Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-11-17
SATAN'S DISCUSSES.
DR.. TALMAGE,s DISCOURSE ON MANS
ANCIENT ENEMY.

DIR. TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE ON MANS
ANCIENT ENEMY.
Tho riendss 7ariouA Manners Of Trn|cases
tho Earth and His Subtle Aptitude fer
g. Sowing tho Seeds OF Woo and Damna-
tion-Tho Devils Power.
snrOunds Brooklyn Tabernacle are OIL tho ip-
Grease. AS on sevidence of tho demand for
sDr:s galmages work, 25oooo. copies of his
FORTHCOMING subscription book, pThe Pnth-
5waysof Life," have been bought from tho
Historical company by Messrs. B. F. Johnson
"a Cos,o Richmond, Va although the retail
prices arc from s351 to IS copy. In the
history Of literature no book has had such an
advanced sale
K the Tabernacle this morning tie Rev.
y: Dewitt Talmngo, D. D., took for the sub
55ect his sermon; ~ Satan on His Travels.
teSt;was So the Lord said
unto Satan: w henceye omest thou7s Then
Satan answered tho Snfds said From
going toand fro In tho east and tgom: walk,
and down. 1t:
was argess book ever
published, namely, two huge volumes Of
snears 600 pages, in small type; the author
Joseph; Caryl Itwas commentary on this
book Of job When it took year for the
Journey from England to India, the son of
the author Of this commentary started for
India, leaving his father writing on his book,
and was gono for years, and when no came
back to England still found his father writing
on it. never saw the commentary, butt |
do not wonder at its size because thero is no
end to the interest of the book of Job. I'M
not surprised that Goethe, the unbelievel,
took from this wonderful book the opening
of his drama Faust and the Mephstopheles
of the great German was only the Satan Of
Job. 1t seems that one day in heaven God
WIS on His throne and angels and messengers
camc to report on their different missions. /
suppose ono angel said: II was out among
the stars and saw one Of them burn down."
Another angel, imagine, said Il was OF
on stellar excursion and was present at tho
birth Of new world" Another angel,
/ think, said: ~ was journeying five
hundred million miles in tho wilderness
of immensely and saw q meteor run
down planet. Another angel: ~ was OFF
and helped at the inauguration Of new race
Of beings amid the mountains and valleys of
that mighty world in the southeast part OF
the heavens" But while these good aaa
great spirits were making their reports o
CHASTITY, grizzly, hideous monster from soEne
rniry sulphurous, filthy world, came into fac
palace without wipiug his feet, and God
asked him where and how he had boon oc-
cupying himself, and this greatest scoundrol
of tho universe made reply with blazing ef-
frontery, and instead of acknowledging
any-of the mischief he had been doing said
he had been all earthly pedestrian and
bad lived sort Of circumambulatory
peripatetic life .'And tho Lord said unto
Satan Whence CONTEST thou1 Then Satan
answered the Lord and said From going TO
and fro in the earth and from walking up
and down III tn
TEE NUMEROUS LEUTESANTs OF SATAN
UPON EARTH.
- This monster of my text has great va-
riety of names. You know that notorious
villains arc apt to take o variety Of names.
Arraigned in Paris for burglary a man will
give ono name, arrested in San Francisco for
arson be will give another nome, imprisoned
at Montreal for murder he will give another
name. So this creature Of my text has many
names. He called In sacred and profane
literature. Abaddon, Apollyon, Ahrimanes,
zaniel, Asmodeus tho revenging devil,
syasss,ISebuh tho sovereign of .dey!lss
the despairing devil, Mammon tho money
dovil, Pluto the fiery devil, Baal the military
devil, Meresin the plnguing doVn He is
called che father Of lies, and hss&eT aisE
area and asadaAilaren and eyaSS
diem al fsasehoods, decepttuhs frauass
swindles, ISLANDERS, backbitings and subteT-
fuges All men Of good sense, whether en-
lightenod by tho Bible or in heathendon,
have noticed that thcro are balefu and
male6cont influences abroad that have not
their origin in the human race, and demon
ology is ns certain as angelology. Tho
sword of Parncelsus was thought to have had
q demon in the hilt and there is now demon
In every sword hilt. The ancients supposed
the mir was filled with sylphs and satyrs and
sirens and gromcs and vampires and sale
manders and undincs and hobgoblins Tho
Talmud says that Adams first wife was Llli!s
and that their children were all dovils. Two
OF three hundred years ago o demonoSraphcr
gavo tho names Of ambassadors of evil which
be thought Satan sent to different countries:
Mammon, ambassador to England; Gelphe-
gor, ambassador to France; Martinez en-
bassador to Switzerland; Rimmon, ombassa-
dor to Russia; Thanniz, ambassador to
Spain; Hutgin, ambassador to Italy; and
that there was princess Of devils by tho
name Of Proserpine. But what was nero
guess work of mythology or superstition has
been made clear by divine revelation. Wo
find that there is somewhere q monarch OF
al wickcdness. lie has throne OF power
and courtiers and armies and navies and
machinery of evil vast as tho round world
He is tho supervisor of oil mischief, nnd wha.
lie cannot do himself be delegates others to
do, and as each ono Of OH raco is sup
posed to have guardian good angel, have
no doubt that every human being has q be-
sieging malignant spirit nagging his foos-
steps and trying to make him think wrong
and act wrong, an especial devil, devil OF
fraud OF devil Of ararice or devil of I'M
cleanncss or u devil of poor health, and as in
my text the spirits arc represented as report
ing to the Lord, so | have no doubt the evil
spirits report to Satan, who is tho enemy Of
the whole human race, and who las o celer
ity that makes Eight around the world q
mutter of q second, and who nlarshals on his
sido tho forces volcanic, atmospheric. cpl
demic, geologic, oceanic aud cyclonic. And
tho lOru SalQ uItO oaItiu' w ueuco ColuesO
thou2 Then Satan answered tho Lord and
said: From going to aud fro in tho earth and
from walking up aud down i'll it"
THE AGE OF sATAN's DLIGHTING RULE.
Satun began his attack on this world long
before Adam and Eve were created. Whilo
[ believe tho Bible record that the world wa.
fitted up for mans residence in ono week,
believe also tho geological record that tho
world was previously for hundreds of thou
sands of years going through great changes.
The lumber for tho house that was to be Built
in week for our Grst parents may havc
been hauled to the spot million years be-
fore. This Prince of tho Power OF The Air
has been trying for oil that million years to !
demolish and uso up this world. The record |
is on the rocks. He tried to drown it with |