The herald., 1895-11-11
Large Attendance at Various
Houses Of Worship
QUESTION, WHAT is SATAN
The Sermon Preached by the Rev. j. S.
Thomson
General T. J. Horcan's Address at the First
Baptist Church-At the New Era.
Other Discourses

A sermon on the question. What il
Satan? was preached at Unity church
yesterday morning by the pastor, J. s.
Thomson. The text was: The enemy
that sowed the tares Is the devil. Mat
thew IS :39.
The ancients saw satanic forces in
nature. Storms, earthquakes, epidemics
blights and temptations vera to then,
manifestations of some evil power. They
personlsed this power under the names,
Loki. Satan. silva, Pluto, Ahrman. The
Greek theory of the origin of evil was the
opening of Panoofa's box. The IL e brews
attributed all the ills OF ife to the SER
pent's successful temptation of innoce mt
Eve. If satan be absolutely bad, as med
iaeval theology asserted, we might well ask
the question why did wise and good
God make such being AMI introduce
him among his innocent children upon
earth? In that case, God did what no
wise and loving parent would do.
Satan is in the world for good and
wise purposes. He is the spirit of rebel
lion against all weak and corrupt gov
ernments. He examines and exposes
all shams. He criticises freely creeds
and churches and orings them to naugh..
Such institutions ns Stanford university,
Throop polytechnic, ana the state school
at Whittier are the satans who are criti-
clsing the false methods and the lfration-
al aims of our degenerate public schools.
Satan destroyed Paul's spiritual vanity
and corrected and saved the church
member whom Paul handed over to him
for spiritual trearu ent. lie punctured
Pc er's boosted LOYALTY to Christ. The vain
Perfectionists are exposed by one word
of satan that smites their hearts and
shows the old Anam stll there.
Intellectualism is the education of the
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moral sense, of the heart, and of the
spirit. 1t is the Mephistopheles in our
literature. In Ec,lesiastes, in Shake
speare, in Byron, in Whitman, in How
ellis, in Ingersoll, We fin1 satanic intellec-
tualism. In Scott. Dickens. Macdonald,
Ian MacLaren we see the fine spirit that
mental training, the training of the
the fractionally trained man, the one
sided man of intellectual training only.
We see this, too, in the so-called higher
criticism of the Bible, which is after all
worth nothing bat fractional criticism;
for the higher faculties of the mind,
conscience, love aud spirit are not al
lowed to contribute to the examinations
of inspired truth. Intellectualism with
ont conscience and heart has given US the
sexually immoral Caesar. Jesse Pome-
roy, the brutal boy murderer, has Gun.
ming, but no conscience. The filthy Oscar
Wlluc is III teltCtuuIlv SIlhrt. III our Jay
we have some people That manifest q de-
sire to worship criminals. AS soon as
cunning and heartless murderer Is dis
covered, the morbid instincts of these
people 20 out TO him in alteration with
wines, flowers and love letters. The
diabolsm of their hearts is thus made
manifest.
In somo directions we seem to have a
revival of the worship of sensuality that
fourlshed in the davs of Astartes and
Vtnuses. Some women prefer a goddess
from the sinks of Paris to O sanity wo-
man that has sweerened and gloriiied
home. Unblushingly they wear the
sym bolic and EN- blematc adornments of
a Partisan gri settle, while their hearts are
never stirred with the pure and beauti-
full lives of Mary the mother of Christ,
of Mary Som Grille, of Dorothy Dix, of
Cecilia or of Sister GA. We may go into
the low part, OF cities to save degraded
men and women; hut it is sinful folly
to go there for noble models of woman
hood or manhood. The saints we wor-
ship should live and move among the
stars OF heaven, and not in the dens of
vice.
vice. Our young people should receive
a mental training rather than fractional
one. If we do not educate the hearts and
consciences and spirits of the young we
shall have the intelectualism which laid
in ruins Babylon, Tyre, Sodom, Rome.
Pauls desert ption of Christian armor
means really an all round education Of
the mind; but we shall have to go
farther than that and insist upon having
an all-round education of the man, soul
and body. We are to serve God with all
our faculties, and we cannot keep the
golden rule if we educate ourselves TO be
mere fractions OF a human being.