News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-22

resume the old time courtship, and take
as much pains to make themselves agreeable
as they did five, or ten, or twenty
years ago, before the wedding march
announced to the flushed and fiuttering
| crowd that the bride and groom were coming.
| According to the statistics of Professor
| bikes, in one year in moral New Hampshire
| there were 241 divorces: i'll temperate Maine,
47S divorces; in good old Massachu-
| sets, GOO divorces, and in the New
| England of STEADY habits 2I13 In one
| county of Illinois $50 divorce suits were
begun In one year, anu IN many places it
seems as if a new arrangement had been
made of the Commandments, and instead OF
ten there were only nine, the seventh COM
mandment having been left out. When you
see how many husbands and wives are
parted by law; and know of so many who
would like to dissolve conjugal partnership,
do you not come to the conclusion that Satan
is engaged in mighty industries9
Another route that Satan is apt to take in
his active travels is the factories and other
establishments where capital sits in the Office
or counting room and good many hands of
laborers are busy among wheels and spin
dies and fabrics. On this visit he will first
step into the manufacturers office and
finding the owner and proprietor of
the great establishment all alone with
his correspondence and his account books
says to him: 'You are not making as much
money as you ought You furnish all the
brains. Were it not for your enterprise this
establishment would not be in eX-
i5tence eon These These men Of and I.rv women
mon mold. Their appetite is coarser
and they do not need the luxurieS you
require. Their comfort and happiness are
of very little Importance. Put them down
on the very verge of starvation and take all
the profits into your own possession and if
they do not like it tell them to go where they
can do better" Having done his work in
the counting room SATIN steps right
out among the worlmen. H, says: "You
work too many hours and you do your work
better than it needs to be done You are
serving bloated bondhoder anyhow. He
has no right to have any more than you
have. Why should he ride and you walk!
Why should he have tenderloin steak and
you saltpOrRa Capital is the enemy of labor
Let labor be the sworn foe of capital.
Why don't you strike and bring him to
termsl Wait until he has a large order to
fill by contract and then he cannot help him.
self. Go all together without a moments
warning, and tell him you are going to stop:
If he has more resources than you know of and
persists in going on and getting new men,
give them a volley of brickbats or put
little dynamits in his Office and blow him and
his factory all up with the same explosion"
Look out there on the night skyl Great fire
somewhere What is it! The night is cold
and Satan has made big bonfire of that
factory to warm himself by. The
capitalist has lost heavily and the
workmen and Their families are without
bread and clothing. whence contest thou,
Satan:" From going to and fro among
employers and employees, and from walking
up and down among them Ha! hal was
the only one who made anything out of that
strike. What a splendid fire and lots of
smoke. Hal ha, l like smoke"
Another route Satan is apt to take in his
active travels is through the mercantile es-
adjustments: He STEPS in and says to the
clerks, How much salary do you get! Is
that all? Why, you can't live on that! You
have a right to enough for a livelihood,
A few quarters out of the money drawer will
never be missed. or here and there is
a remnant of goods you could take home
without being found out. Or you could
change those account books little and you
could make that figure eight naught and
that figure five three, and ii you do not
feel exactly 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 go to the theater
and you can't go on that round with the
boys ana you will have to wear that plain
coat, whereas you could have your Overcoat
fur lined and take boar at tip top place
and walk amid plush and tapestries positive
" 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 errand boys" The result of
that Satanic visit is that one of the partners
has drawn SO much ut 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 m n 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 parents hopes, and of all the liquors
that l ever tasted fill my glass with a
brewing 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! Huzza!"
Satan would rather have one young man
than twenty old ones. If he would win the
scptuagenarians and the octogenarians
he could do but little c harm With
Young man, especially if he be bright and
generous and soci al" He sees that young
men have for good or bad been the mightiest
influence in this world. fernando CorteS
Me xico at thirty-two. Gustavus
Adolphus became imm ortal in history so
early that he died at thirty eight Raphael,
the most famous of painters, died at
William Pitt was Prime Min
lister 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 an cd mans life. So Satan is especially
greedy for young men, and in going to and
fro in the earth 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: 1t 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 he meets a man
who is aroused bv something he has
seen in the Bib and Satan says: ''Now |
can settle all that; the Bible, is an imposi-
ton; it has been deludng the world for
centuries do not let it delude you. 1t has
no more authority than the Koran of the
Mohammedan or the Shaster of the
hindoo; or the Zenda-Vesta of the
who is fastening towards the kingdom
of God and says: 'Why all this precipits
ton? Religion is right, but any time
within the next ten years will b9 soon
enough for you. A man with stout
chest ike yours and such muscular
development need not be bOthering him
mself about the next worlI." 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 moro pounds
than any American died at about forty.
and that another learned man who proved
conclusively that if we observed all
the laws of health we need never die,
expired before he got his book on that
subject published. Satan meets another man
who has gone through a long course of prof
forgiveness, and Satan says to the man: 'You
are too late; the Lord VIII not help such
wretch as you; you might as well brace
up and fight your own way through"
And so with spite and an acuteness and a
velocity that have been gaining for six thou
sand years. he RANGES up and down battling,
defeating, affecting. de
strOying the human race. 1hrou IN his
own hand or delegated infernalism he has pur-
sued and hurt us all anil cursed every heart
an CIR 1 an M
ton and cursed every continent. He has in
stiga' ed every war He has reioi1ed in
every pestilence. He has started every gro1n.
HeShas pressed out every sigh. He has hurled
every shipwreck. LaZarettoS, insane asylums,
commercial panics, plaques, destroying
angels, continental earthquakes, and world
wide disasters are to him perfect glee Can
YOU look upon the Communism and the
Mormonism and the Mohamme1anism and
the wide sweep of drunkenness and fraud and
libertinism, the Franco German war and Cri-
mean war the North and South United States
war and rivers of blood flowing across CON
tinents of misery into oceans of wretched-
ness without realizing the power of the Evil
and when asked: Whence CONTEST thoua an
swered: From going to an fro in the earth
and from going ND and down in it y
But blessed b9 Coll [ NAV substitute
anthem for requiem and Hallelujah Chorus
for the Dead March in Saul. The New
estdinenG says me poh ol you WIS HIdnl>
tested that he might destroy the works of the
devil" 1t prophesed that an angel
would come down from heaven with
key and chain and incarcerate and
shut up the old dragon. N 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 Ga |
dara, and from other violent eiectments we |
know that there is in existence a power
4 million-fo!d mightier than the diabolic. |