The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-11-15
2:OO 81 YEAR.
SA'FAN'S DISCUSSES.
DR.. TALMAGE's DISCOURSE ON
MANS ANCIENT ENEMY.

MANS ANCIENT ENEMY.
The Fiend's Various Manners of Travelling
the Earth, and His Subtle .s ptitude for
Sowing the Seeds of Woe and Daznna-
tioi,-The Devils Power.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 1.-THE throngs
in and around Brooklyn Tabernacle
are on the increase As an evidence
of the demand for DR.. Talmago's work
$50, 200 copies of his forthcoming sub
scripticn book, Tho Pathway of
Life, Eavc been bought from the His
torical csiagany by Messrs. B. f.
Johnson c Co, Of Richmond, Va,
although tho retail prices are from
S3.5 TO s. a copy. in the history Of
literature no booi; has had such an adj
vance sale.
At tao tabernacle this morning the
Rev. T. De Witt Talnage, D. D.,
took for the subject Of his serpon;
''Satan on His Travels" His text
was, job j, z: "And tho Lord said
unto Satan: Whence comest thoua
Then Satan answered the Lord, and
said: From. going to and fro in the
earth and from walking up and down
in it,"
In 1879 was printed tho largest book
ever published, two huge volumes of
near five thousand pages in small
type, the author Joseph Cafyl. Itwas
u commentary on this Book of Job.
When it took a 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, and
when ne came back to England still
found his father writing on it. never
saw the commentary, lat I do not
wonder at its size, because there is no
end to the interest of tho Book Of Job.
am not surprised that Goethe, the
unbeliever, took from this wonderful
book the opening of his dyafna
the great German was only the Satan
of Job 1t seems that one day in
heaven God was on his throne and
angels and messengers came to report
on their different missions. suppose
ono angel said: II was out among the
stars and l saw one Of them burn
down" Another angel, l imagine,
said: Il was Off on a stellar ex-
cursion and YVES present at the
birth of new world. An
other angel | think, said: 'I was
iourneying I've hundred million miles
in the Wilderness of ifnmensity and l
saw q meteor run down a planet. "
Another angel: 'I was off and helped
at the Inauguration of new race of
beings amid the mountains and val
1eys of that mighty world in the south
east part of the heavens" But while
k these good and great spirits were max
ing their reports ghastly, grizzly,
hideous monster from some miry, sui
phurous, filthy world, came into the
palace without wiping his feet, and
God asked him where and how he had
been occupying himself, and this
greatest scoundrel OF the uni
verso made reply with blazing
effrontery, and insteats. of acknowledg
ing any of the mischief he had been
doing, said he had been an earthly pc
destrian and had lived sort of Cir
cunambulatory, peripatetic life. "And
the Lord said unto Satan: Whence
comost thou2 Then Satan answered
the Lord, and said From going tc
and fro in tho earth and from walking
up and down i'll it."
THE LIEUTENANT OF SATAN ON EARTH
This monster of my text has greai
variety of names. You know thai
notorious villains are apt TO take :
variety OF names. Arraigned in Paris
= for burglary a man will give ont
+ FVame, arrested in San Francisco fol
h arson he viii give another name, i'm
n prisoned at Montreal for murder h'
win give another name. So this Great
ure Of my text has many names Il
is called in sacred and profan
literature Abaddon, Apollyon, Ahri
names, Zaniel, Asmodeus the re
venging devil, Beelzebub the sove1
eign of devils, Lucifer the bril-
liant devil, Diabolus the despairin
devil, Ma1nmon the money devil, Plut
tho fiery devil, Baal the military devil
Mcresin tho plaguing devil. He
G called the father of lies and has for hi
= children and grandchildren and grea
= grandchildren ell falsehoods, deceI
tons, frauds, swindles, ISLANDERS, bacl
bitings and subterfuges. All men {
good sense, whether enlightened b
e tho Bible or in healthendom, hav
noticed that there are baleful an
maleficent influences abroad that hav
not their origin in the human rac'
and demonology is as certain as ange
ology. The sword of Paracelsus w;
thought to have had demon in tt
. hilt, and there is now o demo
Y in every sword hilt The al
l. clients supposed the air was filled wit
J sylphs and satyrs and sirens an
gnOmes and vampires and salamanca
81 and undines and hobgoblins III
. Talmud says that Adams first Wi
was LiIlis, and that their children we
all devils. Two or three hundre
years ago demonographer gave Il
names of ambassadors of evil which |
thought Satan sent to different coul
tries: Manmon, ambassador to En-
land; Belphegor, ambassador
France; Martinez. ambassador to Swift
erland; Rimmon, ambassador to Ru
sia; Thanniz, ambassador to SPAN
Hutgin, ambassador to Italy; and tn
there was princess of devils by Il
name of Proserpine. But what w
mero guess work of mythology
superstitution has been made Gle
by divine revelation We find tn
thero is somewhere a monarch of Q
wickedness. He has a throne of pow
and courtiers and armies and navi
and machinery of evil vast as Il
round world. He is the supervisor
ell mischief, and what he cannot I
himself he delegates others to do, al
as each one of our race is supposed
have a guardian good angel, / have
doubt that every human being has
besieging malignant spirit nagging |
footsteps and trying to make him THU
wrong and act wrong, an especl
devil, devil of fraud or @ devil of 9
arico or o devil of uncleanness Oh
devil OF poor health, and as in my te