The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-23
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Brooklyn Preacher Talks of
''Satan on His Travels.
The Many Forms In which the Arch
Tempter Is Met In His Going To
and Fro on Earth-How
to Crush Him.

and Fro on Earth-HOW
to Crush Him.
Rev. 7. Dew 1T Talmage took for the
subject Of a recent sermon in the Rrook-
Iyn Tabernacle "Satan on His Travels"
His text was:
And the Lord SAID unto Satan: Whence
comest thou2 Then Satan answered the Lord,
and said: From going TO and fro in the earth,
and from walking up and down in it-Job + z.
In 1872 was printed the largest book
ever published, Eamely, two huge vol
umes of near five thousand pages, in
small type, the author, Joseph CaryL 1t
was a 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, aud when he
came back to England still found his
father writing on it. l never saw the
commentary, but do not wonder at its
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 daY in Heaven
God was on His throne and angels and
ferent missions. / suppose one angel
said: 81 was out among the stars
| and I saw one of them burn
/ down" Another angel, 1 imagine,
! said: Il was off on a steller ex-
/ cursion and was present at the birth Of a
new world" Another angel, think,
said: Il was journeying five hundred
million miles in the wilderness of i'm
mensity and I saw meteor run down a
] ri off AM n
! helped at the inauguration of a new race
of beings amid the mountains and val =
! leys of that mighty world in the south
| east part of the heavens" But while
these good and great spirits were making
their reports q 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
| erontery, and instead of acknowledging 6
any of the mischief he had been doing
said he had been an earthly pedestrian,
| and had lived sort of circumambulatory,
peripatetic life. "And the Lord said un-
to Satan: Whence comest thou? Then
Satan answered the Lord, and said:
From going to and fro in the earth and
from walking up and down in it"
Satan began his attack on this world
long before Adam and Eve were created.
While I believe the Bible record that the
world was fitted up for mans residence
in one week, 1 belIeve also the geolog-
ical record that the world was previously
for hundreds of thousands Of years goin G
TIN ough great changes. The lumber for
the house that was to be built in week
for our first parents may have been
hauled to the spot million years before.
This Prince of the Power of the Air has
been trying for all that million years to
demolish and use up this world. The
record is on the rocks. He tried to drown
it with universal waters. He tried to
burn it up with universal fires. Then he
tried to freeze it into ruin, and covered it
with universal glacier. And for ages be
kept this world before our first parents
occupied it in paroxysms and convul-
sions, and the remains of those struggles
have seen, and you have seen in mu-
seums, or if with geologist's hammer
you have gone down into the stone
libraries of the mountains. Yea, after
the famous Bible week the world had
been fitted into a paradise for the home
of our sinless ancestors.
Satan comes into the Garden Of Eden,
not thr ough the gate of foliage and up
right in posture, but crawls in under the
bushes a snake, and having despoiled our
first parents goes to work to ruin Para
disc, and does the work so thoroughly
that one who recently visited the site OF
the ancient garden between the rivers
Tigris and Euphrates says the place is 6
desert not a flower, and the ground sc
poor that nothing but some date trees
grow there and the miserable villagers
from near by are not so well covered VI
with their rags as Adam and Eve were
covered up with their innocence. So you
see the father of lies for once told the
truth when the Lord said unto him:
I'Whence comest thouP and Satan an
swered 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;
'tWhence comest thouW the first range
Of mischief he may be expected to
take is the air. 1t was not witticism or
a slip OF the pen when Paul in his letter
to the Ephes1ans called Satan the ''Prince
Of the Power Of the Air" I think il
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 whirIwinds and eQuinoc-
tials are hatched out. He takes the mias-
mas that float up from swamps and
hatches them into typhoid fever. He
fakes the cold blasts and matches them
4 into pneumonia and rheumatisms and
consumptions. Not only has he power in
the upper air where highest clouds float,
but mower over the lower air which We
breaune, and, as we breathe nineteeI
times a minute and take in three hundred
and fly cubic feet Of air in every twenty
four hours, and much OF this air aft ects
the arterial circulation, you see what
opportunities the Prince OF the Air has
Of communicating and despoiIing aud de
moralizing a man. Through atmospheri il
Influence he clouds the disposition and
rasps the nerves and covers the best o
! people with religious despondencv, as il
the case Of Edward Payson and william
Cowper, and that beloved apostle o
evangelism, James w. Alexander. Hi
great delight is to have the air 0
churches vitiated, and in that way dull
the preacher and stupefes the people
and sees to it that the atmosphere of no
more than one out Of hundred chur che
is fit to breathe, and whole congrega
! tions Sabbath by Sabbath are asphyxi
r ated. Yes, he is worthy Of the title 81
: Paul gave hIm: ''Prince Of the Power o
the Air"
, Another route he is apt to take
III Ou- "A ADAAAHStAS AAAG- AAACLD Al AAp 3 pfel
er sport for him than con1ugal quarre
It does not make any difference hOw>lon
: the marriage ring has been on the duge
of the right hand, he will try to pull 0
j., the signet He says to the husband
: sWhat plain wife you have compare
with what she once wasl Don't you 81
that the color has gone out Of her chee
: and there are several wrinkles about ht
temples and a sprinklfng OF frost on h'
. locks. Besides that you have advance
{ in intelligence while she has stood still (
: gone back How hard IL is that "a
u should be chained to such dulIness an
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