Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-11-23

oluce ana dow MIN and his factory all
up with the same explosion" Look out
there on the night sky! Great fire some-
where. What is it? The night is cold
and Satan has made big bonfire of that
factory to warm himself by. The capit-
alist has lost heavily. and the workmen
and their families are without bread and
clothing. whence CONTEST thou, Satan?"
From going to and fro among employ
ers and employees, and from walking up
aud down them. Ha! ha! was the only
one who made anything out of that
strike. What a splendid fire, and lots of
smoke! Ha! ha! like smoke"
SOME REASONS WHY GOOD MEN GO
WRONG.
Another route Satan is apt to take in
his active travels is through the mercan-
tile establishments. He steps in and
says to the clerks. "How much salary do
you get? Is that all? Why, you can't
live on that! You have right to enough
for livelihood. A few quarters out of
the money drawer will never be missed;
or here and there is a remnant of goods
you could take home without being
found out; or you could change those
account books a little, and you could
make that figure eight a naught and that
figure five three, and if you do not feel
exactly right about doing that, you can
some day pay it back which, you can do
perfectly easy. Don't feel like running
the risk? Well, then, you can't go to
the theater, and you can't go on that
grand round with the boys, and you will
have to Wear that plain coat. whereas
you could have your overcoat fur lined
and take board at q tip-top place and
walk amid tapestries positively oriental.
while you are making up your mind 1
will Just go through the different parts
of this great commercial establishment
end try every one, from the wealthy firm
OF that Satanic visit is that one Of the
partners has drawn SO much out of the
concern that the whole business is Grip
pied, and a bright and promising boy is
sent home to his mother in disgrace, and
a young man is in Jail for embezzlement.
Three lives ruined and three eternities.
whence contest thou, Satan?" From
going to and fro among mercantile houses
and from walking up and down among
them. 1 like to ruin splendid fellows
and blast parental hopes, and of all the
liquors that ever tasted, fill my glass
with brewing of agonizing tears.
Come! let us click together the rims Of
of our glasses and drink to the over
throw of the $4,000 young men ruined
last year! Huzza!" Satan would rather
have one young man than twenty old
ones. II he would win the septuagena-
rians and octogenarians he could do but
little harm with them. But he says:
Give me a young man, especially it he
be bright and generous and social" He
sees that young men have for good OF
bad been the mightiest influence in this
Mexico at 80. Gustavus Adolphus be-
he died ut 49, Raphael, the most famous
of painters, died at 81. William Pitt
was Prime Minister of England ct "a.
Jesus Christ completed his earthly life
at 80. Five years in young mans life
are of more power for good or evil than
the last fifteen of an old mans life. So
Satan is especially greedy for young
men, and in going to and fro in the
earth he has especial temptation fol
them.
HOW SIMPLY MEN ARE DENUDED OF
THEIR SOULS.
Another route that Satan on his active
travels is apt to take is for the despoil
ing of the peoples souls. It does no
pay him merely to destroy the bodies O
| men and women. Those bodies would
soon be gone, anyhow; but great treas
ures are involved in the Satanic excur
sion. On this route he meets man VIII
is aroused by something he has seen il
the Bible, and Satan says: Nov cal
settle all that; the Bible is an imposi
ton; it has been deluding the world TO
centuries; do not let it delude you. !
has no more authority than the Koran o
the Mohammedan OF the Shaster of tn
Hindoo, or the Zenda-Vesta Of tn
Persian!" He meets another man who j
fastening towards the kingdom Of God
and says: "Why all this precipitation
Religion is right, but any time within
the next ten years will be soon enoug
yours and such muscular development
need not be bothering himself about tn
next world" But Satan says nothing t
, him about the fact that the professo
who gave his whole life to the study Q
health and could lift more pounds tina
any American died at about 40, an
that another learned man, who prove
conclusively that if we observed all tn
laws of health we need never die, ex
pired before he got his book o
that subject published. Satan meet
another man who has gon
through a long course of proAigacy an
is beginning to pray God for forgive
ness, and Satan says to the man: "Yo
are>too late; the Lord will not help sue
wretch as you; you might as we'll brac
! up and fight your own way through.
And SO with q spite and an acuteness an
', q velocity that have been gaining, fo
G.O0O years. he ranges up and down baf
, fling, disappointing, defeating, affecting
destroying the human race. Ihroug
: his own hand. or delegated infernallsn
he has pursued and hurt us all, an
cursedlevery heart and cursed every home
: and cursed every nation, and curse
every continent He has instigate
every war. He has rejoiced in ever
9 pestilence. He has started every groal
He has pressed out every sigh. He ha
8 hurled every shipwreck. Lazar ettoet
) insane asylumns, commercial pan 81
l plaques, destroying angels, continents
, earthquakes, and world wide disaster
9 are to him perfect glee. Can you loo
. upon the Communism and the Mormon
Q ism and the Mohamme dism and the wild
: sweep of drunkenness and fraud an
: libertinism. the Franco German war an
I: Crimean war, the North and Sout
5 United States war. and rivers of bloc
e flowing across continents of misery int
e oceans of wretci.,dness, without reali2
ing the power O.. the Evil One, who re
r ported to the Lor Almighty, and whe
asked: Whence co.Aest thon?" answered
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