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THE
Foot-Prints of Satan.
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THE
FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN:
A
OR,
THE DEVIL IN HISTORY.
(The Cmmterpart of " God in History'' )
BY EEV. MOLLIS KEAD, A.M.,
Late. MiNfiionari/ of the American Board to Imlla ; aut/ior of '■'■God I
Ilisturj/ ;^' " The Palaw of the Great Khir;;" ^' Comiuerce
and Christianity ;" " The Cominff Cri.sis of the
World ; " ^^ India and its Peojde :^^ etc.
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" Be sober, be vifjfilant, because your adversary, the Devil, a.i a ruariii^' i jii walketii
about soekinj? whom he may devour "—1 Pet. v. 8.
" An ciiomy hath done this."— i1/a(. xiii. 28.
TORONTO :
MACLEAR iSz CO., PUBLISHERS.
1874.
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PREFACE.
In former treatises, which have been very kindly
received by the reading public, the writer endeavoured to
illustrate the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as
seen in his wonder-working t/ovidence, and in his no
less wonderful works of creation. The following pages
are devoted to the great Antagonistic Power, that riots
in the Apostacy — that reigns among the children of dis-
obedience, s
We have seen how completely benevolence pervades
all the works of the Divine hand — how all the works of
creation — all the variations, uses and adaptations of these
works, and all the ways of Providence, if left unperverted
to work out their own legitimate ends, are instinct with
the Goodness of God. We shall see, on the other hand,
how a great opposing Power, by usurpation the god of
this world, has been allowed to try his hand at the ma-
nagement of the affairs of this lower world. We have
seen what God has done ; and from what he has done we
may very safely infer that the end to be achieved by the
Divine plans is one of infinite benevolence — that it in-
volves the greatest amount of happiness to man, as well
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PREFACE.
as tho supreme glory of God. We shall now see what
Satan, armed with power, nnd pervaded by the poison of
sin, can do — what he is doing, and what, if not foiled, he
will do. He has been the ceaseless systematic opposer
of all good. His chief business has been to pervert the
works, tho providences and the grace of God. Malignity,
misery, characterize the one system ; benevolence and in-
finite happiness the other.
And never })erhaps cuuld we more fittingly call atten-
tion to the doings of the redoubtable Hero of our tale.
Never was his Satanic Majesty more thoroughly roused
to a desperate onset upon the sons of men. " The Devil
is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he
knoweth that he hath but a short time." Most unmis-
takably do wo trace his foot-prints in the events of the
last few years — as the instigator of the Slaveholders*
Rebellion ; as the prime and successful advocate, in the
late (Ecumenical Council at Rome, of the Dogma of
Papal Infallibility ; as chief leader in the late Commune
Rebellion in Paris ; and more conspicuously yet as a true
inspiration of the political corruption in New York.
Never before did he come down with so " great wrath" —
never were his acts more determined and daring. When
in the history of our race were fraud, violence, earth-
(piakes, tempests, murders, intemperance, so rife in our
world ? The prince and power of the air seems, as never
before, let loose to devastate and destroy.
The rightful Proprietor of this world no doubt permits
the Adversary to exhibit the malignity and mischief and
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Til
final ruin f)f sin, that its infinite evil may 1)0 marlo known
to the coiintlL'ss millions of the Universe tlirouLrliout eter-
nity. The vast resources of tins world, its riches, hon-
ours, learning', associated action and inlluence, manners,
customs and fashion, |)oiitical power, elo<iuence. poetry
and song, are, within ]>rescriljed limits, put at his com-
mand, that it may a|)pear what wretched use he will
make of them ; what misery and dej^'radation, what
wickedness and destruction of all good and ha))piness,
his rule can produce. These are all sources of power, and
are designed to contribute most inlluentially to the hap-
piness of man and the honour of (}od. We shall see, as
we })roceed, what utter perversion the god of this world
has made of all these elements of power and inrtuence —
how he has perverted every blessing of Heaven and
made it a curse.
The task proposed in the present treatise is to truce,
within certain limits, the foot-prints of the great Enemy
of all good, that w^e may, by witnessing the handiwork of
his malignity among the sons of men, perceive by way of
contrast the strange benevolence of God, and be con-
strained more and more to admire the goodness of that
wonderful Being whose purposes are all formed in bene-
volence, and all whose working is characterized by th«
same goodwill to man.
A few topics will serve as an illustration of our thought.
It will be sufficient to inquire what engines for evil and
mischief, in the hands of sin and Satan, have been false
religions; wealth; learning; the arts; science; what use
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has been made of governmental powers — of fraternities
and associated actions — of men's amusements and recrea-
tions; how he has but too often perverted and embittered
the domestic relations — perverted the Press — scourged
the race with intemperance, war, and by an endless va-
riety of diseases, pestilence and famine, the sure conse-
quences of the apostacy as entailed on a suffering race-
Indeed, how he has opened on a defenceless race the real
Pandora's box, and done all he could to extinguish the
last ray of hope and happiness in our sin -smitten world.
We have largely explored that great antagonistic sys-
tem of sin and misery which the great Adversary has set
up in our world, and by which he has impiously confronted
the rising empire of our Immanuel, contesting, step by
step, every scheme of advancement ; and where he can-
not '* rule," determined, by a wholesale perversion, to
" rum.
The author takes pleasure in acknowledging his
indebtedness to several eminent writers, and if credit is
not always given, his apology is, that as he has drawn
from his copious notes in the preparation of this volume,
he has often found himself unable to identify his
authorities ; many of the notes being jottings made
years ago, and often not credited to any particular
source, and perhaps without quotation marks. They
were noted down as mere Memoranda, without the inten-
tion of retailing them in this manner through the Press.
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CONTENTS.
[For full Index, see close of book.]
PAOB
I. The Devil the God of this World.— Who is he ?— What is
he ? — Hia mental, moral, and physical powers 17
II. Magnitude and Mischief of Sin. — The cause of all human
woe — Why it la permitted — What hath sin done ? — Its
effect upon divine and human government, and our rela-
tion to God — Mentally — Morally — Socially 40
III. The Devil in Bible Times.— Before the Deluge— In Old
Testament times— He turns the nations of the earth to
idolatry — In New Testament times — His corruption of the
Church 55
IV. The Devil in the Early Christian jDhurch.— Its persecu-
tions and martyrs during Apostolic times and the Reforma-
tion — Corruption and priestly usurpation 74
V. The Devil in War. — The sacrifice of life in ancient and
modern wars — Statistics of Christian nations — War debts
of different nations 91
VI. War — Conttmted. — Its untold evils — Modem wars — Their
wholesale destruction — Demoralizing effects — The duty of
Christians 116-
VII. Intemperance. — A stronghold of the Devil — Its influence
on labour, industry and morals — Its cost of money and life
— Statistics from England, France and America 142
VIII. Intemperance — Continued. — Its physical, mental, and
moral effects upon the race — The author of the saddest
calamities on land and sea, and in the everyday walks of
life 169'
CONTENTS.
PAGB
IX. The Perversion of Intellect. — Mind the prime mover of
all <acti(m and power — Literature, science, history, music,
and their sad perversions 183
X. The Perversion of Wealth- — Money a great power in the
hands of Satan — Cost of sin, pride, ambition, luxury, ex-
travagance, war, rum, tobacco, etc 203
XL The Perversion of Wealth — Continued. — Modern extra-
vagance — Expense of crime, amusements and false religions 228
XII. The Perversion of Wealth.— Confmwec/.— Regal and
aristocratic extravagance — Great estates — Temptations of
1 idles — Protestant extravagance and waste of wealth in
matters of religion 247
XIII. The Perversion of the Press.— Periodical Press ileli-
gious Press — The Press catering to frauds, corruption,
licentiousness and intidelity — Romance, fiction, music and
song
209
XIV. Satan in False Religions.— Their origin, history and
philosophy — Their relation to the one true religion 290
XV. False Religions — Continued — Historic religion — Pro-
gressive revelation -Christianity a religion for man 312
XVT. Modern Spurious Religions— Their practical tenden-
cies and results — Influence on character, society and go-
vernments 327
XVIL Popery the Great Counterfeit— Great truths which
Rome has preserved, yet perverted — Resembling Paganism 342
XVIII. False Reli^ioTis— Romanism— How indebted to
Paganism — Festivals— Monkery — Rosary — Idolatry— Pur-
gatory 359
XIX. Romanism — Continued. — A non-teaching priesthood —
No Bible — A persecuting Church 374
XX. False Religions —Jesuitism. — Character of the Frater-
nity — Jesuits in America — Their spirit and policy un-
changed 389
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CONTENTS. ' XI
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XXI. The Devil in Man. — His appetites, aspirations, capabi-
lities and susceptibilities perverted 405
XXII. Satan in the Marriage Relation.— Sanctity of Mar-
riage — Its vital relation to Society, the State and Church
— Easy divorce fatal to them all 424
XXIII. The Devil in " Latter Times."— Some of his most re-
cent doings — The late Civil War — Commune Insurrection
in Paris— The Devil in New York— Riots of 1863 and 1871
— Tammany Ring — Frauds — Modem Infidelity 440
XXIV. Yet Later Demonstrations of the Devil.— Crime in
New York — Profanation of the Sabbath — Opening libraries
— War upon the Bible — Upon our common schools —
Frauds — Licentious literature 467
XXV. The Remedy.—" The restitution of all things "—The
final and complete conquest — The usurper deposed and cast
out for ever — The earth renewed — Eden restored — The uni-
versal reign of righteousness and peace 486
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THE DEVIL THE GOD OF THIS WORLD.
WHO HE IS, WHAT HE IS, WHERE HE IS — ATTRIBUTES AND
CHARACTERISTICS — CAPABILITIES OF LOCOMOTION — HIS
MENTAL, MORAL, AND PHYSICAL POWERS — HIS WILES
AND DELUSIONS.
It is a delightful task to follow the footsteps of a friend,
to meet everywhere marks of his favor, and to be cheered
by the kind words of his welcome. But not so when we
fall in the wake of an enemy. His presence speaks no
cheer, and he leaves behind him no marks of favor. In
tracing along the line of this world's history the good
hand of God, we feel we are in company with a Father
and a Friend ; yet with one that worketh all things after
the counsel of his own will. All his purposes originate
in the exhaustless fountain of his love ; and in their sure
execution and infinite benevolence is the end of all his
working. And though it is a delightful truth that there
is no being in all the universe that can frustrate these
purposes, yet it is equally true that there is another being
in the universe of gi'eat power and of mighty intellect, who,
though not infinite or eternal, is allowed to exercise a
very great control in the affairs of the world. And so
universal and controlling is his influence, that he is called
the " God of this world."
The notable personage in question is known by a great
variety of significant names. Among these are Apollyon,
the Destroyer, Lucifer, s^n of the Morning, or the Morn-
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THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
ing Star, denoting his exalted station; the old Dragon,
Serpent, or unclean spirit; Satan, or the great enemy;
Belial, or destitution of all goodness ; Tempter, Beelzebub,
and the Prince of Devils ; Enemy, Accuser of the breth-
ren, and a Liar. He is also called Sinner, Murderer, Ad-
versary, Beast, Deceiver, Angel of the bottomless pit.
Prince of Darkness, Lion, going about seeking whom he
may devour.
The Devil the God of this World. — The term, God of
this world, most obviously implies that the Devil acts a
very conspicuous part in the affairs of this world — that, at
least during the apostate condition of our race, he reigns
here — has a wide dominion over the affairs of man. It
will certainly have the merit of being a very practical
theme, to trace, as we may be able, the footsteps of this
monster king ; to inquire into the extent and character of
his dominion that we may see where his great strength
lies.
Such considerations will readily show what our world
would at once become if this great empire of sin and
Satan were destroyed, and all things allowed to return to
their proper and primeval use, as they would be if sin had
no dominion. We shall therefore make it our business in
the following pages to institute, at least, a partial research
into the records of his Satanic Majesty's kingdom, that we
may see what desolations he hath made in the earth ;
and that we may catch a glimpse at least of that perfect
jo}'' and peace and prosperity which await our earth
when this vile dominion ^hall be no more. We rely on
the promise that the reign of sin shall come to an end,
that the earth shall yet return to her Eden state, and
Emanuel, as Proprietor and King, shall reign for ever.
In the present volume we shall attempt some matter-
of-fact illustrations of the Empire of Sin as it has from
the beginning been set up in our world by the Great
Master Spirit of the apostasy. Since Satan has, by usur-
pation on his part and by pernttssion on the part of the
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rightful King, become the god of this world, we may ex-
pect that the empire over which he exercises his direful
dominion will be covered with the foot-prints of his rule,
and that we should everywhere discover the outgoings of
his power. We cannot look • amiss for the miserable
ravages with which he has covered the earth. The right-
ful King has seemod for a time to give up to the Devil
the earth and all its resources, man and all his sus-
ceptibilities, faculties, and opportunities for good, that
it may be seen, by way of contrast, what a perverter,
what a destroyer of all good this great adversary of
man is.
Or we might perhaps more accurately define our sub-
ject to be the Hand of the Devil in History, or the
converse, the palpable antagonism of the Hand of God in
History ; the one a rule of infinite wisdom and goodness,
ontrolling all things for the final and eternal good of man ;
nd the other a rule of evil, of malignity, only working
ut his final and complete ruin.
There is nothing which our great adversary has not
onopolized or perverted, or in some way turned to his
wn account. Learning, science, history, poetry, music,
qpT the power of song, have all been more or less brought
"^Sto subserviency to the great adversary of all righteous-
ess. Maxims, anecdotes, songs, amusements, customs,
anners, fashions, all exert a controlling influence overthe
uman mind. But these Satan has managed to turn very
uch to his own account. And besides this monopoly and
erversion of things, which, if properly used, would be
reductive only of good, he has originated of his own cer-
in great colossal systems of error and mischief by which
,6 has enslaved the minds of millions for a long series of
nerations. Such are systems of Idolatry and false Reli-
ons ; and certain great and small Fraternities, as the
ciety of the Jesuits, the Illuminati of France, the Friends
Light, and all kindred associations which are the strong-
Ids of modern Infidelity.
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Wo shall also trace tlu^ foot-prints of the Dovil and tho
horrid r(»i^n of siti in War, in tht; (h'eadful ravages of
Intennun'anet^, in tho fascinating paths of Theatriad
Amusement f<, in tlie viU) haunts of Licentiousness, and in
tlie vitiatiui^, ruinous practices of the gand>hM\ Pri<le,
extra vatifancc;, nnihition, h)ve of [)U\'isure, and all kindred
practices may in tlieir ])lace be brought to ilhistrate our
general subject. And especially shall we trace the foot-
steps of our Foe in the wide-spread and almost universal
desecration of wealth. Money is power ; and no other
intelligent being seems more fully to appreciate the extent
of this power.
What is the Devil ? — But before we go into the matter
of the Di^vil's doimjs let us come to personalities. Who
is the Devil ? What is he, and where is he ? We owe
it to an enemy to treat him with all due courtesy. In
discoursing of a friend we have regard to his name, posi-
tion, history, not overlooking his antecedents and ances-
try ; and we oavo much the same consideration to an
enemy. We seek a personal accjuaintance, not being wil-
ling to condenm even an enemy unheard, mit even our
Arch-enemy. If we can find no redeeming traits in his
character on which to expatiate to his advantfige, or
which go to extenuate his universally bad name, or any
right doings to atone for doing evil, only evil and evil con-
tinually, yet we may find something in his origin, ances-
try, and antecedents of which even his Satanic Majesty
may be proud.
Of his name, or names, we can say nothing in his favor.
All seem agreed, as we have seen, to call him by bad
names. True, he is often called an angel, but not in a
connection to make it complimentary. He is called the
fallen angel, the angel of the bottomless pit, the messen-
ger of evil. The title, though honorable in itself, seems
in this case retained rather as a bitter remembrance of
what he once was. It recalls his origin and former posi-
tion. He was an angel ; Lucifer, the son of the morning,
THE DEVIL THE (lOD OF THIS WORLD.
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loan convey to this fallen spirit so burning a reme?nbrance
jof the past.
We know very little of tho a])ostasy and fall of Satan
[beyond the mere fact of Ids mortal sin and (expulsion from
leaven. He is the Prince of those angels wlu) "kept not
^thoir first estate, but left their own liabitation, and are
reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto tin;
judgment of the great day." With admirable union of
iatiios and sublimity has Milton represented the fallen
mgel, exclaiming :
" Farewoll, happy fields,
Where joys forever dwell. Hail, horrors, hail
Infernal world ! and thou, profonndest Hell,
Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings
A mind not to be chang'd by place or time."
Though miserable and mischievous, and fully set to do
\\\\, even to the destroying all good from the face of the
barth, blasting its fruits, spreading disease, deforming the
lir face of nature, obliterating, if possible, all thought
^f God, all emotions of gratitude, all piety, all good ; yet
re are not to suppose our adversary is necessarily yet
perfected in misery or malignity, or that he has yet
jached the clim.acteric of his power to do evil. Though
[ot on probation, but " reserved in chains," held under
istraint by one " stronger than he," yet we are to regard
jim as still advancing, still maturing in every wicked way
-in intellect and physical power, and in downright ma-
Ignity and hatred of God and of all good, filling up the
leasure of his inquity, and preparing for a final and des-
jrate onslaught on the children of men.
This view would seem sustained (at least the idea that
3vils are not yet perfectly miserable) by the prayer of
le " Legion" that Christ would " not torment them be-
^re the time" — that he would not cjist them into the
leep," the pit of their final and perfect torment.
