The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-12

Ieel exactiY rlgnt aoouI uoluS tudO, you Coii
some day pay it back, which You can DO
| perfectly easy. Don't feel like running the
riski Well, then, you can't go to the thea
ter. and you can't 90 Oh that round with the
bows. and YOU will cave to wear taat p ain
coat, whereas you could have your overcoat
fur-lined, and take board at a tip-top
place and walk amid plush and tapes
tries positively Oriental While you are
making up your mind | will just go through
the different parts of this great commercial
establishment and try every one from the
wealthy firm down to the errind boys" "
! The result of that satanic visit is that one
| of the PARTNERS has drawn SO much out OF
| the concern that the whole business Is Grip
pied, aud a bright and promising boy. is
| sent home to his mother IN disgrace, ana
| Young man is in jail for embezzlement
| Three lives ruined and three eternities.
| Whence CONTEST thou, Satan. 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
| agonizing tears. Comet let ui click to-
| ether the rims Of our glasses and
| drink to the overthrow of the fifty
| thousand young men | ruined hast year!
| Huzzaln Satan would rather have one
Young man than twenty old ones. II he
would win the septuagenarlaDs and the
octogenarians he could do but little harm
with them. But he says: GIVE me young
| man. es ecially If he be bright aud generous
and social He sees that Young men have
for good or bad been tie mightiest influence
in this world. fernando Cortes conquered
Mexico at thirty-two. Gustavus Adolphus
became immortal in history so early that
he died at thirty. eight. Raphael, the most
famous of painters died at thirty-seven.
William Pitt was Prime Minis e. of Eng
lad at twenty-four. Jesus Christ com
pleted his earthly lie at thrty-three. Five
wears in a youug mans life are of more
bower for good or evil than the last fifteen
of an old mans life. SO Satan is especially
greedy for young men, aid in going to and
fro in the eartl he has especial temptation
for them.
Another route that Satan on his active
travels is apt to take is for the despoiling of
the peoples souls Il does not pay him
merely to destroy the bodies of men and
women Those bodies would soon be gone
ANYHOW; but great treasures are involved
in this satanic excursion. On this route be
meets a man VINO is aroused by something
he has seen in the Bible and Satan says:
"Now | can settle all that; the Bible is an
imposition; it has been deluding the world
for centuries; do not let it delude you. it
has no more authority than the koran of
the Mohammedan or the shaster # the
He IN ets another man who il hasteaIng
toward the kingdom of God and says:
"Wby all this precipitation Religion is
right, but any time within the next ten
years will he soon enough for you. A man
with q stout chest like yours and such m s.
cular development need not be bolnering
himself about the next world" Bat Satan
says nothing to hun bout the fact that the
profe ,sor who gave his whole life to the
study of health and could lift more pounds
than any American died al about forty, and
that another learned man who proved con-
clusively that if we observed all the laws of
health we need never die, expired before he
got his book or that subject published.
Satan meets another man who has gone
through a long course of profigacy and is
beginning to pray Col for forgiveness, and
Satan SAYS to the mau: You are too late;
the Lord will not help such wretch as you,
you might as well brace up ald fight your
own way through And so with spite
and an acuteness and a velocity that have
been gaining for six thousand years, he
ranges up and down, battling, disappointing,
defeating, affecting, destroying the humal
race. Through his own hand or deleg gated
infernalism 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 instigated
every war He has rejoiced in every pest
Hence. He has started every groan He
has pressed out every Sigh. he has hurled
every shipwreck; Lazarettos, insane asy-
lums, commercial panics, plaques. destroy
ing angels, continental earthquakes, and
world disasters are to him perfect
glee. Can you look upon the communism
and the Mdrmonism aud the Mohammeiaa-
ism and the wide sweep Of drunkenness and
fraud and libertinism, the Franco-German
war and Crimean war, the north and south
United States war, and rivers of blood flow
ing across continents of misery into oceans
of wretchedness, without realizing the
power of the evil one, who reported to the
Lord Almighty, and when asked, Whence
contest thou! answered: From going 20
and fro IN the earth and from going up aud
down in it,"
But, blessed be God! l 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 ths an angel
would come down from heaven with key
and chain and incarcerate and shut up the
old dragon. 1t says that Christ came to
destroy him that had the power OF death
that is the devil" And from the way
Christ drove the devil out of those pos.
sessed by him until he was glad to hide TN
der the bristles of the swine Of Gadara and
lTOIn OtDeT NiOlenU eJecUineuCS, we know
that there is in existence power million
fold mighter than the dab )lic. The old
lion Of death shall go down under the stroke
and roar of the Lion of Jldah's tribe"
Yea, my text shows thas Satan was COM
PEELED to report to the Almighty and give
account of himself. When God said 10
him, whence CONTEST thou" he was
forced to answer. What means that Script
ure, which saws that Christ shall hruise the
serpent'S head! If you have ever killed
snake the pass &c ought to be plain to you.
You see, this old serpent, the dew |, has
crawled across the notions, poisoning
whole generations and leaving its trail on
every thing; but after while 1t will be cor
nered, and kissing and writhing in rage,
and with crest lifted and forked tongue shot
out, il will make final attack on Christ
aud Christ will advance upon it, and lit.
ing his 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 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 re-
ceived a stunning blow. Hear you not the
rumbling of the Christian printing presses
and the whirling of the Gospel chariot
wheeli As many souls have been added to
the Christian church in the last eighty
years as in the previous eighteen centuries
and that is a ratio or increase acclamatory
with gladness. The kingdom is coming,
~ an, 90 e,,ra Of > the 40 MT ,r,,,oe,