Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-24
He Invades the Domestic Cir
Gle, the Factory and
the Store.
He Despoils the Souls of Peo-
pie in His Satanic
Excursions.
The Final Overthrow OF Satan Pre-
dicted-HIs Head VIII Be
Crused by the Sayior's
Heel.
REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DEVILS.

REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DEVILS.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 1.-THE thrones in
and around Brooklyn tabernacle are on
the increase. AS an evidence of the de-
mand for Dr.. Talmage's work $50, 600
copies of his forthcoming subscription
book, The Pathway of Life" nave been
bought from the historical company by
Messrs. b. +. Johnson g. Co., of Rich
mond, Va, although the retail prices are
from $3.50 to s. a copy. In tie history
of literature no book has had such an
advanced sale. At the tabernacle this
morning the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage,
ID. d., took for the subject of his sermon:
Satan on His Travels" His text was,
Job IL. And the Lord said unto Satan:
Whence contest thou? Then Satan an.
swered the Lord, and said: From going
to and fro in the earth, and from walking
up and down in it,"
In 1912 was printed the largest book
ever published, namely, two huge vol
umes of near 5,000 pages in small type,
the author Joseph Caryl. 1t was a com
mcntary on this book of Job. When it
land to India, the son Of the author Of
this commentary started for India, leav-
ing his father writing on his book, and
was gone for years, and when he came
back TO England still found his father
writing on it. | never saw the common
tary, but | do not wonder at its size
because there is no end 10 the interest OF
the book of Job. ! am not surprised that
Goethe, the unbeliever, took from this
wonderful boob the opening Of his drama
Faust" and the Mephistopheles of the
great German was only the satan OF job.
1t seems that one day in heaven
God was on His throne and
angels and messengers came 10 report on
their different missions. ! suppose one
angel said: Il was out among the stars
and | saw one of them burn down" An
other angel, | imagine, said; Il was off
on a stellar excursion and was present at
the birth Of a new world" Another an
gel, | think. said: Il was journeying
five hundred million miles in the wilder.
ness of immensely and | saw "a meteor run
down n planet Another angel: Il
was of and helped at the Inauguration
of a new race of beings amid the noun
tains and valleys Of that mighty world
in the southeast part of the heavens"
But while these good and great spirits
were making their reports a ghastly, griz-
ely,
L. MONSTER
from some miry, sulphurous, filthy world,
came into the palace withou. w!p!ng his
feet. and God asked him where and how
he had been occupying himself, and this
greatest scOundfel of the universe made
reply with blazing ~cfTrontcry, and instead
OF acknowledging any Of the mischief he
had been doing said he had been an earth
" pedestrian and had lived a sort of cir
Cu~nambulatory, peripatctic life. And
the Lord said unto Satan: Whence
earnest thou? 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 CT my text has a great
variety of names. You know that motor
ious 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 of M text has many names.
nc IL talItu III odCltu ant plolnlC IltCld
turc AbaGdon, Apollyon, Ahrimanes,
zaniol, Asmodeus the %revenging devil,
BeelZebub the sovereign of the
devils, Lucifer, the brilliant devil,
Diabolus the despairing devil, Mammon
the money devil, Pluto the fiery devil,
Baal the military devil, Mercain the
plaguing devil. He is called the father
of lies and has for his children and grand
children and great grandchildren all false
hoods, receptions, frauds, ~swindles, SLAM
ders, backbitings and subterfuges. All
men of good sense, whether enlightened
by the Bible or in hcathendom, nave no.
tiCed that there are baleful and inefficient
influences abroad that have not their orr
gin in the human race, and demonology
is as certain as angelol0gy. The sword
of Paracelsus was thought 10 have had a
demon in the hilt and there is now a
demon in every sword hilt. The a~ncients
supposed the air was tiled with sylphs
and satyrs and sirens and gnomes and
vampires and salamanders aud undines
and ~hobgoblins. The Talmud says that
Adams first wife was Liilis and tina
their children were all devils. Two or
three hundred yearsagoa demon0grapher
gave the names Of
AMBASSADORS OF EVIL
which he thought Satan sent to 4iffer-
ent countries: Mamnon, ambassador to
England; B~elphegor, ambassador TO
France; Martinez, ambassador to Switner-
land: Rimmon, ambassador TO Russia;
Thanniz. ambassador to Spain; Hutgin
ambassador TO Italy; and that there was
a princess of devils by the name OF Pros |
erpine. Put what was mere guess work
of mythology or superstition has been
made clear by divine revelation. We
find hat there is somewhere a monarch
Of all w~ickedness. He has a throe of
power and courticrs and armies and ma
vies and machinery of evil vast as the
round world. He is the supervisor of all
mischief and what he cannot do himself