The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-08-04
SATAN'S NEW DEVICES.
Attacks Country's Womnahood, Says
Rev. Edmonds Bennett.

An article by the Rev. Edmonds
Bennett, which appeared in The Liv-
ing Church, was read at recent
meeting of the Summerville chapter
of St. Paul's Episcopal church. II
made so profound an impression al
the time that the members OF the
chapter have requested The Sunday
News to reprint it. The article fol-
lows:
Satan challenged the Redeemer in
the wilderness and lost. Then the
devil departed from Him for a sea-
son.
But in every subsequent unchronl-
cled encounter he lost. Then he OBJ
tanned an ally from within the camp
Judas Iscariot. The result was that
he reckoned he had achieved a double
victory. One disciple had been made
a traitor, another turned against Him
at the witness bar and the rest of
the band fed away scared; he had
broken up the discipleship, and the
Leader he killed. How simple it was!
Then came Resurrection, Ascen-
sion, Pentecast and a discipleship
strengthened ten thousand-fold. Sa-
tan outwitted, the Kingdom of the
, Crucifix grew apace; the King of the
Jews was invading the world.
D.. s'I will kill his followers!' He did,
and for every martyr there arose two
converts. Satan again had overshot.
81 will divide His church!" He
could not do that, because it is in its
very nature one, based on common
principles and sacraments of faith.
But he split up its members into
groups; mutilated the body of the
hurt of each several part. He weak
ened the government through divis-
i've and mutually jealous and detri-
mental counsels and waste of resour-
ces. The body needed what each
several members of it could supply,
and suffered dismemberment through
want of collaboration of the parts.
After the lapse Of few genera
tions the church at large began to
awake to recognition of its essential
and proper Catholicity; began to see
how, whilst each several part Of the
whole remained Christian, divisions
meant a. certain disloyalty to the
whole, and to it's Head. And cry
went up for the closing Of breaches
and healing of wounds through which
life was bleeding away that ought to
20 to the vitalizing and nutrition of
the one body
The Arch Conspirator of evil be-
came alertly active, and an orgy OF
masculine self-indulgence and aggres-
ssivebadness resulted. But there re-
kmained the mighty defensive fortress
of the country's womanhood; moth
ers, sisters and wives.
Satan said, II will assall that Tor
tress." And again he sought and
found his alliance within the camp
.I will destroy the modesty of wo-
men. l will employ mightier cor
rupting agency than all alliance OF
mere devils can be. I will make her
shameful in shameless dances, whose
very names shall brazen and tougher
to more vice. / will make her Dru-
tishly alluring in the effrontery OF
her half clad body, batting its prey
with it's own flesh. I will make
modesty a joke and maidenliness a
fashionable reproach. She shall re-
place the pure blush of innoncence
with the devices of painted filth.
will leave to the dupes of her un-
dress nothing in her to respect. She
shall play first role in the game OF
temptation to ruin and beckon the
way to easy fall. And in devious
ways by which she shall slide to
deepening depths I will violate AND
desecrate every traditional shrine
that has made home what these
fools have called sacred. The foun'
tain shall be corrupted and befouled
In every spring. I will prove that
am still the prince of this world. ]
have done it, for 1 have caused wo'
man the angel to fall until she out
classes every tempter. And the very
clergy shall be dumb dogs because
of majorities. The open streets are
mine in the day light
"Watchman, what of the night.
And the watchman made answer:
t'The morning cometh, and also the
night. .''-Sunday News.