The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-23
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right, but any time within the next ten
years will be soon enough for you
man with a stout chest like yours
and such muscular development
need not be bothering himself about
the Dext world" But Satan says nothing
to him about the fact that the professor
who gave his whole life to the study Of
health and could lift more pounds than
auy American, died at about forty, and
that another learned man who proved
couclusively that if we observed all thS
laws OF health we need never die, exc
| pired before no got his book on that SUBJ
| ject published Satan meets another
man who has gone through long course
of prohlgacy and is beginning to pray
1 God for forgiveness, and Satan says to
| the man: "You are too late; the Lord
| win not help such a wretch as you; you
might as wen brace up and fight your
| own way through" And so with spite
and an acuteness and velocity that have
i been gaining for six thousand years he
ranges up and down battling, disappoint-
ing, defeating, afii citing, destroying ths
human race.
Through his own hand or delegated in
fernalism he has pursued and hurt us all,
/ and cursed every heart, and cursed every
home, and cursed every nation. and
cursed every continent He has rejoiced
/ in every pestileuce. He has started
! every groan. He has pressed out every
| sigh. He has hurled every shipwreok.
| Lazarettoes, insane asylums, CONNER
! cial panics, plaques, destroying aDgelsr
| continental earthquakes and world wide
| disasters are to him perfect gles. Can
/ you look upon the Communism and the
| MormOnism and the Mohammedanism
and the wide sweep Of drunkenness and
/ fraud and libertinism, the Franco Ger.
| man war and Crimean war, the North and
/ nth nj at TEynTs and ri Pnf
| blood flowing across continents of misery
| into oceans of wretchedness, without
| realizingithe power Of the Evil One, who
reported to the Lord Almighty, and when
asked: Whence comest thou? answered:
| From going to and fro In the tn and
| from g DING up and down in it"
But blessed be Godl I may substitute
| anthem for requiem and Hallelujah
| Chorus for the Dead March in Saul. The
New Testament says: "The Son Of God
was manifested that He might destroy the
works Of the devil" 1t prophesied that
| an angel would come down from Heaven
| with key and chain and incarcerate and
shut up the old dragon. It says that
Christ came to destroy him that had the
power of the devil" And from the way
Christ drove the devil out of those pos
| sessed by him until he was glad to hide
| under the bristles of the swine of
| Gadara and from other violent
| ejectments, we know that there
| is in existence a power a million
fold mightier than the diabolic. The old
lion OF death shall 90 down under the
stroke and roar of the ''Lion Of Judah's
| tribe" Yea, my text shows that Satan
was compelled to report to the Almighty
and give account OF himself When God
said TO him: "Whence contest thou" he
was forced to answer. What means that
Scripture which says that Christ shall
bruise the serpsnPs head9 II you have
ever killed a snake the passage ought to
be plain to you You see this old serpent
the devil, has crawled across the nations,
poisoning whole generations and leaving
its trail on every thing; but after
awhile 1t will be cornered, and Kissing
and writhiug in rage and with crest lifted
and forked tongue shot out 1t will make
final attack on Christ, and Christ viii Rd-
vance upon IL, and lifting his omnipotent
foot, that foot strong enough TO crush
! world, lifting that foot right over the
head of the reptile, viii put down his
heel with a crushing power that shall
| leave the monster bleeding and mashed,
never to hiss again or bite again or shake
his old rattle again. Thank God he has
already received a stunning blow.
Hear you not tho rumbling Of the Chris
tian printing presses and the whirl-
ing OF the Gospel chariot wheelsf
AS many souls have been added 10
the Christian Church in the last eighty
years as in the previous eighteen oentu-
| ries, and that Is q ratio OF increase aC-
| clamatOry with gladness. The kingdom
is coming, and am so sure of it that I
! do not propose to fret aud worry because
1t has not already come. / may jump TO
get on boat that is going off, but do
not propose to jump for boat that is
coming in The sharp attacks of infdeh-
ty and sin are good sign that especial
blessing is coming in showers over all
the earth Flies bite sharp just before
rain.
II we do not see the full contamination
our children will see il. In the time Of
the French revolution a great procession
Of boys carried through the streets ban
ner with the inscription: "Trembls
tyrants; we shall grow upi" Though We
may fail to do our duty there is rising
generation being gospelized, and coming
by the hundreds Of thousands from our
Sabbath schools and Christian homes,
who might properly have on their ban
ners: 'Tremble. ye powers OF darkness
and sin, for We are growing upP we may
not amount to much In ourselves, but IL
we put ourselves in the right place We
can do great exploits. Two put under
two make only four; but placed beside
two make twenty two. Yet what you
and / most need is power TO drive
back this Apollyon, this Asmodeus, this
Ahrimanes from our hearts and lives.
And we can do il not by our own strength,
but by Divine power afforded, for here is
a passage embr azoned with encourage
ment, which says: "Resist the devil and
he will fee from you" emember, Il is
no sin at all 70 be tempted. The best and
the mightiest have been tempted. MIL
ton describes a toad squat at the ear OF
Eve. The sin is in surrenderlng. Do not
/ uaHf az
can not be overthrown. How do you ac-
count for the fact that there are 80 many
men in Sing Sing and Auburn ana the
| other penitentiaries serving out theAr
| protracted sentences for frauds COM
mitted in n1id-life or advanced
ages, although their early Hte
had been good and nothing bad
suspected Of them until at bety
of sixty years Of age the whole land was
struck dumb at their forgery or emoez-
Element The clock in the steeple OF old
. Trinity Church striking the hours did not
remind the rocreant Wall-sireeter q the
passage OF time that would soon DrlnR
!, exposure TO him and doom. Ine eNplana"
ton Is that Mephistopheles' Apollyont
Satan got ia his work st that time. The
man wes not naturally bad. He was as
good as auv OF you are, but Satan, with
whole baftaiions OF inf1dels, swooped up
; on him uuawares. Look out Tor the Whes
of the devil, not only those OF you who
: are voung but the middle aged ana the
| old. Outside Of God you are not safe a
! : | moment. But Weld not to dishearten-
I ment II We put our trust in God our
I | best davs are yet TO oOme--days
~ victory, days Of song, days Of
Z Heaven. and the best days OF the
cause OF righteousness in all the earth
| are vet TO come. As the ten thousand
. men Of Xenophon's army when they
? | came 70 the top OF Mount Tbechee ant
! saw the waters on which they were 30 sal
! 10 their homes. the soldiers with clap.