West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-22

who has gone through a long course OF prof.
hgacy and is beginning 20 pray God for
forgiveness, and Satan says TO the man: lyon
arc too late; the Lord win not help such a
wretch as you: you might as well brace
up and Fight your own way through
And SO with a spite and AZ acuteness and n
velocity that have been gaining for six thou
sand years. he ranges up and down battling.
Disappointing, defeating. affecting. do.
stroying the human race. Through his
own hand or delegated infernalism he has pur.
sued and hurt us all, and cursed every heart
and curset every homo and cursed every ma
stigated every war. He has reioiced In
every pestilence. He has started every oroau.
He has pressed out every sigh. Ho has hurled
every shipwreck. Lazarettos, insane asylums,
commercial panics. plaques, destroying
angels. continental earthquakes. and world.
wide disasters are TO him a perfect glea. Can
you look upon the Communism and the
Mormonism and the Mohammejanism and
INC wide sweep OF drnnlxenDe5s and fraud and
hbcrtinism, tho Franco German war and Cri-
mean war. the North and South United States
war AMI rivers OF hlco1 flowing across con
tinonts OF misery into oceans OF wretched-
ness without realizing the power Of the Evil
One, who reported 10 the Lord Almighty,
and when asked; Whence contest thouf an
swered: From going TO anil fro in the earth
and from going up and. down I'm IT,"
But, blessed b. Coll ! may substitute
anthem for requiem and H%allelujah Chorus
for the Deal March In Saul. The New
Testament says: '1he Son Of o was mani
tested that hN might destroy the works of the
devil" 1t prophes'ed that an angel
would come down from heaven with
Key ana chain and incarcerate and
hut up the old dragon. It saws that
Christ came to destroy him that had the
power OF death-that Is the deviI.n And
from tho way Christ drove the devil out OF
those possessed by him until he was clad 70
hide under the bristles of tho swine OF Ga
InFn- nnd from nfhaw x~tn1.,N -
know that there is in existence a power
n Milo fold mightier than the diabolic.
The old lion OF death shall go down under the
stroke and roar OF the "Lion OF Judah's
tribe. Yea, my text shows that Satan was
compelled to report Co the Almighty and give
account OF himself. When God said to him;
whence comest thour' he was forced to
answer. What means that scripture
which says that Christ shall bruise the
serpents headl IL you have ever killed a
snake the passage ought to be plain to you.
You sec this old serpent, the devil, has
crawied across the nations. poisoning whole
generations and leaving his trail on
everything: but after n While it will be cor
nered, and kissing and writhing in rage and
with crest lifted and forked tongue shot out
10 VIII make final attack ON Christ, and
christ Will advance upon it, aud 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 a crushing power
that shall leave the monster bleeding and
mashed, never to hiss or bite or shake
his old rattle again. Thank God he has al
ready received a stunning blow. Hear Won
not the rumbling of the Christian printing
presses and the whirling of the Gospel
chariot wheeli AS many souls hava
been added to the Christian Church In the
last eighty years as in the previous eighteen
centuries and that is "A ratio of increase
acclamatory with gladness. The kigdom is
coming, and | am so sure of it that / do not
DrOnO-a 10 fraf nn1 1885, - g.. "
not already come. l may jump TO get
ON a boat that is going or, but / do not pro-
pose to jump for a boat tina is coming in.
The sharp attacks of infdelity and sin are a
good sign that especial blessing Is coming In
showers over all the earth. Flies bite sharp
just before rain.
IL we do not see the full our
children will see it. In the time of the French
neVo.ution a great procession of boys carried
through tne streets O banner with the in.
scriptlon: "Tremble, tyrants; we shall grow
upl' though we may fail to do our duty there
Is a rising generation being gospelized
ana coming by hundreds of thousands from
our Sabbath-schoois and Christian homes
who might properly have on their banners:
lremble ye powers of darkness and sin: for
we are growing upl' We may not amount
TO much IN ourselves, but if we put our
selves in the right place we can do great
exploits Two put under two only make
Iouri but placed beside two make twenty.
two. Yet what you and ! mosU need IL
power TO drive back this ApollyOn, this AS.
mOdeus, this Ahrimanes from our hearts and
lives. we can do it not by our own strength
butbY divinep afforded, for here is a pas.
sage eintlazoned with encouragement which
says: RESIST the devil and he will flee from
your Remember 10 is no sin at all to be
tempted. The best and the mightiest have
been tempted. Milton describes n toad
squat at the ear of eve. The sin is in sur
rendering. Do not feel so secure in yourself
as to think you cannot lie ovcrthrown.
How do Won acp0l1Ut for tho fact fhaf Nbara
are so many old men in Sing Sing and
Auburn and the other p~enitentiaries, serving
out their prOtracted sentences for frauds
committed in mid-life or advanced ages, al
though their early life had been good, and
nothing bad been suspected OF them until at
fifty or sixty years of age the land was
struck dumb at their forgery or embezzle-
mentl The clock in the steeple OF old Trinity
Church striking the hours did not remind
the r%ecrennt Wall-streeter OF tho passage
OF time that would soon bring to him
exposure and doom. The explanation is
that Mephistopheles, Apollyon, Satan got i'm
MS work at that time. Ths man was not
naturally bad. lie was as good as any Of
you are, but Satan with whole battalions Of
INTERVALS swooped upon him Look
out for the wilcs Of the devil, not only
thoss or you who are young but the middle
ages and the OIL Outside OF God you are
not safe a moment. But yield not to dis
heartcnmeut II we put our trust in God
our best days are yet 10 cone-days Of vic
tory, days OF song, days OF heaven, and
the best days OF tho cause of
Righteousness in all the earth are yet
70 come. As the ten thousand men of
Aenophon's army when they came TO the top
OF Mount Theches and saw the waters ON
which they we're TO sail to their homes, the
soldiers with clapping hands and waving
banners altogether shouted: 'fThe sea: tho
seal, SO we to-day in our march toward
our heavenly homo come up to the top OF the
mountain Of holy anticipation and look or
upon oceans OF light and oceans Of glory and
oceans Of joy and thrilled "a we have never
been thrilled before we clap our hands and
wave our gospel ensigns and cry one to an
other and shout up 20 tho responding and re-
ecbOing heavens: THE sen. the ssaip