The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-11-15

died at thirty-seven. William Pitt was ,
prime minister of England at twenty
four. Jesus Christ completed his
earthly life at thirty three. Five years
in young mans life are Of more power
for good CIR evil than the last fifteen of
AN old mans life. So Satan is especially
greedy for young men, and in going to
and fro in the earth he has especial
temptation for them.
HOW sIMPLY MEN ARE DENUDED OF
THEIR SOULS.
Another route that Satan on his ac-
tive travels is apt to take is for the
does not pay him merely to destroy the
bodies of men and women Those bod
les would soon be gone anyhow; but
great treasures are involved In this
Satanic excursion. On this route he
meets man who Is aroused by some
thing he has seen In the Bible and Sa-
tan says: Now I can settle all that;
the Bible is an imposition; it has been
dclutling the world for centuries; do
not let it delude you. It has no
more authority than the Koran
ef TO Mohammedan or tho Shas-
ter of the Hindoo, or the Zenda-
caaa Of the Persianl" He meets
's3thes nan who is Fastening towards
20 Kingdom of God and says: why
Ill this precipitation Religion is
right, but any time within the next
ten years will be soon enough for you.
A man with stout chest like yours
and such muscular development need
not be bothering himself about the
next world" But Satan says nothing
to him about the fact that the professor
who gave his whole life to the study
of health and could lift moro pounds
than any American died at about 40,
and that another learned man who
proved conclusively that if we observed
all the laws of health we need never
die, expired before no got his book on
that subject published. Satan meets
another man who has gone through a
long course of profligacy and is be-
ginning to pray God for forgiveness,
and Satan says to the man: "You are
too late; the Lord will not help such a
wretch as you; you might as well
brace up and fight your own way
through" And So with spite and
an acuteness and velocity that have
been gaining for six thousand years,
he ranges up and down battling, dis
appointing, defeating, affecting, de-
stroying the human race. Through
his own hand or delegated infernalism
he has pursued and hurt us all, and
cursed every heart and cursed every
home and cursed every nation and
cursed every continent He has insti-
gated every war. He has rejoiced in
every pestilence. He has started every
groan. He has pressed out every sigh.
He has hurled every shipwreck. Lag
arettoes, insane asylums, commercial
panics, plaques, destroying angels,
continental earthquakes and world
wide disasters are to him perfect
glee. Can you look upon the Com
munism and the Mormonism and the
Mohalnmedanism and the wide sweep
of drunkenness and fraud and lib
ertinism, the Franco-German war,
and Crimean war, the north
and south United States war,
and rivers of blood flowing across
continents of misery into oceans of
wretchedness, without realizing the
the power of the Evil One, who re
ported to the Lord Almighty, and
when asked: Whence comest thou
answered: ''F'rom going to and fre
in the earth and from going up anG
down in it.
But, blessed be God I may substi
tute anthem for requiem and Hallelu
jah Chorus for the Dead March In
Saul The New Testament says: 'Ths
Son of God was manifested that ht
, might destroy the works of the Devil.
| / hot lr
, come down from heaven with key ant
|, chain and incarcerate and shu
: up the old dragon; It say
that Christ came to destroy
} him that had the power O
death-that is the devil" And from
, the way Christ drove the devil out o
, those possessed by him until he wa
$ glad to hide under tho bristles of th'
1 swine of .Gadara and from other vic
, lent ejectments, we know that there i
d in existence q power q million folk
mightier than the diabolic. The OLE
r lion of death shall go down under tn
! stroke and roar Of the Lion O
/ Judah's tribe" Yea, my text show
). that Satan was compelled to report t,
t the Almighty and give account O
t himself When God said to him
G whence comest thou9" he was forces
: to answer. What means that Script
n ure which says that Christ shall bruis
n the serpent's hcada If you have eve
killed q snake the. passage ought to b
:? plain to you. You see this old SCI
e pent, the devil, has craw1ed across th
b nations, poisoning whole generation
r and leaving its trail on everything
d but after.a while it will be cornereo
e and kissing and writhing in rage an
d with crest lifted and forlSed tongu
L shot out it will make final attac
II on Christ, and Christ will advanc
r upon it, and, lifting his omnipoter
s. foot, that foot strong enough to crus
n a world, lifting that foot rigE
d over the head of the reptile
&c will put down his heel with
IS crushing. power that shall leav
n tho monster bleeding and mashed
1t shake his old rattle again. Than
q God he has already received stuI
t. ming blow. Hear you not the run
J. bling Of the Christian printing presse
u and the whirling of the Gospel charis
r wheel2 As many souls have bee
p added to the Christian church In tt
n last eighty years as. in the previo,
Al eighteen centuries, and that is q rat
l of increase acclamatory with gladnes
" The kingdom is coming, and / am s
Is sure of it that I do not propose to fir
es and worry because it has not alread
y come. 1 may jump to get ON boz
st that is going off, bnt | do not propo'
or to Jump for boat that is coming il
Id The sharp attacks Of infidelity and 81
p are a good sign that especial blessir
a. is coming in showers over all Il
m earth. Flies bite sharp just befol
le rain.
nt TIE FINAL OVERTHROW OF SATAN.
- - If we do not see the full consumm
= :. ton our children will see it. In Il
Il time of the French revolution q gre
% % procession of boys carried throug
m ums tho street a hammer with the insc1f
z ton: ''IreInble, tyrants; we sha
=: rs grow upp' Though we may fail 70 {