DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON Satan on his Travels. “Ant the Lord sald unto Satan: Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the ord and said: From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." —~Job 1:% Ix 1672 was printed the largest book sver published, namely, two huge yol- ames of near five thousand pages in small type. the anthor Joscph Caryl. It was a commentary on this Book of Job. When it took a year for the jour- ney from England to India, the son of the author of this commentary started for India, leaving his father writing on his book, and was gone for years, and when he came back to England, still found his father writing on it. 1 never saw the commentary, but I do not wonder at its size, because there is no end to THE INTEREST OF THE BOOK OF JOB, 1 am not surprised that Goethe, the un- believer, took from this wonderful book the opening of his drama “Faust” and the Mephistopheles of the great German was only the Satan of Job, It seems that one day in heaven God was on llis throne, and angels and mes- sengers came to report on their mis- sions, But while these good spirits were making their reports, a ghastly, grizzly, hideous monster from some miry, sulphurous, filthy world, came into the palace without wiping lus feet, and God asked him where and bow he had been occupying himself, and this GREATEST SCOUNDREL OF THE UNI- VERSE made reply with blazing effrontery, and instead of acknowledging any of the mischief he had been doing, sald he had been an earthly pedestrian, and had lived a sort of circumambulatory, peripatetic life- **And the Lord said unto Satan: Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said: From going to and fro In the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” This monster of my text has a great variety of names. You know that no- torious villains are apt to take a variety of names. Arraigned in Pars for bur- glary, a man will give oue name; ar- rested in San Francisco for arson, he will give another name; imprisoned at Montreal for murder, he will give an- other. So this creature JAS MANY NAMES, He is called in sacred and profane liter- ature Abaddon, Apollyon, Ahrimanes, Zaniel, Asmodeus the revenging dev Beelzebub the sovereign of devils, Luci- fer the brilliant deyil, Diabolus the de- spairing devil, Mammon the money devil, Pluto the fiery devil, Baal the military devil, Meresin the plaguing devil. and bas for his children and grandchil- dren and great-grandchildren all false- hoods, deceptions, frauds, swindles, slanders, back-bitings, and subtertuges, All men of { sense, whether enlight- aned Ly ible or in heathendom, have noticed that there are baleful and maleficent influences abroad, that have 300 n 8 DEMONOLOGY IS CERTAIN as angelology. The sword of Paracel- in the hilt, and there is now a demon in every sword hilt, The ancients sup- posed the air was filled with sylphs aod satyrs and sirens and gnomes and vam- pires. Two or three hundred years ago a demonographer gave the names of ambassadors of evil which he thought Satan sent to different countries: Mam- mon. ambassador to England; Bel- phegor, ambassador to France; Mar- tinet, ambassador te Switzerland; Rim- mon, ambassador 10 Russia; Thaunia, ambassador to Spain; Hutgin, ambas- sador to ltaly, and that there was a serpine. But that that was mere guess- work of mythology or superstition has been made clear by divine revelation, We find there is somewhere a monarch of all wickedness, He is THE SUPERVISOR OF ALL MISCHIEF, and what he cannot do himself he dele- gates otlers to do, and as each one of our race is supposed to have a guardian good angel, I have no doubt that every human being bas a besieging, malign- ant spirit nagging his footsteps, and trying to make him think wrong and act wrong, an especial devil, a devil of fraud, or a devil of avarice, or a devil of uncleanness, or a devil of poor health and as in my text the spirits are repre. to Satan. Satan, Whence comest thou? Satan answered the Lord and said : From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” Satan began HIS ATTACK ON THIS WORLD long before Adam and Eve were creat- ed. that the world was filled wp for man’s residence in one week. the geological record that the world sands of years going through great changes. The lumber for the house that was to be built in first parents may have been hauled to the spot a million years