The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-23

anyhow; but great treasures are involvst
in this Satanic excursion. On this rout,
he meets q man who is aroused by some
thing he has seen in the Bible and Satar
says: "Now I can settle all that; thu
Bible is an imposition; it has been deludine
| the world for centuries. Do not let it de.
Jude you. 1t has no more authority than
the Koran of the Mohammedan, or the
Shaster Of the Hindoo or the Zenda- Vests
| Of the Persian" He meets another man
who is fastening toward the kingdom Of
God and says: "Why all this precipita.
ton! Religion is right, but any time
| within the next ten years will be soon
enough for you. A man with stout chest
like yours and such muscular develop
ment need not be bothering himself about
the next world"
But Satan says nothing to him about
the fact that the professor who gave his
whole life to the study of health and could
lift more pounds than any American, died at
about forty, and that another learned man
who proved conclusivelythatif we observed
all the laws of health we need never die.
expired before he got his book on that sub
ject published. Satan meets another man
who has gone through a long course of
profiigacy and is beginning to pray God
for forgiveness and Satan says to the man:
''You are too late; the Lord will not help
such wretch as you; you might as well
brace up and fight your own way through"
And so with q spite and an acuteness
and velocity that have been gaining for
5000 years, he ranges up and down. baf-
fling, disappointing, defeating. affecting,
destroying the human race. Through his
own hand or delegated 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 re-
joiced in every pestience. He has started
every groan. He has pressed out every
sigh. He has hurled every sbipwreck.
LaZarettoes, insane asylum, commercial
panics, plaques, destroying angels, conti-
mental earthquakes, and world wide dis
asters are to him perfect glee. Can you
look upon the communism and the Nor
monism, and the Mohammedanism 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 flowing
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 to
and fro in the earth and from going up
and down in il, ("
But, blessed be God! l may substitute
anthem for requiem and "Hsllelujah
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" It prophesied
that an angel would come down from
Heaven with key and chain and incarce-
rate 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 possessed by him until he
was glad to hide under the bristles
Of the swine of Gadara and from
other violent ejectments, we know
that there is in existence a power, a
million-fold mighter than the diabolic.
The old lion of death shall 60 down under
the stroke and roar of the ''Lion Of Ju-
dah's tribe" Yea, my text shows that
Satan was compelled to report to the
Almighty and give account of him.
self. When God said to him: "Whence
CONTEST thou" he was forced to answer.
What means that Scripture which says
Christ shall bruise the serpent's head? II
you have ever killed q snake the passage
ought to be plain to you. You see this
old serpent, the devil, has crawled
across the Nations, poisoning whole gen.
erations and leaving its trails on every
thing; but after awhile it will be cornered,
and Kissing and writhing in rage and
with crest lifted and forked tongue shot
out it will make final attack on Christ, and
Christ will advance upon it, and lifting
His omnipotent foot, that foot strong
enough to crush q 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
never to hiss again or bite again
or shake his old rattle again. Thank God
he has already received q stunning blow.
Hear you not the rumbling Of tho Christian
printing presses and the whirling Of the
gospel chariot wheel:
As many souls have been added to the
Christian Church in the last eighty years
a. in the previous eighteen centuries and
that is a ratio Of increase acclamatory with
gladness. The kingdom is coming and
am so sure Of it that I do not propose to
fret and worry because it has not already
come.
II we do not see the full contamination
our children will see it. In the time of the
French revolution q procession of boys
carried through the streets banner with
The inscriptions: ''Tremble, tyrants; we
hall grow up" Though we may fail to
do our duty there is . rising generation
being gospelized and coming by the hum
dreds Of thousands from our Sabbath
schools and Christian homes who might
have ON their banners:
'Tremble, ye powers Of darkness and
sin; for we are growing up" We
may not amount to much our
,elves, but if We put ourselves in
Two put under two make only four, but
placed beside two make twenty-five. Yet
What you and I most need is power to
lrive back this Apollyon. this Asmodeus,
his Ahrimanes from our hearts and lives.
And we can do it, not by our own strength,
out by divine power afforded. for here is .
% ssage emblazoned with encouragement
which says: "Resist the devil and he will
lee from you"
Remember, it Is not sin at all to be |
tempted. The best and the mightiest have
been tempted. Milton describes q toad
Iquat at the ear of Eve. Tho sin il in sur. |
Do not feel so secure in your. |
elf as to think you can not be overthrown. |
How do you account for the fact that there |
ire so many old men in Sing Sing and Au.
,urn and the other penitentiaries, serving
,ut their protracted sentences for frauds |
committed in mid-life or advanced |
lges, although their early life had
,een good, and nothing had been
Inspected Of them until at fifty or sixty
rears of age the whole land was struck
lumb at their forgery or embezzls
nent. The clock in the steeple Of ole |