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THK FOOT-IMUNTS OK SATAN.
i I
i'l
Whiif /•» thr Prri/ ? Ho you mm1< Mjjj.'iin wlio (his Prvil
JM .'uul wlijil ho is i Wo nnMW(>r, li(» is i\\o r!i(li(M* of liivs,
(]m» Mit'lr«l(MM«jv(M', (h(» lomptcr, IJm» (IcstroytM- nfjill jjcmco,
ill) purity. .mII riLjhtrousncss. Hut. Iims hr powor tn ritii
trol tl\<' luiniMU will ^ ll.'js lu» *m/v power tlint. ni.'iii can
not resist i W(» think not. " K(\sist the l)»>vil .Mn<i iu^
will tle»» tVoni thee." 'MumI will not. .snller you to bo
t(Mnpt(Ml Mb«»v»» what y<» Mie ahh* to lu>Mr." Though tluM'o
ho no en«l io his <h»viees, allunMuents, tiMuptations, t.h(^
will ot' the tenipt(Ml is lelY tVetv Tin* wiles ot' tho
TiMiiptiM- may ho \yo\ov so se(luetiv(\ th(\y hav(» full powi^r
to resist.
Hut lu^re arises a V(MT practical (puM'v. It reters to
th(» whens'ihouts ot' our connnon Kiuv (\in we ll«»e tVoni
liis presence ? Can we shiehl ourselvivs I'rouj his eunninjj;
«levices i H(» is not absolutely (unnipr(»s(>nt. as ho is not
(Munipotent. Vet he was a won«bMt'ul ul»i(piity. lie may
be superintendineatlairs in his Sodom, in Londoti or Now
Yi>rk. and, appanMitly at the same ujoment, bo supcM'vi.s-
iiiiX the doings of his minions in bis (Jomorrah, in India
or China. KitluM* by his ai^ent^s, or by bis own ]»resonco,
transj)orted thitbor as by ligbtnini^j spinvl, ho may, tor all
]>ractical purposes, bo in each and oviMy jilaco attbosamo
time. By bis wondi^tul facilities o\^ locomotion bo has
a sort of omnipresence. Like as the aujj^el (Jabriol, who,
at tho " boginniui:^" of Daniel's prayer, rocoivod a com-
mission to ijo.and "boinir<'''insed to Hv swiftly," stood in tho
prosenco o( Daniel beforo bo bad closed bis supplication,
baving passed thniugb a space to us infinite, so may this
fallen angel, the " prince o( the power of the air," go from
Avorld to world, or move from one portion of our globe to
anotbor with the celerity oi' ligbt. Wo are not to anp-
pose bebas, by his moral apostasy, lost either bis pbysical
capabilities or bis intellectual tapacities. Like man be is
morally depraved, but not physically or mentally.
And though he is neither omniscient nor omnipotent,
such is the power of his intellect, and such the strength
?P
TIIK DKA'IL TflK (l()l> <>K IIIIM VVnm,l>.
23
of Ills nrni mihI IiIh cMpMlulitirH of hjcomotioii, Unit., wIhti
coinpJinMl witli tlioHo ot a uw.rv iiinii, lir i.s wcmiiij^ly
buMi.
Where is f lie Devil 'i — Hnt i:* it nskcMl, 'vlirro is (lio
Dovil jm<l »H I'lM <'<»nntl('HH IiohIh V W(^ mii^Mit aiiMwcr, lie
is ?i()\vli(ii«' ill particulnr, Itnt, <ivr» ywlicn! in ^cfM'rnl. His
nlaco. liis (in.'il destiny, in tlir ImttoirilrHH I'it. Iljiis " ro-
Hcrvcd" for thnt ^icat |niHoii-liouH(^ of t-ln' imivcrs*', umlcr
NontiMn'o of <l('ntli ctcnml, yot for a hcmhofi m, prisom^r at
\\iy^v — " ^oinj^ altout, to Mtid fro, walkiiij^ up nrwi down in
i\\\}, (Nirth, " " HfM'king wliom Imi nuiy di^vour" — a wn^tclnMl
vvnndcn'r, lioniclcHH, a, liopelcsH outcjiHt from lii.s li('jiv»'.nly
lionu', and oidy waiting in foil <l(ispa,ir lii.s (•t<irna,l doom.
Tlio appellation, " princ(3of tlu; jtower (»f tli(!air," wouM
sooni to giv(^ plausihility to tlic^ idea, that Satan and liin
CountloHH "Legi(»n" apostate .spirits inbahit, or rather roam,
in the aerial regions — not in the void spiiee about any f)ne
globe, but about tlie world ; and more (!S[M!eially around
about this falhni planet of ours. His original lionic was
in heaven, the dwelling-plaee of holy angels, where be
wa,s an angel, bigb and holy. "The great J)ragon was
cast out, that old Serpent called tlie devil and Satan,
which (leceivetlj tlie wliole world : be was cast out into
the earth, and bis angels were cast out with him." " I saw
Satan as lightning fall from heaven."
And, as his business seems to lie very much w^itb this,
our world, and the inhabitants thenjof, it would seem not
unnatural that bis roaming-gn^und and bomehjss home
should be in the aerial regions. Jjut this is of no conse-
quence. Such are his locomotive powers, and such the
number and activity of his host, that for all purposes of
mischief he is everywhere and in every f)lace at tlie same
time — nor is the devil omnipotent, yet is possessor of
tremendous powers. In Egypt he wrought miracles.
Through magicians, sorcerers and soothsayers he did won-
ders. He had power over plagues and diseases to afflict
men, as in the ctise of Job. And to a limited extent —
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THK FOOT-PUINTS OK SATAN,
I I
tliou^h not witliin nniTow limits has lir jiowor ovor tho
eli'incnts of natiin» to «lo luanilVst :in«l ini^jjlity luiscliiff.
And |UMha|>s liis jj^ivatost power is not tluit wliicli lie lias
ovor tlu' IxMlios an<l tho tonipoial interests of men. Ilt^
has u I'ontrollin*^ powtM* over tlio lunnan niind lie pre-
sents motives an«l uses devices which art^ often all hut
irresistible.
7//.S' Alfrihiiti's. — And ajj^ain, the (h»vil, thon;.,di very
wise, is not, as we said, omniscient. An«ifelsan> of a vastly
lii^her ^raile of inti^llect than men, and the chief of an-
gels is no do\d»t superior to the connnon order. Satan
tt)ok raid\ with the Ijijj^lier older, and we may not snpposo
Ids intellectnal calihre lessenetl hecanse of Ids moral j»er-
version. He lias prohahly more than made up in (traft
and cunning and maliii^nity what he lost in moral virtues.
His tioree and desperate warfare with Heaven and Hea-
ven's Kin^ has, we may suppose, (piickened Ids intellect,
drawn out the latent resource?* of his mind, and, as tired
by pride, hate and revenge, lie lias ever since his apos-
tasy been inti'llectuall , i^rowing into a more complete
maturity of all that is (levilisli. The sort of omnipresence
we have supposed, implies a correspt)nding omniscience —
not absolutv, but so far in advance of anything belonging
to the wisest of men, as to make him seendngly
ominiscient.
And what a terrific attribute is Satan's knowledge !
We can form some estimate, though but a very imperfect
one, from the sad j)erversion of some great human intel-
lect. We can scarcely conceive of a greater curse to be
entailed on a communitv than to have living and actinjr
in it a man of strong and highly-cultivated intellect, who
should use it only to devise mischief .and demoralize its
citizens. And the greaterthe magnitude and activity of his
intellect, the greater the amount of the mischief he would
do. His inrtuence. his position in society, his })0W"er over
the young, would be very much in proportion to the
strength of his miiid.
TIIK DEVIL TIIK (JOl) OF THIS WOULD.
25
Hut cN)in])int'! in oiw all tlu* ;^ro}it inimlsor any ii|:f(\ and
tho a^jjfn'^^Jitc, vvr .suppose, would scarcrly «'x<'(mmI tho
intellectual powers ot'the Wicked Oik^ Or, if tliis seem
to(» much to conced(» to mere mental stren;^th, tlien^ are
otlier considerations wliicli j^ive him all the; advantaj^es
we have supposed. W(^ n>fer to his su|>eiior power and
his singular uhicpiity. What could not our wise wicked
man do if he wei'c clotluMJ witli satanic; poW(U', and (;oul(l,
for all practi(;al purposes, act in every phuto at the samo
time.
HisChdractcrisfirn, — It must ]>o conceded at tho outset
ihat wo have very little direct knowI(Ml<jf<^ rospecrtin*^ the?
mo«h^ of existon(U) and tho status of this Prince of tlio
devils. The Bihh' ahundantly r(MU)}^'nizes the oxiston(!0
of su(!h a boin}^, and that lie is man's ^'reat and cliicif ad-
versary ; tho tcmpUu" to sin, and the c^nomy of God and
man. But of his origin, and how ]u5 Ixicamo tho onomy
of Heaven and earth, and wliy, thoBiblo giv(;s Jittio or no
direct knowledge. Yot wo are loft in no <louht that thoro
is such a being, and that his charactiT is altog(rthor and
irretrievably wicked, and thfithis dcvicos, acts and agen-
cios are all on the side of evil.
For our popular notions of Satan wo arc mostly indebted
to tho fabulous theology of the Middle Ages, as embodied
in the groat poems of Milton and Dante. Yet of his exist-
once and direful doings and vast powers for mischief wo
are loft in no doubt.
He was created — was the workmanshij) of tho Al-
mighty hand. When ho began to exist, wo do not know.
Ho belonged toa race known as angels, created somewhere
far back in the endless age.s of a i)ast eternity, wo know
not where. He was one of, or rather he wa.s the chief of,
those angels which " kept not their first estate, bat left
their own habitation and were reserved in everlasting
chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great
day." Peter declares that " God spared not the angels
that sinned, but cast them down to hell." And Isaiah,
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THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
i
perhaps in allusion to the same event, exclaims, '' How
art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morn-
ing ! " Now these passages teach three things : First,
the existence of wicked angels. Thej?- are prisoners " re-
served in everlasting chains unto the judgment of the
great day ; " and their present habitation is "hell" —
" under darkness. " Second, this was not always their
condition. They were once in " heaven," " their first
estate," and "their own habitation." The expression,
*' their first estate," more properly is rendered their 'prin
cipality, and refers to government or dominion rather
than to residence. *' Their own habitation " seems to
have been some abode peculiar to them ; and the two ex-
pressions are supposed to indicate that these angels exer-
cised dominion in some distant part of creation. Some
planet, some great globe, some one of the " many man-
sions " in our " Father's house " may have been their
principality — ** their own habitation," where they go-
verned as subordinate rulers. This, indeed, seems to be
God's method of government in our world. He rules by
proxy. And, for aught we know, this method may be
observed in other spheres, and continued in the world to
come. Perhaps this is intended when it is promised that
*' we shall judge angels," " sit on thrones," and wear
" crowns." But, once more, their fall tuas their sin. The
expressions *' kept not their first estate," "left their own
habitation," *' fallen," and " sinned" are all employed as
equivalents. Once they were "Angels," now they are
'* fallen." They voluntarily abandoned the heavenly
abode to which they were assigned, or threw up the go-
vernment with which they were intrusted ; and this was
their sin. This, then, was the first apostasy, the begin-
ning of evil, the origin of ** Satan and his Angels."
There was a time, then, when there was no evil under
the sun ; when no cry of agony went up to God ; when
no foul spirit obtruded itself upon the vision of Heaven.
Lucifer had not fallen from his first estate then. When
THE DEVIL THE GOD OF THIS WORLD.
27
5, '*How
le morn-
: First,
ers "re-
t of the
hell "—
ys their
leir first
pression,
lir 'prin
n rather
eems to
two ex-
3ls exer-
Some
ly man-
3n their
hey go-
3 to be
ules by
may be
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ed that
wear
The
Bir own
oj'-ed as
ley are
avenly
he go-
pis was
begin-
under
when
eaven»
When
^
did he fall ? When did his dark shadow first touch the
glory of eternity ? When did his harsh voice first break
upon the universal harmony ?
Satan is older than man. When God spoke and obe-
dient worlds leapt into being, when the maker lit the suns
on high, Satan was. He saw this new-born world emerge
from chaos ; and at that sight, angel that he was, chief
" son of the morning," perchance he led '* the morning
stars" in their grand song. Old as he is, he had a begin-
ning. "* God created him ; not as he is now, a devil. No :
he was originally an angel ; and like every other angel,
he came from the hands of his Maker a pure and holy be-
ng. He worshipped the Almighty, paid his vows, and
;joined the countless multitude about the throne in their
serenade to Jehovah. But he fell from his high station.
He sinned, Jand lost his original purity. Of the angels
that God made, some fell, and thereby became devils.
There was a revolt in heaven, and Satan headed it. There
was a secession, and Satan was the first to preach it. But
it was a disastrous rebellion. All engaged in it were over-
whelmed and cast down to hell. When this important
event occurred is not known on earth — how long after
their creation, or how long before the melancholy meeting
in Eden, has not been revealed.*
When Adam sinned, sin was already in the world. He
had a tempter. But not so Satan. He committed the
first sin ; and that with no one to lure to trangression.
Man was weak — of the earth, earthy. Satan was an
angel in heaven, in the presence-chamber of the High and
Holy One. Both were under law ; both on trial ; both
free agents. Yet man was at a disadvantage, in being
exposed to the wiles of one so superior to himself in power
and intellect.
The whole angelic race, an " innumerable company,"
* Lectures on Satan, by Rev. Thaddeus McRae, to whom we acknow-
ledge obligation.
m
28
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
** thousand thousands, and ton thousand times ton thou-
sand," who niinistorod to the Aneient of J)jivs, were on
})robation — free to sin, free to ninintain their intejj^rity.
But how could a holy angel ? What temptation eould
be strong enough to tuni him from the presenee of infi-
nite Love, and from his seat among tlie blt;ssed ? We
may raise the question, but we cannot answer it. When
sin was first conceived in the mind of Satan there was
nothing in all the Universe to suggest it — there was no
temptation, no occasion for it. Kverything was in har-
n\ony with hoUness. The thought came from within ;
it originate(i in himself. But here all is chaos. An evil
thought presupposes an evil mind. But his mind was
holy then ; how could it conceive an unholy deed V We
cannot gra«p the conception of a holy nature ejecting
an unholy thing ; and how was that nature so transformed
as to transgress, is what defies our understanding. An
angel one moment, a devil the next — this is the Sphinx
of history.
The particular sin by which the apostate angels fell is
supposed to have been pride. In the book of Job the
angels are called " morning stars ;" and Isaiah calls the
proud king of Babylon the same. Paul, also, in the
text, speaks of pride as the condemn at ion of the Devil ; that
is, he represents pride as the sin for which he was con-
demned, and, therefore, by which he fell. Pride, then, is
the tii*st and oldest sin. Sojne suppose that Satan's
pride was aroused by the ap]>earance (^f our world in
the society of heaven. He saw man's mysterious glory,
and feared that his own would be ecli})sed thereby ; and
hence resolved on man's ruin. Milton, however, in his
gi*eat epic, supposes that Satan's ])ride was excited by a
decree of God that all the angels should worship the
Son ; and says that Satan ** could not bear that sight,
and thought himself impaired." He then describes this
proud spirit a^s stirring others up to war:
'^V _.
THE DEVIL THE 001) OF TFIIS WORLD. 29
" Will yo Huhmit your nocks and chnoHe to bond
'riicsnpplc kn»H; ? Yo will not, if I truflt
To know yo right, or if yo know yoursolvos
l^alivoH andgons of lloavou."
A burdon and disgust in hoavon, Uicy wero ex|)elIod.
Tluit was no place for tlieni. (hxl cast thcin doivn to hell.
Tartarus is the original word. It is used in the Greek
classics to signify " the lowest and darkest pit in the uni-
verse." It is douhtless the "outer darkness," spoken of
hy Christ, and " the hottondess pit " of the Aoocajypso.
Wherii it is I (h) not pretend to say. It may be in those
re^aons of utter eni})tiness, the liuge " void," or " vasty
deep," far away from sun, and star, and moon, and world,
impenetrated by light or eye of heaven — one wild wilder-
ness of darkness and airless, viewless, endless night. In
that abysmal sea " liell " may have a local habitation —
" ])repared for the devil and his angels ;" and there they
are reserved m chiins of (hvrhwsH U7it(^ judgment. This
does not mean that they are in close confinement. They
are bound over as criminals, have their limits, and await
the extremity of their punishment.
It is common to represent Satan as black, and the place
of his abode as the "blackness of darkness for ever " —
" in everlasting chains of darkness," expressions symboli-
cal of the character, malignity, and misery of Satan and
of his infernal hosts. White is the symbol of purity,
holiness, joy. The saints in glory are " purified and
made white ;" their " garments white as snow ;" " rai-
ment white as the light." The author already quoted
draws a befitting (portraiture of the blackness of Satan's
character.