before. Prince of tie been trying for all that million years to demolish and use up this world, The record is on the rocks, He tried to drowr. it with universal waters. He tried to burn it up with universal fires. Then he tried to freeze it into ruin, and covered it with universal glacier. And for ages he kept this world, before our first parents occupied it, in paroxysms. Y eu, after the famous Bible week, the world had been fitted into a Paradise for the home of our sinless ancestors, Satan comes into the Garden of Eden, and thwough the of foliage, not t in posture, but crawls in under thé bushes a snake, and having despoil- ed our first parents, goes lo work to ruin Paradise, and does the work so thor- oughly that one who recently visited the site of THE ANCIENT GARDEN, ered up with their mnocence. So you seo the Father of les for once told the truth when the Lord said unto him: Whence comest thou? and Satan an- swered and sald: *‘From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” There is no greater sport for him than conivgal quarrel, It does not make any difference how long the marriage ring has been on the finger of the left hand, lie will try to pull off the signet, He says to the husband: “What a plain wife you have compared with what she ounce was? Don’t you see that the color has gone out of her cheek, and there are several wrinkles about Ler temples, and a sprinkling of frost on her locks? Besides that, you have advanced in intelhgence, while she has stood still or gone back. How bard it is that you should be chained to such dullness and imbecility!”’ Then he turns and says to his wife: “That man neglects you; you have a right to be jealous. He 1¥es his cigar and his club, and anything and everything bet-~ ter than you, Why not get a divorce? Marriage is only a ciyil contract any- how, and not a divine alliance, let me have that ring. 1t means nothing, and you might as well give it to me.” The ring is handed over to Satan, and he tosses it up and down, like a play- thing, over the mouth of perdition, and SAYS: me have it a little while,” keeps tossing that ring, with all its sacred memories, higher up and fur- ther out, tossing and catching, tossing and catching it until one day you cluteh for it, crying: *Give me back my ring!” but lo, it has dropped into the yawning gulf, and you suddenly fina who has been pitching and catch- ing the ring, and you cry out: swers: “From going to and fro in the domestic life of the city, and from walking up and down in it; thatis all.” There are thousands of marriage re- lations strained almost to the breaking, and I commend to all men and women who are restless in the present marriage ship, and takes as much pains to make themselves agreeable as they did five or ten twenty years ago, before the wedd! Or crowd that the bride were coming. in year in moral . in good old Mass- 600 divorces, and in the FEungland of ‘steady habits,” Iu one county of Illinois begun in one year, bad been made and instead of ten mandment having been leftout, When you see how many husbands and wives the conclusion that Satan is engaged in take in his active travels, is THE FACTORIES and other establishments where capital counting-room and a good many bands of laborers are busy On this visit he will first step into the manufacturer's office, owner and proprietor of the great to him: money as you ought, You furnish all Were it not for your en- establishment wold not These meu and women employ are of very common Their appetite is coarser, and Lis in your mould, quire, Their comfort and happiness of very little importance, Pat them down on the very verge of starva- own possession, and if they do not like better,” counting-room, Satan steps right out AMONG THE WORKMEN, He says: and you do your work better than it You are serving a He has no right to have any more than you Why should he ride and you Why should he have tenderloin Capital is Let labor be the sworn foe of capital. Why don’t you until he has a large order to fill by con- 1f he has more resources than ley of brickbats or put a little dyna- mite in his office and blow him and his Look out there on the night skyl Great What is it? The night is cold and Satan has made a big The capitalist has lost heavily, and the workmen and their families without bread and clothing. “Whenee comest thou, Satan?” “From going to and fro among em- ployers and employees, and from walk- ing up and dowa among