New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-11-21

history SO early thathe died at IS. Raphael,
the most famous of painters, died at 81.
William Pitt was prime minister of England
at "a. Jesus Christ completed his earthly
life at 80, Five years in a y Dung mans life
are OF more power for good or evil than the
last Is of an old mans life. So Satan is es-
J peelally 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 active
travels is apt to take is for the despoiling of
| the peoples souls. Tt does not paw him mere
y to destroy the bodies of men aud women.
Those bodies would soon be gone anyhow,
| hut great treasures are involved in this Sa-
tanic excursion. On this route he meets
a man who is aroused by something he has
| seen in the Bible, and Satan SAYS: Now.
| can settle that; the Bible is an imposition;
1T has been deluding the world for centuri es.
do not let it delude you. Tt has no more a.
thority than the Koran of the Mohammedan
OF the Shaster of the Hndoo, or the Zend
Vaestss OF the Persian!' He meets another
man who is Fastening towards the kingdom
OF God and says: why all this precipita-
ton? Religion is right, but any time
within the next 10 years will be
soon enough for you. A man with stout
| chest like yours and such muscular Develop
ment need not be, bothering himself about
| the next world. But Satan saws nothing to
| him about the fact that the professor who
gave his whole life to the study ofhealth and
could lift more pounds than any American
died at about 40, and that another
earned man who proved conclusiyely that
il we observed all the laws of health we need
never die, expired before he got his book on
| that subject published. Satan meets another
man who has gone through long course of
profilgacy and is beginning to pray God for
! forgiveness, and Satan says to the man:
You are too late; the lord will not help such
| wretch as you, you might as well brace up
and light your own way through" And so
With VT spite and an aeuteness and a velocity
| that have been gaining for 5000 years lie
ranges up and down, bathing disappointing,
defeating, affecting, destroying the human
race. Through his own hand or delegated
! lnternallsm he has pursued and hurt us all
and cursed every heart and cursed every
home and cursed every nation and cursed
every continent. He has instigated
every war. He has started every groan
He has pressed out every sigh. He has
/ hurled every shipWreck. Lazar ettoes
insane asylums, commercial panics plaques
destroying angels, continental earthquakes,
and worldwide disasters are to him per-
| iect giee. Gan you look upon the commun-
Ism and the Mormonism and the Mohamme-
! danlsm and the wide sweep of drunkenness
and fraud and hbertinism the Franco Ger
man war and Crimean war. the North and
South United States war, and rivers ofblood
flowing across continents of misery into
oceans OF Wretchedness, without realizing the
! power OF the evil one, who reported to the
Lord Almighty and when asked ssWhence
CONTEST thou?' answered, ssFrom going to
and fro in the earth and from going up and
| down in it,
! But, blessed be Godl T may substitute an :
| them for requium and halleluiah chorus for
| the dead march in Saul. The New Testa
| ment says, 1.-The Son of God was mani
1 q hn 1nht Inctu h.
the DEVIL It prophesied that an angel
would come down from heaven with the key
and cham and lncarcerate and shut up the
old dragon. 1t says that Christ came
to destroy him that had the
power of death-that is the devil"
And from the way Christ drove the devil out
OF those possessed by him until he was glad
to hide under the brist!es of the swine OF
Gadara and from other violent ejectments,
we know that; there is in existence a power a
million-fold mightier than the diabolic The
| old lion of death shall go down under the
stroke and roar of the Lion of Judah's
tribe Yea, my text shows that Satan was
compelled to report to the Almighty and
give account OF himself. When God said to
to him, ''Whence CONTEST thou?" he was forced
to answer. What means that scripture
whichsays that Christ shall bruise the SER
pent's head? Ifyou have ever killed snake
the passage ought to be plain to you. You
see this old serpent, the devil, has crawled
across the nations, poisoning whole genera
| lions and leaving its trail on every thing; but
after while it will be cornered and kissing
and wrlthing in rage and with crest lifted
end forked tongue shot out it will make
final attack on Christ, and Christ will adj
vance upon it, and lifting up his ON
| nipotent foot, that foot strong enough to
crush a world, lifting that foot right over the
head of the reptile, will put down his heel with
acrnshing power that allleave the monster
bleeding and mashed, never to hiss again or
bite again. or shake his old rattle again
Thank God he has already received stun
| ming blow. Hear you not the rumb bling of the
Christian printing presses, and the whirling
| OF the gospel chariot wheel? AS many souls
have been added to the Christian church in
the last 80 years as in the previous Is cen
turtles, and that is a ratio of increase acclaim
atory with gladness. The kingd ON iscoming
and am SO sure of it that do not propose
to fret and worry because it has not already
come. may jump to get on a boat that is
gong OIL, but do not propose to jump for a
boat that is coming in The sharp attacks
OF nfidellty and sin are a good sign that
especial blessing is coming in showers over
all the earth. Flies bite sharp Just before
rain.
If we do not see the full consumation our
children will see it In the time of the French,
revolution great procession of boys carried
UufouSli UHe SIfeet d banner With the lnScrlp.
ton, sTremble tyrants; we,shall grow up!''
Though we may fail to do our duty there is a
rising generation being gospelized and com
ing by the hundreds of thousands from our
Sabbath schools and Christian homes who
might properly have ON their banners,
"Tremble, we powers of darkness and sin; for
we are growing up!'' We may not amount
to much in ourselves, but if We put ourselves
in the right place wetcan do great exploits.
Two put under two make only four; but
placed beside two make22 Yet what you
and most need is power to drive back this
Apollyon, this Asmodeus this Ahrimades
our hearts and lives. And we can do it not
by our own strength but by divine power az
forded, fo.5szeere is a passage emblazoned
with encouragement which says: aResist the
devil and he will flee from you Remember
it is no sin at all to be tempted. The bestand
the mightiest have been tempted Milton
describes a toad squat at the ear of Eve.
The sin is in surrendering. Do not feel SO Sc
cure 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 protroeted sentences for
frauds committed in Inidlife or advanced
ages although their early life had been good
and nothing had been suspected OF them
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