News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-22
SUNDAYS SERMON.
ONE OF REV. DIR. TALMAGE'S
STERLING DISCOURSEA
Subject: Satan on His Travels"


Whence contest thou? Then Satan answered
the Lord and said: From going to and
fro IN the earth, and from I0dtktng up and
dotUn IN it.'-Job l., Z.
In 1872 was printed the largest book ever
published. namely, two huge volumes of near
five thousand pages in small type, the author
Joseph Caryl 1t was commentary on this
Book of Job. When it took 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 to
England still found his father writing
on II. Inever saw the commentary, but | do
not wonder at its size because there is no end
to the interest of the Book of Job. l am not
surprised that Goethe the unbeliever, took
from this wonderful book the opening of hi
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 to report their different
missions. suppose one angel said: 81 was out
among the stars and [ saw one of them burn
down. Another angel, imagine, said: 81
was off on a stellar excursion and was pres
ent at the birth of a new world.n Another
angel, think, said: II was journeying five
hundred million miles in the wilderness of
immensely and l saw a meteor run down
planet" Another angel: II was off and
helPed at the Inauguration of new race of
d4nlu Tue mountains AM valleys OF
that mighty world in the southeast part of
the heavens" But while these good and
great spirits were making their reports
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 len occupying himself, and this
greatest scoundrel of the universe made re-
ply with blazing efontery, and instead of
acknowledging any of the mischief he had
rlrnssa s-r,r1 h., I,Il
destrian and had lived sort of circumam-
bulatory, peripatetic life. And the Lord
said unto Satan: "Whence contest thou.'
Then Satan answered the Lord, and said:
S'From going to and fro in the earth and
from walking up and down in it. u
This monster of my text has great varie-
ty of names. You know that notorious
villains are apt to take a variety of names.
Arraigned in Paris for burglary a man will
give one name, arrested in San Francisco for
arson he will give another name, imprisoned
in Montreal for burglary he will give another
name. So this creature of my text has many
names. He is called in sacred and profane
literature Abaddon, Apol1yon, Ahrimanes,
Zaniel, Asmodeus the revenging devil,
Beelzebub the sovereign of devils. Lucifer
the brilliant devil, Diaholus the despairing
devil, Mammon the money devil, Pluto the
fiery devil, Baal the military devil, Moresin
the plaguing devil. He is called the father
of lies, and has for his children and grand
hoods, receptions. frauds, swindles,
SANDERS, back-bitlngs and subter-
fuges- All men of good sense,
whether enlightened by the Bible or in heath
endom, have noticed that there are baleful
and maleficent influences abroad that have
not their origin in the human race, and de-
monology is as certain as angelolsgy. The
sword of Paracelus was thought to have had
demon in the hilt and there is now demon
in every sword hit. The ancients supposed
the fiilad with
and satyrs and sirens and gnomes and
vampires and salamanders and undines and
hobgoblins- The Talmud says that Adams
first wife was Liilis and that their children
were all devils Two or three hundred years
ago deDonographer gave the names of
ambassadors of evil which he thought
Satan sent to different countries:
Mammon, ambassador to England
BelphegOr, ambassador to France: Martinez,
ambassador to Switzerland; Rimmon, am
bassador to Russia; Thannia, ambassador to
Spain; Hutgin, ambassador to Italy, and
that there was Princess of devils by the
name of Proserpine. But what was mere
guess work of mythology or superstition
has been made clear by divine revela-
ton. We find that there is somewhere
a monarch "of all wickedness He has
throne of power, and coHrtiers and armies
and navies and machinery of evil vast as the
round worli. He is the supervisor of all
and what he cannot do himself he
others to do, and as each one of our
race IS supposed to have a guardian good
angel have no doubt that every human be-
M has besieging malignant spirit nagging |
his footsteps and trying to make him |
think wrong and act wrong, an especial |
devil, devil of fraud or a devil of avarice |
or devil of uncleanness or a devil of poor |
health, and as in my text the spirits are rep
resented as reporting to the Lord so [ have
no doubt the evil spirits report to Satan. who
Is the enemy Of the whole human race, and
VINO has CELEBRITY that makes flight
-g5sifd the world matter of a
second, ami who marsh ais on his side the
forces volcanic, atm spheric, epidemic, geo.
logic, oceanic and cyclonic and the Lord
said unto Satan: Whence contest thouy Then
Satan answered the Lord and said: From
going to and fro in the earth an l from walk |
ng up and down IN If.
