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REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: Satan On His Travels"

Whence con1est thou? Then Satan ansUered
the Lord, and said: From Going to and
fro in the earth, and from aoalktng up and
doaun in it."-Job t.
In 1912 was printed the largest book ever
published, namely, two huge volumes OF near
i've thousand pages in small type, the author
Joseph Caryl. 1t was commentary on this
Book of Job. When it took year for the
journey from England to India, the son o,
for India, leaving his father writ
ing on his book, and was gone
for years, and when he came back to
England still found his father writing
on it. Inever saw the commentary, but L do
not wonder at its size because there is no end
to the interest of the Book of Job. am not
surprised that Goethe, the unbeliever, took
from this wonderful book the opening of hi i;
drama "Faust," and the Mephistopheles OF
the great German was only the Satan OF
Job. It seems that one day in heaven God
was on HIS throne and angels and mes
sengers came to report their different
missions. suppose one angel said: II was out
among the stars and / saw one of them burn
down" Another angel, imagine, said: "
was off on a stellar excursion and was pres
ent at the birth of a new world" Another
angel think said: II was journeying five
hundred million miles in the wilderness OF
immensity and I saw meteor run down
planet" Another angel: Il was Off and
helped at the Inauguration of 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
ghastly, grizzly, hideous monster from some
miry, sulphurous, 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 re-
ply with blazing effontery, and instead OF
acknowledging any of the mischief he had
been doing said he had been an earthly pa
destrian and had lived sort Of circumam-
bulatory, peripatetic life. And the Lord
said unto Satan: "Whence comest 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 Of my text has great varie-
ty Of names. You know that notorious
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 another name, imprisoned
in Montreal for burglary he will give another
name. So this creature of my text has many
names. He is called in sacred and proiane
literature Abaddon, Apollyon. Ahrimanes,
Zanel, 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, Moresin
the plaguing devil He is called the father
of lies. and has for his children and grand
children and great-grandchildren all false
hoods, deceptions, frauds, swindles,
ISLANDERS, back-bitlngs and subter-
fuges All men Of good sense,
whether enlightened by the Bible or in heath
endom, have noticed that there are baleful
and malefcent influences abroad that have
,.o%xl LII, n;o~,x, ,,,k kho nl ri
monology is as certain as angelology. The
sword of Paracelus was thought to have had
demon in the hilt and there is now demon
in every sword hllt. The ancients supposed
the air was filed with syiphs
and satyrs and sirens and gnomes and
vampires and salamanders and undines and
hobgoblins The Talmud says that Adams
were all devils. Two or three hundred years
ago demonographer gave the names Of
ambassadors Of evil which he thought
Satan sent to different countries:
Mammon, ambassador to England;
Belphegor, ambassador to France; Martinez,
ambassador to Switzerland; Rimmon, am
bassador to Russia; Thannia, ambassador to
Spain: Hutgin, ambassador to Italy, and
that there was 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-
tion. We find that there is somewhere
q monarch of all wickedness He has a
throne of power, and courtiers and armies
and navies and machinery of evil vast as the
round world. He is the supervisor OF all
mischief and what he cannot do himself he
delegates others to do, and as each one of our
race is supposed to have guardian good
angel, I have no doubt that every human be-
ing has a besieging malignant spirit nagging
his footsteps and trying TO make him
think wrong and act wrong, an especial
devil. devil of fraud or devil of ayacice
or devil of uncieanness or devil Of poor
health, and as in my text the spirits are rep
resented as reporting to the Lord so I have
no doubt the evil spirits report to Satan, who
is the enemy of the whole human race. and
who has celerity that makes flight
around the world q matter Of
second, and who marshals on his side tho
forces volcanic, atm spheric epidemic, geo.
said unto Satan: Whence conest thou! Then
Satan answered the Lord and said: From
going to and fro in the earth and from walk
ing up and down In it."
Satan began his attack on this world long
before Adam and Eve were created. While
believe the Bible record that the world was
fitted up for mans residence in one week.
believe also the geological record that the
world was previously for hundreds Of thou
sands Of years going through great
changes. The lumber For the house that was
to be built in week for our first parents
may have been hauled 20 the spot million
years before. This Prince of the Power of
the Air has been trying for all that million
years to d"molsh and use up this world.
The record is on the rocks. He tried to drown
it with universal waters. He tried to burn
it up with universal fires. Then
be tired to freeze it into ruin, and covered it
with universal glaciers And for ages he
kept this world, ,before our first parents occu-
pied it, in paroxvsTS and convulsions, and
the remains of those struggles have seen
and you have seen in museums. or If with
geologlSts hammer you nave gone uUwn
into the stone libraries of the mountains.
Yea. after the famous Bible week the
world had been fitted into Paradise for the
home Of our sinless ancestors. Satan comes
into the Garden of Eden, not through the
gate of foliage and upright in posture, but
ing despoiled our first parents goes. to
work to ruin Paradise, and does
the work so thoroughly that one
who recently visited the site of the ancient
garden between the rivers Tigris and
Euphrates, says the place is @ desert; not a
flower. and the ground so poor that nothing
but some Gate trees grow there, and
the miserable villagers from near by
are not so we'll covered up with their
rags as Adam and Eve were covered up with
their innocence. So you see The Father of
lies for once told the truth when the Lord
said unto him: "Whence comest thouT and
Satan answered the Lord and said: "From
going to and fro in the earth, and from
walking up and down in it."
in my text we nave Satan on his travels,
and am going to tell you some OF the routes
he is apt to take. On his journey down from
the palace where ne reported himself in
answer to the question: Whence contest