The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-10-09
ON A DARK SUBJECT.
DR eaapMANS SUNDAY SERMON.
Noscas pasaor-fsvangeIist Treats On
the SUhs cot of the Devil in a Novel

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EEw YoEK CrTy.-The following reada-
bic and hslpSn3 sermon Is by the Rev. Dr.
J. Wilbur Chapr;aa. the best known evan
eelIst In Che country and one OF the most
popular pafpit orators OF New YORK. IL
Is eatYtsed The Devil and was preached
frcu, the text @And the Lord said unto
Shian Whence CONTEST thou? Then Satan
sosrered She Lord and said. From going to
and fre IN the earth. and from walking up
md 6oou IN IL" job /: {.
Thas ~ a forbidden subject. We gener-
ally speak Of him who is the subject OF my
sernsoa yifh = smile, and yet it is a sub
jcct wlsa which orc ought certainly to be
PERFECTLY familiar. We have all had some
expcrrsnee with him whe is the author OF
tonr DISTRESS. and who is responsible for
every esozd though 1t be no larger than a
uaRs hxnd that has cast itself upon the
sky OF uur life, and yet l doubt not that
there M very many Of us that could not
give a very accurate explanation OF our
Vscus- There are very many who scout
The s3rz OF a personal devil at all, and this
vssu Is rzueh nor general than we think.
Y Can aaIte understand how it should be
for Satan's master stroke OF policy Is
On direct Cur minds from inquiry concern
my his trne character and the methods by
which be governs his kingdom. Some
&uues for The Cnre generate he employs the
vehiek OF darkness that he may blind the
mlnsss OF those who do not believe lest the
f1ht Of the Gospel of the glory Of Christ
should dawn upon them and they should
BELIEVE In whom the God OF this world
hath ASudei the minds OF them which be-
Eese mot lest the light of the glorious Cos
pea OK C5vist, who is the image OF God,
shsula shine INTO them" 2 Corinthians
81 s-n~atiu,ne IN thOca whO do hp-
Eeve he transforms himself into an angel
OF fssAi tbat ne MAJ delude them by his
s1ares- And 10 marvel; for Satan him.
eclf rs transformed int an angel OF light"
= CorInssH8s IL: IA.
The hfr DIR. James Fl. Brooks. of st.
HInuiS one of the greatest Bible teachers
In aur epantry, said that it used to be his
cestaza IN his family worship to read the
New Testament through consecutively I'M
xi he SzHze to Revelation, and then he
rsun6 zFvzys turn back to Matthew and
read axzIu to the Revelation, and then
heck "a Matthew o zee more, until one day
<ltfInz nkone IN his study he began to ques-
&SoR kaassSh as to why this was his habit,
and 70 occurred TO him as he read the Rev.
.ehSsca through that it must be because
dina x the only book in the New Tesla
vAirh tells OF the doom Of Satan,
azd If % gnite easy to understand why ne
uuoud tura the mind away from that book
which tsils of his defeat.
~4fen doa't believe in a devil now,
Az tAeir fathers used to do;
they've forced the door of the broadest
creed,
To ri his form pass through.
fksze ISN'T a PRINT of his cloVen foot,
Or \ fiery DART from his bow.
30 Ae fpand IN earth or air to-day,
For thu world has voted 50.
~Bat vho Is mixing the fatal draught -
T7a& pnsies heart and brain,
Nnd Toads the bier Of each passing year
With ten hundred thousand slain?
who bEshts the bloom of the land to-day
1 With the dery breath of he'll?
HI the devil iBn7t, and never was. sSNs.s
Woart somebody rise and tell?
-awscssbzs the steps of the toiling saint,
And DIGS the pits for his feet?
Who ssws the tares in the'felds of time,
Wherever God sows His wheat?
The drEIl m voted not to be,
And of course, the thing Is true;
zbo Is doing the kind of work
The devil mime should do?
I'VE xe tcN he does not go around
ESke n rariny hon now;
Eze wasssa shall we hold responsible
FsQ the everlasting row
To be hezrd IN home, in church and state,
Es Efe xzrih's remotest bound,
he tae SevT, by a unanimous vote, ~
rs nowhere TO be found?
-Waaft snmsbody step to the front forth
u1fh
~Asa nasa bis bow, and show
kbsE h frauds and crimes of a single day
STIIng Up? We want to know.
1he StcsS7 - fairly voted out,
and nf course she devils gone,
s1nre folks would like to know
Who carries his business on"
Tie Other day In Brooklyn a woman
tkxrE EEYysE out of the window of a five
stozy 1uJding to escape the brutal tor
tRres of her drunken husband. She left
her atse boy Motherless and worse than
&sEhexEzy. That husband was in the clutch
Cd the sae OF whom / speak at this time.
WpcM o make light Of such a foe as
Ihis- The opening chapters of Genesis
aqSe nz ychIre Of a happy pair in Eden,
Yesce, YSrIty, perfection and beauty every
iYSSw pnrsailed God looked upon it and
Dad thai 1t was very good, when suddenly
Isl Essz changed There is a marvellous
<rsnsfDrzzatton; SIN appears; the curse is
cxrTyuhare; trouble begins and rolls high
&ke the nsighty waves of the sea, until the
xorld N ensulfed in the blackness of the
darkness Of despair. No wonder that We
Enel Ek= Crying ont again and again in the
urKds OF the text, "And the Lord said
unto Safan, Whence contest thou? Then
Sktaa answered the Lord and said, From
zzanz 30 and fro in the earth, and from
sszIkSss up and down in it." 1t is of such
an adversary that l speak, and he is not a
ssbier& For jesting. l have for the past
Ten yxazx been laboring in the interests OF
msz- had somehow during the past three
xzss1xks they have been upon me as a spe-
xSzi EzzzSsa- I have listened to their heart
kxrakug cries and their sobs of despair,
and ii n with the memory of these tears
tszat have nm hike rivers, and the cry OF
nr,lay y Hran who feels himself to be lost
as he sod els there any hope" that l
EzSae In Wy readers this message.
Tke Sexl Is certainly not a myth. !
shall gysr his names in a little while and
CHI vozH attention to the fact that they
axe An found in the New Testament, so
xsas Ii rot an Old Testament delusion car
Fnea <zFEn 10 the present time, as some
v1n&x AzVe us believe, for almost all the
s~aSArxzxtaa1 concerning him We are de-
pSsaasnS upna the New Testament Scrip
ezfrx yle Old Testament is strangely ST.