Milford chronicle., 1888-11-16

Sowing the ctHAn hA w.
tion-The DEVILS Power.
BRooKIYv. Nov. 1.-THE throngs IN AND
around Brooklyn Tabernacle are on the III
crease As an evidence Of the demand Iol
Dr Talmaee's work, 250,0O0 copies OF ms
Forthcoming subscription book, "Ihe Fatn'
wav of Life,n have been bought from the
Historical company by Messrs. b. II. johnson
s, Co, Of Richmond, Va, although the relail
prices are from $3.50 to s. copy: IN tne
history of literature no book has had snch an
advanced sale. ,- .h,, po,
7. De Witt Talmage, ID, took for the SUB
ieet of his sermon: 'Satan ON His Travels
His text was, Job i, z; And the Lord salu
INTO Satan: Whence cemest thout 1 men
Satan answered the Lord, and said; from
poinr to and fro in the earth, and from walE-
ing up and down in it.
In 1872 was printed the largest book ever
published, namely, two huge volumes OF
near 5000 pages, in small typei the auvIoi
Joseph Caryl Itwas a commentary on inns
Book of job. When it took year Tor the I
Journey from England to India, tine son Oh
/ the author Of this commentary started l1l
/ India. leaving his father writing on his BOOK
and was gone for years, and when he came
/ bocl 20 ENGLAND still found his father writing
on II. [ never saw the commentary, but
do NOT wonder at its size because there Is no
end 70 the interest Of the book Of Job. am
NOT surprised that Goethe, the unbeheVefi
tool, from this wonderful book the opening
Of his drama Faust and the Mephlstopheles
Of tine g-reat German was only the Satan OF
Job II seems that one day In heaven Ood
was on His throne and angels and messengers
came TO report on their different missions
suppose one angel said: 81 was out among
the stars and saw one Of them burn down :.
Another angel, imagine, said was ~
on a stellar excursion and was presehD az Vllo
birth of n new world Another angel
tbinlr said 81 was journeying five
hundred million miles in the wilderness
of immensity and l saw meteor run
down n planet Another angel II was on
and helped at the inauguration Of anew race
of beings amid the mountains and valleys Oh
that. mighty world in the southeast part oi
the heavens But while these good ana
great spirits were making their reports
CHASTITY grizzly. hideous monster from some
n,i,.v s,1l1hurous. filthy world, came into the
nalace without wiping his feet, and OoO
asl,ad him where and how he had been oc
eupving himself, and this greatest scoundre
of the universe made reply with blazing p
frontery and instead OF acknoWleusll ~
any Of the mischief he had been DONG sai'
he had been an earthly pedestrian az
had lived a sort Of circumambulauoFg
-1ori,,atetic life. ''And the Lord said unit
Satan. Whence comest thoul Then SaVa
answered the Lord and said; From gong
and fro in the earth and from walking u
Z and down in it.h
THE NUMEROUS LIEUrENANTs OF sAIA
UPON EARTH.
This monster of my text has a great VI
rietv of names. You know that notorlo'
villains are apt to take variety Oh haine
+. A,.raipned in Paris for burglary man WI
. give one name, arrested in San Francesca ~
. arson he will give another name, lmprlsol'
at Montreal for murder he will give aholn
!. name. So this creatuYe OF my text mas liisli
: !. names. He is called in sacred ana prolal
= literature Abaddon, Apollyon, Ahrlmah'
Zan,eI Aslnodeus the revenging dev
ReeIzeb,lb the sovereign Of dew
It Tmcifer the brilliant devil, Dlaooi
r tha despairing devil, Mammon the mon
devil Pluto the fiery devil, Baal the militia
n devil Meresin the plaguing devil. ne
n called the father Of lies, and has for ms ci
1ren and grandchildren and great grandcf
dren all falsehoods, deceptions, Iau
~ swindles. ISLANDERS, backbitings and SUD-
fuges. All men OF good sense, wheVhe.
lightened by the Bible or III heathenuO
Is, have noticed that there are baleiul
IS. malefeent influences abroad that have
ei- their origin in the human race, ana dem !
ology Is as certain as angelolosy'
sword of Paracesus was thought TO have
a demon in the hilt and there is now a oen
in every sword hilt The ancients spppo
the air was filled with sylphs and satyIs
sirens and gnomes and vampires ana }
rnanders and undines and hobgoblns.
10 Talmud SAYS that Adams first wife was l.
= and that their children were all devils.
u m. three hundred years ago demonogral
- Gov, the names of ambassadors Of evil WI
~ 5e tbouoht Satan sent to different COUNT
n Ma1n,nou. ambassador to England; Bel
gor ambassador to France; Martinez
=. bassador to Switzerland; Rimmon, amDa
dor to Russia; Thanniz, ambassador
Spain: Hutgin, ambassador 70 !taiy
81 that there was princess OF ueNAs "
- name of Proserpine. But what was
o~less work of mythology or superstition
been made clear by divine revelation.
ID I'LL find that there is somewhere monar'
put a. yvickedness. He has a throne OF p
m "a and courtiers and armies and naVles
lin machinery of evil vast as the round W
no He is the supervisor of all mischief and
MS he cannot do himself he delegates othe
,AH do and as each one of our race IS
rs ,,ose6 to have a guardian good angel, L
o,M no doubt that every human beng hsS
.orFlz sieging malignant spirit nagglns ms
lck steps and trying to make him tnihk
5nr and act wrong, an especial deVil' q ~ ue
fraud or a devil Of avarice OF a deVll o
ID cleanness or u devil Of poor health, ana
nu INV text the spirits are represented as r.
TOT m ire, to the Lord, so l have no doubt th'
Won snirits report to Satan, who is the enei
your tba whole human race, and who has
EDS itv- that makes fight around the Wo
W matter Of a second, and who marshais
V x side the forces volcanic, atmosphere
..ov denic, geologic, oceanic and cyclone.
q .eaSf eef tlo Tori said unto Satan: Whence c
,ERS tbon9 Then Satan answered the Lor
soid. From going to and fro in the earl
IN from walking up and down IN It.
>, 4 Coz THE AGE OF sATAN's BLIGHTING RI
Satan began his attack on this wori
before Adam and Eve were created
believe the Bible record that tine Wof
fitted up for mans residence ii one
bslieve also the geological record u
ing @ s9ss @ & 4; 81: s;:5;5 81 a: +: : : @ Hss =5
IN a week for our 6rst parents ma
heen hauled to the spot a million ye
- fore This Prince of the Power OF
INK has been trying for all that million
5enolish and use up this world The
10 ~, the rocks. He tried to drown
,,niversal waters He tried to burn
v-itn universal fires. Then he tried t
It into ruin, and covered it with u
glacier. Aud for ages he kept TIL
before our first parents occupied
paroxysnls and convulsions, and the
81 those struggles have seen, and y
seen III museums, or if with geoloSis.
mer YOU have gone down into tn
= q . . !. =. !: ] . !. !. !. : J: ! :. !. !. !. !. . I
~ libraries Of the mountains. Yea,
samons Bible week tie world had be
ancestors. Satan comes into the Z
uprirht in posture, but crawls 70
-, ,el,a aud having despg