West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-22
SATAN'S TRAVELS.
HOW HE nuINs YOUNG ANp onp
Rev DIR. Talmage Pictures His Jour,
noys Among Men.

TEXT: "And the Lord said unto Satan
Whence CONTEST houfT Then Satan dns,0ered
The Lord, n sad: From foin0 20 and
Jro IA the earth, and from todlking up and
doom IN G."-Job l., z.
In 1912 was printed the largest book ever
published, namely, two huge volumes OF neal
nve thousand pages I'm small type. the author
Joseph CaryL lt was a commentary on this
Book Of Job. When it took n year FOR the
Journey from England TO India, the son Of
the author OF this commentary started
for India, leaving. his father writ
ing on his book, and was gone
for years, and when he came back 10
England still found his father writing
on IL. lnever saw the commentary, but LIDO
not wonder at its size because there is no end
10 the interest of tho Book OF Job. am not
surprised that Goethe. the unbelievcr, took
from this wonderful book the opening Of hi
drama Faust" and tho Mephistopheles of
the great German was only the Satan OF
JOB. lt seems that one day in heaven God
was on His throne and angels and mes
sengers came TO report their different
missions. i suppose one angel said: az was out
nmong tho stars and | saw one of them burn
down" Another angel, / imagine, said: 81
was on on a stellar excursion and was pres
ent at the birth Of n new world.n Another
angel i think, said: IL was iourneyin0 five
hundred million miles ip the wilderness OF
immensely and saw a Meteor run down a
planet" Another angel: II was Oft and
helped at the inauguration OF n new race OF
beings amid the mountains an valleys of
That mighty world in the southeast part OF
tho heavens" But while these good and
great spirits were making their reports n
ghastiy, grizzly, hideous monster from some
miry, ~sulphurous, filthy world, came into
the palace without wIping his feet,
ana cod asked him where and how
ne had been occupying himself, and this
greatest s%coundrel OF the universe maze re-
ply with blazing eifontery, and instead OF
hcknowledging any OF the mischief he had
been doing said he had been an earthly Do.
destrian and had lived a sort OF clrcumafn-
bulatory, peripntetic life. And the Lord
lald unto Satan: "Whence CONTEST thoufi
linen Satan mswere the Lord, aud said:
From going to and fro I'm the earth and
from walking mp and down in It."
Inns monster OF my text has n great varie-
ty OF names. You know that notorious
Villains are apt TO take a variety Of names.
Arraigned in Paris for burglary n man will
give one name. arrested in San Francisco for
arson ha will give another name, imprisoned
In Montreal for burglary he will give another
name. 80 this creature of my text has many
names He Is called in sacred and profane
literature Abaddon, A~pollyon, Ahrimanes,
zaniel, 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
tue plaguing devil. He is called the father
OF lies. and has for his children and grand.
children and great-grandchildren all false
ANSNt NNNCBtioHet FRAUDS, SWlnuIe9.
ISLANDERS, back-bitlngs and subter,
tuges All men OF good sense.
whether enlightened by the Bible or i'm heath.
endom, have noticed that there are balefuI
ana maleiicent influences abroad that have
not their origin in the human race, and de-
monology is as certain as angelology. The
sword of Paracelus was thought to have had
a demon in the hilt and there is now a demon
IN every sword hllt. The ancients supposed
the mir was filed with sylphs
and satyrs and sirens and gnomes and
vampires and salamanders aud undines and
~noogobhns- The Talmud says that Adams
hrst wife was Lillis and that their children
We're ali devils. Two or three hundred years
ago a demonographer gave the names of
ambassadors OF evil which he thought
satan sent to different countries:
Aammon, ambassador TO England:
belphegor, ambassador to France: Martinez
ambassador TO Switzerland; Rimmon. am.
bassador 10 Russia; Thannia, ambassador to
SPAIN Hutgin, ambassador Co Italy, and
that there was a Princess OF devils by the
name OF froserpine. But what was mere
guess work of mythology or SUPERSTITION
mas Deem maue clear 10y divine revela-
ton 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 MI
mischief, and what he canno do himself lie
uoiegates Others TO do, and as each one Of our
race IS supposed 20 have a guardian pood
angel, i have no doubt that every human Ia
ing has a besieging malignant spirit nagginp
ms Footsteps and trying TO make him
Inink wrong aud act wrong, an especial
devil. a devil Of fraud or a devil OF avarice
or a devil OF unclennness or a devil Of moor
health, and as In my text the spirits are rem
RESENTED as reporting to the Lord so 1 have
no doubS the evil spirits report to Satan. who
is the enemy OF the whole human race an5
Nho mas a CELEBRITY that makes flight
around the world n matter of n
second, and who marshals on his side the
forces volcanic, atmospheric, epidemic. gao
logic, oceanic anu cyclonic. ''And the Tord
SAID unto satan: Whence CONTEST thonf Then
satan answered the Lord and said: From
gong 20 and fro in the earth and from walk.
ing up and down IN itn
Satan began his attack on this world lon,
before Adam and Eve were created. While I
believe the Bible record that the world ,vas
itted up Tor mans residence ia one week. I
Delleve also the Geological record That the
world was previously for hundreds OF tbon.
SANDS of years going through Great
changes Inc lumber FOR Une house that was
20 be built in n week for our first parents
may have been hauled to the spot a million
years before. This Prince OF tho Power of
the Air has been trying for all that million
years 70 dsmOllsh and use M thfs world
The record is on the rocks. He tried odro,yn
with universal waters. He trisd 70 burn
u mp with universal fires. Then
he tired 20 freeze it into ruin. aud covered h
Win universal glaciers. And for ages he
kept this world, before our first pnrents occu.
pled ii, IN paroNYsmS and commissions md
the remains of those struggles / have seen
and you have seen in museums, or IL will
Reolcgists hammer You have gone dow,
INTO the stone libraries o. the mountains
1ea attor the famous Bible week tie
WoFld nad been fitted into n Paradise FOR The
nome or our sinless ancestors Satan comes
into The Garden Of Eden. not through the
gaze OF foliage and upright in posture. but
Sfh"Is ln under the bushes a snake. and hav-
tn6 despoiled our first parents goes TO
aork 70 ruin Paradise. and doeg
the work 50 thoroughly that one
VINO recently visitet Che site Of the ancient
garden between tho rivers Tigrlq and
cuphrates says The place is "a desert. not n
noFer and the ground so poor that nothing
gut some date trees grow there. ard
tbe miserable Villagers from near bv
orc not - well covered up with their
reg a. Adem and Eve we're covered no with
tneir innocence 50 you eea the Father Of
ues Tor once tod tho truth when the Lord
eaia unto him. Whence contest thour md
satan answered bhe Lord aud said. ttFrom
gong 70 and fro in the earth, ana from
Walking ~ and down in &C."
IN my text no have satan on hfs travels.
and I am going 10 ten you some or The routes
pc ie apt % take. On bic journey down from
the palace where be reported himself in
.nswer ~ tne quesGous Whence contest
thonf tho first range Of mischief
ne may Do expected 70 take is
the air. It was not n witticisrn OF % slip Of
kne pen when Paul, On his letter 81 the
Ephesian8, called Satan tho prince Of the
Power % Che Affn fhfrr ff rro4ra Ft-t