fl TO breathe and whole
congregations, Sabbath by Sabbath, are as
I phyxiated. Yes, he is worthy Of the title
st Paul gave him.
+ Another route he is apt to take is through
domestic life. There is no greater sport for
him than coniugal quarrel. 1t does not make
any difference how long the marriage ring
has been on the finger of the right hand, he
win try to pull of the signet, He says TO
husband: "What a plata wife you have
compared with what she once vast Don't
you see the color has gone out of her cheek
and there are several wrinkles about her
temples, aud a sprinkling of frost on her
locks, Besides that you have advanced IN
intelligence while she has stood still or gone
back. How hard IL is that you should be
chained to such dullness and imbecilityw
Then he turns and says to the wife; "That
man neglects you, you have right TO be ieal-
GUS He likes his cigar and his club and
every thing better than you. Why not get
divorced Marriage is only a civil contract,
anyhow, and not a divine alliance. Let me
have that ring. II means nothing, and you
might as well give it 10 men The ring is
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and down like plaything over the mouth
of perditon and SAYS 81 win hand it back,
only let me have it a little while.n And he
keeps tossing that ring with all its sacred
memories higher upaud further out, tossing
and catching tossing anl catching it until
one day you clutch FORTH crying; "Give
me back my ringl" But 10, il has dropped
into the yawning gulf, and you suddenly find
who had been pitching and catching the
ring and you cry out; "Whence contest
thou" And heanswers! "From going toand
fro IN the domestic life OF the city, aud from
walking mp and down In IL f; that is all There
are thousands of marriage relations strained
almost TO the breaking, and commend TO all
mon aud women who are restless IN the pres
emit marriage state. that they resume the
old-time courtship and take as much pains to
make themselves agreeable as they did five
or ten or twenty years ago, before the we'd
ding march announced to the flushed and
Tutoring crowd that the bride and groom
were coming. According 20 the statistics
OF Professor niGes, iu one year in moral
New Hampshire there were 2tl divorces; IN
temperate Maine AS divorces; in good Old
Massachusetts go divorces, aud in the New
England of "steady habits . ll3. In one
county OF Illinois SD divorce suits We're
begun I'm one year. and i'm many places IL
seems as IL q new Arrangement had been
made of the commandments, and instead Of
ten there were only nine, the seventh COM
mandment having been left out. When you
see how many husbands and wives are
parted by law. and know of 80 many who
would like to dissolve coniugM partnership,
do YOU not come to the conclusion that Satan
is engaged ia mighty industrlesi
Another route that Satan is apt to take in
his active travels is the factories and other
establishments whore capital sits in the
Office or counting room and good many
hands Of laborars are busy among wheels
and spiudles and fabrics on this visit he
will first step into the manufacturers office
and finding the owner and proprietor oil tue
great establi shmelt all alone with his cor
respondence and his account books, says 10
him: "You are not making as much money
as you ought. You furnish all the
brains. Were it not for your enter
Prise this establishment would not be IN
existence These men and women IN
your employ are Of very common mould.
Their appetite is coarser and they do not
need the Injuries you require. Their com
fort and happiness are Of very little lmpor-
lance. Put them down on the very verge OF
starvation and take all the profits into your
own possession, and if they do not like 1t
tell them to 90 where they can do better
Having done his work in the eounting-room
Satan steps right out among the workmen
He saws. sYou work too many hours and
YOU do your work better than it needs to be
done You are serving a bloated bondholder
any how. He has no right to have any more
than YOU have. Why should he rae ana you
walki Why should he have tenderloln
steak and YOU salt pork Capital IS the
enemy of labor. Let labor be the sworn Zoe
Of capital. Why don't you strike aud bring
him TO termsg Wait until he has large or
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