New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-11-21
MOVEMENTS OF SATAN
The Devil Credited With Vast Power.
Whose Malign Influence Must
be Repulsed by Ever
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was, Job L. Z;
And the Lord said unto Satan: Whence
contest thou? Then Satan answered the
Lord and said: From going to and fro in
in it.
In 1872 was printed the largest book
ever published, slamely, two huge volumes of
near I.oUo pages in small type, the author
p posgpn n Iary. mt It was commentary on this
book OF JOB. When it took u year for the
Journey from England to india, the son OF
Ine author OF this commentary started for
INDIA, leaving his father writing on his Zoo k
ana was gone for years, and when he came
PACK TO England still found his father writ
ing on 1T: never saw the commentary but
DO not wonder at it's size because there ia
no END TO the enterest of the Book of Job 4
,aIn hotsurprlssd that Goethe. the unbeliever,
TOOK from this wonderful book the opening of
ms drama Faust" and the Mephistdpheies
OF the great German was only the Satan OF
job 1t seems that one dav in heaven God
was on His throne and angels and messengers
came TO report on their different MISSIONS [
suppose one angel said: 81 was out among
tne stars and saw one of them burn down"
another angel. imagine said: II was off
on a>stellar excursion and was present at the
Dlrthof new world Another angel I
think, said: II was jcurneying five hundred
million miles in the wilderness of immensity
anal saw q meteor run down planet" An
otHer angel: Il was off and helped at the
inauguration OF a race of beings the
AMID the mountains and valleys of that
mighty world in the southeast part of the
heavens. But while these great land good
spirits were making their reports a CHASTITY
grizzly, hldeous monster from some miry'
sulphurous, filthy world, came into the,
palace without Nwiping his feet and God
asked him where and how he had been oc-
cupylng himself, and this greatest scoundrel
mo r. l. I
terry, and instead of acknowledging any of
the mischief he had been doing said he had
been an earthly pedestrian and had lived q
sort OF clrcun ambulatory peripatetic life.
And the Lord said unto Satan: Whence
comest thou? Then Satan answered the
Lord: From going to and fro in the earth
ana from walking up and down in it. -
This monster of my text has O. great va
rlety OF names. You know that notorious
villains areapt to take q variety of names.
Arranged in Paris for burglary man will
give one name: arrested in San Francisco for
arson he will give another name, imprisoned
4n'Montreal for murder he will give another
name. So this creature of my texthas many
names. lie is called in sacred and prOfane
literature Abaddon, Apollyon, Ahrimanes,
Zeniel, Asmodeus, the revenging devil, Beel-
zebub the sovereign OF devils. Lucifer the
brilliant devil, Diabolus the despairing devil,
Mammon the money devil Pluto the fiery
devil, Baal the military devil, Meresin the
plaguing devil. He is called the father of lies
and has for his children and grandchildren
and great-grandchildren all falsehoods, de-
ceptons, frauds, swindles, ISLANDERS, back
billings and subterfuges All men of
good sense, whether enlightened by the
Bible or in heathendopl have noticed
that there are baleful and malefcient
influences abroad that have not their origin
III the human race, and demonology is as
certain as angelology. The sword of Par
acelsus was thought TO have had demon in
the hllt and there is now a demon in every
sword hilt. The ancients supposed the air
was filled with sylphs and satyrs and sirens
and gnomes and vampires and salamanders
and undines and hobgoblins. The Talmud
says that Adams frstwife was Lillis and that
their children were all devils. Two or three
hundred years ago demOnOgrapherg gave the
names Of ambassadors of evil which he
thought Satan sent to different countries:
Mammon, ambassador to England; Belphe-
gor, ambassador to France; Mantinet am
bassador to Switzerland Rimo on, ambassador
TO Russia; Ihannlz, ambassador to Spain;
Hutgin, ambassador to Italy and that there
was princess of devils by the name of
Proserpine. But>what was mere guess work
OF mythology or'superstition has been made
clear by divine revelation. We find that
there is somewhere q monarch of all wicked
ness. He has "a throne of power and cour-
tiers and armies and navies and m achinery of
perYiSor of all5Rnischief,and what he cannot
do himself he delegates Others to do, and as
each one OF our race is supposed to have
guardian good angel, L have no doubt that
every human being hasa besieging malignant
spirit nagging his footsteps and trying to
make him think wrong, and act wrong, an
especial devil, a devil of fraud or a devil of
aYaTlce or adeVitor uRcleanliness or devil
OF poor health and asi immy text the spirits
are represented as reporting to the Lord SO I
have no doubt the evil spirits report to Sa-
tan, who is the enemy of the whole human
race, and who has celebrity that makes flight
around tthe world the matter of a second
and who marshals on his side the forces vol
canlc, atmospheric epidemic, geologic, ocean,
lc and cyclonic. 'tAnd the Lord said unto
Satan: Whence CONTEST thou? Then Satan
answered the Lord and said: From going
to and fro;inrthe earth and from walking up
and downinit,'' .. -
Satan began:his: attack on this world long
before Adam and Eve were created. While
believe the Bible record that the world was
fitted up for man s: residence in one week,
believe also the geological record that the
world was previously for hundreds of thou
sands of years going through great changes.
The timber forjthe house that was to be built
for our first parents may have been hauled
TO the spot d million years before This
sprlnce of the power: ofthe air has been trying
for all that million years to demolsh and use
{up IllS WOflQ. uhe tfecOrd!}S on the rocks. He
tried to drown it with universal waters. He
tried to burn it with universal fires Then
he tried to freeze 1T into ruin, and covered it
with universal glacier. And for ages he kept
this world before our first parents occupied it
in paroxysms and seervulsions. and the re-
mains of those struggles haxeseen, and you
have seen in museums, OF if with geologists
hammer you have gone DOWN into the stone
libraries of the mountains. YEA after the
famous Bible week the world has been fitted
into u paradise for the home tof our siHless
ancestors.
Satan comes into the Garden of Eden, rot
through the gate of foliage and upright in
posture, bat crawls in under the bushes "a
snake, and, having despoiled our first par
ents, goesito work to ruin paradise, and does
the work so thoroughly that one who re-
GENTLY visited the site of the ancient garden
between the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates
says the place is a desert, not a flower and
the ground SO poor that nothing but some
date trees grow there, and the miserable viii
layers from near by are not SO well covered
up with their Tags as Adam and Eve were
covered up with their innocence. So you
see the father of Res for once told the truth
when the Lord said unto MIN: Whence
CONTEST thou?" AID Satan answered the