The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-08
How to Fight the Devil,
Told by Evangelist
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this he preached sermon-preached
it in every meaning of the word and
with an effectiveness that held the
vast audience of some 1000 or more
people for an hour long in rapt and
almost awed attention.
The force of the man was shown in
his every word and movement, and
as he threw new lights on this IA
nous apostrophe of the great Apos-
tie to the Gentiles, he fixed the con-
viction on his audience that he has
that armor as it was given to those
converts of old.
1t was essentially militant SER
mon, and the challenge of the evan
gelist. rang out clear and strong to
the arch enemy of all mankind, the
devil. 1t abounded in apt words and
illustrations drawn from the battle
fields of the present great world
wide strife in Europe, and Mr.. Smith
made the existence of the constant
warfare in which every human soul
is engaged, most vivid and at times
appalling realistic. He alluded to
the devil as existing and ever present,
and his experiences in finding out the
weak spots in every individuals
armor.
His first point was a graphic de-
scription of the preparedness" the
Christian needs, fixed on the atten
ton of his auditors after his striking
and arresting phrase "Now listenw-
''The first thing is to find out what
your opponent is going to do"
And then he reviewed the many pit
falls which have been prepared for
the soldiers of the cross throughout
this mortal strife.
Rarely has a more masterful lay
ing bare of human frailties been
heard from any preacher, and he al
most realized what he dramatically
described the process of saving souls
to be, when he asked at the height
! of his greatest climax, "What do you
want, surgical operation" He laid
bare the secret recess of many heart
in his audience.
when Christ came into this world"
the evangelist stated, che faced two
| things; the one He loved; the other
/ He hated. The thing He loved was
| the work of God; the thing He hated
was the devil. The one He fought for
| thirty three years, the other ne
{ taught And in His teaching, He
: taught that one must wear the whole
I armor of God to be victorious in his
battle against the devil. The only
way to win the fight against the
iniquities of the devil, is to wear the
arnor of Gods spirit.
when God placed US on this earth
He gave US the power of choice; He
gave US an imperial will-the right
to choose. We can be moral lepers
spiritual buns, if we choose; but
then we have that right, too, to be
manly, Christian like. God never in
tended man to be a slave. He made
him little lower than the angels.
eff the devil showed a man pic
ture of the end of his sin, he couldn'
tempt the man. If he showed thu
man who takes his first glass of liquor
a picture of himself in the gutter
an outcast, all the devils in he'll
couldn't tempt man to take drink
If the devil had shown the woman
who is peddling her virtues on tn,
street tonight a picture of herself a.
she is before she made that frs
wrong step, then he could not hav,
tempted her. He always shows the be
ginning of sin, bright and gay, bu
| he never shows the end
''The next sin is that of disarrange
ment, which means a continual mud
die. 1t is disarrangement that sepa
rates a wife and her husband; it i
disarrangement that causes politica
strife. Place a weak man in a stronJ
mans place and you have disarrange
ment Church bazaars and rummag
sales to pay the pastors salary is dis