Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1888-11-17
SATAN ON HIS TRAVELS.
Continued from First Riae.l

hundreds Of thousands Of years going
through great changes. The lumber fol
the house that was TO bc built In weei
for cur first parents may have been hauled
To the spot million years before Thi,
Prince of the Power of the Air has bcer
trying for all that million years TO demol
ish and use up this world. The record /
on the rocks lie tried to drown II will
universal waters. lie tiied to burn II ~
with universal fires. Then he tried I,
freeze II into ruin, and covered Il will
universal glacier. And for ages he KEEP
this world before our first parents occu
pied Il In paroxysms and commissions, an,
the remains 0i those struggles have seen
and you have seen In museums, or II will
geologist's hammer you have gone dowr
into the stone libraries Of the mountains
Yea. after the famous Bible week III,
world had been fitted into Paradise fo
the home Of our sinlcss ancestors, Satar
comes into the Garden Of Eden, no
through the gate 0f foliage and upright IL
posture. hut crawls In under the bushes .
snake. and having dcspoilct our first pa
rents goes To work to ruin Paradise, and
docs the work so thoroughly that one
who recently visited the site Of the an.
cicnt garden between the rivers Tigris and
Euphraies says the place Is desert, not a
flower, and the ground is so poor tina,
nothing but some date trees grow there
and the miserable villagers from near By
are not So well covered MP 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
sand into him: Whence contest thou. And
Satan answered the Lord, and said: From
going to and fro in the earth. and from
walking up and down in It."
SOME or THE DEVILS ROUTES.
In my text we have Satan on his ,rav.
els. and am going TO tell you some OF
the routes lie 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 bc expect to take Is the
air. II was not a wiiticism or n slip Of
the pen when Pull in his letter to the
Ephcsians called Satan the "Princc of the
Power OF the Air" think Il means that
Satan works through the conditions Of the
atmosphere. The West wind Is full of
angels, the Fast wind Is full Of DEVILS
Satan spreads abroad his black wings and
hurricanes and euroclydons and Caribbean
whirlwinds and equinOctials are Matched
out. lie takes the miasmas that float up
from swamps and matches them into
typhoid fcvcrs lie takes the cold blasts
and matches them into pncumonias and
rhcumaiisms and consumption. Not only
has he power IN the upper air where high
est clouds Heat, but power over the lower
mir which we breathe, and Us we breathe
!? times minute and take in $50 cubi,
feet of air in every "a hours, and much of
this mir effects the aricrial circulation, you
see whut opportunities the Prince Of the
Air has Of communicating and dcspoiling
and demoralizing man. Through atmos.
phcric influences he clouds the disposition
and rasps the nerves aud covers the hes,
"pcoP'e with religious dependency. as
IN The case OF Edward Payson and Vim.
Cowper and that beloved apostle Of evan.
gclism, James W. Alexander. Ills grca,
great delight is TO have the air of churches
vitiaied, and In that way duls the preach.
or and stupefies the people and sees TO /,
that the atmosphere Of not more than one
out Of u hundred churches is fit to breathe
and whole congregations Sabbath by Sab.
bath are asphyxiated. Yes, he is worthy
OF the title 81. Paul gave him-"Princc Of
the Power Of the Air"
coNJUGAL QuAkRELs.
Another route he Is apt TO take Is
through domestic life. There Il no great
or spor, Tor him than conjugal quarrel. I,
does not make any difference how long
The marriage ring has been on the finger
Of the right hand, he will try to null off
the signet. lie says to the husband; What
plain wife you have compared with
what she once was! Don't YOU see TIM,
the color has gone out of her cheek and
there are several wrinkles abou, her tenn.
pies aud a sprinkling Of frost on her locks:
Besides that you have advanced In intelli.
gence while she has stood still ar gone
back. How hard Il Is that you should he
chained To such dullncss and imbecility!'
Then he turned and said Ia the wife: That
man neglecis you; YOU have a right to he
jealous. He likes his cigar and his club
and anything and everything better than
you. Why not get divorce Marriage l.
only civil contract anyhow and not u
divine alliance. Let me have that ring.
IL means nothing and you might ms well
give II TO me-" The ring Is handed over
10 Satan and he losses II up and down
Ike playihng over the mouth Of perdi.
tion and says:"I will hand II hack-only
let me have II little while" And he
Keeps tossing that ring with all its sacred
memories higher up and firihe out, toss.
ing and catching, tossing and catching II,
until one day you clutch for II, CRYING
Give me back my ringr' hut 10. Il has
dropped into the yawning gulf and YOU
suddenly md out who has been pitching
and catching the ring, and you cry out
whence contest thou :" And he answ ers
From going TO and fro in the ,lnm.s, II
life OF the city, and from walking up and
down In Il; that's ALL" There ARE ihous.
ands efmarriage relations strained almos,
othe breaking. and commend TO all
men and women who are restless in the
present marriage state tia, they resume
the oh'time courlship and take as much
pains To make themselves agreeable as
they did five or ten, or twenty years ago,
before the wcdding-march announced 10
the flushing and ilutiering crowd that the