The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-22

couclusiyely that il we observed all the
| laws of health we need never die, ex-
pired before he got his book on that SUBJ
| ject published. Satan meets another
man who has gone through long course
of profigacy and is beginning to pray
| God for forgiveness, and Satan says to
the mani "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 80 with spite
and an acuteness and velocity that have
been gaining for six thousand years, he
ranges up and down battling, disappoint-
| ing, defeating, affecting, destroying the
| htiman race.
But, blessed be God I may substitute
anthem for requiem and Hallelujah
Choft,s for the Dead March in Saul. The
New Testament says: "The Son of GoI
was manifested that He might destroy the
! works of the devil" 1t prophesied that
an angel would come down from Heaven
with key and chain and incarcerate aud
shut up the old dragon. II says that
Christ came to ''destroy him that had the
power of the devil" And from the way
Christ drove the devil out of those pos
sessed by him until he was glad to hide
under the bristles of the swine Of
Gadara and from other violent
e;csttnents, we know that there
is in existence a power million
fold mightier ttlau the diabolic. The old
lion of death shall 60 down under the
stroke and roar Of the "Ldon OF Judah's
tribe" Yea, my text shows that Satan
was compelled to report to the Almighty
and give account of himself. When God
said to him: ''Whence comest thou" no
was forced to answer. What means that
Scripture which says that Christ shall
bruise the serpenps head? II you have
ever killed a snake the passage ought to
be plain IN you. You see this old serpent,
the devil has crawled across the nations,
poisoning whole generations and leaving
its trail on every thing; but after
awhile it will be cornered, and Kissing
and writhiug in rage and with crest lifted
and forked tongue shot out it will make
| hua! attack ON Christ, and Christ will ad-
vance UPON il, and lifting his omnipotent
| foot, that foot strong enough to crush a
world. lifting that foot right over the
head of the reptile, will put down his
| heel with crushing power that shall
| leave the monster bleeding aud mashed,
never to hiss again or bite again or shake
his old rattle again. Thank God he has
already received a stunning blow.
| Hear you not the rumbling Of the Chris
| tian printing presses and the whirl-
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| AS many souls have been added to
the Christian Church in the last eighty
years as in the previous eighteen centu-
ries. and that is ratio OF increase ac-
| clamatory with gladness. The kingdom
! Is coming, and am so sure OF 1t that
| do not propose to fret and worry because
il has not already come. l may jump to
get on boat that is going off, but do
not Propose to jump for boat that is
coming in. The sharp attacks Of infdeli-
! ty and sin are a good sign that especial
! blessing is coming showers over all
! the earth. Flies bite sharp just before
| rain.
II we do not see the full consummation
! our children will see it. In the time or
the French revolution great procession
! of boys carried through the streets a BAN
ner with the inscriptions: "Tremble
! tyrants; we shall grow up" Though We
| mag fail to do our duty there is rising
generation being gospelized, and coming
| by the hundreds Of thousands from our
! Sabbath schools and Christian homes,
who might properly have on their ban
ners: 'Tremble. ye powers of darkness
and sin. for we are growing upw We may
| not amount to much in ourselves, but IL
we put ourselves in the right place we
! can do great exploits. Two put under
| two make only four; but placed beside
| two make twenty two. Yet what you
and l most need is power to drive
| back this Apollyon, this Asmodeus, this
| Ahrimanes from our hearts and lives.
| And we can do it not by our own strength,
but by Divine power afforded, for here Is
a passage embrazoned with encourage
ment, which says: RESIST the devil and
he will fee from you" Il Remember. 1t is
| no sin at all to be tempted. The best and
the mightiest have been tempted. Mil
| ton describes a toad squat at the ear or
| Eve. The sin is in surrenderlng Do not
| feel so secure in yourself as to think you
| can not be oyerthrown How do you ac"
| count for the fact that there are so many
men in Sing Sing and Auburn and the
| other penitentiarfes serving out their
protracted sentences for frauds COM
mitted in mid life or advanced
ages, although their early life
| had been good and nothing bad
| suspected of them until at fifty
of sixty years of age the whole land was
| struck dumb at their forgery or embez-
| element The clock in the steeple of old
| Trinity Church striking the hours did no
remind the recreant Wall-streeter of the
passage of time that would soon bring
| exposure to him and doom. The explana-
| tion is that Mephistopheles. Apollyon,
| Satan got in his work at that time. The
man was not naturally bad. He was as
| good as any Of you are, but Satan, with
whole battalions of infidels, swooped up
on him unawares. Look out for the wiles
! of the devil, not only those of you who
are young, but the middle aged and the
| old. Outside of God you are not safe
moment. But Weld not to dishearten-
ment If we put our trust in God our
| best days are yet to come-days
of victory, days of song, days of
Heaven, and the best days of the
| cause of righteousness in all the earth
are yet TO come. AS the ten thousand
men OF Xenophon's army when they
came to the top of Mount Theches an
saw the waters on which they were to sail
| to their homes, the soldiers with clap
| ping hands and waving banners all to-
| gether shouted: THE sea the SEAL" So We
| to-day in our march toward ourlHe avenly
home come up to the top OF the mountain
| of holy anticipation and look off upon
| the oceans of light and oceans Of glory
and oceans Of joy; ana thrilled as we
have never been thrilled before, we clap
| our hands and wave our Gospel ensigns
and cry one to another and shout up to
| the responding and re-echoing heavenst
''The sea! the seaw
|
| Squire Hobbs Precepts.
We never thoroughly know man until