them. Hal Ha! I was the only one who made anything out of that strike. What a fire and smoke! Ha! Hal 1 like smoke,’ Another route Satan is apt to take in his active travels is through the MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENTS, He steps in and says to the clerks: “How much salary do you get? Is that all? Why, you can’t live on that! You have a right to enough for a live- lihood. A few quarters out of the money-drawer will never be missed, or here and there is a remnant of g youy could take home without being found out, Or you could change those aceount-books a little, and you could make that figure eight a nought and that figure five a three, and if you do not feel exactly right about doing that you can some day pay it back, which Jou can do patfostlt oo; Don’t feel ike running the risk? Well, then you can’t go fo the theatre, and you can’t 5 whereas you could have your overcoat fur lined, and take board at a tip-top place, and walk amid plush and tapes- tries positively Oriental, While you are making up your mind 1 will just go through the different parts of this great commercial establishment and try every one from the wealthy firm down to the errand boys.”’ THE RESULT OF THAT SATANIC VISIT is that one of the partners has drawn so much out of the concern that the whole business is crippled, and a bright and promising boy is sent home to his mother in.disgrace, and a young man i8 in jail for embezzlement. Three lives ruined and three eternities, Whence comest thou, Satan? “From going to and fro among mercantile houses, and from walking up and down among them. I like to ruin splendid fellows and blast parental hopes, and of all the liquors that I ever tasted, fill my glass with a brewing of agonizing tears, Come! let us click together the rims of our glasses and drink to the overthrow of the fifty thousand young men I ruined last year! Huzzah!" Satan would rather have one young man than twenty old ones. If he would win the septuagenarians and the octogenarians, he could do but little harm with them, But he says: “Give Ine A young man, especially if he be bright and generous and social.” He bad, been the mightiest influence in this world. Fernando Cortes conquered Mexico at thirty-two, Gustavus Adol- phus became jmmortal in history so early that he died at thirty-eight died at thirty-seven. William Pitt was Prime Minister of England at twenty- four. Jesus Chiist completed His earth'y life at thirty-three. Five years in a young man’s life are of more power for good or evil that the last fifteen of an old man's life. So Satan 1s especial greedy for young men, and in going to and fro in the earth he has especial temptation for them. Another route that Satan on his DESPOILING OF SOULS, Those this he juvolved On this in route great Llreasures are excursion, } and the Bible is an imposition; it has been oO not let it delude you. It has no n authority than the Koran of the Moham medan, or the Shaster of the Hindoo, or the Zenda-Vesta of the Persian. hasten. Ire le. ligion is right, but any time within the next ten years will be soon enough 1 you. A man with a stout ci h muscular develo But Satan says about the fact that the j Fe snare Tail {nore polis learned man, we need his book Satan meels through of heallh never got published, +45 gone and is beginn pray for forgiveness, and Satan the man: Yeo ARE TOO LATE; not help such a wreck you; you tight as well brace up and fight your own way through.” An 1 80 with a spite and an aculeness and a velocity that have been gaining for six thousand years, he ranges up and down, AS destroying the human race, He He has rejoiced lle has started He has pressed out avery and cursed exery continent, pestilence, every groan. cial panics, plagues, destroying angels, continental earthquakes, and world. wide disasters are to him a perfect glee, enness and fraud and libertinism, the Franco-German War and Crimean War, the North and South United States war, and rivers of blood flowing across continents of misery into oceans power of the Evil One, who repoited to Whence comest thou? answered, “From going up ana down in i.” anthem for requiem, stroy the works of the devil,” It from heaven with key and chain and incarcerate und shut up the old dragon. It says that Christ came to ‘destroy him that had the power of death--that is, the devil.” WIAT YOU AND I MOST NEED is power to drive back this Apoliyon, this Asmodeus, this