The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-23
THE PRINCE OF EVIL.
Dr.. Talmage Discourses on the
Work Of Satan.
His Different Names and the Many Forms
In Which He Appears as the Great
Tempter-Christ the Great
Oeliverer.

II late sermon at Brooklyn Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage took for the subject Of his
| sermon Satan on His Travels" His text
was. Job i. Z: "And the Lord said unto
Satan: Whence contest thour Then Satan
answered the Lord said: From going to
and fro in the earth and from walking up
and down in it." He said:
In 1872 was printed the largest book ever
published, namely two huge volumes of
near live thousand pages in small type, the
author was Joseph Caryl. 1t was a COM
mentary on the Book of Job. When it
took year for the journey from England
to India, the son Of the author Of this COM
mentary 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 do
not wonder at it's size, because there is no
end to the interest of the Book of Job.
am not surprised that Goethe. the unbe-
lever, took from this wonderful book the
opening of his drama, Faust" and the
Mephistopheles of the great German
was only the Satan Of Job. It seems
that one day in Heaven God was on His
throne and angels and messengers came to
report on their different missions. sup
pose one angel said: II was out among
the stars and saw one OF them burn
down" Another angel imagine. said:
81 was off on a stellar excursion and was
present at the birth of q new world"
Another angel, l think, said: Il was
journeying five hundred million miles in
the wilderness of immensely and saw a
meteor run down a planet" Another
angel: 81 was off and helped at the in.
auguration of q new race of beings amid
the mountains and valleys of that mighty
world in the southeast part of the
heavens"
But while these good and evil spirits
were making their reports a CHASTITY,
grizzly, hideous monster from some miry,
sulphurous, filthy world, came into the
palace without wiping his feet, and God
asked him where and how he had been oc.
cupying himself, and this greatest scoun.
drel of the universe made reply with blax-
ing effrontery, and instead of acknowl-
edging any Of the mischief he had been
doing said he had been an earthly pedes.
trian and had lived a sort of circumam.
bulatOry, peripatetic life, "And the Lord
said unto Satan: Whence CONTEST thou!
Then Satan answered the Lord and said,
From going to and fro on the earth and
from walking up and down in it."
This monster of my text has great va
riety of names. You know that notorious
villains are apt to take variety of names.
Arraigned in Paris for burglary a man
will give one name, arrested in San Fran.
cisco for arson he will give another, i'm.
prisoned at Montreal for murder he will
give another name. So this creature Of
my text has many names. He is called in
sacred and profane literature Abaddon,
Apollyon, Ahrimanes, Zaniel, Asmodeus
the revengeful devil, Beelzebub the sover.
eign of devils, Lucifer. the brilliant devil,
Diabolus the despairing devil, Mammon
the money devil, Pluto the fiery devil,
Baal the military devil, Meresin the
plaguing devil. He is called the father of
lies, and has for his children and grand
children and great-grandchildren all false
hoods, receptions, frauds, swindles, Sian.
ders, tsckbitings and subterfuges.
The ancients supposed the air was filed
with sylphs and satyrs, and sirens and
gnomes, and vampires and salamanders,
and undines and hobgoblins. The Talmud
says that Adams first wife was Lillis, and
that their children were all:devils.
Satan began his attack ON this world
long before Adam and Eve were created.
While believe the Bible record that the
world was fitted up for mans residence in
one week. l believe also the geological
record that the world was previously for
hundreds Of thousands Of years going
through great changes. The lumber for
the house that was to be built in q week
for our first parents may have been hauled
to the spot q million years before. This
prince of the power Of the air has been
trying for all that million years to demol- |
ish 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 he kept |
this world before our first parents &C.
cupied it in paroxysms and commissions |
and the remains of those struggles |
have seen and you have seen in museums, |
or il 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 q |
paradise for the home of our sinless an
cestors. Satan comes into the garden Of |
Eden, not through the gate of foliage and |
upright in posture, but crawls in under |
the bushes q 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 desert,
not flower, and the ground so poor that
nothing but some date trees grow there,
and the miserable villagers from nearby
are not so we'll covered up with their rags
Is Adam and Eve were covered up with
their innocence.
So you see the father of lies for once
.old the truth when the Lord said unto
him: ''Whence contest thou: and Satan
the Lord and said, From going
10 and fro in the earth, and from walking
Up and down in it." In my text we have
Satan on his travels, and I am going to
ell you some Of the routes he is apt to
AXE. On his way down from the palace
where he reported himself in answer to
he question, whence CONTEST thou:" the
irst range of mischief be may be expected
" slip Of the pen when Paul in his letter
o the Ephesians called Satan the ''prince
# the power of the air." think it means
hat Satan works through conditions of
he atmosphere. The west wind is full
Il angels, the east wind is full Of devils.
'atan spreads abroad his black wings and
hurricanes and euroclydons and Caribbean
vhirlwinds and equinoctials are Matched
ut. he takes the miasmas that float up
rom swamps and matches them into
Uphold fevers. He takes the cold
lasts and matches them into
and rheumatisms and
Not only has he
'ower in the upper air where highest
LIQUIDS float, but power over the lower air
Which We breathe, and as we breathe