Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-16


Ihevs seen and you have seen in museums,
or II with geologlet's hammer you
have gone down into the etone libraries
Of the mountains. Yes, after the famous
Bible week the world had been fitted into
& paradise for the home Of our sinless
ancestors, Satan comes into the Garden
Of Eden, not through the gate OF foliage
and upright in posture, but crSwls In
under the bushes, snake, and having
despoiled our first parents goes TO work
to ruin Paradise, and does the work so
thoroughly that one who recently visited
the site Of the ancient garden between
| the rivers TIgris and Euphrstes Gays the
place is a desert, not flower, and the
ground so poor that nothing but some
date trees grow there, and the miserable
villagers from Iesr by are not SO well
covered up with their rags ss Adam and
Eve were covered up with their limos
cence. So you see the father OF lies for
once told the truth when the Lord said
unto hin: "Whence contest thou2" and
Sstsn answered The Lord ard said "From
going to and fro 10 the esv.h, snd from
waking up and down IN L."
Ia my text we nave
SATAN ON HIS TRAVELS,
and am going to tell you some Of the
routes he ia apt 20 take. On his way
down from the pslsce waere he reported
himseItin answer TO the question: Whence
CONTEST though? the first range Of mis-
Chief ne may Dc expected to tsks is the
air. It WAS not WittiCism or slip Ct
he pen when Paul N his letter 20 the
Ephesians called Satan the "Pripce Of the
Power of the AiG." think II means that
Satan works through conditiCns Of the
atmosphere. The West wind is full q
angel, the east wind is full OF devils
Satan spreads abroad his black wings and
hurricanes Gnd euroclydors an Carlo
teSn Whirl winds Snd eq1inoctisls are
bStched out. He takes the miaEmss that
float up from sTRmps and matches them
into typhoid fevers. He takes the cold
blasts and matches them into pEeumolias
and rheumaliims and consumptieus. NOT
only hiss he power in the upper air where
highest clouds fl3st, but power ever the
lower cir which we breathe, and &s We
breathe nineteen times minute and take
in $50 cubic feet Of air IL every twenty
four hours and much Of this sir affects the
srterial circulation, you see what oppOr-
tUniSies the Prince Of the Air has OF con-
taminating snd despollipg and demorSliz.
ing man. Through atmospheric inhu-
ence he clouds the disposition and rasps
the nerves and covers the best Of people
with religious dependency SIS in the csse
Of EtWGrd PSyson and William CoWper
sud that beloved apostle Of evangelism,
james " Alexander. His great delight
is to have the cir OF churches vi;ikted sid
III that way dulls the preacher and
STuPITIES THE PEOPLE
and secs to it that the atmosphere Of not
more tBGn one out of hundred churches
is fit 10 breSthe, and whole congregations
Sabbath by SIbb9th sTe esphyxlsted
Yee, he ia worthy Of the title ST. Paul
gave hin, "Prince Of the Power Of the
Air"
Another route he is apt to take is
through domestic life. There isno greater
sport fer him than corr lgsl quarrel. Il
does not mske sny difference how long
the MARI &c Tiug mas been On the fnger
Of the riglt hGnd, he wi / try TO pull 4
the signet. He says to the husband
"WGar plain wiz you have compared
with Whst abe oGce was. D1n't you see
thst the color has gone out OF her cheek
Gnd there are several wrinkles about heg
temples and epripkliGg Of frost On her
locks? Besides thai, you nave advanced
in intelligence While she has stood still
or gone oaCk. How hard it is that yGu
should be chained so such dizziness
anc inoeciiity!" Then he turns and seys
to the wife: THAT MAJ neglects you,
you have y right 20 be 1asIoRs. H Ike,
his cigar and his Club and anything and
everything better thsn you. WY not get
s divorce? Marriage is only VII c0l-
IF iufn
Let me have that ring. l. means nothing
end Y0U might as well give II TO me
The ring is handed over TO SstSr, and he
toseeS IL Up and down Ike 3 playfhing
over the mouth of perditiOn and saws: az
will hsEd it bGcE, only Ie. me have il
little while" And he keeps tossing that
TiEg with ell the sacred memories higher
up and further out, tosslrg and catching,
tossing and catching It until one dSY you
clutch for It, crying: "Give me back
my ring !" but 10, it hiss dropped into Il
yaSring gulf, and you suddenly fld who
has been pitching ana Cs'ching the Tirg,
ard YOU cry out: "Whence comest
TO srd fro in the domestic life Ct the city
ard walking up snd down in it; that is
all" There are thousands OF
Marriages RELATIONS
strained almost to the breaking, and l
recommend to sll men and women
who sre restless In the present
marriage state, that they resume the
Cld-time cour!ship snd take IS much
pains to make them selves agreeable as
they did Eve or ten or twenty years $50,
before the wedding msIch announced 70
the flshsd and hustering crowd that tie
bride and groom were coming. Accord
ing to the statistics of Professor bikes,
in one year 10 morsl Nav Hampshire
there were 24l divorces; IN temperate
Maine, AS divorces; il good old MsssS-.
chusetts, 800 divorces, sud in the New
England Of "ssesdg habits" 2ll3 In
one county in Illinois $50 divorce suits
were begun in one year, and in many,
places it seems SIS il new arrangement
nsd been made OF the commandments,
and instead Of ten there sre only nine,
the geventh commandment having been
left out. When you gee how many hus-
bands and wives sire parted by law, and
know OF co many who would Ike to dis
solve coniugel partnership, do you not
come TO the conclusion that Satan is en-
gagged in mighty Industries?
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 rom and 3 good
mauy hands Of lsborers are
BUSY AMONG WHEELS
and spindles and fabrics. On this visit
he will first step into the manufacturers !
olice aud finding the owner ard proprie
tor Of the great establishment sll alone |
with his correspondence and his account |
books, SAYS to him: "You are not max |
ing As much money as you ought. You
furnish all the brains. Were II not for |
Vour PnteTDr;sa this eefablISbr,aor