Now, Satan is all blackness, and he is therefore all
woe. I think this view is not usually prominent in our
ideas of the devil. We regard him as the mighty fallen,
majesty in ruin, something to be admired and feared. We
leave out his awful grief, his wild despair. But let us re-
member that, being the most wicked being in existence,
30
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H
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110V0V vi-^o Ho iOoIm, 1>\H Ium ^.-homoM nlwini iclinii
upon ]\iius(Of \\"i<h «liro hnio Ih» TortroM rlinin^ Iim ilu*
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nu\i (lonUKw ln>j t'onf'inion lli^ \ <m \ mI vuiioIom wink Itini
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SmImm wmm mIIm\v<>«I In "Mill. Iiirn mm wIm>mI," MimI, }i»» ifii^lif,
lie llw Itcllcr picpMK'd Inr ITim iMlnf*' miMMi'in
VV«» liMAo irlt'ircl In III" hovil'M worMliMliil pftWM u\' lo
roiMoliiMi, how Im' l.in v«'I.m wil.li li^lilfiirijf Hpffd f'rorri worM
in wnilil, "jtiMliMpM oiilMliippiiif^ lli«»iit{lil, ('<r\.ii\u\y mir
IimmmIm^ Mm* lii'lil MiMf.f m ^JMriri'" l(il<«> nMf>ri"l. wlio in m.
iniiiitcnl. of l.inic liMiiMportMl liirriMelf ffprn m. liOMvfnly
jfiliMili' inlo I. lie pn Hi'iH" ol' hjini'l, MiiM rnic^lil.y Mnc^fj rMri
priMin* M. liko nltiipiily Ami l.lifn liisi p(»wf'r l.o work.
lli'i'Mii l.rMnMrorm liiinMiH" inl.o Miiy ^niMo fi" rfiooMfs Hf>
Sci'iiiH In liMvo M.pp»>M.rM| l,o .("MUM ill Ml" w i l<l"r ri('«q n,!M nr»
ft.iig"! IViMM Im'mvimi Ami il. in in Miiofi m. (li^^niq" \,\\f\.\, )\<\
fl.rlii«W"H Koino of Ihm mosl, n<»I.Mf»l" vi<'l,<»ri"M. Arid, nUf^iT
jtli" inMiimM- of iinlMliMi M.njr"ls, m.m in Mi" cuHfy, of Mio
*' iiuin ( iMl»ri"l " wlio Mpp"M.rf\'l iinl.o hMni"), nnH Mia nn
JPg"l.s who viHil."<l AhrMJiMin in Mlf^ [(hiir: of MMrnr", Sabi.n
|1M woni- to Mpp"M.r, l,oo, in l.h<^ human form Simply hhi«
\s|)ow"r of l.rM.iiMformnl.ion inHi"Ml."M «. (»fiyKi"M,l M.hility f«r
tiMiiHriMMlinfr Mio Jimil.H (»!' m".r" fiiim«r» [»ow",r.
A|/nin, SmI-mii Iimh pow"r <>v"r orHiriM.ry itiaUff which h^
sfail.s not, io hh<5 m.h Mif5 (/r".nl, "ri".mv' of man W", know
'jhow th<^ ^ooH an^"JH unlooH",<l Mi". "hain.H that FkiiukJ
32
THE roOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
Peter in prison, and rolled back tlu; ponderous iron gates
and set Peter free, spite lunnan hatred and civil jiuthority.
Endowed with a like superhuman power, the great fallen
angel does like mighty deeds. He has pi^wer over the
elements. He caused the lightning to fall on the herds
and flocks of Job, and raised a storm in the wilderness
that overthrew the elder brother's house, wherein ])er-
ished all his sons and daughters. And the same Arch
Demon instigated the Sabeans to come down on Job's
servants, who were attending his oxen ; and the Chalde-
ans to fall upon the camels and slay the drivers. He
brought tire from heaven to slay his shepfierds, and a
whirlwind that destroyed his children. Nor did he spjire
the jierson of the righteous [)atriarch. He was not only
permitted to reduce him to poverty and to bereave bin)
of his dearest friends, but he afliicted his body with
grievous sores so as to make him a loathing to himself
and to all about him.
And what shall we say of those throes and spasms of
nature — those anomalies or aberrations, " creation groan-
ing and travailing in pain " — which appear in the temi)est,
in the desolating storm, the tornado, the thunder-bolt,
and the terrific earthquake and the volcano, if they be
not the fearful utterances, the infernal demonstrations and
acts of the " prince and power of the air," the old serpent
in Eden, the spoiler of all beauty, peace, and happiness ;
of him who changed Paradise into a i)andemonium ? But
for sin and the rule of Satan there would have been .none
of these disturbing elements, these devastating cimflicts.
" That black-winged tem[)est that comes \\\) from the wil-
derness, sweeping down the hills, piling up the forests and
breaking the great oaks as if they were pipe-stems ; that
frightful storm at sea, churning the waters into foam,
ploughing the surface into ugly chasms, and throwing the
mariner upon his knees to lift his pi'ayer to the blackened
heavens; that scorching simoom that sweeps over the
plain, leaving the earth over which it travels a crisp and
THE I)E. L THE GOD OF TIFFS WOIIFJ).
33
us iron gates
.?^il authority.
ft great fallen
ver over the
on tlie herds
le wilderness
wherein per-
e same Arcli
wn on Joh's
[ the Chalde-
Irivers. He
herds, and a
• did he spare
vas not only
> bereave liin)
J body with
\g to himself
nd spasnis of
iation groan-
L the tem))est,
|thunder-bolt,
if they be
strati ons and
old serpent
happiness ;
nium ? But
e been .none
ing conflicts.
'om the wil-
le forests and
[-stems; that
into foam,
throwing the
lie blackened
|ps over the
la crisp and
I
a cinder ; and that appalling plague that visits some great
city, dragging its slain to tiie sepulchre by thousands; —
di(l not Satan preside at their birth, give them all their
fury, direct their desolating track, and call them back like
hell-hounds from the chase, (miy at the bidding of the
Almighty ? And what means that wild alarm that seizes
the sons of men when the huiTicane presents its wrathful
brow, when the earth rocks under foot, when the light-
ning shoots along the sky, and when the awful thunder
utters its voice ? Comes it not from the consciousness
that the fiend has slii)[)ed his chain, that the very spirit
of evil is abroad ? "
Or recur we to the demoniac possessions in the days of
our Saviour, and what power had the Evil One over the
bodies of those possessed ! They were rent, torn, pros-
trated with convulsions, cast into the fire or the water.
They " wandered among the tombs and desert places, cut-
ting themselves and crying in the most doleful manner."
A woman is bowed together, and can in no wise lift her-
self up, whom Satan had bound, " lo ! these eighteen years."
And to Paul was given " a thorn in the flesh, a mcsseiKjer
of Sdtan to buffet him."
And yet more daring than all, he lays his polluted
hands on the body of our blessed Redeemer. During the
temptation the Devil took np Jesus and set him on a
pinnacle of the Temple. See this fiend soaring away
with the Saviour through the air, " like an eagle with his
prey ; " then to an exceeding high mountain ; afterwards
to the cross.
After suffering much from the Evil One during His
pilgrimage, at its conclusion, for the most gracious of pur-
poses, the Son of God was surrendered completely into his
hands. "This is his hour and the power of darkness."
From the accursed kiss of Judas to the exit from the tomb,
Jesus was under the unrestrained power of Satan. There
was not one act of mercy shown him through that whole
period. It was all undiluted cruelty. Some diabolical
I
I
:!
34
THE FOOT-PKINTS OF SATAN.
power was the presiding geMiiis of the whole tragerly.
That seizure, tliat tiial, tliat inoekery, that scourging,
that nailing, that langhter, tliat exultation over the agony
and death ot the Saviour — what was it all but pandiino-
niuni turned loose for a s(Nison and holding high earnivai
about that cross ? Awful spectacle ! Behold the Son of
God deserted by friends, forsaken by heaven, hanging
there as the object of the earth's relentless enndty, and
the target of hell's danniable artillery. It is all over now ;
Satan has dt)nc his worst — he has uiurdei-ed the Lord's
Christ.
" When we see this malignant foe travelling through
space with the ra}>idity of thought, [)utting on the dis-
guise of an angel, breathing ])estilence and plague u])on
whole districts, driving the tornado across seas and conti-
nents, hurling frightful tireballs from heaven, and smiting
the bones of men with disease, cutting the chords of life
and hurling men into the abyss of eternity," we shudder
at a power only second to omnipotence. And yet how
much more audacious and Heaven-daring that assault on
God's beloved Son ! That dark hour of the betrayal, of
the arrest, of Peter's denial, of the cry of Crucify, crucify
him, and of the last ignominious scene on Calvary — these
the malicious triumphs of the Wicked One. Here was
power. But it was the " power of darkness " — the " Spirit
that worketh in the children of disobedience."
His Deceptions. — That the Devil works wondrcusly
is readily conceded. But can he work viirades ? He
does many things that confessedly surpass all human
agency. What else are we to judge of the doings of the
" wise men and sorcerers " of Egypt ? They so nearly
imitated the miracles of Moses and Aaron as to seem to
do the very same things. If they were not miracles they
were something that required a miracle to refute. If we
call them delusions, how then shall we refute the sceptic
when he claims the same thing for the wonders done by
Moses and Aaron ? To the nmltitude that looked on, the
^1
j
m
m
THE ROMISH PRIESTHOOD AND MIRACLES.
35
traj^ody.
blie ai^ony
paiuUino-
{ carnival
10 Son of
, han^^ing
mity, and
over now ;
,he Lord's
r through
[I the dis-
\m\o upon
and c'.onti-
ad smiting
rds of life
e shudder
1 yet how-
assault on
trayal, of
y, crucify
iry — these
Here was
le '' Spirit
ondrcusly
,Gles ? He
ill human
igs of the
so nearly
seem to
acles they
,e. If we
le sceptic
done by
led on, the
rods of the magi(;ians as really ht^'amc living serpents as
tliat (►f Moses did. It is said that tlie magicians did ho
like manner as Moses had done, and their rods too he<rame
.serpents. Both would alike appear miraitlcs. 'I'liiMlifier-
cnce was that the sovereign power of Heaven interposed
and gave the triumph to his servant hy making Aaron's
serpent devour those of the magicians. As in the wii<ler-
ness, the devil was allowed to exercise a power altogether
superhuman.
All along the line of revelation we meet with sorcerers,
diviners, magicians, who profess and are helieved to work
miracles ; and the Scriptures speak of them as doing
these things by the instigation and aid of evil s])irits.
In the contest of Elijah with the ])rophets of Baal, at
Carmel, there is the a[)pearance that the false j)roj)hets
expected the interposition of a supernatural power in their
behalf They leap upon the pile, smite their l)reasts, and
cut themselves with knives. They are terribly in earnest,
seeming to expect the aid of a higher power, which, under
other circumstances, they might have realized.
The New Testament favors the belief of this extraordi-
nary power of the Devil. " There shall arise false Christs
and false i)ropliets, and shall show great signs and won-
ders." In describing the great a[)ostasy, Paul says : " Whose
coming is after the working of Satan, with all power
and signs and wonders." • The " two-horned Lamb," John
saw, " doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come
i down from heaven, and deceiveth tliem that dwell on the
M earth by those miracles which he had power to do."
M And may we not here, without scru[)le, concede to the
^ Romish ■priesthood all they claim on the score of working
miracles ? We yield to tlie Papal Hierarchy the unen-
viable pre-eminence of being the great Apostasy, the
^antagonism of the true religion, by which our great
M Adversary has followed up the line of its development,
mfrom the earliest Patriarchs to the present dispensation
oi gospel grace, fiercely resisted every aggression of the
3G
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
* 1
h
Truth, provided its tactics and accommodated its scliomos
of attack and defence to the times, to tlie state of the na-
tions, and to tlie manners, customs, habits, |)ro<^ress and
civilization of the world. And if this be, as intimated,
the "master-piece" of the <]freat Apollyon, we need not
wonder that he lias engaged in its support his mightiest
powers.
Accordingly, the Romish clergy claim the ]iower to
work miracles. We do not den}^ it. It is in full accord
with the descriptions we have of the Man of Sin. The
tlu-ee " unclean s[)irits" that went out of the mouth of the
Dragons, and out of the mouth of the Beast, and out of
the mouth of the false Pro[)het, are said to be the ** spirits
of devils," '^worJ''ni(/ inlracles. We take the Beast here
to represent papal Rome, and the false Projihet (or High
Priest) to represent the same after being divorced from
the temporal power. The Poj^e, in ceasnig to be king,
is not less the Pro})het and High Priest of the Pa-
pacy, and as such may be expected to work miracles. And
as the end approaches, and this last strongliold of the
Devil is assailed, and totters to its fall, we need not be
surprised to liear of jiopish miracles revived. For when,
if roc now, when our Great Enmianuel is riding forth to
fin.al victory, conquering and to conquer, should our Arch
Foe put forth his great strength ? — though the order of
the day, at the present wi-iting, seems rather to be Jesuit-
ical craft, insidious infidelity. Claiming to be an advance
on Christianity, and the " deceivableness of unrighteous-
ness."
His Delusions. — And we mistake, if our great Enemy
has not a darling interest in modern spiritualism, mes-
merism, table-movings, and mysterious writings and
rappings. We are not disposed to question that things
are done and sai 1, messages brought and revelations
made, which transcend all ordinary, if not all possible
human agency. But by whose agency are these things
done ?
e^M
THK UOMISII I'UFKSTUOOI) AND M[UA('LKS.
37
scliemcH
' the na-
fess jiTul
tiiiiatod,
iced not
ligliticst
lower to
11 accord
in. Tlie
bh of the
id out of
" spirits
3ast here
(or High
zod from
be king,
the Pa-
les. And
d of the
d not be
|or when,
forth to
lur Arch
order of
e Jesuit-
advance
;hteous-
Enemy
|m, mes-
igs and
things
relations
I possible
things
Tho character of tlie plienoniena in ([ucstion, the agents
and the r('sult.s, are the safest criteria l)y whicli to decide
wlience they are. Who do tliese things, and 'd'hct do
they do ? Wliat bearing have they on Divine Kevehi-
tion ? — wliM.t trutli do tliey incrJcate or conHrni, or what
sin rebuke ? — wliat reform favor ? — wliat b(!nevolent or
})liihintliropic ])nrpose has ever been subserved ? After
making all due allowance for magnetic jdierfomena, p\d-
sations of electric cuirents, spasms of electricity, and the
many unused, and, to the mass of men, the yet hidden
and una|)propriated agencies of nature, we have not hesi-
tated to concede that wonders may be wrought which
can be accounted for on no such principles, which exceed all
possible human agency, or the action of natural forces —
superhuman, miraculous, if you please. They are the
work of Spirits. But of tuhat spirits ? Here we are, no-
lens volens, thrown back on the old-fashioned criterion,
" The tree is known by its fruits" What good has yet
come from the exercise of these unwonted powers ? " On
the other hand, it has disturbed the peace of many a home,
broken many a heart, and driven many a victim to the
mad-house. Under its spell many a poor sinner has lost
the anchor of his hope, found himself riding on a wild sea,
* driven about by ,every wind of doctrine,' and has been
finally wrecked for ever. It is notorious that spiritualists
lose their reverence for God's Word and the house of
worship. To them the raps about the house are superior
^,to the voice of the Saviour, the unintelligible scribbling
of a medium is superior to the Word written by inspira-
,;tion, and communion with a table better than the fellow-
^ship of the Holy Spirit. Let the thought enter your mind
|that spiritualism is true, and a crevasse will open upon your
j'Soul that may bear you down to perdition. Cotton Ma-
|ther records of himself, during his connection with witch-
i craft, that he was ' tempted to atheism, and to regard all
fxeligion as false.' And so it ever is. It is hard to handle
i^e and not be burned. Let such foundlings alone, Give
!l
38
THK FOOT I'UINTS OF SATAN.
tluMn fitno. miuI Hjov will «loMfrnv UnMnMi'IvoM. A thousnud
MWfh inolonrM linvo Mm/,«m| nlong llu* ])M<li\v.'\y of nnr |»il^?i-
inMiT^'. •'''*'' \m\\o jtoho »>u( in H.nkiirss ; bn( lln» Sun Htill
shinos }\M ho shono tlionsuntlM of y«\'U'M ngo."
Wo «l«>no< «l«»spMir lluil. Wwho ^n»Mt. ijowim-h, now s()[mm--
v<m'I(m| nnd snhsidisod in <Im» s(»rvi«M» of'tiM* wicko*! otio, slwill
yc^t Uo n^s(Mi«M| iVonHlio h.nids of iho Usnipor i\\u\ voniov
o«l to tlio liolilfnl ownor. \V(» l;iok no MMsniMno(» HimI "nil
tlnnij^s" — mII powers, nil reason rocs, nil inlluiMioos jukI ,Mg<»n-
oios. sJhi/l " work loij^tMhor for ^ood fo ihoux (lint. lov«»
(lod" -sIimII oontrilMit(» and ('on(ril>nt(» only to Mu* poM(M»,
<lio jiuriiy, llio proLrross and linal hUvssodni^ss of tlu» Vi\r{\
Tliori^ is to 1>(» ;i '• n^siitution of .all tlnn^.s;" not of tlio
v}oraJ man only, and all that jUMtains to and favors Ins
int«^ll(M'lual and moral iniprovoniont. I\is prcvsiMit happim^sH
antl his miiMiding iVlioity. hut of tin* plnfsicdl man, and
nil that piMtains to him as an oarthly h'Mni:^, and in this
his earthly honuv All th(M'osourooH an<l ajriMioii's of n.'i-
turo shall snhs(M'v«* his highost. physical woU-hcMny;. Tho
oarth shall ho ftMtilizod. lioanti 11(^1, and madi* a tit an«l
liappy rosid(MiO(* of a r<Miovatod and happy vaoo. It shal!
l>00(Mno a ]>aradiso. Tho oroation shall no h^ngor jrroaii
and travail in ]v\in. No harronnt^ss, no dosiM't, no dofonn-
itv sh;\ll mar tin* Invuitv or dotraot fro u tho fortilitv of
tho now-horn (\Mrth. Th.o thr<H^s of tho tompost, tho
iornailo, tho oartlupiako and the volcano shall bo folt no
nioro.
