The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-11-15

porting to the Lord, so / have no
doubt the evil spirits report to Satan,
who is the enemy Of the whole human
race, and who has CELEBRITY that
makes fight around the world the
matter Of a second, and who maxhals
on his side the forces volcanic, at
mosspheric, epidemic, geologic, oceanic
unit unto Satan: ;swhence co contest thona"
Then Satan answered the Lord and
said: From going to and fro in the
/ earth and from walking up and down
in it."
TIE AGE OF sArAN's BLIGHTTNG RULE
Satan began his attack on this world
long before Adam and Eve were Gre
ated. While believe the Bible record
that the world was fitted up for mans
residence In one week, believe also
the geological record that the world
was previously for hundreds of thou
sands of years going through 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 commissions, and
the remains of those struggles / have
seen, and you have seen, IN museums,
or if with geologist's hammer you
have gone down into the stone ibrar
iesof tho 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 through the
gate of foliage and upright in
posture, but crawls in under the
bushes a snake, and having despoiled
our first parents goes to work to ruin
Paradise, and does the work SO thor
oughly that one who recently visited
the site of the ancient garden between
| the rivers Tigris and Euphrates says
the place is a desert, not a flower, and
| the ground so poor that nothing but
| some date trees grow there, and the
miserable villagers from near by are
not SO well covered up 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:
Whence comest thoua 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 he routes heis apt to take. On
his way down from the palace where
the reported himself in answer to tho
question: Whence comest thou? the
! first range of mischief he may be ex-
pected to take is the air. 1t was not a
witticism or o slip Of the pen when
Paul in his letter to the Ephesians
called Satan the prince of the Power
of the Air" / think it means that
Satan works through conditions 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 whirlwinds and equinoctials
are Matched out He takes the miasmas
that float up from sWamps and matches
them into typhoid fevers. He takes the
cold blasts and matches them into
pneumonias and rheumatisms and con-
sumptions. Not only has he power III
the upper air where highest clouds
float, but power over the lower all
which we breathe, and as we breathe
| nineteen times a minute and take Ill
three hundred and fifty cubic feet Of
cir in every twenty-four hours ane
much Of this air affects the arteria,
circulation, you see what oppor
. tunities the Prince of the All
has of communicating and despoil
, ing and demoralizing man
Through atmospheric influence ht
, clouds the disposition and rasps tn,
, nerves and covers the best of peopl,
with religious dependency, as in th'
: case of Edward Payson and William
: Cowper and that beloved apostle o
: evangelism, James w. Alexander
= His great delight is to have the air O
) churches vitiated and in that wa,
dulls the preacher and Supplies th
5 people and sees to it that the atmos
S phore of not more than one out of
[ hundred churches is Git to breathe an,
: whole congregations Sabbath by SAX
: bath are asphyxiated. Yes, ho j
f worthy of the title ST. Paul gave him
v ''Princo of the Power of tho Air."
g MARRIAGE is BY NO MEANS A FAILURE
d Another route he is apt to take
c through domestic life. There is n
:, greater sport for him than o conjuga
l. quarrel. 1t does not make any differ
IS ence how long the marriage ring ha
q been on the finger of the right han6
n he will try to pull off the signet. Fl
l. says to the husband: "What plai
d wife you have compared with wha
q she once wasl Don't you SEQ that til
IS color has gone out of her cheek an
% there are several wrinkles about he
@ temples and q sprinkling of frost o
g her loclzsa Besides that, you have az
d vanced in intelligence while she hs
10 stood still or gone back. How har
10 it is that you should be chained
l. such dullness and imbecilityp The
3 he turns and says to the wife: 9Th;
20 man neglects you, you have q right
2 be Jealous. Ho likes his cigar and h
S club and anything and overythin
l; better than you. Why not get d
1T vorce2 Marriage is only civil col
le tract anyhow and not divine allianc
rs Let me have that ring. 1t meal
'r nothing, and you might as well give
lr to me-" Tho ring IS handed over
1t Satan and he tosses it up and dow
II like q plaything over the mouth
sr perdition and says: Il will hand
es back, only let me have it o lit
lee while" And he keeps tossing tn
Of ring with all its sacred memoir
10 higher up end further out, tossing al
I'd catching, tossing and catching it uni
to ono day you clutch for it, cryin,
10 "Give me back my ringl" but 10, it b
q dropped into the yawning gulf and "
Us suddenly find who has been pitchir
TX and catching the ring, and you CT
al out, ''Whence comest thoua" and ]
" answers, From going to and fro
a the domestic life of tho city and fro
xt walking up and down in it; that