Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-11-17

said unto him: "Whence contest thou2n apt
Satan answered tho Lord and said "Fron
going to and fro in the earth. md from walk
ing1p and down In il"
IN my &ext 40 hare Satan on hts taaara,s
and am going to till you some Of tho routes
be Is apt to take On his way down from
the palace whcro he reported himself in M
swer to the question, Whence contest thou
the first range of mischief he may be expected
to take is the air. 1t was not wittcsm Of
slip of the pea when Paul, in bis letter tt
the Ephesians, called Satan the "Princo o.
tho Power of the Air" thinl
It means that Satan works through condi
tions OF the atmosphere. Tho west wind i,
full Of angels, tho east wind IS full Of devils
Satan spreads abroad his black wings anc
hurricanes and curoclydons and Caribbean
whrlwinds and cqninoctials are Matched out
Hc takes tho miasmns that float up from
swamps and matches them into typhoid fevers
IIc takes the cold blasts and hStchcs them
into pneumonias and rheumatisms and con
sumptions5 Not only has the power in the
upper mir where highest clouds float, but
power over the lower air which we breathe
nndsas we. breathe nineteen times minute
sand take in three hundred and fifty cubic
s feet Of air in every twenty -four hours sand
much of this air affects the arterial cir
culation, you SEQ what opportunities
the Prince Of tho Air has of con.
terminating and despoiling and dcmoralizing
man. Through atmospheric influence he
clouds tho disposition and rasps the nerves
and covers the best of people with religious
rio t,tf l,o-r of E1tyo por
son and William Cowpcr and that be,oved
apostle of evangelism, james W. Alexander.
His great delight is to have the mir Of
churches vitiatcd, and il that way dulls the
preacher and Supplies the people and sees to
It that the atmosphere of not more than ono
out Of hundred churches is ct to breathe,
and whole congregations, Sabbath by Sab
bath, arc asphyziated. Yes, he is worthy Of
tho tito st. Paul gave him: Prince Of, the
Power Of tho Air.n
MARRIAGE IS BY NO MEANS a FAILURE
Another route he is apt to take is through
domestic life. There is 10 greater sport for
him than conjugal quarrel. It does not
mako any difference how long the marriage
ring has been on the 1agcr of the right hand,
he will ts' TO pull OF the signct Hc says to
the husband: "Wbat a plain wife you have
compared with what sho onco was9 Don't
you SEQ that tho color has gone out of her
check, and there arc several wrinkles about
her temples and sprinliling Of frost on her
locksl Besides that, you have advanced
in intelligence, while she hes stood still
or como back. How hard it is that you
should be chained to such dullness
aud imbecilityl" Then he turns and says to
the wife: THAT man neglerts you; you haHe
n right to DO jealous. Hc likes his cigar and
his club, end anything and everything better
than you. Why not get u divorced Mar
riage is only q civil contract anyhow and
not divine alliance. Let mo have that
ring. 1t means nothing, and you might os
well give it to mcs TIE ring is handed over
to Satan and no losses it up and down like t.
over tho mouth of perdition and
says: "l will hand it back only let INC have
it littlc whilen And no keeps tossing that
ring, with all its sacred memories, higher
up and further out, tossing and catch
ing, tossing and catching it until one
day you clutch for it, crying: "Givo me
back my ring!" but 10, it hes dropped into
tho yawning gulf and you suddenly find who
has been pitching and catching the ring, and
you cry out; whence CONTEST. thouf' and
ho answers: Iron going to and fro in tho
domestic life Of the city and from walking
up and down in it; that is OIL" There arc
thousands of marriage relations strained al
nlost to the b! S breaking and copmend to ell
emit marriage safe that they resume the old
time courtship and talSo as much pains
to make themselves agreeable as they
did Eve on ten CT twenty years
agn, bcSoro tao Eoddtas r;nzch ap-
nounccd 90 the flushed and arSterins cro+sd
that tho bride and groom were coming. Ac-
cording to The statistics of Professor bikes,
in one year in moral New Hampshire there
were 24l divorces; in temperate Maine, 4TS
divorces; in good old Massachusetts,, GOO di-
vorces, and in tho New England Of steady
habits 2,113. In one county Of Illinois $50
divorce suits were begun in one year, and in
many places it seems as if u new arrange
ment had been mado Of tho commandments,
and instead Of ten there were only nine, the
Seventh Commandment having been left
out. When you see how many husbands and
wives arc parted by law, and know OF so
many who would like to dissolve conjug2l
partnership, do you rot como to tho conclu-
sion that Satan is engaged in mighty indus
tries2
ANOTHER FAvoRITE RESORT OF MANS CHIEF
ENEIY.
Another route that Satan Is apt to take in
his active travels is the factories and othe'
establishments wherc capital sits in tho of1c
or counting room and good many hands OF
laborers arc busy among wheels and splndlcs
and fabrics. On this visit lie will first step
into tho manufacturers Office and, finding
the owner ond proprietor of the great cStab-
lishncnt oil alone with his correspondence
and his account books, says to him: "You are
not making as much money as you ought to.
You furnish all tho brains. Were it lot for
your enterprise this establishment would not
be in existence These men and women in your
employ are Of very common mold. Their
appetite is coarser and they do not need the
luxurics you require. Their comfort and
happiness aro of very little Importance. Put
them down on the very verge of starvation
and take oil tho profits into your own posses
zion, and if they do not like it tell them to
co where they can do better" Having done
bis work in the counting room Satan steps
TlEuu Oub iluCLr1 lNO W. hi'iN'' 49, 49, -
"You work too many hours and you do your
work better than it needs to DO done. You
aro serving bloated bordholder anyhow.
Flo has no right to have any moro thai you
have. Why should he ride and you walk:
Why should ho have tcnderlon steak and
you salt porka Capital is tho enemy OF
labor. Let labor be the sworn foo Of cap
ital. Why don't you strike and bring him
to terms? Wait until he has largo
order to fill b. contract, and then he
cannot help himself. Go all together,
without l. moments warning, and tell him
yon arc going to stop. II lie has rlorc re-
sources than you know Of end persists III
oing on and getting new men, give them a
yollcy OF bricsbass, or put q LITTLE dynamite
in his Office and blow him AID his factory all
up with the same explosion" Look out there
on tile night skyl Great fire somewhere.
What is it? Tue night is cold and Satan has
made big bc;iflre of that factory to warm
himself by. The capitalist hes lost heavily,
md the worl.mcn and their families are