Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-11-17

can't go on that round with the boys, apd you
will have to wear that plain coat, whereas
you could have Your overcoat fur lined and,
take board at tip-top place and walk amid
plush and tapestries positively oriental
While You oro making up your mind will
just go through the different parts Of ei8is
greet commercial establishment ind Ny
every one, from the wealthy firm down to
the errand boysn Tho result Of that Satanic
visit is that one of tho partners has drawn so
much out of tho concern that tho whole busi-
ness is crippled and bright and promising
boy is sent home to his mother in disgrace,
and young man is in jail for EN-,
bezzlement Three lives ruined and
three eternities. Whence CONTEST thou,
Satanl From going to and fro among
mercantile houses and from walking
up and down among them like to ruin
| splendid fellows and blast parental hopes.
and of all the liquors that ever tasted fill
my glass with brewing of agoniziny tears.
Tome! let us click TO- ethcr the rims OF our
glasses and drink to tho overthrow of the
of the fifty thousand young neil ruined
last year, HuzzaIn Satan woukl rather have
one young man than twenty old ones. If he
would win the septuagenarians aud octoGe-
nnlinns he could do but little harm, with them.
But ho says: "Givo me young man, cspe
4 .cially ifheb be bright and generous ind social.n
.fsHeasees that young men; have for good or
bad been the nightiest influence in this world
fernando Cortes conquered Mexico at
49, Gustavus Adolphus became immortal in
history so early that lie died at 3S Raphael,
the most famous of painters, died at 81.
| William Pitt was prime minister Of England
at a. Jesus Christ completed his earthly
life at 3d. Five years il young mans life
are of moro power for good or evil than the
last fifteen of IN old mans life. So Satan is
especially greedy for young men, and in going
to and fro in the earth he has especial tempta-
ton for them
HOW SIMPLY MEN ARE DENUDEp OF THEIR
SOULS.
Another route that Sctan on his active
travels 10 apt to takc is for the despoiling Of
tho peoples souls. 1t docs not pay hin
merely to destroy the bodies Of men aud
women. Those bodies would soon DO COMO,
anyhow; but great treasures arc involved in
this Satanic excursion. On this route Re
meets u man who is aroused ~ something he
has seen in the Bible, and Satan says; "Now
I can settle oil that; the Eible is all imposi-
ton; it has been dcluding tho world for .
centuries; do not let it delude you. 1t hos
no moro authority than the Koran OF
tho Mohammedin or the Shastsr of
the Hindoo, or the Zenda-Vesta Of the I
Persianl" he meets another man who is .
Fastening towards tho kingdom of God, and t
says: "Why ell this precipitation Re !
ligion is right, bus any time within the next
ten years will DO soon enough for you. .
man with O stout chest like yours and such |
muscular development need not be botherinG
himself about tho next world.n But Satan I
says nothing to him about the fact that the
professor who gave his whole life to tho .
study OF health and could lift more pound;
than any American died ut about forty, and
tina. another learned man, who proved con-
conclusiyely that if wo observed all the laws
OF health wo mood never die. expired before .
10 got his bool, on that subject published. /
Satan meets another man who has gone
through long course of prodigacy and is
beginning to pray God for forgiveness, and .
Satan says to tho man: "You nre too late;
tho Lord will not Eelp such a wretch as you;
own way through" And 80 with
spite and al acuteness and O veloc
ity that have been gaining for six thousand
years, he ranges up and down battling, dis
appointing, defeating, affecting, destroying
tho human race Through his own hand or
delegated infernalis,n no has pursued and {.
hurt us al, and cursed every heart and cursed
every home apd cursed every uation and /
every var ife Ntisg efejolcad If every pesri'
cncc. Flo has started every groan. Hc hos
pressed cut every sigh. He has hurled every
shipwreck. Lazarettoes, insane asyl2ns,
eonDorcal panles, plaSass, doStruF5ae
angels, continental earthquakes, and ~dsM
vice disasters arc to him perfect Glec. Can
YOU look UPON tho Communism and tho Nor
monisln and tho Mohammedism and the wido
sweep Of drunkenness and fraud and libc.tin-
ism, the Franco-Gcrn,an war and Crimean
war, tho north and south United States
war, and rivers of blood flowing across con.
tinents Of misery into oceans OF wretched
ness, without realizing the power of tho Evil
One, who reported to tho Lord Almighty,
and when asked: Whence contest thoul an
s,eered: From going to and fro il the earth
and from going up and down in it"
But, blessed DO God! I may substitute
anthem, for requiem and "Iullelujah Cho
rus: for the dead March i'll Saul" The
Ncw Testament says: "Tho Son of God wes
manifested that he might destroy tho works
OF tho devil" 1t prophcsicd that All angel
would como down from heaven With key
and chain aud incarcerate and shut up the
old dragon. It says that Christ camo to
destroy him that had tho power of death
that is the deviln And from tho way Christ
d.ovo the devil out of those possessed by him
until 10 was glad to hide under tho bristles of
the swine of Gddura and from other violent
cicc.n,cats, VIC know that there is in exist
cacc power million fold miShtier than
Che diabolic. Tho old lion of death shall so
down under the stroke and roar CT the Lion
of Judah's tribe" Yea, my text shows that
Satan was compelled to report to the Al i,
mighty AID give account of himself When
God said to Elm: "WLencc comes thoui" he
was forced to answer. What means that
Scripture which says that Christ shall bruiso
the scrpcnt's headl If you have ever killed
a snake tho passage ought to be plain to you.
You sec tbs old serpent, the devil, has /
crawled across the nations, poisoning whole /
generations and leaving its TRIAL Oh every
thing; bus after n whilo it Will be cor
rcreI, aud hi sing end writhins in rage ,
and with crest lifted and forked !
tongue. slot nut it will make final j
attack on (s,rist, and Christ will !
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aivopce upon it, and lifting hit omnipotent
foot. that foot strong enough TO crush |,
world, lifting that foot right over the head |
of the reptile, will put down his heel With q !
crushing power that shall leave the monster
bleeding and mashed, never to hiss again or |
bite agein or shake his old rattle again.
Thank God he h;ls already received a stuh-
ming blow. Hear you not the rumbng OF |
the Christian printing presses and tue whill- |
ing Of the Gospel chariot wheel? As many
souls have been added to tie Christian
church i'll the last eighty years as in the pre- !
yious eighteen centuries, and that is a r'ltio
of increase acclamatory with gladness. :
Tho kingdom is coming, and mn so sure