But wh(Mioo this stupendous transformation ? TIjih
some mighty angol come dowr\ and w^'ought snoh an
amaziuiT roiunatii'tn ? No ; nothiuix of tho kind. It is
only tho withdrawal of tho disturbing, desolating, cor-
rupting, (iemoralizing foroosof sin and Satan. The Prince
of tho ]iovvor o{ the air, tlu^ God of this world, ia simply
divested of his power, bound in chains and cast out. Tho
Paradise vou now see is hut the earth healed of her
wounds, bruises, and putrefying sores, by the simple re-
cuperating force with which nature is endowed. Lacerate
SIN HANISHirn ANI» Till', FAHTn A PAIfAmsn;
ni)
?IO\V MO p(M"-
'<! one, shnll
Mml roMlor
M» that •• nil
t.h.Mi lovo
of th(» r.'KM*.
not of flio
I Imvovh Ins
I ll!l|)j)ill('MH
/ Di.'iii, nixl
and in tliis
nci(>H of na-
HMng. Tlio
L^ a fit and
0. It, HliaV
ngor jrroaii
no (leforin-
fiM'tilitv of
nipo.st, i\w
1 he felt no
yoin' iiody, lortnro yo'ir llcHljnfl yon will, |,ln» inonn'fd yon
willidi'.'ivv tho r.'HistcM of llic inllictiun, t|io n>('ii|M'raiivo
rorccM al o?H'«' Hcl. 1 Immiish'In «'H nl woik lo n'Mjiii' IIm> iniH-
cliicf; anil, if not liinderiMl, Honndnt'SH will inrvitahly 1)0
lOslonMl.
So tlii.s rartli afid all lliat pniainM to tiMMial.nral world
woio Hniittcn willi llMH'onodiii^r vvoiindq of Hin,
" Knrih fdi iln' WMiind, n.n<1 Nii<iiin> frofii fuM pfnt,
iSigliing tlinm^li all li»>r wuiks, gftvc fligiis of woe."
And forao;('H tli(Ml(\'Hlly wonnd lias fcMirrcMl a»»d conodcd
(ill llio wholi* lirad is sick and tlio whole lirart faiid..
I'VonJ tlio sole of tlio loot even nfd/O tlio head tlMUo is no
soinidnrsM in it; l»nt wonndn and laniMivs and jmtrtjfyin^
sores.
I»ulr what is th(5 n>rn(Mly ? Sini[)ly to hmmovc thecanHo;
and the j^^icat diHcaHCMl, laitrolied hody ol natnre will tv-
store itself. 8in and all its inin onee hariished, and ho
that hath thi^ power of sin east ont, and tla^ earth and all
that is earthly wonld n^V(»rt liaek to its prinu'val condi-
tion, a.s it wa.s left l»y the hand of creative J'owcr when
he pronounced all to be " good."
on ? Has
t such an
:ind. It is
a ting, cor-
rhe Prince
, ia .simply
out. The
led of lier
simple re-
. Lticerate
II.
THE MAGNITUDE AND MISCHIEF OF SIN.
WHY SIN IS PERMITTED — THE CUNNING AND CRAFTINESS
OF SATAN — SIN THE CAUSE OF ALL HUMAN WOE — WHAT
HATH Sm DONE ? — SIN AS EXHIBITING THE POWER OF
SATAN — SIN AS AFFECTING DIVINE GOVERNMENT — HUMAN
GOVERNMENT — SIN AS AFFECTING OUR RELATION TO GOD
— MENTALLY — MORALLY — SOCIALLY — SIN ENTAILED UP-
ON THE HUMAN FAMILY — SIN CHARGED WITH ALL EXIST-
ING EVIL.
It would seem befitting, at this preliminary stage of
our discussion, to take at least a cursory view of the
magnitude and mischief of sin. If we could comprehend
how great an evil sin is, we could form some just estimate
of the real power of the Wicked One. If his power lies
in sin, then we can only comprehend how great an Enemy
the Devil is by our knowledge of the evil of sin. But
before entering upon the discussion proposed, we may
indulge in two general remarks which may serve to re-
lieve certain difficulties that sometimes arise on this
subject ; the first furnishing a reply to the query why sin
is permitted to exist at all, and the other furnishing some
plausible hint as to the peculiar cunning and craftiness
of the Devil in so adapting the forms of sin to times and
circumstances as to make his wiles doubly dangerous.
Why Sin is Permitted. — The design of God seems to be
FIRST SEE WHAT SIN CAN DO.
41
OF SIN.
CRAFTINESS
rOE — WHAT
POWER OF
FT — HUMAN
ION TO GOD
rAILED UP-
ALL EXIST-
y stage of
ew of the
)mpreheiid
5t estimate
power lies
an Enemy
sin. But
we may
"ve to re-
on this
y why sin
ling some
craftiness
imes and
erous.
ems to be
[to allow sin to have its perfect work — to let it be seen
{first what it can do, that its evil may be developed and
lade manifest to the universe, in all the length and
)readth, and height and depth of its unutterable evil.
Hence God first permits the perversion of all things.
[e allows Satan to show what he can do first ; and then
the rightful Owner comes in and shows to the universe
low much higher, nobler, holier purposes he can achieve
)y the same means. The Press, for example, God allows
bo be perverted, that it ^aay be seen what the Enemy
m do with this mighty agency. And so of wealth and
itellect, position and infiuence. They are mighty agen-
3ies for good ; yet as perverted they are as stupendous
igencies for evil. Their history is little else than a
listory of their perversion. And human governments,
rh&t stupendous agencies for good are they! Yet, in
the administration of political power, how little a portion
las, heretofore, been on the side of virtue and freedom,
say nothing of a true religion ? They have done little
jlse than to favour despotism, fraud, and oppression,
i'irst, it is allowed to be seen what sin can do through
these mighty engines of power; and then shall it be
lade to appear what mighty auxiliaries human govern-
lents may become to the progress of joy and peace, of
truth and righteousness in the earth. And so with the
rts and sciences, and all the facilities for human com-
fort and advancement. They are as potent for evil as
they are capable of being, and eventually shall be, for
good.
God works for the universe and for eternity. The
triumph of sin is but for a moment ; the reign of right-
eousness is eternal. Hence the more conspicuous and
^baneful the temporary reign of the Usurper, the more
ijdistinguished and glorious, by way of contrast, the eternal
leign of the one great Creator and Proprietor. And eter-
nal will be the aspirations of praise, power, and glory tQ
the great Three in One,
42
THE FOOT-PRINTS CF SATAN.
The Cunning and Craftiness oj the Devil. — Any system
of falsehood or wickedness, in order to success among
men, must have commingled with it more or less of
truth. It must be adapted to the times, to existing re-
forms, to the taste and fashion of the age, to the progress
of the arts and sciences, philosophy and civilization ; to
the progress of truth and of the true Religion. A system
or practice that might have served the Devil's purposes
most effectually in one age and state of progress and of
society, would be quite too gross for another age and
condition of the world. Wo may expect, therefore, that
the perverted wisdom of the Arch Fiend has not over-
looked the great doctrine of adaptation. We shall find
that in every age Satan has craftily had re^^ard to what
the world could bear — though sometimes he has over-
tasked his subjects, and they have rebelled and tiirown
off his yoke. We shall see as we proceed how much the
world has consented to bear as the bond-slave of the
Devil. ^
It will suffice at this point that we take a general sur-
vey of our subject. We shall see how our Arch Foe, the
great antagonistic power, aims at a wholesale perversion,
a vile monopoly, in all human affairs — in all conditions of
humanity.
Sin the Cause of all Human Woe. — But for sin man
had been happy, Jie earth been unscathed by the dire
desolations that now cover it ; and the animal creation
been spared the bondage of corruption to which it is now
subjected. But sin has entered our world, and defaced
the beauty and marred the happiness of all things. Man
has felt it. The earth ha^ felt it. The whole inanimate
world has felt it. Every living thing has felt it. The
whole creation — everything that pertains to the world,
" groaneth and travaileth in pain together."
What hath Sin done ? — Our inquiry relates to the mag-
nitude and mischief of sin. The picture must be incom-
plete. It would be impossible, in any range the human
j-y.
THE EVIL OF SIN INCOMPREHENSIBLE.
43
intellect can take, to gauge the dimensions of the evil that
must follow the violation of the divine law, or depict a
thousandth part of the woe that sin has entailed on the
family of man. But the creature of yesterday, man
knows but little of either the beginning or the end of a
thing. Seeing but a little portion of a system even
while it is in progress before him he often calls good evil,
and evil good. He sees there are great evils in the exist-
ence of sin; but how great and how far-reaching he
cannot comprehend. As far as he feels these evils, or
jsees them acting about him; or as far as his limited
mental telescope can scan the effects of sin in relation to
the Divine Government or man's final destiny, he may
have many correct and appalling ideas of the exceeding
sinfulness of sin, yet be far, very far from being able to
return a full answer to the inquiry. Nay, not the wisest,
highest, holiest angel in heaven can so comprehend the
consequences of the apostasy, both in relation to God and
his government, and man and his destiny, both in time and
eternity, as to return a full and satisfactory response to
the question. What hath sin done ?
We shaV. not attempt a task from which the wisest of
men and the highest among angels have recoiled. Yet
we may say some things — may say much — may say what
ought to make us weep over the desolations of sin as we
iew its ravages on things about us, and give as an utter
bhorrence of it as being the abominable thing that God
ates.
The Magnitude and Mischief of Sin in its Relation to
he Divine Government. — Sin is defined to be a trans-
egression of the divine law. But here again our idea of
the magnitude of the evil of sin is graduated by our ap-
^^preciation of the value and importance of this law. For
pthe guilt of violation depends on the character of the law,
A: the object at which it dms, and the character and design
of the Lawgiver.
The law of God is, like its Author, perfect. It is an
,
44
THE FOOT- PRINTS OF SATAN.
I
, I
i
1. J
expression of God's will towards man, and a declaration of
man's duty to God. It is not tbc htsis of our duty —
that lies further back in our relationship to God and to
our fellow-men. He is our Father, and we are in virtue
of this relation bound to love and serve him. We are his
by creation and preservation, and we are, on account of
this relation, under obligations which no power can abro-
gate, to yield humble obedience and sincere worship. The
whole human family are our brethren, bone of our bone,
and flesh of our flesh, and we are again on this account
bound to a mutual love. Here is the foundation of that
branch of the law which enioins our duty to our fellow-
mortais — " Love thy nei'^hbour as thyself." In like man-
ner we have the basis of the branch of law which regu-
lates our conduct towards God, in the command, " Love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart." We may regard
the law, then, rather .as an expression or declaration of
duties which have their /oii7idation in the very nature of
things — in our relations to our God and to one another.
There is nothing arbitrary, nothing unreasonable, in the
Divine law — nothing that could be otherwise, without
palpable injustice. And not ony does the law protect
the rights of God and man, but it secures man's best
interests. Hoty, just, and good, it contemplates the holi-
ness of its subjects ; secures the rights of God over his
creatures, and the rights ot man to man. And it is good,
benevolent in all its designs, and fitted to secure to man
the grea"' 3st good, and to God the greatest glory.
Sin is a violation of the rights of God to be honoured,
and of man to be blessed. It does violence to heaven and
earth. It would strip the crown from the head of the So-
vereign of Jie Universe, and cover man with shame and
eternal ruin.
Nor would the mischief and ruin of sin stop here. The
divine law is not limited to the government of a few
millions, or hundreds of millions of mortals. It is the law
of the universe ; the law of heaven ; the standard hy
m.
n
\
HI ,
THE DIVINE LAW THE LAW OF THE UNIVERSE. 45
b declaration of
of our duty —
'jO God and to
3 arc in virtue
I. We are his
on account of
>wer can abro-
worship. Tlie
> of our bone,
tliis account
iation of that
our fellow-
In like man-
" which regu-
nand, "Love
may regard
declaration of
3ry nature of
one another,
pable, in the
ise, without
law protect
man's best
tes the holi-
'od over his
1 it is good,
mre to man
y-
3 honoured,
heaven and
of the So-
ihame and
pere. The
of a few
is the law
ndard by
^hich actions are weighed, and motives and tlioughts
id<^o<l throughout God's universal domiiiioiis. It is the
tw of God, a righteous, holy, and altogctlici- beneficent
king — a law which, if sustained, secures God's glory
id the highest good of the universe; if suffered to be
lolated with impunity, God is dishonoured, and all
is creatures left with no security for their future well-
)ing.
Sin is then an attempt to destroy the empire of God,
id blast for ever the ha})piness of all his rational
^eatu^es. Nor does it matter here that the puny arm
man cannot reach the eternal throne. This is its na-
^e .and tendency. It would do all this but for the inter-
)sing arm of Omnipotence. In view, then, of what sin
^ould do if not restrained — in view of what sin has done
breaking up our happy relationship with our God, and
kvering the ties of brotherhood to our fellow-men, we
[ay exclaim with lamentation and woe, ^vhat hath sin
me!
Sin tis Affecting Human Governments. — We might
lit the inquiry for a moment to numan governments.
What has sin done here ? Who shall allow to pass before
him the dread panorama of human despotisms — of civil
o6r]-uption, frauds and oppressions — of nations abased
a^d trodden down by the relentless heel of tyranny, and
Bfbt discover the unmistakable foot-prints of man's arch.
*k Civil government is a tremendous power either for good'
or for evil. Vain are our hopes of seeing the world essen-
tfcilly reformed, much less of seeing it brought under the
power of a living Christianity, while governments and-
ofyil rulers are arrayed in opposition. Essential and-
effective as individual piety is to the world's renovation^
' tbis is shorn of its great strength, and in a -degree
lieutralized and made impotent by bad governments and
QOrrupt rulers. When the wicked bear rule the people
mourn. The wicked walk on every side when the vilest
1
}
:
46
TIIF, FOOT riMNTH OP HATAN.
nuMi two o\t\]ioi\. Krnnd, ^'ornipl.ion, oppirHHidM, Snh-
ht\t\\ ilivsocrMt ion, innuorMlit y ol r\(My PfiiiM* Mtid ^ijhI<>,
irn^ligion i\\u\ inlidolil y. jiII in hmio nii<l Irnrfnl Mnc<M»MMinn,
H|»n>M«l <l\oir Mighl, o\ov n jx^oulo ns \,\u\ incvilnblo rrsiill,
of M ht\\\ jsToviMMnniMii. As ol'tt^n mm m. jrood kinir itoho in
iHvaol, nnti m. jt^ood govornnnMil. FoHowimI, ndi^inn pioM
|M»r«Ml nn«l oviM'y yjooil thinjj 1)I(\sh(mI ihv njiiinn ; wliilr
H Nun^lj, on Mio n>i.iirn ofn. \vi«'k(Mi rnliM-, i\\u\ n cotrujii,
n
i/ovornnuMM., (lu» wu
'k(Ml
ros<* on (»V(MV mi(I(\ nnd diMnoni
li <l(
i/M(i«>n discord, nnd nuNory IoIIowimI. Oik-o (MiMconciMl in
il\o oli.'iir of N(,Mi(>, <.1h> l)(»vir,s |)o\v«m' iw Hn|ti\Mn(». II. now
l)«H'«)ni(\s U\(» confodor.'iiod power of nionoy, tnlrnl., pniion
t\^i,\ p»>sition and oivil {nHhoril y. Si'ch powcM' Iijim our
AdvorHary had during Um» onliro roign ol l.lw^ apoMlu-iry.
And Huoh p«>W(M* dooH ho hI'xW wiold, aUnoHJ, uncliallonjriMl
nniouir iho nat.i«>nN of (1)o oarth. 'I'o dislodges liini \\v\v
♦vill ho (,lu» last gn^ai ('(»nsunnnaling iw.i, ol' n. triunjphanl
C'liristianit
hnstianity. lir, again,
Siu <hs AfiWtin<ft>ur Iirhitiiyn to (uul. Takijig a wider
range wo may put (lio (lu>ughi Unis : How lias l.lu» intro
diiotii>n of sin alfoodod our rvlaiion fo (uul f VVIiat lia,s
M\o l)ovil «lono Iumh^? WIkmi man was innofont (J<m1 was
his frion«l. Hut sin put. (Mjmily l)otw(MMi (Jod and his
croaturo, man. It. ha.s alionat(Ml man from his (Jn^aior.
It ha«s intorrupto(t tlio froo ourront of th(> goldon stroanj
of bonovolonoo hotw(vn lu\'f on and t»arth. (lod is still
love — as inlinito in bonovoU-noo as ho ovor was Yot by
sin man ha»s turnod liis baok on liis (hxl. Ho has said,
" Popart from us, for wo dosin^ not a knowlodg(^ of tliy
ways." (lod is our fathor; but wo havo n»a«!o oursolvos
robollious, [>rodigal, abandonod ohildron. Sin luis intor-
vonoil botwoon us and our Ciod. Tho si»paration, in our
piwsont }n\)bationary stato, is temporary and partial. Hut
it is in tlio Tiaturo of sin to pnnluoo a oomploto and tinal
sepanition — a continual provocation tliat CJod would
withdnvw his fatherly h)vo from his ungrateful oliild ; and
it i« sutixj to incur this awful end as soon as thu i)resent
*
iN.
now SIN HAS Al.niNATKI) MAN KIM»M IIIM UO|>. 47
►|»|>H>HNin?i, Snl»-
y.iuw Mild ^nid,.,
'.'irrill NIKMVVMMJoil,
ill(>viiMl»l(> ITMIlll,
xl l<ini/ i'roM«« ill
, n>lijLri(»ii |U(»,s
' ll.'liioii ; \v||i|(.
