The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-19
sATAN'S REASONING.
Ordinance OF baptism Administered at
the Baptfst Church.


Yesterday morning Rev. G.. J. Burchett,
pastor of the First Baptist church, preached
from the text:
Genesis fii1-"yea, hath God said, ye shall not
eat of every tree of the garden?"
In the course of his remarks he said:
Satan knows that II he would turn US ont OF
the garden OF peace with God, turn our Eden
into inky, pitchy blackness and lift between us
and our God the flaming sword, he must In
rome way get possession OF our thoughts and
occupy a large place there. He must in some
way cansc the heart to suspect its Creator.
Therefore, he formed weIl-laid plans 10 have the
thought lag behind In its reach toward God, ana
come late. Then say to him: 81 knew that thou
art an hard man. reapng whore thou didst not
SOW. and gathering where thou did not strew
The first method that succeeded know not
how many were tried before-was the one that
gained the mind by insinuation.
That oldest Of methods has this TO recommend
It TO Satan still, il is the most successful one
that he has ever tried There are reason for
believing that there will never be one that VIII
80 efFectually do the work as does this one.
tirst--In his logic with the soul he begins all
propositions with an interrogation point. And
ii an interrogation point We're put in the right
place would be no discredit, but when they are
used to hide world OF wickedness there is the
greatest harm.
satan comes to home of perfect happiness
aud enters IL ia disguise. This 1t seems TO be
his logic down to this hour. He gets her TO tell
her story. Eve tells it in an artless manner.
Having her interest awakened he assumes the
guise OF wisdom and surprise, then asks SIS
that sog" "Does he love you and
forbid you so small a thing as that?"
And he proceeds to show that such course Is to
be Stunned. How that logic stieksl Eve
thought that she was being cheated. "Ah, there
you are" This is Satan's first proposition.
You are here this morning believing that
should come to Him, and live as His holy law
calls upon you TO live you would be cheated.
There are trees OF rich fruits yonder which God
has forbidden, and you are going to be too wise
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bic to be taken in with this Kind Of logic.
There was that happy woman in Eden led to
think that God was cheating her out of the
greatest blessings. That much OF satan's logic
ID very bewidering do not question. Why did
not that woman for whom God had done
much resent the first intimation that the One
who had done so much was not cheating her?
Why did she not look around that fair Eden
and put the tempter out in a moment? You
would think that she would have called
her husband, yea, that she would have
instantly called the stars OF heaven TO witness
that she would not listen a moment to anything
that would throw shadow over her pure mind
around her.
As to how she could have stood amid all those
fair bowers and listened to the voice OF the ira
Queer is the question for you to settle If you can
1t. But the awful point was carried. That
pure one in the fragrant bowers of that first
Eden there, and then disobeys her Makers
seeond-There is always the scmhlance of
truth in the logic Of Satan: Did not Eve learn
n,
he notg He told her that she would know good
from evil. He said that God himself knew that
this was good fruit, and would make them wise
ms he was wise IL they would eat it. See how
nicely he would carry two points here he would
shrewdly throw discredit upon the yeracity OF
God, much as II he had said: "God has not told
you the real truths in this matter"
Then the main point was 10 have her think that
the tree would really make her wise. And was
not that true? This is still Satans question. Ii
had the semblancc of truth in il. Ii has the
q Ecmblance OF the truth in itnow. This is where
the logic OF Satan is so very deceptive, Wiser
Yes. They knew some things that they would
have never known but for that.
young man comes in from some quiet place.
il lis learned that he is heir TO some money. He
has started out TO do for himself He meets
young man with waxed moustaehe, and hair
parted In the middle and saturated with rose
water He tells the quiet young man 10 come
with him and learn something worth knowing.
Nou viii never he young but once. That young
man goes. He is found the next day in the
hands of the police officers, his money is all
gone, he is beaten and bruised. Does he know
truth.
DO you want that kind of wisdom? When
Adam aud Eve went out OF the garden on the
logic OF Satan they were much moro wise than
they had ever been before, and knew some
Things that they would never forget. They had
!carned how 20 so downwarsis This is what sa-
Tan proposes TO teach, but never how 10 get up
again.
Third-Translate some of his most common
Propositions into the language of the present.
Il can't believe every thing in the Bible"
You are nowhere asked 10 believe everything
u the Bible that you may be saved Many think
That they must begin at the creation OF the
world. and take all they find and trust in that
kor their redemption.
They are asked TO DO nothing of the kind
AS strange as Il may seem, there are hundreds
of people today who think that the bible teaches
HAT whatsoever helieveth that the whale swaI-
lowed Jonah shall be saved aud they that be-
tieve IL not shall be damned That is satan :
logic. What does IL teachg lie that belieYeth
nn the Son OF God hath life
81 would rather be an honest man out of the
Church than a rascal in IL"
lou can scarcely imagine the number of souls
lost over that proposition, silly it is. bid YOU
tyer try 70 analyze that proPositlong II is ike
bl OF Satan logic. IL is insnuating. IL uSinu-
htcs that all the members OF the church are ras-
Gals: that churches are nothing but deus Of
hypoerites. You go 60 the wors, classes OF sin
nefs, ana press Their responsibilities upon them,
bud they viii tell YOU OF the hypocrites As 10
fhe fncts IN the case, are they all
hypoocrites9 What proportion areP' We
there are bad men who get into all good occupa-
5tonsf There was one Judas in the twelve;
frant that there are that number in all the
World. One 20 twelve. "lNwclye million of
hue men and women To one million OF hypo-
fEtteS Satan must succeed IN binding the
mind most shainefully ia order 20 have n man
look up aud, instead of heholding the one hun
sred and forty and four thousand, and that
great company that no man can number, only
heholding little black group of judaseS
A man goes % q meadow with q friend 20 see
lone sheep, there are 800 white sheen and one
black one. The man gets his eve ON that black
lhtep He becomes interested IN all its gam
ness; he wonders how much wool there is on
That black sheep. He figures, and calculates, and
watches that sheep. tie goes home and tells his
friends that he has seen a peculiar spectacle
He declares that he saw 90 hlSck sheen.
ind one white one. it Is with those " 40
ook upon this matter of the failures among mo
.eSsorS. They occupy 50 much Of your fhoucht
hat they become only one in the mind, they
ire all seen; their actions are watched. their
character is weighed, and all the particulars
acted til one says, "There are 800 hypocriteS and
sac Christian" But when You come 20 applv
'eason 10 this matter what IS IL 20 you II eli The
alen in the world were bad mens This is not
ne standard by which 60 measure your life
suppose that an important place in one Of
heSe banks was vacant. and you went there 10
We banker would ask YOU what credentials Won
BAD, ana YOU should tell him that you are as
FOOD as that man who was sent % The peuiteu-
aary the other day. is that good reConmepda.
aon TOR youg
satan's logic is the flaming sword between the
INNER ana God, There IS seen all the way
through the effort 70 separate man from his
fightful inheritance. To keep the soul swav
rom an agreement With its God. IL is cur para
Use that ne wants u ruin. IL Is our pFOspcct ~
acaNch inst ne wants 20 hlight for Us
satan SHOWS ttat We are called Npcu q ry,reut
tnd that this is the true road back 10 81 thSt
MSS tosk IN EaVh and that this should be done
without one moment OF delay. Therefore he
goes to work 90 block that way as efsectuslly ~
be can.
Even when the unsayed gets this far along on
ais road as 10 SAY: - know that ought 10 re-
pcat. bnt -
ssst what does that ncAu- I, means that in
way you are not Just gcias TO take the