Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-11-23

'n r,r.s, and His Subtle Aptitude for
ing the Seeds Of Woe and Damnation
n;scourse Delivered In the BROOKLYN
subject" Satan in his Travels Tert-4And
I've l,'' Then Satan answered the Lord, and said
hou,? cone to and fro in the earth, and from,
From ni;n nei mp and down in it."
fI ~ 1872 was printed the largest book
~ - published, namely, two huge VOL
es eve of near 5000 pages, in small type:
laa author. Joseph Caryl. 1t was a COM
th s, ta on this Book of Job. When II
mel wear for the journey from En-
'g ,ond to India. the son of the author of
s sS' commentary started for India, leay-
~, his father writing on his book, and
. ,ns gone for years, and when he came
s wa, to England still found his father
u,tino on it. l never saw the commen-
t Fl but do not wonder at its size, be-
ans, there is no end to the interest of
. Tao1 Book of Job. I am not surprised
. ,hs Gnthe, the unbeliever, took from
. tp%s wonderful book the opening of his
lrnma. Faust, and the Mephistopheles
If The great German was only the Satan
~ ,ob 1t seems that one day in Heaven
Cod was on His throne and angels and
Messengers came to report on their diff
fercnt missions. l suppose one angel
said: Il was out among the stars aud I
cav one of them burn down." Another
ANGEL. imagine, said: Il was eff on
stellar excursion and was present at the
b;rth of a new world" Another angel,
think. said: Il was journeying five
hundred million miles in the wilderness
Of immensely and I saw meteor run
down planet" Another angel: Twas
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, grizzly,
hideous monster from some miry sui
phurous, filthy world, came into the
palace without wiping his feet, and God
asked him where and how he had been
occupying himself, and this greatest
scoundrel of the Universe made reply
with blazing effrontery, and instead Of
= acknowledging any of the mischief he
had been doing said he had been an
earthly pedestrian and had lived sort
of ircumambulatory, peripatetic life.
And the Lord said unto Satan: Whence
contest thou? Then Satan answered the
Lord and said: From going to and fro
in the earth, and from walking up and
down in it.
THE NUMEROUS LIEUTENANTs OF SATAN
UPON EARTH.
This monster Of my text has a great
variety of names. You know that notori-
Gus villains are apt to take a variety Of
names. Arraigned in Paris for burglary
man will give one name, arrested IN
San Francisco for arson he will give an
other name, imprisoned at Montreal for
murder he will give another name. So
this creature ofmyt text has many names.
He is called in sacred and profane liter
AZURE Abaddon, Apollyon, Ahrimanes,
Zamel, Asmodeus, the revenging devil;
Beelzebub, 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 grandchil-
lren and great grandchildren all false
ISLANDERS, backbitings, and subterfuges.
All men of good sense, whether enlight-
ened by the Bible or in heathendom,
have noticed that there are baleful and
malefcent influences abroad that have
not their origin in the human race. and
demonology is as certain as angelology.
The sword of Paracelsus was thought to
have had demon in the hilt, and there
is now demon in every sword hilt.
The ancients supposed the air was filled
with sylphs and satyrs and sirens and
pnomes and vampires and salamanders
and hobgoblins. The Talmud says that
Adams first wife was Lillis, and that
their children were all devils. Two OF
three hundred years ago demono-
grapher gave the names of ambassadors
Of evil which he thought Satan sent to
different countries: Mammon, ambassa-
dor to England; Belphegor, ambassador
to France; Martinez, ambassador tc
Switzerland; Rimmon, ambassador tc
Russia; Thanniz, ambassador to Spain
Hutgin, ambassador to Italy; and tina,
there was a princess OF devils by the
name of Proserpine. But what was mere
guess work of mythology or superstition
has been made clear by divine revela.
ton. We find that there is somewhere
monarch of all wickedness. He has q
throne of power and courtiers ano
armies and navies and machinery OF eyl
vast as the round world. He is the su
pervisor of all mischief, and what III
cannot do himself he delegates Others
to do, and as each one of our race l.
supposed to have guardian good angel
l have no doubt that every human being
has besieging malignantspirit nagglnt
his footsteps and trying to make hin
think wrong and act wrong, an esPcla
devil, devil of fraud or devil o
ayarice or devil Of uncleanness or
devil of poor health, and as in my tex
the spirits are represented as reportln!
to the Lord, so have no doubt the evl
spirits report to Satan, who is the enem
Of the whole human race, and who has
celebrity that makes fight around tn
world matter of second. and wh'
marshals on his side the forces VOLCANIC !:
atmospheric, epidemic, geologic, ocean,
and cyclonic. And the Lord SAID UNI
Satan: Whence contest thou? Inc.
Satan answered the Lord and said; frol
going to and fro in the earth, and trol
walking up and down in it.
THE AGE OF sATAN's BL1GHIlNG honI
Satan began his attack on this woi y
long before Adam and Eve were crea I,se
While 1 believe the Bible record tn;
the world was fitted up for mans RESI- Isl
dence in one week, l believe also ~. 1n
geological record that the world Nv, wa
previously for hundreds OF thou a
sands of years going through gre es
changes. The lumber for the house tna
Voc e ~ b,,;lt in week tor gu