Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-12-06

lgufe IVe three, anu II you 90 not loci SA-
actly right about doing that you can some
day pay it back, which you can do perfectly
easy. Don't feel like running the risk
Well, then you can't so to the theater and
you can't go on that round with the boys
aud you will have to wear that plain coat,
whereas you could have your overcoat fur
lined, aud take board at tip-top place and
walk amid plush and tapestries positively
oriental While you are making up your
mind ! VIII Just 20 through the different
parts Of this great commercial establishment
and try every one from the wealthy firm
down to the errand boys" The result of
that satanic visit q that one Of the partners
has drawn 50 much out Of the concern that
the whole business is crippled and a bright
and promising boy is sent home TO his
mother in disgrace and young mGn Is in
Jail for embezzlement. Three liygs ruined
and three eternties,
Whence CONTEST thou, Jaiant "From
going to and fro among mere lntile houses
and from walking up and down among
them. l like 10 ruin splendid fellows and
blast parental hopes and of all the liquors
that | ever tasted fill my glass with brew
ing of agonizing tears. Come let US click
together the rims Of our glasses and drink to
the overthrow Of the fifty thousand young
men | ruined last year, Huzzaw Satan
would rather have one yo-ng man than TWEEN
ty old ones If he would win the septuagen-
arians and the octogenarians be could do
but little harm with them But he says:
"Give me a young man, especially if he be
bright and generous and social He sees
that young men have for good or bad been
the mightiest influence in this world. Her.
mando Cortes conquered Mexico at thirty
two. Gustayus 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
Minister Of England at twenty four, Jesus
Christ completed his earthly life at thirty
three. Five years in young mans life are
Of more power for good or evil than the last
fifteen Of the old mans life. So Satan is
especially greedy for young men, and in
going 70 and fro in the earth he has especial
temptations for them.
Another route that Satan on his active
travels is apt to take is for the despoiling of
the peoples souls. 1t does not pay him
merely TO destroy the bodies Of men and
women. Those bodies would soon be gone
any how. but great treasures are involved in
this Satanic excursion. On this route he
meets man who is aroused by something he
has seen in the Bible, and Satan says: snow,
/ can settle all that; the Bible is an imposi-
ton; il has been deuding the world for
centuries; do not let 1t delude you. II
has no more authority than the Koran Of
the Mohammedau, or the Shaster of the
| Hindoo or the Zenda- Vesta of the Persianl'
He meets another man who is Fastening
towards the kingdom of God, and says;
"Why all this precipitation Religion is
right, but any time within the next ten
years will be soon enough for you. A
sN-aa
and such muscular development need
not be bothering himself about the
next world But Satan says nothing
to him about the fact that the pro-
fessor who gave his whole life to
the study Of the health and could lift more
pounds than any American, died at about
forty, and that another learned man who
proved conclusivcly that II we observed all
the laws of health we need never die, eX-
PRED before he got his book on that subject
published. Satan meets another man who
has gone through a long course OF protiigacy
aud Is begiuningt pray God for forgiveness,
and Satan SAYS to the man: "Eou are too
late; the Lord win not help such "A wretch
rs you; you might ms well brace up and
4 fight your own way through And so Witha
spite and an acuteness ana a velocity that
have been gaining for six thousand years
he ranges up and down, baniing disappoint-
! ing, defeating, aniicling destroying the
/ human race Through his own hand or
delegated iuferualism he has pursued aud
hurt US all, and cursed every heart aud
cursed every home and cursed every nation
and cursed every continent He has insti-
gated every war. He has raioicad i'm every
/ pestileuce, He has started every groan. He
has pressed ont every sigh. He has hurled
every shipwrecS LaErettos, insane asy-
I huns commercial pancs, plaques, destroy
I ing angels, c0ntne tai earthquakes, and
4 worldwide disasters arc 10 him perfect
I q ee Can YOU look upon the Communism
and the MormOnism aud the Monammcdan-
/ ism and the wide sweep of drunkenness and
] fraud and liberalism the Franco-German
war and Crimeau war, the North and South
/ United States war, the rivers Of blood flow
/ ing across continents Of misery into oceans
of wretchedncss, 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 it,
/ But, blessed be God, I may substitute
anthem for requiem and Halleluiah Chorus
I for the Dead March in Saul The New Tes-
/ lament SAYS: "The Son of God was mani
/ tested that He might destroy the works OF
the devil" 1t prophesied that an angel
/ would come down from heaven with key
and chain and incarcerate and shut up the
/ old dragon. 1t saws 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 under the bristles of the swine
| of Gadara and from other violent eject
ments. we know that there is in exist
ence power milion-fold mightier than
the diabolic. The old lion of death shall go
down under the stroke and roar OF the
sLion of Judah'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 thoun he was forced to answer.
What means that Scripture which
saws that Christ shall bruise the ser
pent's headi II you have ever killed
snake the passage ought to be plain