The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-12
SATAN ON HIS TRAVELS.
THE MANY ALIASES OF TIE
PRINCE OF LIARS.

den or Hden-Ihe Routes he Takce
Nowadays.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 1.-THE throngs in and
around Brooklyn Tabernacle are ON the in-
crease. AS an evidence of the demand for
Dr. Talmages work two hundred and fifty
thousand copies of his fortheomi subscrip-
tion book, "The Pathway of Life, have been
bought from the Historical Company by
Messrs b. F. Johnson & Co., of Richmond.
Va, although the retail prices are from
three dollars and a half to five dollars a
copy. In the history of literature no book
has had such an advanced sale.
All the Tabernacle this morning the Rev.
7, Dewitt Talmage, ID, D, took for the
subject of his sermon, "Satan on His
Travels" His text was Job l., 2: "And
the Lord said unto Satan: Whence comest
thoui Then Satan answed the Lord, and
said: From going to and fro in the earth,
and from walking up and down in it,"
In 1872 was printed the largest book ever
published, namely, two huge volumes OF
near five thousand pages in small type, the
author Joseph Caryl. 1t was CONNIE tary
on this book Of Job. When it TOOK year
for the journey from England to India, the
started for India, leaving his father writing
on his book, and was gone for years, and
when he came back to England still found
his father writing on 1t. never saw the
commentary, but l do not wonder at its
size, because there is no end to the interest
Of the book OF Job. / am not surprised
that Goethe, the unbeliever, took from this
wonderful book the opening Of his drama
Faust" and the Mephistopheles of the
grant (tarfrlau w nnIU tha Satan ~ Inh
1t seems that one day in heaven
God was on his throne and
angels and messengers came to report on
their different missions. suppose one
angel said: II was out among ths stars and
saw one of them burn down" Another
angel, imagine said: ~ was off on a stel-
lar excursion and was present at the birth
OF new world" A Mother angel. think,
said; 81 was journeying five hundred mil
lion miles in the wilderness of immensity
and l saw meteor run down planet"
Another angel: II was Off and helped at
the Inauguration Of a new race of beings
amid the mountains and valleys of that
mighty world In the southeast part of the
heavens" But while these good and great
spirits were making their reports CHASTITY,
drizzly, hideous monster from some miry,
sulphurous, filthy world, came into the
palace witho It wiping his feet, and God
asked him where and how he had been
occupying himself, and this greatest scoun-
drel Of the universe made reply with blaz-
ing effrontery, and instead of acknowledge
ing any Of the mischief he had heen doing
said he had been an earthly pedestrian and
had lived sort of circumambulatory
eripatetic ife. "And the Lord said unto
Satan: Whence CONTEST thous Then Satan
answered the Lord, and said: From going
to and fro in the earth and from walking
up and down IN it."
This monster OF my text has a great va
riety of names. You know that no orious
villains are apt to take variety of names.
Arraigned in Paris for burglary man will
give one name, arres ed in San Francisco
for arson he will give another name impris-
oned at Montreal for murder he will give
another name. SO this creature of my text
has many names. He is called in sacred
and profane literature Abaddon, Apollyon,
Ahrimanss, Zaniel, Asmodeus the reveng-
ing devil, Beelzebub the sovereign of devils,
Lucifer the brilliant devil, Diabolus the de-
spairing devil, Mammon tae money devil,
Pluto the fiery devil, Baal the military
devil, Meresin the plaguing devil. He Is
called tho father of lies, and has for his
children and grandc Iildren and great
grandchildren all falsenoods, deceptions,
frauds, swindles, sla lders, back-bitings and
subterfuges. All men of good sense, whether
enlightened by the Bible or In heathendom,
have noticed that there are baleful aud ma
leiicent Influences abroad that have not their
origin In the human race, and demonology
is as certain as angelology. The sword u
Paracelsus was thought to have had q
demon in the hilt aud there is now a demon
In every sword hilt. The ancients supposed
the air was filed with sylphs and satyrs
and sirens and gnomss and vampires aud
salamanca AMI undines and bobgoblins.
The Talmud says that Adams first wife
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devils, Two or three hundred years ago
demonographer 9 We tue names OF amDas-
sadors OF evil which he thought Satan sent
to different Countries; Mammon, ambas-
sador TO England; Belphegor. ambassador
70 France; Martlnet, ambassador to Switz-
erland; Rimmon, ambassador to r lssIa;
Tbanniz. ambassador to Spain; Hutgin,
ambassador to Italy; and that there was a
princes OF devils by the name Of Proser-
pine. But what was mere guess work or
mythology or superstition has been made
clear by divine revelation. We find that
there Is somewhere a monarch Of all wioky
edness He has a throne of power and
courtlers and armies and navies aud
machinery of evil vast as the round world.
He is the supervisor Of ali mischief, and
what he cannot do himself he delegates 9TH
TO have guardian good
angel, have no doubt that every
human being has besiegi1g ma
llgnant spirit nagging his footsteps and try
ing TO make him think wrong aud act
wrong, an especial devil, devil Of fraud or
a devil OF avarios or a devil Of uncleannesS
or a devil Of poor health, and as in my text
the spirits are represented as reporting to
the Lord, SO have no doubt tbs evil spirits
report to Satan, who Is the enemy OF the
whole huma race, and who has a celebrity
that makes flight around the world the
matter OF a second. and who marshals on
his side the forces, volcanic, atmospheric,
spidemic. geologic, oceanic and cyclonic.
'And the Lord said unto Satan Whence
eomest thoul Then Satan answered the
Lord and said: From going to ana fro In
,he earth and from walking up and down
n It,"
Satan began bis attack on this world long
before Adam and Eve were created. While
believe the Bible rec I'd that the world
vas fitted up for mans residence in one
week, l believe also the geological record
hat tue world was previously for hundreds
# thousands Of years going through great
'haDges. The lumber for the house that
vas to be built in week for our first par
'nts may have been hauled to the spot A
Million years before. This prince OF the
,ower ok the air has been trying for all
hat million years to demolish and use mn
his world. The record Is on the rocks.
ie tried to drown IL with universal waters.
lie tried to burn 1t up with universal fires.
then he tried to freeze il into ruin, and COW
red IL with universal glacier. And for
'ges he Kept this world before our first