Satan began his attack on this world long |
before Adam and Eve were created. While l |
believe the Bible record that the world was |
itte1 up for mans residence in oneN week. 1 |
World was previously for hundreds of thou |
ands of years going through great |
,hanges. The lumber for the house that was |
10 be built in a week for our first parents |
nay have been hauled to the spot a million |
7ears before This Prince of the Power of |
he Air has been trying for all that million |
7ears to demolsh and use up this world.
The record is on the rocks. He tried to drown
t with universal waters. He tried to burn
It up with universal fires. Then
with universal glaciers. And for ages he
kept this world before our first parents occu-
pied it, in parOxysms and commissions and
the remains of those struggles have seen
and you have seen in museums. or if with
biologists hammer you have gone down
into the stone libraries of the mountains.
Yea, after the famous Bible week the
world had been fitted into Pa lse for the
home of our sinleSS ancestors ltan comes
into the Garden of Eden, not through the
- q Of 10 in bpf
crawls in under the bushes a snake, and hav-
ing despoied our first parents goes to
work to ruin Paradise, and does
the work so thoroughly that one
who recently visitel the site of the ancient
garden between the rivers Tigris and
Euphrates, says the place is a desert; not a
flower. and the ground so poor that nothing
but some date trees grow there, and
are not 50 well covered up with their
rags as Adam and Eve were covered up with
their innocence. So you see the Father of
lies for once told the truth when the Lord
said unto him: whence contest thOun and
Satan answered the Lord and said: From
going to and fro in the earth, and from
walking up and down in it.
In my text we have Satan on his travels,
and am going to tell you some of theroutes
he is apt to take. On his journey down from
answer 70 the question: Whence contest
thou? the first range of mischief
he NAV be expected to take is
the air. 1t was not a witticism or a slip OF
the pen when Paul, in his letter to TIE
Ephesians called Satan the ''Priuce of the
Power of the Air" l think it means that
Satan works through conditions of the at
mOsphere. The West wind is full of
angels, the East wind is full of devils.
Satan spreads abroad his black wings and
hurricanes and euroclydons and Caribbean
whirlwinds and equinoctials are Matched out. |
He takes the masmas that float up from |
swamps and matches them into typhoid fe- !
vers. He takes the cold blasts and matches |
them into pneumonias and rheumatisms and |
Not only has he power in the |
upper air where highest clouds float, but |
power over the lower air which we breathe |
and as We breathe nineteen times a minute |
and take in three hundred and fifty cubic |
feet of air in every twenty-four hours |
arterial circulation, you see what |
opportunities the Prince of the AR has of |
and despoiling and democrat |
izing man. Through atmospheric influence |
bs clouds the disposition and rasps the nerves |
and covers the best OF peop'e with religious
dependency. as in the clse of Edward Pay |
son and William Cowper and that beloved |
apostle of Evangelism, James w. Alexander. |
His great del ght is to have the air of |
churches Initiated and in that way dulls the |
preacher and Supplies the people and sees to
{ that the atmosphere of not more than one |
ut of a hundred churches is fit to breathe, |
md whole congregations Sabbath by Sab |
,ath are asphyxiate I. Yes he is worthy Of |
he title st. Paul gave him: "Prince of the
Power of the Air"
Another route he is apt to take is through |
domestic life. There is no greater sport for
lim than conjugal quarrel. 1t does not /
make any difference how long the marriage /
ing has been on the finger Of the right hand,
e will try to pull off the signet He SAYS
o the husbands: "What a plain wife
'ou have compared with what she once wasl
DON'T you see that the co'or has gone out of
er cheek and there are several wrinkles
bout her temples and sprinkling of frost