', Mini .'I <'(»irn|»(,
l«\ <ni(l <l(>Mionil
Ci} imiscoihmmI ill
n'otno. |j, now
, tnlt'iil., p.'iiivui
jM>W(>r luiM (nir
'{ tlio apoNL'M-y.
4. UMcll,'|||<»n^r,'>,|
"<I^M< lijin |h,|-,>
«i triiiiiiplinul,
I'.'iking !\ wider
liJis j,Im» intro
/ / WllMi I WIN
(M'onl, Ood vv.'is
(Jod Jind liis
1 1 is Crcni-or.
K<>l<l(Mi .sim-iin
<J<>d i,s Hf.ill
VVJIH V'ofc l)y
llo ll.MM H.'lid,
vl(M|nj(« of (,|,y
id.(» oursolv(!s
in IwiH iiit(M-
ilion, in our
Kirti.'il. ]]\\l
oto and final
Cii<Ml wonid
1 1 child ; and
tlio proHont
^ol»-'i<i<»n!iry Hl,nl(« mIuiII ond. Tim moiiu'iil, Mm prodigal
In luriiM liiM IwH'lv on Imm h'alJior lin nil.M liiniMpH" oil IVoin
;» |trivil<'f^<'M and |>r(Mo^rj|,|,ivnM of Imm K/i,tJi(>r'H Iioiiho.
it, if lir |>(»rMnv(M('H in Ihm Mliriwiiion Im for cvnr loifj^itH
< I<\'iMum'h Invonr. Out nil' IVctm hini, and what a.ro wo
rn
{ Ah I
)oor. UH iniHoni'>l(v a.H
toil
nru and wn
'triiod
a.M
is iioMMihlo for j^nilty crcatini'H in Imll f,o \u), Wlial,
^nri'nl oiiMi^t (<lmn lias sin niado on our ndaiioriM t.o oiir
Cfixl!
r>iit Miis tJion^dil. will Imi fnrlJMT illiiMt.ra-t-cd if w(^ ron-
||(|(«r ni<»n« al. Iaijr(^ Mm hrvil'H a^oimy in Mm, liiHt.ory of
Olir world. 'I'liiH will appear liiMt, hy <'onf,raHl,. TIhuo
SiH a. (iiiH^ wimn nin was no(, in Mm^ world. Ma.n wa,H
nocriit and liappy, arid Mio world nnliarriKMl a,nd nn
iDiovcd l»y Hin. I>nt, Mm faia.l dnnd wan dono, and wlia.l, a
aiK'c^ ! lnnoc(!nl, man lK;(ta.nio gnilt-y ; 'iap(»y rna,n, nii.4-
l>l(^ TIm^ h(mi(Ih of MV(5ry nioraJ disna.Hii took r(»ol,, Roon
v(vr('i,a,in and hrin^^ (orMi l,li(5 poisonoiiH fVnihK. Tim
^I'Mi vva.s lillinl witli violnnco. Knvy, }ia,i<5 and niijrd<>,r,
ghiMtion, prido and covotouHimsH, Hprari^ n[> in Mm now
jpcliidod Hoil, and dovi^lopc-d tlioniHcdvoH in all tlioir viln
lUxiirianco.
Kv(Mytliin;^, an it oa.mo from Mi(i hand of (lod, wtm
*^jgoo(l." Nothing' wanting to mako. a virtunn.M HpccioH
li|L])|>y ; nothing; that in its romot^Ht tcndf.ncioH Hhonid
npt (^ondiKM^ to th(i nnalloyc/l happinoHH of all who Hhould
li honnd in aJlo^da-nc.o with thoir (iod. All waH ^orxl,
Itl Mm constituticm of tim pfi/i/HicaJ, world, all was juiafitcd
td make, man lioly and ha[)py. Kvcrythinj/ \h ho con-
0taru(;t(Ml aH to niako ina,n the (ioriKtajit recipient of the
IHvin(5 favour, toa<;hinnr hin,, on tli{5 one hand, hin depend-
«ttco, and on the other, pr(!.S(;ntin^ frcnh motives avfiry
moment why he nhould Jovo and nei-ve the Author of all
good.
Every til in<^ in <(ood if not p(;rverted and abused. TTie
five Hen.seH were not made to he orvans of r)ain or rni.sf
ry.
ley often become .such ; hut the [lurposcH for which
,
48
THE F(10T-rRTNTS OF SATAN,
thoy wore made an* alto^otluM* benevolent. Nerves wor
not ni.'ule to vibiato witli pniii, hut to eoinniuniciate jo'
to tlie jj^laddened soul. Hands were not made to fis^li
and destroy, but to do and conmuniieate ^ood. Tli
(iesi<pi was that they sliould minister to some wise an,
bemnolent end ; and they are in their conformation ol,
viously better adapted to serve a good purj)()se than a ha,
ont\ And who woidd assert that the eye is more suite,
to bclioUl deforndty than beauty ? or tlie ear bettc
adapted to discord than liarmony ? or the hands or t!i
feet desicrned ratlier for mischief tlian mnxl ?
And
'7
dl
iistitution — a
rhjhf. All here too was " ij^ood." There is not a singi
faculty, desire or suscepti()ility of the mind, which, i
rightly em]>loyed, wouUi not conduce to the well-beiii;
of man. Take reason, judgment, imagination, or hwc o
happiness, or desire of excellence, (called when pervertoil
ambition, as the k)ve of hap]nness is called self-love, o:
sheer selfishness,) and you will sec enough in their origl
nials to indicate the benevolent purpose for which thov
were given. Sadly as they are perverted now, tliey were
as the workmanship of intinite Beneficence, altogether
good.
The same may be said of the moral construction o;
man. He was made altogether cjvpable of loving am
honouring his Creator. Every passion, every affection is
when not perverted, just what it should be to secure thi
greatest hapjiiness of man and the honour of God. Thei\'
is no need of the creation of a single new faculty or do-
sire, but only to give a new direction to those • already
existing. If then the world and all therein, and mac
and all that pertains to him, were made morally upright
— -just as it should be in order to secure the greatest hap-
piness of man — whence then the ^ ^resent state of the
w^orld, and the present condition of man ? Whence the
thorn and the brier ? Whence the ^ ' .nee that covers
thu earth ; the wars that spread such devastation ami
Uj
it. NorvoM wor
L'onuuunicate jn'
i)t mailo to iiif]]'
icato jjjood. Til
) HO mo wi.so a III
I'onfonnation oli
iirj)oso than a l)ai
e is more .suites
• the oar botl
tlio hands or tli
)0(1 ?
I was eonstr7tcf(\
t) is not a sin4
mind, which, i
lO the woll-boiii;
ation, or hwe o
when pcrvcrtod
illod self-h)ve, o*
^h in their origl
) for which thov
I now, they were
cicncc, altogethei
construction o!
of h)ving anc
very affection !>;
be to secure tlii
of God. ThoK
fticulty or do-
those • already
erein, and man
norally upriglit
le greatest hap-
i state of the
? Whence the
"Ice that covers
evastation ami
AM. THlN(iS (lOOn IN TIIKMSELVKS.
49
ieath over the habitations of man, and the penmrslon of
most everything from a good to a bad use ? God liath
used the earth to bring forth ; to supply the wants and
niinister to the comfort of man. But liow are these
unties i)ervertcd, and made to minister oidy to liurtful
sts and to become instruments of destruction to man!
ior example, the earth brings forth graui for the food of
n. Bread is the stalf of life — the sustenance of by far
e o-reater portion of the human family, it is a njitural
'0(iiiction of the eartli, and when used in its natural
Sa^r, it is altogether good. But how different when per-
Vdrtod and abused ! Instead of bread it becomes an
iMoxicatlmj (hink — and what then '< No longer the staff
office, it has become the rod of oppression and of deatli.
And who can measure the poverty, the misery of this one
perversion ? If sin had done no more, what has it done
QlJre ? Measure, if you (!an, tlie tears it has caused to be
shod ; the poverty and degradation it has [)roduced ; the
■^fictows and orphans it has made ; the generous hopes it
bais bhisted ; the virtuous affections blighted ; the noble
intellects ruined ; the tender ties severed ; health ruined ;
souls destroyed. All this is simply the work of sin. The
world is good ; the things of tlie world, good ; the enjoy-
ment of them, proper and good. But the perversion —
hiite lies the sin.
k.nd what has not been perverted ? Bodily organs,
n&tal faculties, moral powers, how have they all been
tuined out of their legitimate use and prostituted to evil !
Tt^ judgment is perverted ; reason abused. The imagi-
nalion sent forth on the wings of the wind to revel amidst
forbidden objects, and the affections estranged and fixed
on objects unworthy and degrading. What, then, has sin
not done ? Its withering desolations are spread about us
on every side. Yea, they are within i\s. Nothing has
escaped the blight and mildew of the curse. Man and
beilt, and every created thing, animate or inanimate, are
suflferers from sin. Man suffers from his fellows, suffers
-^ 4
50
THE FOOT- PRINTS OF SATAN.
from his own hands ; the victim of hia own passions ; the
author of his own ruin. And how often are the brute
creation the helpless victims of man's cruelty and oppres-
sion.
But we cannot gauge the magnitude of the evil of sin.
Its poisonous streams have gone out unto the ends of the
earth. Nothing has escaped the contagion. But we re-
turn to a more restricted view of our subject, and con-
sider —
Sin as affecting our Social Relations. — The magni-
tude and mischief of sin in its relation to man as a social
being, has not only alienated man from his God, but it has
estranged man from his fellow- man. It has filled the
heart with pride and ambition, envy and distrust. It has
kindled in the human breast an unhallowed fire. It has
set man against man, friend against friend, brother against
brother, and — must we say it ? — Christian against Chris-
tian. It has loosed the tongue of slander, and filled
society with backbi tings, jealousies, heartburnings, hatred
and strife. What a world of evils — a Pandora's box un-
sealed — the world set on fire by that little member. So
mischievous a thing is the tongue, that an inspired one
says : *' He that ofl^endeth not w^ith the tongue, the same
is a perfect man." But the tongue was not made for
slander and mischief. Its design is most benevolent and
wise. But for the organs of articulation, we should be
little removed from the brute. But its perversion, how-
sad, how universal ! An enemy hath done this.
Again, it is sin that has destroyed confidence between
man and man. How is it that we must virtually suspect a
man till we have, either by an acquaintance or otherwise
gained testimonials that he is an honest man ? Whence
our distrust, if it be not that sin has so polluted the very
fountain of moral principle that we are obliged to as^me
that the streams are polluted ? We have by cur general
experience so often seen what is in man, that we assume
as the rule that man is bad, and then wait to learn by
STN IN OUR SOCIAL RELATIONS.
51
I passions ; the
are the brute
ty and oppres-
the evil of sin.
the ends of the
1. But we re-
bject, and con-
?. — The magni-
man as a f^ocial
God, but it has
, has filled the
listrust. It has
ed fire. It has
brother against
L against Chris-
nder, and filled
burnings, hatred
idora's box un-
le 'member. So
,n inspired one
|ngue, the same
not made for
[benevolent and
we should be
lerversion, how
this.
dence between
ually suspect a
le or otherwise
an ? Whence
[Uuted the very
iged to as^me
by our geiaeral
[hat we assume
it to learn by
jxperience and further acquaintance what are the excep-
tions to this general rule, i.e., whom may we receive to
our confidence. In law, every man is regarded as inno-
cent till proved guilty. But in our social economy we
are obliged to reverse this order. And why ? Why not
feceive the stranger on the broad ground that he is a man,
rour brother, and worthy of your undoubting confidence ?
4iy wait to know whether you can confide in him who
bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh ?
If sin had done no more, what mischief originated from
lis one fact, the want of confidence. In our distrust we
lay not recognize the great principle of brotherhood in
le family of man.
It is said of the Bedouin Arabs, those wandering tribes
lat traverse the deserts of Arabia, that they admit every
branger to their hospitality on the ground that he ijj a
* man, and thereby a brother. They neither know nor
.wish to know anything further of him till they have dis-
tjharged the common rites and duties of hospitality, which
fihey do on the score of relationship. This they will do
irrespective of moral character. Acting on this principle
we always should, but for the fatal distrust of sin. But
bere they are obliged to stop, and act on the same prin-
ciples of distrust as other men do,
■, Sin Entailed upon the Human Family. — But sin is
liore than a general or a social evil. It has an individu-
fty, entailed, in the direful curse, on every son and
ughter of Adam. It has despoiled man of his innocence,
gttnk him in ignorance, degraded his nature, and blighted
i|B happiness. '' It has multiplied our cares, originated
olu* sorrows, awakened our apprehensions, and let loose
H^on us the fury of evil passions." It has filled the heart
iiith. discontent, the mind with uncertainty, and the body
tlj^th pains. Does man sigh ? — is his soul made sick by
t^e withering stroke of affliction ? — do his tears flow? — is
1^ now bending over the death-couch of some beloved
c|ie ? Ah ! it is sin that haa oepned these avenues of woe
If
52
THK FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
1
and i!iM<I(» nmii to mourn. Hut for tins fi^ll dcBtroyf^r man
wouMliavo nlway.s Imh'ti liJippy. J lo would alwnys live
ill tho HUii.Mliino of (j!(>:i's couutcnMiuM*, and .sorrow and
siiJjIdnL; lie woul I Titn'or know. Now ]w {groans, l>oin;^'
burdiMMMJ ; n«»w iic looked for ^ood and helu^ld (ivil ; now
ho livoM all Ins life long .subject to bondage through tlio
fear of ilenth.
What a Ljrievous thing, then, is sin ! It ha.s elo.sed th(>
i.ssu(\s of life ; it has t)|nMUMl tlu^ avenues of death ; it,
has iumvjmI the arm of rebellion against the eternal throne ;
it has shut out the light of heaven, and turned away
the smile of the Divine eomplaeeniy from our dark and
wretched world. In Eden it tilled the happ.iest of mortals
with shame and remorse, and entailed on the race the
bitter fruits of death ; it made a brother a nnn'derer; it
fiUod tho earth with pollution and crime, till indignant
Heaven drowned the old world with a, flood of waters.
Again, sin provoked the Almighty wrath on the cities of
the Plains, The tiery indiixnation of Jehovah consumed
them from the face of the earth. Wars, famines, pe.s-
tilences and plagues swei^p over the length and breadth
of the earth, and cover it with tears and anguish. These
are thy ravages, O sin ;
And again, sec what sin has done in the introduction
and estal)lishment of b^dse Religious, especially of Idola-
try. But we reserve this tojiic for a future chapter.
Sin Charged ivith all A\vi8fin<j Evil. — In all its work-
ing it has worked evil and only evil continually. It has
ruined our world ; it has despoiled it of its beauty, shorn it
of its glory, and covered it with natural and moral defor-
mity ; it has spoiled man — made him a prey of every
evil propensity and every corrupt passion. It is the au-
thor of every discord that disturbs the peaceful flow of
life ; of every tear that falls ; of every disappointment,
loss or bereavement we suffer ; of every pain we feel.
How grievous, hateful, ruinous ! If it be the mother of
all evil, it must be the abominable thing which God hates.
1
N.
11 destroy nr man
II 1(1 alwnys liv«
uul Hoirovv Hiul
t» {^roaiiH, l)oiii;ir
(»lu>l(l (^vil ; flow
igo througli the
t ba.H (;1oh(mI the
OH of (loath ; it
3etoriial throru^ ;
1(1 turiiod away
rn our dark and
)priost of mortals
on tlio ra(!e the
:* a murderer ; it
), till indignant
flood of waterH.
I on the eities of
ovah eonauraed
VH, famines, pes-
th and breadth
nguish. These
le introduction
cially of Idola-
e chapter,
n all its work-
nually. It has
jeauty, shorn it
id moral defor-
prey of every
It is the au-
eaceful flow of
isappointment,
pain we feel,
the mother of
ich God hates.
SIN TJIK KOrNTAIN OF AI,I, KVM,.
63
or, as the rontrollor of nil events, if he thus mak(> the
lits of sin hitter and grievous, if \\{i ninkc tln^ way of
iihe transgressor hard, we nuiy \h\ sure that sin is the
ing his soul hateth, and tlint it will 1k» followed hy his
dignation niid wrath ; niid if not rep(inted (»f and for-
ken. with his internal displensuri^
VV(^ have chnrgMl all evil on sin. We now elwirge all
n o?i the Devil. Wo decoyed our first parents into tniuH-
ession, and is thus thejuithor of all the (wilainiticjs which
ave hefallen our hapless race.
Jn our bill of indictment against liis Satanic Mnjesty,
e charge upon hini all the oppression ; all tin) fraud and
i|orru|)tion ; all the licentiousness and intciinperarure ; all
|be wars and their untold desolations ; all the natural
tils that afflict a suffering ra(U) ; all social, civil and do-
estic evils that changed our woild from a Paradise to a
jjandemonium ; all the perversions of money, time, talent,
Jlfluence, custom, fashion, and indeed all that makes our
jiorld dirter from that beautiful, pure, holy, happy world
' here first dwt.'lt the happy pair, basking in the sunshine
Heaven's smiles, fit companions of angels, and in do-
htful fellowship with God. But shall not these halycon
,ys return, when the Usurper, as god of this world,
all be bound in everlasting chains and cast out for ever ?
en shall the earth be transformed, and rc^assume its
imeval beauty as it came from the hand of its (;rea-
ir ; then shall man be reinstated in the image of his God,
d righteousness, and [)eaee, and heavenly felicity shall
r ever dwell in the abodes of men.
