Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-11-23

MorE so thoroughly that one Who VIC
oordcs. visited the site of the ancient
garden between the rivers Tioris and
Iaaphrates says the place is desert not
mower, and the ground SO moor that
mo1hing but some date trees grow there,
an anu the miserable villagers from near
~ are not SO we'll covered up with their
lAss as Adam and Eve were covered nm
WIN WIN their innocence. SO YOU see the
. .ashef OF lies for once told the truth
mnen me Lord said unto him: Whence
IoMest thou!. and Satan answered the
=. ran, ana SAID: From going to and fro
down in It," D"
In my text we have Satan on his travels.
and am going to tell you some of the
routes he is apt to take. On his way
gown from the palace where he reported
a1nl in answer to the question.
whence CONTEST thou?" the first range Of
| mischief he may be expected to take is
the air. 1t was not witticism or a slim
OF the pen when Paul, in his letter to
the Ephesians, called Satan the Prince
OF the Power of the Air" 1 think il
means that Satan works through condi-
lions of the atmosphere. 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 equinoc-
tlals are Matched out. He takes the
mlasmas that float up from swamps and
matches them into typhoid fevers. He
takes the cold blasts and matches them
into pneumonias and rheumatisms and
consumptions. Not only has the power
in the upper air where highest clouds
float, but power over the lower air which
We breathe. and as we breathe nineteen
times minute, and take in three hun
dred and fifty cubic feet of air in every
twenty four hours, and much of the mir
affects the arterial circulation, YOU see
what opportunities the Prince of the
Air has of communicating md despoil-
ing and demoralizing man. Through
atmospheric influence he clouds the dis
position and rasps the nerves and covers
the best of people with religious de-
spondency,as in the case of Edward P ay-
son and William Cowper, and that be-
loved apostle of evangelism, James w.
Alexander. His great delight is to have
the air of churches vitiated, and in that
way dulls the preacher and stupefes the
people and sees to it that the atmosphere
of not more than one out Of a HUI ndred
churches is fit to breathe. and whole
congregations, Sabbath by Sabbath, are
title st. Paul gave him: Prince of the
Power of the Air."
MARRIAGE is BY NO MEANS A FAILURE.
Another route he is apt to take is
through domestic life. There is no
greater sport for him than conjugal
quarrel. II does not make any differ
ence how long the marriage ring has
been on the finger of the right hand, he
courtship and take as much pains to
make them agreeable as they did five or
ten or twenty years ago, before the we'd
ding march announced to the flushed
or futtering crowd that the bride and
groom were coming. According to the
statistics of Prof. bikes, in one year in
moral New Hampshire there we 241 di-
vorces; in temperate Maine, 47S di-
vorces; in good old Massachusetts. 600
divorces, and in the 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 new arrangement had been made of
the commandments, and instead of ten
there were only nine, the Seventh Com
mandment having been left out. When
you see how many husbands and wives
are parted by law, and know of so many
who would like to dissolve conjugal
partnership, do you not come to the
conclusion that Satan is engaged in
mighty industries?
ANOTHER FAvORITE RESORT OF MAN S
CHIEF ENEMY.
Another route that Satan is apt to take
in his active travels is the factories and
other establishments where capital sits
in the Office or counting-room and a
good many hands of laborers are busy
among wheels and spindles and fabrics.
On this visit he will first step into the
will try to pull off the signet. He says
to the husband What plain wife you
have, compared with what she once was!
Don't you see that the color has gone
out of her check, and there are several
wrinkles about her temples and
, sprinkling of frost on her locks? Be-
sides that, you have advanced in lntelll-
: gence while she has stood still or gone
, back. How hard it is that you should
, be chained to such dizziness and imbe-
; cility!" Then he turns and says to the
! wife: "That man neglects you; you have
} right to be jealous. He likes his cigar
, and his club, and anything and every
, thing better than you. Why not get q
: divorce? Marriage is only civil con-
, tract anyhow and not divine alliance
Let me have that ring. 1t means moth
ing, and you might as we'll give it te
| me-" The ring is handed over to Satan
: and he losses it up and down like
9 plaything over the mouth OF perdltlol
5 and SAYS: II will hand it back; only LEI
= me have tia little while" And he keeps
tossing that ring, with all its sacree
? memories, higher up and further out
: tossing and catching, tossing and catch
! ing it until one day you clutch Tor II
! CRYING: Give me back my ring" but 10
+ it has dopped into the yawning gull! ane
\ YOU suddenly find who has been pitch.
t ing and catching the ring, and you or!
o out: whence CONTEST thou!" and NJ
/ answers: From going to and fro in tn u
v domestic life of the city, and from Walk
= ing up and down in it; that is all. liner
a are thousands of marriage relations
n strained almost to the breaking, ana
. commend to all men and women who
. are restless in the present marriage
o state that they resume the old TIM I'm
y manufacturers office and. finding tn
n u . and proprietor of the great esta6
- lisbment ali alone with his correspond
ence and his account books, says to him
sYou are not making as much money a.
4 YOU ought to. You furnish al tn
! brains. Were it not for your enterpris'
= This establishment would not be III eSls
: tence. These men and women ~ Ho!
a employ are Of very common mold. lne a,
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