Ahrimanes, from our heart and lives, And we can do it, not by our own strength but by divine power afforded, for here Is a passage emblazoned with encouragement which says: *‘Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” Remember it is no sin at all to be tempted. The best and might- 10st have been tempted, Milton de- scribes a toad squat at the ear of Eve, The sin is in surrendering. Do net feel so secure in yourself as to think you cannot be overthrown. How do you account for the fact that there are so many old men in Sig Sing and Auburn and the other DE serving out their protracted sentences for frauds, The clock in the Stele of ald Trinity Church striking the ms did not remind the recreant Wall streeter of the passage of time that would soon bring ure and doo to him. a, Apalvon, i that Mepis. work at that time, T' Ey aturally bad. He wis as good as any tallions of infernals, swooped upon him UnAWAares, Look out for the wiles of the devil, not only those of you who are young, but the middle-aged and the old, Out- side of God YOU ARE NOT SAFE a moment, But yield not to dishearten- ment. 1f we put our trust in God, our best days are yet to come—days of vic. tory, days of song, days of heaven— and the best days of the cause of righteous- ness in all the earth are yet to come, As the ten thousand men of Xenophon's army, when they came to the top of Mount Theches and saw the waters on which they were to sail to their homes, the soldiers with clapping hands and waving banners all together shouted: “The sea, the seal” So we to-day in our march toward our heavenly home come up to the top of the mountain of holy anticipation, and look off upon oceans of light, and oceans of glory, and oceans of joy; and thrilled as we have never been thrilled before, we clap our hands and wave our gospel eusigns, and ery one to another, and shout up to the responding and re-echoing Lieavens: “The sea the seal” cn — Sheridan's First and Last Vote. — nt! says ex President Hayes, ‘when General Sheridan cast the first vote #ad last of his life, McClellan was pe candidate on the one side and Eucoln on the other, | Sheridan had newr voted, as be was an army officer, Lutile understood that un- | der the laws of Ohio an Ohlo soldier { could vote, and hat there was to be somewhere in @mp among the Ohio | soldiers a polling place. He soon learn- ted it was wr headquarters, so be came about it, “] was pres at over the | my life,’ said Chmeral Sheridan ‘and I | don't understag how to do * Next iL, SCHOOL LESSON. Drcesnen 2, 1585, SUNDAY BUNDAY Israel Under Judges, LESSON TEXT. Judg. 2: 11.28. Memory verses, 11, 12) LESSON PLAN, Toric or THE QUARTEL: Promises Fulfilled, God's GoLpex TEXT FOR THE QUARTER! There railed not aught of any good thing whick the Lord had sp unto house of Israel ; all came to pass, - Josh, 21 : 45. ' ; pcen tie pleasure, 1. Forsaking the Lord, va 11-15, % Despsing ils Wralh, vs, 14-18, 8, Buffering His Chastisements, vi. 0.23. GOLDEN Text : Take heed Lrethren, lest there be tn any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.— Heb, 8 : 12, Dany HoME READINGS: M.—Judg. 2:11:23 displea-ure. T.-Julg 1: of Canaan, W.-Judg. 1 : 2% of Canaan, T.- Lesson Cutitne: 1-21, ‘The cor Hue 1 The COG An un and returning. S.-Isa 1 (God, Words of s— EE ——— LESSON ANALYSIS I. FORSAKING THE LORD. . Jehovah Forsaken : They 1 : the L Forsyth, of Tolglo, and Gens al Crook, who also wantefito vote, 1 word around tht Sheridan would vole abit 0 o'clock, goldiers and tw brass bands | nand. The poBug place was and three napcolnini were judges #d two clerks, I said ’'d show CUrook ul done, I was i greenhorus, t { rena i Lhe Judges, nd Crook and S000 were on a Wagon, officers fell young frat Hirst, i asked the father lives in 1 hen i uil ng al Lis haat, ! he Lived it ty. (General Crook judge. said: House, thou Ward,” 1 sa way. In sp ward, he sag, my first vo I vole again Old Abe,’ ”’ pd at 3 Oh call it and down It ing with Sheridan after- with feeling: ‘This is don,t ever expect to I did want to vole for af 91 . the First went that wel LAL No aes RR — Demand For Floral Candies, “There ar buy them,”’ | sweet violet rose leaves, done in su “What is | died Sowers { “To perfu | society ladi with them tL ties, every Some of the in fancy via They loo ard the girl some like others tie candied prefer plok e the breath. All young carry perfumed sweels ere they are tiny loze like these," Like homeopathic