The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-12-13
TALMAGES SERMON.
The Brooklyn Preacher Talks OF
ssSatan on His Travels.
The Many Forms in Which the Arch
Temptcr is Met in His Going To
and Fro on Earth How
to Crush Him.


Ign Tabenacie Satan on His Travels"
His text was:
And the Lord said unto Satan. Whence
contest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord,
and said: From going to and fro in the EARTH
and from walking up and down in ft.-Job T.
In 1872 was printed the largest book
ever published, namely, two huge vol
umes of near five thousand pages, in
small type the author, Joseph Caryl. 1t
was 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 gone for years. and when he
came back to England still found his
father writing on it. / never saw the
commentary, but l do not wonder at it's
size because there is no end to the inter-
est of the Book of Job. / am not sur
prised that Goethe, the unbeliever, took
from this wonderful book the opening of
his drama Faust and the Mephistopheles
of the great German was only the Satan
of Job. 1t seems that one dav in Heaven
God was on His throne and angels and
messengers came to report ON their diff
ferent m issions. / suppose one angel
said: II was out among the stars
and / saw one of them burn
down." Another angel, I imagine,
said: 81 was off on steller ex-
cursion and was present at the birth of a
new world.n Another angel, I think.
said: II was journeying. five hundred
million miles in the wilderness of i'm
mensity AMI saw meteor run down a
planet" Another angel: 81 was off and
helped at tho Inauguration Of new race
of beings amid the mountains and val :
legs of that mighty world in the SOUTH
east part of the heavens But while
these good and great spirits were making
their reports CHASTITY, grizzly, hideous
monster, from some miry, sulphurous,
filthy world, came into the palace with
out wiping his feet, and God asked him
where and how he had been occupying
himself, and this greatest scoundrel of
the universe made reply with blazing eff
frontery, and instead Of acknowledging
any of the mischief he had been doing,
said he had been an earthly pedestrian,
ard had lived a sort of circumambulatory,
peripatetic life. "And the Lord said un-
to Satan: Whence CONTEST thou? Then
Satan answered the Lord, and said:
From going to and fro in the earth and
from walking up and down in it"
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
down from the palace where he reported
himself 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
q slir1 nf he xyha IN, +; e 1zt
to the Ephesians called Satan the ssPrince
of the Power of the Air." l think it
means that Satan works through condi-
tons 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-
tials are Matched out. He takes the MAS
mas that float up from swamps and
matches them into typhoid fever. He
takes the cold blasts and matches them
into pneumonia aud rheam stisms and
consumptions. Not only has he 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 hundred
and fifty cubic feet of air in every twenty
four hours, and much of this air affects
the arterial circulation, you see what
opportunities the Primes of the Air has
OF concentrating and de spelling and de-
moraliztng man. Through atmospheric
influence he clouds the disposition and
rasps the nerves and covers the best OF
people with religious dsspondency, as in
the case Of Edward Payson and William
Cowper, and that beloved apostle of
evangelism James w. Alexander. His
great delight is to have the air of
churches Initiated. aud in that way dulls
the preacher and stupeies the people,
and sees to it that the atmo sphere of not
more than one out of hundred churches
Is ut to breathe, and whole congrega.
tons Sabbath by Sabbath are asphyxi-
ated Yes, he is worthy of the title st.
Paul gave HIM: "Prince of the Power of
the Airn
Another route he is apt to take is
through domestic lire. There is no great.
or sport for him than conjugal quarrel.
lE does not make any difference how long
the marriage ring has been on the finger
OF the right haul, he 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 cheek
and there are several wrinkles about her
temples and sprinkling OF frost on her
locks. Besides that, you have advanced
III intelligence while she has stood still or
gone back. How hard it is that Won
saenld be chained to such dulluess and
hnbecilityp Then he turns and saws to
the wife: THAT man negleets you: YOU
have right to be jealous. He likes his
cigar and his club and any thing and
every thing better than you. why not
divorce! Marriage is only civil con-
tract anyhow and not Divine alliance,
Let me have that ring. 1t means nothing
and you might as we'll give it to me- The
ring Is handed over to Satan aud he
losses 1t up and down like a playthiug
over the mouth of perdition and SAYS !:
will hand it back. only let me have
Il . little while." And he keeps
tossing that ring with all its sa-
cred memories higher up and further
cut tossing and catching, tossing and
catching it until one day you clutch for
it crying: ''Give me back nv ring!u but
10, it has dropped into the yawning gulf.
and you suddenly find who has been
pitching and catching the ring. and Won
cry out: whence contest thou?v and he
answered: From going to and fro in the
domestic life of the city and from walk.
ing up and down in it; that is ail.n There
IRE thousands OF marriape ralat;or.