The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-11-22
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Brooklyn Preacher Talks OF
"Satan on His Travels"
The Many Forms in which the Arch
Tempter is Met in His Going To
and Fro on Earth-How
TO Crush Him.

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage took for the
subject OF a recent sermon in the Rrook-
Ign Tabernacle satan on His Travels"
His text was:
And the Lord SAID unto Satan: Whence
CONTEST thou9 Then Satan answered the Lord,
and said: From going to and fro in the earth,
and from walking up aud down in it-Job !, z.
In 1872 was printed the largest book
ever published, namely, two huge VOL
umes of near Eve thousand pages, In
small type, the author, Joseph CaryL II
was q commentary on this Book OF Job.
When it took q year for the journey from
England to India, the son Of the author
of ihis commentary started for India,
leaving his father writing on his book,
and was gone for years, and when he
came back to England still found his
father writing on it, / never saw the
commentary, but ! do not wonder at its
size because there is no end to the inter-
est Of the Book Of Job l am not sur
prised that Goethe, the unbelever, 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
messenger rs came to report on their diff
ferent N issiOns. l suppose one angel
said: u was out among the stars
and saw one Of them burn
down" Another angel, l imagine,
said: II was off on a steller ex-
cursiou and was present at the birth Of a
new world" Another angel, ] think,
said: II was journeyiug five hundred
million miles in the wilderness Of i'm
mensity and l saw a meteor 1un down a
planet" Another angel: - was off and
helped at the inauguration H new race
OF beings amid the mountrlns and val
leys Of that mighty world in the south
east part Of the heavens" But while
these good and great spirits were making
their reports a CHASTITY, grizzly, hideous
monster, from some miry, sulphurous,
filthy world, came into the palace with
out wiping his feet and God asked him
where and how he had been occupying
himself, and this greatest scoundrel OF
the universe made reply with blazing ef-
frontery, 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 Gircumambulator
peripatetic life. "Aud the Lord said IN
to Satan: Whence CONTEST thou? Then
Satan answered the 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 o great
variety Of names. You know that nOto-
rious villains are apt to take variety of
names. Arraigned in Paris for burglary
a man will give one name, arrested in
San Fran cisco for arson he will give an
other name, imprisoned at Montreal for
murder he will give another name. So
this creature Of my text has many names.
He is called in sacred and profaue iitera-
ture Abaddon, Apollyon, Ahrimanes,
Zaniel, Asmodeus the revenging devil
Belzebub the sovereign of devils, Lucifer
the brilliant devil, Diabolus the despair
ing devil Mammon the money devil,
Pluto the fiery devil, Baal the military
devil, Meresin the plaguing devil. He is
called the father of lies, and has for his
children and grandchildren and great
grandchildren all falsehoods, receptions,
frauds swindles, ISLANDERS, back billings,
and subterfuges. All men Of good sense,
whether enlightened by the Bible or in
heathendom, have noticed that there are
baleful and malehcent influences abroad
that have not their origin in the human
race, aud demonology is as certain as
angelology. The sword of Paracelcus
was thought to have demon in the hilt
and there is now dangerous demon in
every sword hilt. The ancients supposed
the air was filled with sylphs and satyrs
and sirens and gnomes and vampires and
salamanders and undines and hobgob-
Inns. The Talmud says that Adams first
| wife was Lillis, and that their children
were all devils. Two or three hundred
| years ago a demonographer gave the
names Of ambassadors Of evil, which
| he thought Satan sent to different
countries: Mammon, ambassador to En-
| gland; Belphegor, ambassador to France ;
| Martinez ambassador to Swift erland ;
Rimmon. ambassador to Russia; Than =
niz, ambassador to Spain; Hutgin, en-
bassador to Italy; and that there was a
princess of devils by the name Of
Proserpine. But what was mere guess
work Of mythology or superstition has
been made clear by Divine revelation.
We find that there is somewhere a
monarch OF all wickedness. He has a
throne of power, and courtiers, and
armies, and navies, and machin cry Of
evil vast as the round world. He is the
supervisor OF all mischief, aud what he
can not do himself he delegates others TO
do and as each one of our race is sup
posed to have a guardian good angel, |
have no doubt that every human being
has besieging malignant spirit nag
ging bis footsteps and trying to make
him think wrong and act wrong, an es-
pecial devil devil of fraud, or q devil
OF avarioe, or devil of uncleanness, or q
devil of poor health; and as in my text
the spirits are represented as reporting
to the Lord, so / have no doubt the evil
spirits report 10 Satan, who is the enemy
of the whole human race, and who has a
celebrity that makes flight around the
world the matter of second, and who
marshals on his side the forces volcanic,
atmospheric, epidemic, geologic, oceanic
and cyclonio "And the Lord said unto
Satan: Whence contest thou? Then
Satan answered the Lord and said: From
going to aud fro in the earth and from
walking up and down in it."
Satan began his tack on this world
long before Adam and Eve were created.
While believe the Bible record that the
world was fitted up for mans residence
in one week l believe also the geolog :
ical record that the world was previously
for hundreds OF thousands Of years going
TIM Ough great changes. The lumber foI
the house that was to be built in weel
for our first parents may have beer
hauled to the spot a million years before.
This Prince of the Power of the Air has
btNA lux ARi Az AAAtN AlAAAAAN4 JbAAH q
demolish and use up this world. The
record is on the rocks. He tried to drown
it with universal waters. He tried t.
burn 1t up with universal fires. Then be
tried 20 freeze It into ruin, and covered Il
with universal glacier. And for ages h'
kept this world before our first parent
occupied It "a paroxysms and convul
sions, and ia remains Of those strugglel
] have seen and you have seen in mu'
seums, or il with geologisps hanime
you have gone down into the Eton
libraries OF the mountains. Yea, afte
the famous Bible week the world haC
been fitted into paradise for the hom
of our sinless ancestors.
Satan comes into the Garden OF Eden
not through the gate of foliage and up
right ia pos ture, but crawls in under tn
bushes a snake, and having despoiled on
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