The Son of God came into the world that he might
<||stroy the works of the Devil. The triumph of our
IJIessed Kedeemer on the earth will be the final overthrow
Q| Satan and the complete annihilation of sin. Every
ii|vance in our world of a genuine Christianity, every
ftble translated, circulated and piously read ; every
(Siristian school established ; every gospel sermon preach-
ed ; every Christian principle, grace or virtue inculcated,
f-
u
54
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
is SO much done toward the undermining and the final
abolishing the empire of him who has the power of sin.
Give the gospel free course and let it be glorified in the
accomplishment of the work for which it was sent, and
sin shall cease to have dominion, and the prince of the
power of (the air shall no long(^r be served as the god of
this world, but shall be cast out for ever.
5
Ul -k
<M*B
II ii'tiiMiwtoa'W'-"
III.
THE DEVIL IN BIBLE TIMES.
THE DEVIL BEFORE THE DELUGE — IN OLD TESTAMENT
TIMES — HE TURNS THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH TO
IDOLATRY — THE DEVIL IN NEW TESTAMENT TIMES — HIS
CORRUPTION OF THE CHURCH — PAPAL APOSTASY.
But let us pass from what the Devil is to what he does,
and we shall see little occasion to change our estimate of
his real character, or of the relations he holds to the sons
of men. The merest glance at the doings of the Devil, as
detailed in the history of the world, indicates the control-
ling position he holds in the affairs of man. He began in
the family of Adam. And " how earth has felt the
wound," the direful history of sin doth but too sadly tell.
Tf we could measure all the sighs and groans and tears —
all the sorrows and woes that sin has inflicted on a suf-
fering race — all the perversion of talent, time, influence,
wealth, fashion, custom — all the wastes and woes of in-
temperance ancj war — all that comes of murders, arsons,
robberies, and crime of every name — if we could fathom
the depth, and measure the height and length and
breadth of all the evil sin has done in our world, we
should begin to comprehend something of the woful his-
tory of him who has the power of sin.
56
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
2he Devil before the Deluge. — He had power in the
ante-diluvial world to alienate an entire race from God.
His usurpation and c'eadly despotism had become almost
complete. " God saw that the wickedness of man was
great in the earth, and that every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." The
destruction of the world by a flood was God's vindication
of his right to govern the world. Yet how soon did the
Arch Enemy again seduce man, and again overwhelm the
world in all the misery and degradation of sin ! He built
Babel in defiance of Heaven, as the first great and the
long-standing memorial of the apostasy. He soon turned
the nations from God unto idols. They that " knew God,"
no longer " glorified him as God, but changed the glory
of the incorruptible God into an image made like to cor-
ruptible man ;" and soon idolatry and the reign oi S^ian
again covered the earth. Few were the "elect" who
bowed not the knee to Baal.
The Devil in Old TestaTnent Times. — When God had
chosen from among the apostate nations a people that
should serve him — a people whom he would make a mo-
del nation, and a model church ; when they were as yet
no people — were but a few in the famiiy of Jacob — how
early was the bitter hostility and the burning jealousy
of the Great Adversary aroused to thwart the incipient
purposes of the Almighty. And behold the power (not
irresistible, but persuasive) of the crafty, far-seeing, mighty
Foe. A famine drives the chosen ones into Egypt. And
worse than a famine do the wiles of the Wicked One in-
stigate the Egyptians to inflict on the seed of Jacob. It
is more than two centuries of hard bondage. And when
Moses was raised up, that by " mighty works" — by mira-
cles — he should deliver them, how is he at every stepc on-
fronted, as we have seen, by the Prinze of Darkness, who
also had power to work miracles, and, if possible, to de-
ceive the very elect. As Aaron cast down his rod it be-
came a serpent. So did the Magicians and the Sorcerers,
I'i
THE DEVIL IN OLDEN TIMES.
57
and the same wonders followed. Yet the greater power
was with Aaron. For " Aaron's rod swallowed up their
rods." The ten Plagues followed. The first two the
Magicians, endowed with Satanic power, successfully imi-
tated. They brought up frogs upon the land and turned
the waters into blood.
And with the same wicked persistence did the Enemy
pursue the hosts of Israel through the wilderness, throwing
every obstruction in their way ; making them a prey to
their enemies, and seducing them into idolatry. And
when they had become a nation and a church in the pro-
mised land, how did he pervert their Kings^and corrupt
their rulers, and thus provoke the Most High to inflict his
judgments upon them 1 And again, with a like wicked
persistence has he followed the Church in every age since ;
the unrelenting foe of everything good ; the abettor and
active, malignant agent of everything evil.
But we may not pass over this long and eventful por-
tion of the world's history so hastily. We never cease
to retrace the history of the chosen people, from the time
of their deliverance from Egyptian bondage to their en-
trance into the promised land ; and then onward through
their whole future career. But at every step of their
progress we detect the unmistakable foot-prints of the
great antagonistic Power, the prime object of whose cor-
rupt soul has been, from the beginning, to thwart and, if
possible, to annihilate the Church of God. But if he
might not arrest and destroy, he would so secularize, cor-
rupt and demoralize the Church as to divest her of moral
power. Hence we may trace up the record of his do-
ings, as he followed along the line of the true Church
with a malignant persistency befitting the malignity of
his nature. How he dared to assail even the good father
of the faithful, leaving a scar on his fair character, by
making him lie to Abimelech, king of Gazar, denying
that Sarai was hi: wife. How Isaac was assailed and
tempted to do the same foolish thing, and Jacob was made
58
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
to defraud his brother of his birthright. How Reuben
defiled his father's bed with Bilhah, his father's concubine,
and Simeon and Levi assist in the murder of the Shech-
emites ; and how the sons of Jacob, with murder in their
hearts, conspire against Joseph. He was sold into Egypt
and consigned to a hopeless bondage — a prelude to that
galling captivity into which the whole chosen seed were
afterwards subjected. This was the hour and power of
darkness. The gates of hell seemed to have prevailed
against the Lord's Anointed. But the triumph was short.
The chosen people, though not without the most persistent
audacity ana opposition of the Devil, were at length deli-
vered from their thraldom, brought out with a mighty
hand and an outstretched arm, carried dry-shod through
the Red Sea, and conducted through the wilderness in
despite of combined and most formidable foes, instigated
at every step by the wiles of the great Adversary.
They pass on and come to Mount Sinai. Here they
are to receive the law, a direct Revelation from Hea-
ven ; and thereby to inaugurate one of the most signal
advancements that characterize the history of the Church.
God now revealed himself as never before; ^^ot by the
giving of the law alone, buc by signs and wonders. " There
were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the
mountain, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud,
so that all the people trembled." The mountain burned
with fire, and there was blackness and darkness and tem-
pest, so that Moses did exceedingly fear and quake.
And the Devil trembled. Fearfulness took hold up^n
him. Here was the power of God — God clothed in ter-
rific majesty. The heavens were moved. The thunder
and the lightning spake. The trumpet of God uttered
its voice. All these were awfully impressive demonstra-
tions that God was real — that God was near. And would
not the people now and for ever afterwards believe and
obey and ever own an eternal allegiance to such a God ?
Something must be done. Satan to the rwscue. And
what did he do ?
THE DEVIL AT MOUNT SINAL
59
Moses had gone up into the mountain, and a cloud had
shut him out from the people. Here he remained forty days
andforty nights, conversing with God, and receiving from his
mouth the law and the commandments. This was Satan's
time. Something must be done. He stirred up the people
to distrust Moses, insinuating that he had gone, no more to
return. He now resorted to wiles not unlike what he did
centuries afterwards when God became manifest in the flesh,
in the person of our Emanuel. When the people heard him
gladly, declaring that " never man spake like this man,"
" then Cometh the Devil and taketh away the word out of
their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved." And,
personating their master, the " chief priests and Pharisees,"
on another occasion, " gathered a council and said : * What
do we ? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him
thus alone, all men will believe on him. ' " They must
in some way bring reproach and distrust upon the great
Teacher, and, if possible, neutralize his teachings.
So did the Devil before Sinai. A desperate resistance
must be made against these new revelations of Heaven,
and the advanced dispensation of divine grace. Hence
he entered into Aaron, stirring up his jealousy, perhaps
firing his ambition to be capt^dn rather than the priest of
Israel, and prompting him to seduce the people to idolatry.
He made the golden calf, and said, " These be thy gods, O
Israel, which brought thee up out of Egypt." A desperate
measure to meet a desperate case. An advanced step had
been taken on the part of Israel's God. It must be met
and resisted by the Adversary.
Under the same Satanic influence Nadab and Abihu
" offer strange fire before the Lord." When the people
murmur and cry for flesh, Miriam and Aaron raise a
sedition against Moses. The "spies" make a false re-
port cl the land and discourage the hearts of the peo-
ple. By the instigation of the same spirit, Korah, Dathan
and Abiram stir up a rebellion in the camp and disturb
Israel. At Mount Hor the people " speak against God
60
THE FOOT-PBINTS OF SATA7T.
and against Moses because of the way." And in the
matter of Balaam, and the whoredoms with the daughters
of Moab ; and the worship of Baal-peor ; and the cun-
ning trick of the Gibeonites, and how all along no
scheme was left untried to turn away the people from
the worship of the true God to idols. Baal and Asta-
roth, Baalim and Baal-berith, in turn became their
gods.
And more marked still were the doings of the Devil
in connection with the kings of Israel. Saul was pos-
sessed of an evil spirit — was sent by it to the witch of
Endor ; and finally was made to do many devilish things,
and at last moved to commit suicide. The good man
David was not beyond the reach of the same Arch Se-
ducer. In the affair of Uriah he yielded to the Tempter,
and left on his record an indelible scar of his conflict with
the Foe. Solomon, the great and the wise, was a shining
mark not to be missed. Through wine and women the
Seducer beguiled him, so that "vanity of vanities " might
seem to be written on his tomb-stone. With his thousand
and one wives and concubines, we find him seduced away
unto idols, offering sacrifice, burning incense, and doing
homage to inanimate gods. A sad triumph of the DevU
over one of t^e most honoured, gifted and favoured of
men ; the noblest specimen of Divine workmanship among
men.
But this "Troubler of Israel" ceased not his mischief.
Having achieved a signal triumph over one whom God
had especially favoured, and the nations delighted to
honour, he stirs up the successor of Solomon to alienate
the Ten Tribes — ^to divide the nation; to sow the seeds of
hate, alienation and rivalry; to weaken both divisions,
and thus sadly to impair the influence upon the Gentile
nations which this nation, chosen of Heaven, would other-
wise have had. And henceforward he goes on doing a
double work — tampering with both parties, stirring up
jealousies, provoking seditions, rebellions and wars ; any-
t*T^f*'HEii*'^^P-
THE VnCKED AHAB AND JBZEBEL.
61
And in the
e daughters
id the cun-
11 along no
people from
I and Asta-
scame their
if the Devil
ul was pos-
bhe witch of
ilish things,
3 good man
le Arch Se-
he Tempter,
jpnflict with
as a shining
women the
ities " might
lis thousand
duced away
, and doing
f the DevU
favoured of
Lship among
lis mischief,
whom God
elighted to
to alienate
he seeds of
divisions,
the GentUe
ould other-
on doing a
stirring up
wars ; any-
ti
thing which should tend to weaken, alienate and mono-
polize the influence, the resources and agencies of the
chosen people, and divert them from the great, ennobling,
elevating object which Israel's God and every Israelite
proposed to accomplish by the national and church or-
ganization of this extraordinary people.
The first and most obvious result of this division was a
disastrous war — the Devil's delight — with a slaughter on
the one side of 800,000 men, and on the other of 400,000 ;
accompanied by all the distractions, demoralizations,
wastes and woes of war.
He turns the Nations of the Earth to Idolatry. — We
may follow on in the track of either of these kingdoms,
and we find the Devil incessantly and infernally at work,
corrupting the worship of the true God, decoying to idol-
atry, and always instigating to wars. His most persistent
and successful aggressions seem, for some reason, to have
been in the line of the kingdom of Israel, and reached the
climacteric of civil corruption and heaven-daring wicked-
ness in the reign of " wicked Ahab," and his yet more
wicked wife, Jezebel. She was the daughter of a heathen
prince. It is said of Ahab, "he went and served Baal and
worshipped him. And he reared an altar for Baal in the
house of Baal which he had built. And Ahab made a
grove, and did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to
anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him."
And having done all he could himself, he did much more
by the aid of his yet more wicked wife. For she " made
him to sin." The story of Naboth and his vineyard, and
Ahab's atrocious murder, well illustrates what the Devil
can do with the aid of a wicked woman.
Ib the other line of kingt^ we find a similar climacteric
reached in the reign of Manasseh, king of Judah. Ahaz,
his grandfather, whose evil nature he seemed to inherit,
had prepared the way for his own corrupt reign. " The
Devil urged poor Ahaz on, and led and drove and pushed
him into idolatry and impiety until he became frantic in
.■ .rj^.r - je^oioa J i u s=
62
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
his sottishness after the gods of the Syrians." In his
hatred of the worship of the true Grod he closed up the
temple and forbade the people to offer sacrifice. And yet
deeper was Manasseh plunged in the meshes of Satan's
devices. He did that which was evil in the sight of the
Lord, like unto the abominations of the heathen. He
" showed himself in every respect a master- workman for
the Devil." He built up the high places his father had
broken down, reared altars for Baalim and became an
open patron of idolatry. He defiled the temple of God,
committed sacrilege, " slew righteous men and prophets,
and inund ced Jerusalem with human gore." Of one
who at nr great remove succeeded him, historians say,
" his palaces were founded in blood, and embellished by
rapine. He falsely accused the innocent of crimes, that
he might condemn them to death and confiscate their
property." In him the Devil had a man after his own
heart.
But the end drew near. Indignant Heaven could no
longer endure. Yielding to the instigations of the
Tempter, the church had become corrupt, the nation
demoralized, the long-suffering of Heaven exhausted, and
the day of recompense had come. The Enemy had
seemingly triumphed. Jerusalem was laid in ruins. Her
people were carried into captivity. The natior) and the
church wete dissolved. The Temple, the pride and glory
of Israel, was burnt with fire, and all the holy things
desecrated, if not destroyed. "Thy holy cities are a
wilderness. Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised
thee, is burned with fire ; and all our pleasant things are
laid waste." " How doth the city sit solitary that was
full of people ! how has she become a widow ! She
was great among the nations, and a princess among the
provinces ; how has she become tributary ! How is the
gold become dim ! the most fine gold changed ! The
stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of
THE DAY-DAWN — THE MORNING COMETH.
C3
s." In his
sed up the
}. And yet
; of Satan's
ight of the
athen. He
''orkman for
father had
became an
pie of God,
id prophets,
e." Of one
torians say,
Dellished by
crimes, that
fiscate their
fter his own
en could no
[)ns of the
the nation
lausted, and
Cnemy had
ruins. Her
ioT) and the
le and glory
holy things
cities are a
b desolation,
hers praised
b things are
ry that was
low ! She
among the
How is the
iged ! The
the top of
every street. From the daughter of Zion all her beauty
is departed."
Every sin and transgression, every act of ingratitude
and rebellion, which had brought these dire calamities on
the nation, were the instigations of the Adversary; all
demonstrations of his eternal enmity against the God of
heaven. But there is a " stronger than he," who shall
take away the armour in which he trusts — cast him out,
and restore the ruins of the fall. Jerusalem shall be built
again, the captives restored, and Zion again become the
glory of the whole earth.
The Devil in New Testament Times. — The doings of
the Devil alluded to in the portion of history under con-
sideration, did not differ essentially from his doings in
every age of the world. He is, in his very nature, the
great perverter and destroyer of all good ; the enemy of
all holiness ; the stirrer up of strife and sedition ; the very
spirit and essence of hate, envy, and revenge ; a roaring
lion going about seeking whom he may devour.
But we will pass over the period that intervened be-
tween the restoration from the captivity and the coming
of the "bright and morning Star," a period replete with
the machinations of the Wicked One. Israel had been
restored from her foreign bondage, but never fully rein-
stated, either as a Church or State, in her former glory.
The Adversary was too strong for her. He was allowed
to enter the fold and trouble Israel, and paralyze her
power, and give her enemies the advantage over her, and
the Church lived as in the wilderness, her horizon grow-
ing darker and darker till the " Day Dawn and Day Star"
arose.
And how then was the Prince and Power of Darkness
roused in his wrath as he saw the gleam of light arise
from the Star of Bethlehem. It was the star of hope for
a dark and ruined world. It was a Light that should
lighten every man that cometh into the world. It pro-
claimed liberty to the captives and the opening of the
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THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
f i
'■' i f
M
prison to them that are bound. The vile Usurper saw in
this rising Star of Bethlehem, the Creator, the great
Proprietor and Redeemer of the world, coming to vindi-
cate his right, to cast out and destroy the Usurper and
take possession of this apostatized world. By usurpa-
tion it had become the domain of the enemy. He
claimed to be the god of this world, and his claim had
been almost universally conceded. The Babe of Bethle-
hem, the Saviour, the Pri^.ice of Peace, and the rightful
Proprietor came to his own, and none better than the
Usurper knew that ere long he shouM take the kingdom
to himself.
The earth had become dreadfully corrupt. The Jewish
nation had grievously apostatized. Josephus character-
ized the Jews as more desperately wicked than the people
of Sodom. Tacitus apprehends the destruction of the
world on account of its hopeless corruption. Seneca says
" all js replete with crime. Vice everywhere abounds.
While habit daily grows into sin, shame is rapidly declin-
ing. Veneration for what is pure and good is unknown.
