The age-herald., 1901-04-01

(COntinueQ from fiftn PaRe.D
 
 and sim All these things will I give thee These are the words of satan's prom ise glibly and unhesitatingly made. Re gardless of the fact that he is powerless to make them good, there being one God of heaven and earth, Who exalteth and casteth down according to His wisdom, he uses them in one form or another to all the children of men. None are so holy that he dare not approach them, for so spake He to the eternal Son. None are so degraded as to escape his notice. for he bribed thief to execute his nefarious design. AS God embraces all in His plan of universal salvation, the devil com prehends all in his device and endeavor to defeat Gods plan. and if possible land the whole world in perdition. He prom ises all men wages if they will do his work.
 More than this, while in the end this work invariably manifests It's true char acter and is of shocking nature and mien in the beginning 1t Is generally pleasing inviting and gratifying to the animal or intellectual desires of man. While it's germ is every time a creation contrary to the principles of the moral law, and ant asonistic to the monitions of an up- right, sensitive conscience, its sugar coat ed shell of surface purpose is pleasing to the eye and toothsome to the taste of the pleasure seeking and ambitious man.
 "No matter. however innocent pleasing and beguiling may be the beginning, l call upon every subject of satan to testi- fy that in the end the reward of his ser vice is bitterness and despair of heart and remorse of conscience that knows no cure So soon as man expends all his resources in the service of satan and in his extremity pleads for the assistance of his master to enable him to avoid ex- posture and consequent disgrace, then does he realize that he Is left to himself, that he Is dependent utterly upon the character he has made for himself, and that with his regret and remorse he is all alone. Satan rejoices in his bitter ness and grief and laughs at his misery and despair and pain.
 We may value the treson of the bribc taker who enables us to accomplish the purpose of our endeayor, but we ever af- ter despise and shun the traitor. So is the attitude of satan toward his allies. With no other purpose than the accom- plishment of their utter ruin, no matter what In the form of spacious and decep- tive appearances may be his promises to the contrary, he leads them into treach- cry to their God and trouble and ruin to themselves, and then leaves them to the anguish of their own reflection and per- ,onal accusation.
 Judas as an Example.
 Then Judas. which had betrayed Him, when he saw that He was condemned, himself. and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in that have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said What Is that to us? See thou to that And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
 What a rare treat for satan What momeEt of triumph for evil when, by the mouth of his emissaries, the prince of darkness can reply to our appeal for re- lease from the remorse that gnaws us. What Is ttat to me See thou to that! The devil willingly sees to all we want until he has us bound hand and foot in his tolls, then we can see to ourselves! Our minds have been sacrificed on the altar of the world; our bodies have been degraded at passions chrine; our souls have followed the bent of body and mind, and now body, soul and spirit we are satan's and lost foreveri His willing al- lies we have been here in time, and now, although we may hate and loathe him, his unwilling slaves we must be hereafter in eternity!
 And so submit my conclusions. calm ly. reasonably and logically deduced from premises founded in our own everyday observation and experience. as well as in the declaration of the word of God, that in justice to ourselves and our own welfare present and future, we cannot place our life upon the altar of compact with the world the flesh and the devil to cruelty our Lord. for in the end, as we'll as all the way through, the world, the flesh and the devil have the advant- age. It is a one sided contract. The sum total of the whole matter is that, at the best. man receives temporal and most frequently temporary fame, uncertain wealth. evanescent glory. worldly honor and earthly .distinction-the whole not in- frequently accompanied by the envy. if not dislike. of his fellow man. The world receives his service today, the flesh his manhood tomorrow. and the devil his soul in eternity
 And what profteth 1t a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul. or what shall a man give in ex- change for his soul?"
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