The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-01
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
Satan on his Travels.

"And the Lord said unto Satan: Whence
| CONTEST thouI Then Satan answered the ora
and said: From going to and fro in the eartn'
and from walking up and down in h.DJop
1:1.
IN 1872 was printed the largest book
ever published, namely, two huge vol
umes of neal five thousand pages in
| small type. the author Joseph Caryl.
1t was a commentary on this Book OF
Job. When it took a year for the jour
ney from England to India, the o OF
the author of this commentary started
| for India, leaving his father writing on
| his book, ard was gone for years, and
| when he came back TO England, still
found his father writing on IT.. l never
| saw the commentary, but | do not
| wonder at its size, because there is no
end to
TIE INTEREST OF THE BOOK OF JOE.
l am not surprised that Goethe, the I'M
believer, took from this wonderful
book the opening of 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 mes
sengers came 10 report on their mis-.
| sions. But while these 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 occupying himself, and this
GREATEST sCoUNDREL OF TIE UNI
VERSE
male reply with blazing effrontery, and
instead of acknowledging any OF the
mischief he had been doing, said he
| had been an earthly pedestrian, and
| had lived a sort of circumambulatory,
peIipatetic lifc- "And the Lord said
| unto Satan: Whence contest thou!
| Then Satan answered tine Lord, and
said: From going to and fro In the
earth, and from walking up and down
in it."
This monster of my text has a great
| variety OF names. You know that no.
| torious villains are apt to take a variety
of names. Arraigned in Paris for bur-
glary, a man will give Ii name; ar
rested in San Francisco for arson, he
will give another name; imprisoned at
Montreal for murder, he will give an
other. So this creature
HAS MANY NAMES.
He is called in sacred and profane liter
allure Abaddon, Apollyon. Ahrimanes,
Zaniel, Asmodeus the revenging devil,
Beelzebub the sovereign of devils, Luci-
fer the brilliant devil, Diabolus the de-
spairing devil, Mammon the money
devil. Pluto the fiery devil, Baal the
military devil, Meresin the plaguing
devil. lie is called the father of lies,
and las for his children and grandchii-
dren and great-grandchildren all false
| hoods, receptions, frauds, swindles,
| ISLANDERS, back billings, and suhtertuges.
All mel of COOL sense, whether enlight-
ened by the Bible Or in heathendom,
have noticed that there are baleful and
maleficent influences abroad, that have
not their origin in the human race, and
DEMONoLoGY Is CERTAIN
as angelology. The sword of Paracel-
sus was thought to have had a demon
in the hilt, and there is now a demon
in every sword hilt. The ancients sup
posed the air was filled with sylphs aud
Satyrs and sirens and gnomes and YAM
Tires. Two or three hundred years ago
Il demonographer gave the names of
ambassadors of evil which he thought
Satan sent to different countries: NAM
mon, ambassador TO England; Bel
phegor, ambassador to France; Mar
tinet, ambassador lie Switzerland; Rim
men, ambassador TO Russia; Tbannia,
ambassador TO Spain; llutgin, ambas-
sador to Italy, and that there was a
princess of devils by the name of Pro-
serpine. But that that was mere guess
work of mythology or superstition has
We lind there is somewhere Il monarch
of all w~ickedneSs. lie is
TIE SUPERVISOR OF ALL MISCHIEF,
and what he cannot do himself he Cele-
| gates others to do, ard as each one Of
| our race is supposed to have a guardian
good angel, l have nc doubt that every
human being has a Gesleging, malign-
ant spirit nagging his footsteps, and
trying to make him think wrong and
act wrong, an especial devil, Il devil.of
| fraud, or Il devil of avarice, OF a devil
| Of uncleanness, orr devll of poor health
| and as in my text the spirits are repre-
scented rs reporting to the Lord, so l
have no doubt the devil spirits report
TO Satan. "AnI the Lord said unto
| Satan, Whence contest thou? Then
| Satan answered the Lord and said I:
| From going to and fro in the earth,
and from walking up and down in it,
Satan began
Ills ATTACK ON THIS WORLD
long before Adam and Eve were Great
ed. While l beltere the BaGle record
that the World wdS fitted up for mans
| residence in one lreek. | believe also
the geological record that the world
was previously for hundreds of thou
sands of years gong through great
changes. Tile lumber for the house
that was to be built in a week 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
demolish and use up this world. The
record is on the rocks. lie tried to
drown it with universal waters. He
tried to burn 1t up 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.
Yea, after the famous Bible week, the
world had been fitted into a Paradise
for the home of Il sinIess ancestors.
Satan comes into the Garden of Eden,
and through the gate of foliage, not
upright i'll posture, but crawls III under
the bushes ii snake, and having despoil-
ed our first parents, goesto work to ruin
Paradise, and does the work so thor
oughly that one who recently visited
the site Of
II ANCIENT GARDEN.
between the rivers Tigris and Euph-
rates, says the place is q desert; not a
flower, and the ground so poor that
nothing but some uate-treeS grow there,
and the miserable villagers from near
by are not 80 well covered up with