Vice is no longer the occupant of secret places, but
iH made public before all eyes." With such a degenerate,
hopeless condicion of the world, do we wonder there was
among the fow reflecting ones a yearning, longing, despe-
rate waiting for >i Deliverer s Pagan philosophy was of
no avail. Pagan creeds had failed. Not the few in Judea,
not the " wise men of the East " only, were looking for
deliverance, and expecting a Deliverer. For there was
among the nations a general expectation that gracious
Heaven would interpose and come to the rescue of a
suffering race. The Romans were expecting it. The
Chinese, the Hindoos, the Persians were looking for the
"Holy One to appear in the West."
The Devil saw all this, and fearfulness took hold upon
him. He saw a "stronger than he" about to come, who
should dispossess him of his usurped dominions and cast
him out for ever. He rose in his wrath. If he could not
■t-
per saw in
the great
r to vindi-
surper and
iy usurpa-
emy. He
claim had
of Bethle-
tie rightful
r than the
e kingdom
The Jewish
, character-
i the people
:tion of the
Seneca says
re abounds,
idly declin-
s unknown,
places, but
degenerate,
there was
ing, despe-
►hy was of
in Judea,
[looking for
there was
bt gracious
fescue of a
it. The
|ng for the
hold upon
come, who
IS and cast
could not
PESTILENCE GOES BEFORE HIM.
65
rule, he would ruin. And " woe to the inhabitants of the
earth, for the Devil came down unto them having great
wrath, because he knew he had but a short time." He
was allowed sorely to aiflict the nations. As the first
glimmering of the Day Spring from on high arose, the
wrath of earth's great Foe was kindled anew ; and earth
soon felt the wound. It was a day of trouble. He that
had the power of sin and death now broke from his re-
straints and was allowed for a litt)e time to scourge the
nations. A deadly pestilence swept over the Romnn
Empire. And the same dread calamity swept over
Ethiopia, Lybia, Egypt, India, S3^ria, Phoenicia ; and over
the Greek and Persian empires, and "over adjacent coun-
tries," and raged for fifteen years. Again this fell des-
troyer starts out from the ruins of Carthage, and spreads
its direful ravages over Africa. In Numidia alone it
numbered no less than 800,000 victims. Two years only
before the birth of Christ pestilence again walked in
darkness over Italy, and " few people were left to culti-
vate the land."
The whole creation groaned and travailed in pain.
Now came the dying struggle of the Prince of the power
of the air ; or rather it was the fearful beginning of the
end — the last desperate onslaught to wrest this world
from the rightful owner, and to make it a pandemonium.
No ; not the last deadly struggle. The Babe of Bethle-
hem is born ; the long-expected Messiah is come. Angels
sing " Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace,
good-will toward men." Waiting saints welcome him as
Him that should come, the Light of the world, and its
final King. The wise men of the East see his star and
come to worship him. While yet a helpless infant in his
cradle he is hailed as the incarnate God, the Emanuel,
God with us — " a Light to lighten the Gentiles, and the
glory of Israel." And how at this juncture must the
Arch Fiend have writhed in demoniac anguish over this
newly risen Light, and at length fixed on the desperate
5
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66
THK FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
expedient. Ho had a faithful ally in the king. The
child must be destroyed ; and Herod became the wicked
and willing accomplice. The decree goes out to slay all
the children of two years old and under, with intent to
kill him who was born King of the Jews, and thus foil the
purposes of God in the advent of his Son." It was a des-
perate throw, and no credit to the Devil that it so signally
failed. Nor did he now yield his infernal purpose. Though
defeated, he was not destroyed. As the great Teacher and
Mediator between God and man was about to enter on his
public ministry, he confronts him in the wilderness with a
presumption and fiendish impudence peculiarly his own.
By three successive temptations, each more seductive than
the preceding, the grand attack was made, and the
crafty wiles of the Tempter were frustrated. The " Strong
Man armed " had proved more than a match for him ; yet
he yielded not his infernal purpose. What he could not
hinder or destroy, he would pervert or corrupt.
Instigated by the Prince of Darkness, Pilate and Herod
were made friends, that they might compass the death of
the Incarnate One ; and then confederated with Scribes,
Pharisees, and Priests, and with Judas, into whom the
Devil entered, they the more easily consummated the dia-
bolical deed. When they had secured the crucifixion of
their illustrious victim, they supposed they had covered
his name with an eternal infamy. No one would believe
on a a crucified one. Yet the Cross which they counted
should be the death-blow to Christianity became the
rallying point, the glory, the grand centre of Christianity.
Armed with the " power " of a Pentecostal baptism, the
invading waves of the new Religion rolled on from tribe
to tribe, from nation to nation, giving no doubtful signs of
universal conquest. Though so signally discomfited at
Calvary, the Enemy pursued the onward marching hosts
with firebrands, arrows and death, with a violence which
threatened no uncertain annihilation. Ten relentless per-
secutions followed ; and nothing but the interposing arm
?.
.< <
ng-
Tho
le -wicked
bo slay all
intent to
us foil the
was a des-
so signally
e. Though
eaeher and
inter on his
less with a
y his own.
uctive than
), and the
he " Strong
or him •, yet
e could not
t.
i and Herod
|bhe death of
ith Scribes,
5 whom the
ted the dia-
uciflxion of
had covered
ould believe
bey counted
became the
Christianity.
)aptism, the
from tribe
tful signs of
jcomfited at
;ching hosts
.lence which
lentless per-
posing arm
lllSK OF TIIK <aiKAT APOSTASY.
07
of Heaven saved the Church from a final extinction. The
Enemy struck his deadly blow, meaning nothing short of
annihilaticm.
Hifi Corruption of the Church. — The next deadly de-
vice was to corrupt the Church. Having failed to destroy,
he now set himself to emasculate Christianity of its manly
vigour, to divorce it from the power of holiness and make
it a secular power. And how the Christian Church was
corrupted — how the name and the form were retained,
yet divested of its spirit and life, let the history of every
form of spurious Christianity tell. Side by side has our
sleepless Foe contended with the great Captain of our
Salvation, intent to corrupt and neutralize, if he cannot
arrest the onward progress of Christianity.
He carefully watches the progress of civilization, of
education, and society — takes note of the spirit of the
age, and favours and preaches a Christianity suited to the
times. Yet false religions in general are rather local,
temporary, changing to suit times and circumstances — to
meet the mutations of man's changing condition. The
great standing monument of Satanic invention, power
and skill to originate, mature, and propagate a religious
system, is the Papacy — a religious organization embracing
200,000,000 souls, bound in the chains of an unmitigated
spiritual despotism, yet called by the name of Christ and
claiming to be Christian. We may probably accept this
as the final consummation of what human wisdom and
ingenuity, combined with the wisdom and craft of the
Great Adversary, could do to put forth a grand religious
delusion — a gorgeous, seductive counterfeit of the Christian
Church, whose lettering and superscription should be
those of the genuine coin — a compound and com-
promise of Christianity, Judaism, Idolatry, Mohammed-
anism, and Infidelity, all hashed and harmonized so as to
meet the demands of the religious and the irreligious, of
the image- worshipper, the sceptic, and the nominal Chris-
tian. It is probably the masterpiece of the great Anti-
«8
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
> i
ohrist now being rapidly revealed and hastening its firal
consummation, yet perhaps still to undergo modifications
to meet the coining phases of a progressive age.
Indeed, the forewarning of our divine Lord more than
intimated the fierce conflict the Christian Church should,
from the very outset, have with her Arch Foe. He should
appear clad in sacerdotal robes, claiming to be Christ —
sitting in the temple of God, showing himself that he is
God. Most distinctly did Christ forewarn the early
Christians of the formidable Enemy his religion would
have to encounter — and this too in its most incipient
besinnings. " There shall arise false Christs and false
prophets, and shnll show great signs and wonders, inas-
much that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very
elect." And what are these but miracles ? And those
" three unclean spirits like frogs," which John saw " come
out of the mouth of the Di-agon, and out of the mouth of
the Beast, and out of the mouth of the false Prophet.
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which
go forth unto the kings of the earth and the whole world,
and gather them to the battle of that great day of God
Almighty." From the beginning, from the cradle in
Bethlehem to the great and dreadful crisis, the final de-
cisive battle, the warfiire shall go on.
And again, " He doeth great wonders, so that he maketh
fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sia^ht of
men. And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the.
means of those miracles which he had power to do in the
sight of the Beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth,
that they should make an image to the Beast. And he
had power to give life unto the image of the Beast, that
the image of the Beast should both speak and cause that
as many as would not worship the image of the Beai^D
should he killed."
Need we seek further for an identification of his Satanic
Majesty with that great persecuting |)ower, that mystery
of iniquity, that deueivableness of unrighteousness, which
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.
69
its fir.il
[ications
►re than
should,
e should
Christ-—
at he is
le early
n would
incipient
,nd false
irs, inas-
the very
nd those
w " come
mouth of
Prophet.
es, which
)le world,
of God
;radle in
final de-
e maketh
sight of
^h by the
.() in the
he earth,
And he
east, that
ause that
he Beast
is Satanic
mystery
sss, which
we are wont to identify as the scarlet Beast or the great
Antichrist ?
Again, we might enlarge on the Devil's doings in the
political ai'ena. The world's history is largely made up
of the wars and commotions and political intrigues of
that wisdom which is from beneath. Politicians have
too often been content to serve the Devil rather than
their nation or their God. And what use this grea,t
Prince of politicians has made of his liege subjects, the
des|)otism, oi)pression, demagogism and chicanery of most
governments is a living, burning stigma on the fair face
of humanity.
But we shall leave with others to gauge, if they can,
the dimensions of the Devil's activities in the civil affairs
of the world — how governmental power is largely used to
favour his nefarious schemes — how politicians are too
often but his willing dupes, his faithful, ready and efficient
coadjutors in carrying out his designs in the corruption
and ruin of man. As a temporal prince, and in his control
of the social, civil and secular affairs of the world, he has
a broad and open field, and never loses an advantage to
execute his malignant purposes. Yet it is rather as a
spiritual prince — it is in relation to the spiritual interests
of man that he disi)lays his great wisdom and power.
False religions are Satan's masterpiece and his stronghold.
We shall, in its place in the present volume, treat this
topic more in detail. A very summary view will suffice
in the present connection.
Man is a religious being — has implanted in him a reli-
gious instinct. Hence he must and will have a religion
of some sort. And in whatever form it comes, his reli-
gion has over him a strong, controlling influence. The
Christian will go to the stake, the block, or face the tor-
tures of the Inquisition for his religion. The votary of
idolatry will go on long pilgrimages, walk on spikes,
lacerate his flesh, swing on the hooks. There is perhaps
no stronger element at work among men than that of
I
;
(
H
70
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
religion. And no one understands this better than the
Devil. And he is fully on the alert to improve every
advantage he may thereby gain. Here we meet our
enemy at home, and in his great strength. He has en-
trenched himself in the citadel of religion, and has thence
from the earliest ages rul 1 the nations. Tiie exceptions
to this rule have been, not nations, but individuals, or, at
most, communities. Hence the masterstroke of the Devil
has been to pervert and corrupt religion, and thus monop-
olize for himself its mighty power. The history of all
false religions abundantly sustains the assumption that
here is his stronghold. Here especially does he appear
as " the father of lies." In Eden he began the work of
his great and fatal delusion. God had said, " The soul that
sinneth it shall die." Satan said, " Thou shalt not die."
And so he has been saying in all time since. By blinding
the mind, by perverting God's truth, by presenting false
atonements for sin, and substituting the form for the life
of religion, he has deceived the nations, and set them
wandering after idols — or after the Beast or the false
Prophet.
A marked feature in our Enemy's doings here (which
we shall illustrate more fully hereafter) is his intense and
persistent rivalry in following up and keeping alongside
with God in all his dispensations of the true Religion.
In every advancement of the church and new revelation
of the truth, from Adam to Moses, from Moses to Christ,
and so onward to the present moment, the Devil has
been ready with a counterfeit to meet and thereby per-
vert every progressive development of the true religion.
Almost at the outset, under the Patriarchal dispensation,
he perverted the idea of worshipping the only one true
God, by first introducing what seemed to be a very plaus-
ible if not harmless substitute of worshipping the sun,
moon and stars as the most ostensible representation of
God. This, under the fostering care of Satanic wiles and
the natural promptings of human depravity, very natur-
ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF IDOLATRY.
71
than the
ve every
neet our
J has en-
as thence
sceptions
lis, or, at
the Devil
Ls monop-
ry of all
tion that
e appear
work of
soul that
not die."
' blinding
bing false
r the life
set them
the false
•e (which
ense and
alongside
Religion,
evelation
o Christ,
)evil has
[•eby per-
religion.
)ensation,
one true
ry plaus-
the sun,
tation of
wiles and
•y natur-
ally matured into bold idolatry : first, the worship of
Heroes, and then to the bowing down to images of wood
and stone, the workmanship of human hands.
Upon the introduction of the Mosaic dispensation, ido-
latrous systems were revolutionized and modified so as to
meet the progress of the times, that the nations should
not revolt and throw off the yoke of the Usurper. And
more especially when Christ came, and a yet clearer light
shone out from the hill of Zion and made visible the
darkness of all former ages, the religions of the East — of
India, of China and adjacent countries — were essentially
modified ; grosser features were discarded, and approxi-
mations and resemblances of the truth, even of Christian
truth, were now inoculated into those old, efifete systems
of idolatry, yet so perverted as to do little more than to
change the truth of God into a lie. While the nations of
Western Asia and of Eastern Europe, being now too
greatly enlightened longer to remain satisfied with the
form of idolatry, were accommodated by the arch Perver-
ter with an amalgam of Christianity, Judaism and Pagan
Idolatry, which should satisfy the religious instinct, serve
the purposes of the Devil, yet have some plausible show
of the truth. Hence the device of Mohammedanism, with
a headship, not of the Messiah of Mount Zion, but of the
Prophet of Mecca.
The. Pa'pal Apostasy. — But the most plausible, perfect
and successful counterfeit was yet to be introduced. The
Light from Mount Zion had shone too clearly on the
Western nations to allow the people of those nations to
be satisfied even with the compromise of Mecca, They
must and would have Christianity. Nothing less would
satisfy them. And the Devil said, yea ; and he gave them
Christianity, with a gorgeous ceremonial and a Romish
baptism — a religion framed after his own choice and
liking. He gave them not only the name, but many of
the doctrines and more of the forms, yet with scarcely the
pulsation of spiritual life or power. The Papacy may be
72
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
i ■
} ■ '
regarded as the summation of crowning craftiness — the
" deceivableness of unrighteousness " — the arch delusion ;
the most complete counterfeit of pure and undefiled reli-
gion. It is a complete usurpation and monopoly of all the
powers and prerogatives, all the virtues, graces and rewards
of Christianity ; it is a claim of universal power, temporal
and spiritual — the Pope in the place of God, forgiving
jins, and exercising all power in heaven and earth.
All that now seemed wanting in order to consummate
this delusion and make it the grand climacteric scheme
by which to oppose and, if possible, destroy all evangel-
ical Christianity, was the sealing of the Pope's infallibility.
This would simply consummate the entire scheme and
vindicate its consistency. The long-cherished preten-
sions of the Pope, and predictions concerning him, would
simply be realized. " He opposeth and exalte th himself
above all that is called God or that is worshipped." And
the infallibility dogma once confirmed, and he " sitteth
as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is
God." This done, and Satan has seated himself on the
pinnacle of the temple. He can do no more. And from
this point of pride and vaunting and defiant sacrilege,
we expect to see him cast down and cast out for ever, and
on the ruins of the most consummate spiritual despotism
that ever cursed the nations, King Emanuel shall rear
his evelrlasting empire of peace and righteousness.
The Angel, having the everlasting gospel to preach
to every nation and kindred and tongue and people, is
flying through the midst of heaven, saying, " Fear God,
and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is
come ; worship him." And when this " consummation so
devoutly to be wished" shall come, when truth and right-
eousness shall triumph, then shall follow another angel
saying, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city., be-
cause she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath
of her fornication." And soon John sees another angel
come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless
t
s
I
THE EMPIRE OF PEACE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. 73
tiess — the
delusion ;
ifiled reli-
of all the
1 rewards
temporal
forgiving
h.
summate
I scheme
evangel-
illibility.
leme and
preten-
1, would
himself
I." And
" sitteth
lat he is
If on the
Jid from
acrilege,
ver, and
jspotism
tail rear
pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on
the Dragon, that old Serpent which is the Devil and
Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into
the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon
him that he should deceive the nations no more till the
thousand years should be fulfilled ; and after that he*
should be loosed for a little season.
preach
eople, is
Jar God,
ment is
a,tion so
i rigbt-
r angel
ity., be-
) wrath
T angel
tomless
IV.
SATAN IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH
'1
CHRISTIANITY A NEW REVELATION — THE DEVIL ALARMED —
HE ASSAILS THE STRONGHOIiD OF THE CHURCH — FORE-
WARNED BY CHRIST — PERSECUTIONS OF THE EARLY
CHURCH — ITS MARTYRS — PERSECUTIONS DURING THE
REFORMATION — ATTEMPTS TO ANNIHILATE THE BIBLE —
THE CORRUPTION OF THE CLERGY — PRIESTLY USURPA-
TION — ROME NEVER CHANGES.
We have seen with what demoniac virulence the De-
stroyer followed up the Church from Adam to Moses
and from Moses to Christ ; how he never lost an advantage
to thwart its progress, and, if possible, to turn back the
on-rolling tide of truth and righteousness in the world.
