The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-11-22
MOVEMENTSOF SATAN
The Devil Credited With Vast Power,
Whose Malign influence Must
be Repulsed by Every
One.

BROOKLYN, NOV, IL Az the I0Deruocie
this morning the Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage, D. D., took for the subject of his SER
mon: "Satan on His Travels" His text
was, Job 1. Z;
And the Lord said unto Satan: Whence
contest thou? Then Satan answered the
Lord and said: From going to and fro in
it.
In 1912 was printed the largest book
ever published, namely, two huge volumes OF
near :. 900 pages in small type, the author
Joseph Caryl 1t was a commentary on this
Book of Job. When it took a year for the
journey from England to India, the son OF
the author of this commentary started for
India, leaving his father writing on his book,
and was gone for years, and when he came
back to England still found his father writ
ing on it: never saw the commentary, bnt
do not wonder at it's size because there is
no end to the enterest of the Book of Job.
am not surprised that Goethe. the unbeliever,
took from this wonderful book the opening oil
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 to report on their different missions. l
suppose one angel said: 81 was out among
the stars and saw one of them burn down.
Another angel. imagine, said: 81 was of
on stellar excursion and was present at the
birth of q new world" Another angel,
think, said: II was journeying i've hundred
million miles in the wilderness of immensely
and saw a meteor run down q planet" An
other angel: Il was off and helped at the
inauguration OF a new race of beings the
amid the mountains and valleys of that
mighty world in the southeast part of the
heavens" But while these great and good
spirits were making their reports a CHASTITY
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 oc,
cupying himself, and this greatest scoundrel
of the universe made reply with brazen effron-
terry, end instead of acknowledging any of
the mischief he had been doing said he had
been an earthly pedestrian and had lived a
sort of eircumambulatory peripatetic life.
.'And the Lord said unto Satan Whence
CONTEST thou? Then Satan answered the
Lord: From going to and fro In the earth
and from walking up and down in it.
This monster of my text has great va
riety of names. You know that notorious
villains are apt to take a variety OF names.
Arranged in Paris for burglary man will
give one name; arrested in San Francisco for
arson he will give another name, imprisoned
in Montreal for murder he will give another
name So this creature of my textha many
names. He is called in sacred and profane
literature Abaddon. Apollyon, Ahrimanes,
Zeniel, ksmodeus, the revenging devil. Beel-
zebub the sovereign of devils. Lucifer the
brilliant devil, Diabolus the despairing devil,
Mammon the money devil, Pluto the fiery
plaguing devil. He is called the father of lies
and has for his children and grandchildren
and Observation-Disclosures all falsehoods, de-
eeptions, frauds, swindles, ISLANDERS, back
billings and subterfuges. All men of
good sense, whether enlightened by the
Bible or in heathsndom, have noticed
that there are balefui and malefcient
Influences abroad that have not their origin
in the human race, and demonoiogy is as
certain as angelology. The sword OF Par
acelsus was thought to have had demon in
the hilt and there is now demon in every
sword hilt. The ancients supposed the air
was filled with sylphs and satyrs and sirens
and gnomes and vampires and salamanders
and undines and hobgoblins. The Talmud
SAYS that Adams first wife was Lillis and that
their children we're all devils. Two or three
hundred years ago ademonographer gave the
names of ambassadors of evil, which he
thought Satan sent to different countries:
MammoD, ambassador to England; Belphe-
gor, ambassador to France; Mantinet, am
bassador toSwitzerland; Rimon, ambassador
to Russia; Thanniz. ambassador to Spain;
Hutgin. ambassador to Italy and that there
was princess of devils by the name OF
Proserpine. But what was mere greas work
of mythology or superstition has been made
clear by divine revelation. We find that
ness. He has throne of power and cOur-
tiers and armies and navies and machinery of
evil vast as the round world. He is the SUI
pervisof 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 a
guardian good angel, | have no doubt that
every human being has besieging malignant
gus% f0p fcfo md fvxyl an RI,
maks him think wrong and act wrong, an
especial devil, a devil Of fraud or devil OF
avariee or @ devil or uncleanliness or devil
of poor health and as in my text the spirits
are represented as reporting to the Lord SO
have no dozbt the evil spirits report to Sa-
TAM who is the enemy OF the whole human
race and who has celebrity that makes flight
around the world the matter of q second,
and who marshals on his side the forces vol
eanie atmospheric, epidemic, geologic ocean,
lie and cyelonic. s'And the Lord said unto
Satan: Whence CONTEST thou? Then Satan
answered the Lord and said: From going
to aud fro in the earth and from walking 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 timber for the house that was to be built
for our first parents may have been hauled
to the spot a million years before. This
prince of the power of the air has been trying
for all that million years to demo dish and use
s1p this world. The record is on the rocks. He
tried to drown it with universal waters. lie
tried to burn it with universal fires. Then
he tried to freeze it into ruin, and covered it
with universal glacier. And for ages he kept
this world before our first parents occupied it
In paroxysms and commissions. and the re.
mains of those struggles have ssen, and you
have seen in museums or if with geologist's
hammer you have gone down into the stone
libraries Of the mountains. Yea, after the
famous Bible week the world has been fitted
into paradise for the home of our sinlesf
ancestors.
Satan comes into the Garden Of Eden, not
through the gate of foliage and upright in
posture, but crawls in under the bushes q
snake and. having despoiled our first par
ents, goes to work to ruin paradise, and does
the work SO thoroughly that one who re-
Gently visited the site of the ancient garden
between the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates
GAYS the place is desert, not flower, and
the ground SO poor that nothing but some
date trees grow there, and the miserable vii
layers from near by ARE not so well covered
up with their rags as Adam and Eve were
covered up with their innocence. SO you
See
when the Lord said unto MIN: "Whence
CONTEST thou?" and Satan answered the
Lord and said: From going to and fro IL
the earth and from walking up and down in
it,
In my text we have Satan on his travels
and am going to tell you some of tbs
routes he is apt to take On his way down
from the palace where he reported himself in
answer to the question: Whence CONTEST
thou? the first range of mischief he may be
expected to take is the air. 1t was not O
witticism or slip of the pen when Paul in
mis- letter to the Ephesians called Satan the
prince Of the Power of the air." i think il
means that Satan works through conditions
of the atmospAsfa, The west wind is full ol
angels, the east wind il full Of devils. Satan
spreads abroad his black wings and hurri
canes and euYoclydons and CaNbbean whirl
winds and equinoetials are Matched 9St. He
takes the miasmas that float up from
sNamps and matches them into typhoid
fevers. He takes the cold blasts and matches
them into pneumonias and rhermatisma
and assumptions. Not only has ha
power in the upper air where highest
clouds float, but power over the. lower all
which we breathe, and a. NE breathe 10 times
a minute. and take $50 cubic feet Of air in
every "a hours and much of this s;r affects
the arterial circulation, YOU see what oppor.