The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-08-03
ZONES VS.. DEVIL.
What Rev. Sam. p. Jones Knows About
the Devil.
Atlanta Journal.
the Devil.

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the latter part of my life I have been
fighting him personally and officially.
I am learning more and more of the
devil every day. I have yet much to
Learn Of him and his devious ways.
Like most men, / once thought the
devil was monster with hoofs and
horns, sharp-topped ears and spiked
tail, whose business it was to devour
men and women and children.
But latterly I have learned some
thing of the devil. He is mean,
contemplate. Internal spirit, whose
chief aim is to embody himself in a
man or woman or child or horse or a
dog. Hogs won'tle him gointo them.
We remember that when Christ per-
mitted them to go into the hogs when
he cast the legion Of devils out Of the
demoniac, the hogs broke for the sea
and drowned themselves, A Georgia
razor-back hog might take him in still.
There is one thing about the devil
-he never lets you know he is COM
ing, he never lets you know of his
presence; and when the devilment is
done he is gone and all inquiry and
search cannot find him. I heard
fellow say the other day that the devil
travelled sincog.' He did not wire
on head that he was coming; he
didn't order brass band to meet him
at the depot and parade him over
town; he never wanted humanity to
know when he was coming; and if his
presence was recognized in the town
he left Immediately.
Let's see how the devil plays his
tricks. Here is a good sister just
moved into the community. She is
woman of intelligence and church
qualities. The first Sabbath she at
tends church, presents her letter and
is kindly commended by the pastor to
the love and brotherhood of the
church: She is soon member of all
the societies Of the church, and very
soon she is running, or attempting to
run, the societies and the pastor him
self, and she runs the whole thing in
the ground and breaks it off. The re-
Suits the church is disrupted, the
pastor must move, and the devils to
pay ali round. And when we come to
look around and say, "Who did all
this?" somebody says, "The devil
has been among the sheep Some
BODY else asks, Where is the devil?"
They reply, "He's gone . Itell you,
when the devil gets among the sisters
of the church he can kick up more
real deyilment than anywhere this side
of his own dominion. When the Sa-
viour cast seven devils out of Mary
Magdalene he did big thing for her.
OF course I was not personally ac-
quainted with Mary Magdalene and
don't know how seven devils can make
q woman do; but / think l have seen
some women with fourteen devils.
The devil gets into neighbors some
times and gets them to talking about
one another and slandering each other,
and old friends become enemies and
feuds are inaugurated and the mis-
chiefs to pay all round. And when
the neighborhood surveys the wreck
and ruin that something has caused
with one accord they all speak out and
say: s'Who did this?" But one an
swer is given: "The devil did it. .
Where is the devil?' ''They all
answer, aHe's gone. y The devil
never is ready for settlement when
you want him. He don't propose to
come to judgment. He has been ad
judged once and came out so badly
that he is always gone when you want
to bring him to judgment.
The devil gets into preacher some
times, and next to woman he had
rather be in preacher than anybody
else. He makes preacher jealous
and envious and narrow and bigoted.
He belittles the preacher in the eyes
Of the community; he makes the
preacher strut like peacock and look
like mud hen. The preacher begins
to look around and sees his power is
gone, his influence over his members
gone, that things are not as they once
were, and he begins to ask, "Who did
all this?" The answer is, "The
devil did it. "Well. where is the
devil?" Giles gone
Sometimes the devil gets in an edi-
tor; and, by the way, he has got a
trump card when he gets an editor.
He makes him a scavenger, gather
up of scandals and slops and swills to