medi- | cines—amall sugar pills in all colors, | They were Nolets bijous of a lovely { lavander col, musk bLijous, pink and go Indeed. ers pat up | breath, i 1 Amd theprice?", “Oh, th are cheap enough, only { ten cehts a | mixed ttle. flavof for the boubonnieres, the | sage. ning to use coffee to swéten the breath. EE ——— His Pocket, a a —— the precocity{ 8 year old boys but 1] sink I know of particular ditinction for his ness. The ofle mamma for x night shirt ‘‘just like papa’s,” will a pocket in ik His mother made him one and the first night he woe it he went to bed high glee. In the ping, when his mother took the robs off, she found In one pocker a cotple of seed cakes, three matches. a bothpick, a small silver watch, sevem) pleces of h candy and the 's pocket handkerchief, When the lille was questioned as to the reason of the very varied assori~ ment he re : “Well, I thought If I got hungry In the night tite I would need the seed cakes, and, ¢f course, I'd want the toothpick : if I wanted to poe what time it was by my watch I would Lave lo have a match, and I was afraid of coughing eo I put the candy there, ————————— Kinny Stoxe—1 say, Tu about that $5 you borro wo months ago? Angy ‘T'upper—Ob, that’s all right! I've kept It in mind, , how me “You have, eh? I thought you'd po 11. Idols Served : I} Anger Arouscd: They prov My anger t Hl. aie onl 8 anger: How displayed; (3 : 11. DESPISING HIS WR ' 1. Inthe Face ofl Disaster: delivered them into th into the han LE king of (2 Kings 13: 3 delivered them to be tossed to 2 Chron, 28 : K). fie : ¥ 3 ’ jelivered them to the sk STA It repented the Lond because of then groaning is Yet went they on to (Psa. 78: 1i sinned sil, lieved not (Psa. le regarded their heard their cry (Psa. 106 : 44). Or despisest thou the riches of b Rom, 2: 4). 111, in Persistent Love of Wrong: They ceased not from their dois i stubborn way (19). iB: 3d) distress, 1% good 1IesR | nor from their He. ... being often reproved his neck (Prov. 20:1) is fully set in evil (Eccl, 8: 11). wav? (Acts 13 : 10). asraist God (Rom, 8: 7). 1. “They could not any longer stand their enemies,” (1) Israel's departed glory; (2) Israc I’s erying shame: (3) Israel's evident guilt, before them.” (1) An omnipotent antagon- jst: (2) A dismayed nation. . “They ceased not from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.” (1) Israel's stubborn persistency; (2) Israel’s evil way, | (11. SUFFERING HIS CHASTISEMENTS, 1. The Cause of Israci’s Chastisement: Because this nation have transgress- od:....1....will not....drive cut (20, a1). Go pot up;....that ye be not smitlen down (Num, 14 : 42). Israel hath sinned... .Therefore.... Israel cannot stand (Josh, 7 : 11, 12) When ye transgress;. ...then shall the anger. ... be Kindled (Josh, 23 : 46). They forsook the lord... And the anger of the Lord was kindled (Judg. 2: 13, 14). iL. The Parpose of Isracl’'s Chastise- ment: That by them 1 may prove Israel (22). God did prove Abraham (Gen. 22 : 1), That he might humble thee, to prove thee (Deut, 8 : 2). Blessed is the man that endureth temp- tation (Jas. 1:13). Ag many a8 1 love, 1 reprove and chasien (Rev. 3 : 19). IIL. The Nature of Isracl's Chastise- "EE i a Then i Whose... as p in Num. 33:00) They shall be a snare and a trap unte yon (Josh, : 13). They shall be as thorns in your sides (Judg. 2: 8.) They vexed and oppressed the children ot Israel (Judg, 10 : 8). 1. “Because this nation have trans- gressed,” (1) The Judge of nations; The sins of nations; (3) The penalties of nations 2. “By them 1 may God proving nations; means: (2) To what ends; (3) W what results, ‘So the Lord left nations, ”’ Evil nations; (1) Instruments God's bands: (2) SBeourves for God's 3) Helps for God's pesple. G1 rd {63% {&) “3 2, {nore foes: LESSON BIDDLE THE JUDGES OF | Their names (Judg. 3 : 9, 4: 6 11. 