The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-07-13
Deltpered
in St. James Episcopal Church,
June 80, 1901.

here you see of Satan the exalted and exclusive rule
OF kingdom OF darkness Had he borne sway sue
Kingdom the Lord would scarcely have asked the cues
ton, Whence contest thou! We should judge from TIL
passage that Satan had particular abode no empire
which he was Lord supreme, that he simply restless
enyous wanderer on the face of the earth And it cal
not be ignored that in the Book of Job Satan appears
the agent of the Almighty he has only the liberty IL
dealing with Job that God gives him; he does to Job only
what God wants him to do; he keeps strictly within the
limits OF his agency 1t is impossible to read the Book
ana not admit that every affection laid upon Job by Satan
was approved by the Most High. job in his bitterness
10 his Deepest widest most agonzed uterances of pro
test never supposes for moment that Satan the au
tnor OF his woe; his dark problem the warp and wool
MS tragic Wonderment is always that he should be atct
ed with such misery at the hands of the Most High
satan as the ultimate author of his suffering never
to enter his head
vastly different is this conception of Satan in the Book
oIJoo standing before the Lord among the sons of God
an a1terWard strictly executing the Lords will from the
later idea OF the Devil Prince of some neither realm of
darkness shrinking away from the sons of God and for
ever striving with large success to execute his will
In opposition to Gods '''
Inc word, Satan, Also as have said in tbe first
ook ol where is declared that "Satan stood
up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel
but turn back to the second Book of Samuel and tho
you VIII read that the LORD who moved David n
go and number the people We can reconcile the two
passages only by supposng that if Satan moved David to
@ me people, as the Book of Chronicles has it, he
uiu 30 Dy Uods command acting in the capactv * an
=. Inc MOST High, as he did in his DEALINGS with
dob And SO we still without any reveatio1 90 WI" thn
Devil In the Old Testament "'ion VI INC
There still remains the allusion to Sata in +h D.,
Aecnarah: but surely should be hard mt to ~ "
our modern Devil in this brief and Indefinite anson Of
oo. ~ ene language OF poetry Zecharah saws "He
snoe ~ e 'qsnaa tne high priest standing before the
Ing LORD ant Satan standing at his RIGHT hand ~
resist hlm And the Lord said unto Satan The Lord ~
Duke tnee, Y Satan, even the Lord that hath cb r.
the freq ' i"no pucked out OF
That is all Take the prophets LANGUAGE Etorol,,
~ we gather from u.s. that the Lord Showed him nsbno
sstanong oe1ore the Lords angel and somebody iIo%
IT. az ~ Josn9as right hand to resist HIM and
naI tne LORD re0uked this somebody called Satan anu
W nat then could be surer than this that wa ho
eaI revocation OF the Devil we think of him and t
a .oaay IN any Of the of the Od
re- l. o. IN much the larger division of the RIM
Inc chosen people told with minute o; .1
Inspired leaders and law givels what thew shall 'uoi5
ow tney snail eat IT. when they shall rest and wh
hnso' now tney Shall wash and cothe and ador
ana thousand other things of like cbarat
a. any one OF these conceivaby of So mnch
~ 60 woulo nave been clear and precise knowi1
That rbs p tSe existence if the Devil exted
n tuo Devl-oea was absent from the RELIGION Of ~
ews In Its ancient purity; that as this ido OF the
ter JeWlsn writings it was an imnortaapnp III he
idtlon to the old faith think there is verv foreign
cant;ves 10 Rahv' you remember were carried off
l apves 70 Daoylon by King Nebuchadnezzor ~ az III
-! part OF the sixth century, B. c. and renai ~ Tue
p%1Ly 1or aoout seventy years. Among the Rhil ~
~ lucy came IN contact with Persian Duasm thot
ernaly good, the other eternav evil VI rC gods one
s t ing tor mans and the worlds betermeDt she
the the pad sEvOg with well strength to
for the Tod and o l5e e and to g
GOt that the DEVIL of later Jewish theoIor Ver wh Is little
Sved IN orm blythe Jews for several ce1n wnO was
place ADVENT ~ int Of Christ and occupied 50
es Of Christ IS little doubt tbst 6 Da ne contem
- Aarlman the Bad God of the PersapSN SIMPLY
SaUsa of h independent deity fitted o6
natural tb tb mould aw Of Jewish conception waU
ply impressed by the Persian idea Of be ai We been
ing the years of their captivity: It was m 0o PAD God
of the nsS been quick their msor
supernatural opponent of Jehovah ra, tuo malice OF