The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-01
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Huzzahi" Satan ,uoutd rather hare on,
young man Man t,Denty old ones. II he
would win the septuagenarians and the
0ctogenarians, he 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. Fernando Cortes conquered
Mexico at thirty-two. Gustavus Adol.
plus became immortal in history SC
early that he died at t~hirty-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 a young mans life are Of more power
for good or evil that the last fifteen of
an old mans life. So Satan is especial
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 ac-
tive travels Is apt to take is for the
DEsPoILING OF SOULS.
1t does not pay him merely to destroy
the bodies Of men and women. Those
bodies would soon lie gone anyhow; but
great treasures are involved In this
Satanic excursion. On this route he
meets a man who is aroused by some
thing he has seen in the Bible, and
Satan says: NOW | can settle all that;
the Bible is an imposition; it has been
deludlng the world for centuries; do not
let it delude you. 1t has no more
authority than the Koran of the M0ham-
medan, or the Shaster of the Hindoo,
or the Zenda-V esta Of the Persian"
He meets another man who is hasten
ing towards the kingdom of God, and
says: "Why all this precipitation? Re-
ligion is right, but any time within the
next ten years will be soon enough for
You. A man with a stout chest like
yours, and such muscular development,
need not be bothering himself about the
next world.n 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 more pounds than
any American, died at about forty, and
that another learned man, who proved
concluslvely that if we observed all the
laws of health we need new die, ex-
PRED before he got his book on that
subject published. Satan meets an
ether man who has gone through a long
course of proffgacy and is beginning to
pray for forgiveness, and Satan says to
the a
ssYOU ARE TOO LATE;
the Lord will not help such a wreck as
you, you might as well brace up and
tight your own way through" And so
with a spite and an a%cuteness and a
velocity that have been gaining for six
thousand years. lie ranges up and down,
battling, disappointing, defeating. afiict-
ing, destroy ng the human C
Through his own hand or delegated in
fernaiism lie has pursued and hurt us
all, and cursed every heart, and cursed
every home, and cursed every nation,
and cursed every continent, lie has
ninstigated every war. He has rejoiced
In every pestilence. He has started
every groan. He has pressed out every
sigh. He has hurled every shipwreck.
LaZarettoes, insane asylums, CONNER
cial panics, plaques, destroying angels.
continental earthquakes, and world
WluO oio<totClo ~ W bAhl q poiANtb 6AOts
Can you look upon the Communism
and the Mormonism and the Moham-
mechanism and the wide sweep of drunk
enness and fraud and llbertlnism, the
Franco-German War and Crimean'
War, the North and South United
States war, and rivers of blood flowing
across continents of misery into oceans
OF wretchedness, without realizing the
power of the Evil One. who repoi ted to
The Lord Almighty, and when asked,
Whence CONTEST thou? answered, "From
going to and fro in the earth, and from
going up ana down in it,"
But, blessed be God! | may substitute
anthem for requiem, and Iiallelujah
Chorus for the Dead March in Saul.
The New Testament says: 1.-THE Son of
God was manifested, that He might de-
stroy the works of the devil" 1t pro-
-tshesied that an angel would cone down
from heaven With key and chain and
~incarcerate and shut up the old dragon
1t says that Christ came to ''destroy
him that had the power of deatli-that
is, the DEVIL"
WHAT YOU AND / MOST NEED
is power to drive back this Apollyon,
this Asmodeus, this Ahrimanes, from
our heart and lives. And we cal do it,
not by our own strength but by divine
power afforded, for here Is a passage
emblazoned with encouragement which
says: "Resist the devil and he will flee
from YOU" Remember it is no sin at
all to be tempted. The best and might
lest have been tempted. Milton de-
scribes a toad squat at the ear of Eve.
The sin is in surrendering. Do not
feel so secure in yourself as to think
you cannot be overthrown. How do
you account for the fact that there are
so many old men in Sing Sing and
Auburn and the other penitentiaries,
serving out their protracted sentences
for frauds. The clock in the steeple of
old Trinity Church striking the hours
did not remind the recreant Wall
~streeter Of the passage OF time that
would o bring exposure and doom to
him. The explanation is that Mephis-
topheles, Apollyon, Satan got In his
work at that time. The man was not
naturally bad. He was as good as any
Of you are, but Satan, with whole bat
tallions of Intervals, swooped upon him
Look out for the wiles of the devil,
not only those Of you who II young,
but the middle-aged and the old. Out
side of God
YOU ARE NOT SAFE
a moment. But yield not TO dishearten-
ment. If we pu. our trust in God, u
best days are yet to come-days CT VIC
tory, days Of song, days of heayen-and
the best days OF the cause of righteous
ness In all the earth are yet to come. As
the ten Thousand men of Xenophon's
army, when they came to the top Of
Mount Theches and saw the waters on
which they were to sail to their homes,
the soldiers with clapping hands and
waving banners all together shouted:
'1The sea, the seal" SO We to-day in our
march toward our heavenly home come
up to the top of the mountain of holy
anticipation, and look off upon oceans
Of light, and oceans of glory, and
oceans OF Joy; and thrilled Is We have