12: 9: + 10 2 1, 3; 11:46:12 :7, 8, +124, 25 ; 16 : 30, 51; 1 Sam. 4:18; 7:6, 156-17). Period of their rule {Acts 15 : 20). Interruptions of their rule (Judg. 17 * 6:18:1:219:1;21 : 29). Representatives God (Jucg. 8: 22, | 23;15am, 8:7). | Deliverers of Israel | Of temporary in 17, 19). Men of exemplary faith | 32-04). READING. Judg. 2 : 16, 18). juence only (Judg, 2: (Heb, 11 ! LESSON SURROUNDINGS. | The Book of Joshua closes with an { account of the death and burial of { Joshua, of the interment of the bones | of Joseph, and of the death and burial | of Eleazar, the son and successor of | Aaron (Josh. 24 : 20.33). The history lis continued in the Book of Judges, | which opens with an account of various attempts to extend the conquests (Judg. 11: 1-26), and with a list of failures to | possess the allotted territory (Judg. 1: 127-36). A threatening revelation 1s | nade to the people at Bochim {that in consequence of thelr partial alliance with the heathen in- Judg. 2 : 1-5). Verses 6-10 at the story of the death of Joshua, 11 of the rise of a new generation. mn 8 virtually an s DOOK wich 1% ’ $.it * Labilalils epitome of iL cane- ilar time follows, Hence De assig ned to any pail nlace, but covers the enlire period of “Judges.” How at period | was. is open to discussion 1 Kings Omn- + 3 4 nk 1 0 i Orns Lae : basis of the usual « | pulalion, w hich leaves about th years from the death of Joshua to : fs § "1 13 3 * 3 a the time of Eli, But if the laler dale | of the Exodus be accepted. the period be so long. Ou ts 13 : 19 seems { pe Lie “fr s ted LUn- dred FEE at] cannot the other hand, i ) Speak of the Lime . 1 1 four hundred though ial ¢ r3cd ER 3 “it fans i JUGEES as ALDOUS bar . LY Years, ® £ 3 + poke wn { CREAT. the meaning ol narrative in ‘ 1 A845 y 1 3 ¥ ot this 18 DOL that passage, the Bock of Judges with certain date, pe of the judges seem WW have It should be ad reads *f insteads ghtieth,”’ in the-e diflicu 0b Lo allemptl any wsitive settlement of the chronological whiaili sels wot 1181 US ot i » “td £3 i ial oepla int red Oo 8, il seems wisest mnn—————— OLD COACHES. Their Introduction into England I'hree Hundred Years Ago. troduced from land in 1580—gave rise we the love of ease | which such conveyances were alleged to foster could not fail to exercise a most pernicious influence on the mas- culine character. It was a disgrace to a true-born Briton to make use of an effeminate invention solely suited to ladies or to Frenchmen, The man who shrank from the endurance of fatigue | or exposure to the weather would sure- ly prove a dastard in the Geld of battle, The saddle was the hero’s appropiale seat. and not the cushion of a carriage. But as the warnings of sage and moral- ists did not suffice to arrest the progress {of the insidious evil, Legislature en- | forced their precepts in 1601 through an act that made the use of coaches by men a punishable offense. In spite, however, of legislative prohibition, the | wealthy owners of the demoralizing { conveyances preferred to pay the penal | ties incurred railher hau relinquish | the enjoyment derived trom rivalry in costly equipages, and a few years after Coaches— first o E alarn France in to gri vi ef umberland had severally driven in a | poach-and-six and a coach-and-eight | through the streets of Loudon. The | act was repealed mn 1625. Doubtless |the aristocratic influence that was | brought to bear upon the Legislature to | obtain the repeal of an obnoxious law was alded by the pertinent reflection | that the evil examples caused by a few | rich men was not likely to exert a wide- | spread demoralizing influence on ithe national character. But the alarm out of which the act arose was not effectually dispelled, for | though lulled to rest as long as the coach | only ministered to the ease of wealthy | wen it revived with increased intensity | on the occasion of the substitution of | stage coaches for the ordinary mode of | traveling throughout the country. | Once more the moralist denounced the luxurious indulgence that must inevita- bly undermine ibe hardihood which was the distinguishing char«oteristic of the Buglish nation. England was doomed to ruin and decay if it was to be peo- pled Ly a race that had lost the manly virtues of their own ancestors. True wisdom taught that to abandon time- hallowed custoins was supremely peril- ous. But in spite of gong-hke rever- beration of indignant warnings through. out the land the stage couch becarae an accepted institution, and doubtless wiany of its vehement opponents lived wo own that the practice of traveling on four wheels might co-exist with mas. culine daring and energy of character, Way He Lerr "What's the mat ter, Johnny ?'* asked one of the paigh- bor's boys as bis companion came out of the alley gate, *‘Ain’t finished your dine a’ready, bave ye?” a n't ye any?" “Yep; but Faint stay to nish iL" “What made ye leave so soon?” | "Well, I sald something at the table and everybody but pa laughed.”
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