Yet what he had done was seeming weakness compared
with what he should do. The Mosaic dispensation,
thoug?. a decided advance on any that had gone oefore,
was but the shadow of what now began to be revealed in
the cradle at Bethlehem. The one was called the " min-
istration of death," the other, the " ministration of the
spirit." " If the ministration of death be glorious — which
glory should pass away — shall not the ministration of the
spirit be rather glorious V So, as the Apostle argues,
" even that which was made glorious (the former dispen-
sation) had* no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory
that excelleth."
t
ALARM AT THE ADVENT OF THE SAVIOUR.
75
lURCH
ARMED —
I — FORE-
E EARLY
ING THE
1 BIBLE —
USURPA-
the De-
Moses
Ivantage
back the
e world,
ompared
iDsation,
oefore,
ealed in
! " min-
i of the
— which
m of the
argues,
dispen-
se glory
Christianity was a neiu revelation — the bursting in of
the morning upon a long and dreary night. Christ came
to claim his "own;" to take the kingdom to himself. A
new light has arisen, and new agencies and resources
should henceforth be engaged to overthrow the empire
of Satan, and to rear on its ruins the kingdom of our
Emanuel. The conqueror had come. Out of his mouth
*' went a sharj) two-edged sword ; and his countenance
was as the sun shineth in his strength." Or he is por-
trayed as " a Bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and
rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race."
The Devil was alarmed. His empire on the earth had
never been so seriously imperilled before. God had come
in the flesh. And he had come expressly to destroy the
works of the Devil ; and to take away the armour in
which he trusted ; and to bind him in chains of darkness,
and to cast him out for ever. Tt meant war to the knife ;
and a desperate — a terrible resistance must be offered. As
he could not hinder the Saviour's advent into the world,
he would do what he could to resist his progress and
baffle his purposes. Hence he met him in his cradle, and
at once devised a scheme by which to cut him off in his
early infancy. A dec^ree went out from the Devil's liege
lord to murder all the infants in Bethlehem, hoping there-
by to kill Jesus. The device failed ; yet the infant Jesus
is driven away into Egypt, where it might be hoped he
would fall a victim to a people who, to weaken, if not to
destroy, the chosen people, had murdered all their infants.
But seeing he could not destroy him, his next device was
to divest him, if possible, of his Divine power and glory.
For this purpose he met him in the wilderness, and, by
three audacious assaults, tempted him to deny his God
and compromise his own divinity, And thence onward,
through the whole earthly career of our blessed Lord, he
never allowed an advantage to resist him, and to turn
away the people from hearing him, and to stir them up to
persecute him — never allowed an advantage to assail the
76
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
!
1
Holy One to pass unimproved, till the time of the great
Oflfering drew near, when he instigated Judas to betray
him, Peter to deny him, all the disciples to forsake him,
the soldiers to buffet him, and Pilate to crucifj^ him.
Foiled in all these vile machinations against the hated
cause, he was constrained for a time to desist. The cruci-
fied One had burst the bands of death, risen from the
tomb, and triumphantly ascended to heaven. He was
God ; vindicated in the sight of angels and of men. The
Cross had triumphed. ^ ^at ^ Mch it was supposed would
cover the newly-risen R iig). ? with infamy and disgust
was likely to become the glr-i*. ;,". centre of the Christian
Faith. The crucified One would 1 " believed on in the
world." Indeed, this characteristic of Christianity and
evidence of its Divinity was singularly illustrated in its
early history. No other religion ever so readily com-
mended itself to all conditions and nationalities of men.
No other religion ever contained such elements of univer-
sality. No other ever evidenced itself as a religion for
MAN. Every form of religion that had preceded it was
local — belonged to some one people or nation. Judaism
was a religion only for the Jews. The difierent forms of
the Oriental religions were suited only to the several tribes
or nations for which they were constructed ; and especially
were suited only to times, the state of intelligence and
learning, and yet more to the prevailing caste of civiliza-
tion. Christianity, on the other hand, announced and
verified itself from the beginning as a religion for the
world — adapted to the wants of man, irrespective of race,
nation, colour, or condition. And such did it evince itself
to be, not only by the command that it should be preached
to all nations, and the fact that the early Christians under-
stood this to be an essential characteristic of the new
religion, but yet more from the fact of its adaptedness to
all peoples and the wonderful success that attended the
early missionary labours of the Christian Church.
He Assails the Stronghold of the Church. — We have the
CHRISTIANITY A RELIGION FOR MAN.
77
* the great
to betray
rsake him,
him.
the hated
The cruci-
from the
He was
aen. The
sed would
id disgust
Christian
on in the
nity and
ted in its
lily com-
! of men.
f univer-
igion for
3d it was
Judaism
forms of
ral tribes
specially
nee and
civiliza-
3ed and
for the
of race,
ce itself
reached
i under-
lie new
ness to
ied the
ive the
testimony of Justin Martyr that, within a century after
the death of its divine Author, the new religion had be-
come known and measurably accepted in every part of
the known world. He says : " There exists no people,
whether Greek or barbarian, or any other race of men,
by whatever appellation or manners they may be distin-
guished, however ignorant of arts or agriculture ; whether
they dwell in tents, or wander about in covered wagons,
among whom prayers are not oifered up in the name of
the crucified Jesus to the Father and Creator of all
things." Indeed, in much leas than a century after
Christ was risen, St. Paul says : " The gospel was
preachc 1 to every creature which is under heaven ;"
"which is come unto you as it is in all the world,
" Their sound went into all the world, and their word v
unto the ends of the earth."
Here was a power such as the world had not bef orv
known — an agency at work that stirred up the powc ^ of
darkness to the lowest hell. Something must be done. >i
council is convened — an oecumenical council of " angels,
and principalities, and powers, and the rulers of the
darkness of this world, and of spiritual wickedness in
high places." They assemble. All are filled with dis-
may. New modes of defence must be devised ; new
modes of attack adopted. Some counsel an assault
more bold and daring than ever before. Others, and
more successfully, counsel craft and lying hypocrisies as
the weapons of the new warfare. What assailants may
fail to do, sappers and miners may accomplish. The
grand council are at their wits' end. Never was even
Satanic wisdom more utterly confounded. Their right-
ful Sovereign and Almighty Foe had completely flanked
them. A new strategy must be pursued, a more vigorous
and relentless warfare must be prosecuted. They resolve
and re-resolve. Lucifer, the arch-fiend, and once " Son
of the Morning," shall lead the invading host, and every
subordinate devil shall stand in his lot and bear his own
78
TIIK FOOT- PR I NTS OK SATAN.
burden and do his own duty in the approaching conflict.
The rising and advancing kingdom of the Man of Naza-
reth must, if [)ossible, and at any cost, be arrested. Or,
if that cannot be, (as lie more than suspects,) the sacra-
mental host must be demoralized, the esprit de corps
vitiated, and the " Strong Man " disarmed by taking
away the armour wherein his great strength iieth. The
])0wer of the true Church, which is to take possession of
the earth, is holiness — the pure, simple, unaffected, God-
like i)iety of the heart. This alone identifies the Church
with heaven, and engages Heaven's power in its benalf.
When our blessed Lord gave to a few feeble, and (as the
world regards them) uninfluential disciples the broad
command to go and evangelise all nations, he did it with
the assurance that he who sent them had " all power in
heaven and in earth ;" and with an assurance equally un-
qualified that they should receive " power " — all-suflicient
to overcome every obstacle — " after that the Holy Ghost
had come upon them." A Church pure, simple, conse-
crated, baptized and vitalized by the Spirit ; earnest and
Christ-like; strong in holiness, which is the power of
Christ, and planted on the everlasting rock of Truth,
will overcome all things, and be sure to subjugate the
world to its dominion. " The gates of hell " — all the
devils in the pit combined — "shall not prevail against
it." Yet the only hope of successful aggression and
final conquest lies in the power of her holiness.
A*xd no one knew better than the Devil where the
great strength of the Church lay ; and hence his inexora-
ble assaults to corrupt her. Satanic craft has been espe-
cially concentrated to divorce the Church from the power
of holiness. For mighty as Christianity is when clothed
in tins panoply of heaven, when vitalized by the pure,
simple, all-controlling spirit of its divine author, yet when
shorn of these locks of its strength, it becomes " weak,"
like any human institution.
As we might suppose, the first and most desperate on-
THK (JUKAT lUTTLK BK(JUN : — STKI'HKN STONED.
7!)
ig conflict,
ri of Naza-
stcd. Or,
the yacra-
■ de corps
by taking
ieth. The
^session of
cted, (Jod-
ie Church
its benalf.
id (as the
ihe broad
id it with
power in
[ually un-
suflicient
oly Ghost
le, conse-
rnest and
power of
)f Truth,
igate the
—all the
1 against
ion and
hei-e the
inexora-
3en espe-
he power
clothed
he pure,
'et when
" weak,"
rate on-
slaught was made on the early promulgr ' ors of the gos-
pel — the first invading host of Zion's King. As prompt-
ed by the great ApoUyon, Scribes and Pliarisees,
priests and rulers, are all confederated to do the bid-
ding of their Father who is — not in heaven. They
first tried their hand, or rather gratified their diabolical
malice, by persecution. Stephen was a bright and shin-
ing light ; bold, eloquent, persuasive ; a good man, full
of the Holy Ghost and of power. He did gi-eat won-
ders and miracles among the people, and spake with
convincing power. And the people could not resist the
wisdom and wpirit by which he spake. Again, some-
thing must be done. " If we let him alone," reasoned
they, " all men will believe on him." So " they stopped
their ears and ran upon him with one accord, and cast
him out of the city and stoned him." Was not the
" hand of (a worse than) Joab in this ? " Herod, obse-
quious to his master, stretched forth his hand to vex
certain of the Church. And he killed James, the bro-
ther of John, with the sword. And another Governor of
Judea delivered over James, the brother of Jesus, to be
stoned.
But these seeming disasters were made to contribute
to the furtherance of the cause which the persecutors fain
would have destroyed. The death of Stephen, especially,
did more to defeat their wiles than his whole life had
done before. " For as he looked steadfastly into heaven,
he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right
hand of God." The heavens opened to welcome him ; and
Jesus, standing on the right hand of the Majesty on high,
with open arms received him. This was a testimony
more damaging to the Foe than all he had done or said
while Hying. Though thus baffled for the time, the Devil
is none the less fixed in deadly hate to the Church ;
first, by instigating violence against her in the form of
persecution, and then by the yet more harmful device of
corrupting her
80
THE rOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
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1'!!
The death of Stephen was followed by a severe perse-
cution at Jerusalem, in which " two thouwand Christians,
with Nicanor, the deacon, were martyred, and many
others obliged to leave the country." The apostate Jews,
as if it were not enough that the blood of the crucified
One rested on them and on their children, jnirsued the
early Christian Church with a virulence and malignity
which might put to the blush the veriest heathen. " The
priests and rulers of that abandoned people not only
loaded with injuries and reproaches the Apostles of Jesus
and their disciples, but condemned as many as they could
to death," and this in the most irregular and barbarous
manner. Among no other people did the Christian Church
encounter more bitter or unrelenting enemies. They let
slip no opportunity of instigating magistrates against the
Christians, and exasperating the multitude to demand
their destruction.
Christ had forewarned his Disciples how the world,
while subject to the dominion of the vile Usurper, would
receive them. " They will deliver you up to councils ;
they will scourge you in the synagogues ; you shall be
hated of all men for my sake ; nay, the time cometh when
they will think they are doing God service by putting
you to death." And soon were these predictions verified
in appalling reality to them that heard them ; and then
onward through a dark cloud of persecutions for cen-
turies to come.
James the son of Zebedee was beheaded. Philip was
scourged and crucified. Matthew was slain in Ethiopia
by a halberd. Mark was tied by the feet, dragged
through the streets, left bruised in a dungeon all night,
and the next day burned. The Jews, greatly enraged
that Paul had escaped their fury, by appealing *to Ca3sar,
wreaked their vengeance on James, the brother of Jesus,
BOW ninety -four years old. They threw him down, beat,
bruised, and stoned him ; and then dashed out his brains
with a club. Matthias was martyred at Jerusalem ; first
! f
3ve perse-
^hristians,
nd many
bate Jews,
crucified
rsued the
malignity
in. " The
not only
s of Jesus
hey could
barbarous
m Church
They let
gainst the
) demand
he world,
ler, would
councils ;
shall be
eth when
Y putting
s verified
and then
for cen-
lilip was
Ethiopia
dragged
ill night,
enraged
o Caesar,
of Jesus,
wn, beat,
is brains
em ; first
MARTYRDOM OF THE DISCIPLES.
81
stoned, and then beheaded. Andrew was fastened to the
cross, not with nails, but cords, that his death might be
more slow and excruciating. He lived two days, the
greater part of the time preaching to the people. Peter,
after a nine months' imprisonment and a severe scourg-
ing, was crucified with his head downwards. Paul, after
having suffered imprisonments, stripes, stonings, perils
and privations of every name, was martyred by being
beheaded, by order of the monster Nero, at Rome.
Jude was crucified, and Bartholomew was beaten, cruci-
fied and decapitated. Thomas was martyred in India,
by being thrust through with a spear; Luke was
hanged ; Simon was crucified ; and John, the beloved
disciple, after being miraculously delivered from a caul-
dron of boiling oil, by which he was condemned to die,
was banished to the Isle of Patmos, to work in the
mines.
Yet this is little more than the beginning of that Sa-
tanic rage which burst upon the Church. The storm
was gathering. The powers of the Pit were unloosed.
What the perfidious Jews so disgracefully begun, the
Romans finished. The Devil was as never before, mad
upon the destruction of the sacramental host. A Nero
had ascended the throne : the monster of wickedness and
cruelty, i " perfidious tyrant," a fit tool for his Master
beneath. The barbarous persecution that marked and
disgraced his reign was the first of the Ten notable
persecutions that afflicted the Church during the first
three centuries. These were derAly, inveterate, calamitous
enough to annihilate anything but the Church of the liv-
ing God.
" On the Rock of Ages founded,
What can shake thy sure repose ?
With Salvation d walls surrounded,
Thou may 'at smile at all thy foes. "
Yet the assault was made ; and by ten bloody, ruthless
persecutions, not a device was left untried, not an agency
6
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82
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF, SAT AN.
,"i
unemployed, that might exterminate, root and branch,
this vine of the Lord's planting. But like the oak shaken
by the wind and made to reel to and fro by the tornado,
this vine only struck its roots deeper and sent out its
branches further and stronger, and bore yet more lusci-
ous and abundant fruit. The blood of the martyrs was
the seed of the Church.
We can do no more than to snatch a few brands from
this seething furnace of Tophet ; and if they are not con-
ceded to be devilish, then we know not what is.
Nero ordered the city of Rome to be set on fire — played
on his harp in demoniac joy over the dreadful conflagra-
tion — then charged the outrage on the Christians, that he
might renew on them his barbarities. He now refined
on his former cruelties, and contrived all manner of pun-
ishments. Some were sewed up in the skins of wild
beasts, and then worried by dogs till they died. Others were
dressed with shirts made stiff with wax, fixed on axletrees
and set on fire in his gardens. In this persecution, (the
first in order,) which extended over the whole Roman
Empire, Paul and Peter, Erastus and Aristarchus, and a
long list of worthies suffered martyrdom.
Under Domitian the record is Tiot less disgusting : " im-
prisonment, racking, searing, broiling, burning, scourg-
ing, stoning, hanging and worrying. Many were torn
piecemeal with red-hot pincers, and others were thrown
upon the horns of wild bulls. After ha\ing suffered these
cruelties their friends were refused the privilege of burying
their remains."* Timothy, the special friend and fellow-la-
borer of Paul and bishop of Ephesus,was among the victims.
For reproving an idolatrous procession, he was set upon
with clubs, and beat in so cruel a manner that he died of
his wounds two days after.
Hellish ingenuity continually invented new devices^
Phocas, bishop of Pontus, refusing to sacrifice to Neptune
Foxe'fe Book of Martyrs.
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THE CIVIL PERSECUTIONS.
83
branch,
shaken
ornado,
out its
e lusci-
y^rs was
ids from
not con-
— played
)nflagra-
,, that he
' refined
f of pnn-
of wild
hers were
axletrees
ion, (the
J Roman
IS, and a
%
((
im-
scourg-
ere torn
thrown
■ed these
burying
■ellow-la-
victims.
set upon
|e died of
devices^
[eptune
was, by order of Trajan, cast first into a hot limekiln, and
being drawn from thence, was thrown into a scalding
bath till he expired. Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, was
cast into prison, cruelly tormented, dreadfully scourged,
compelled to hold fire in his hands, and at the same time,
papers dipped in oil were put to his sides and set on fire.
His flesh was torn with red-hot pincers, and then lie was
dispatched by being torn to pieces by wild beasts. Sym-
phorosa, a widow, and her seven sons, refusing to sacrifice
to the heathen deities, were ignominiously murdered.
The mother was scourged ; hung up by the hair of her
head ; then a large stone was fastened to her neck, and
she thrown into the river. Other martyrs were obliged
to pass, with their already wounded feet, over thorns,
nails, and sharp shells. Others were scourged tiii their
sinews and veins lay bare ; and after suffering the most
excruciating tortures, they died by terrible deaths."*
But why recount these atrocities, which put to shame
all human decency ? They bespeak their origin. They
are redolent with the fumes of the Pit. Yet we turn
from them only to encounter forms of persecution and
outrage yet more devilish.
The civil or outside persecutions to which we have re-
ferred were the work of the heathen, or at best, of a great
idolatrous power. While the Church remained uncorrupted
the Devil was satisfied to use heathen magistrates for her
annoyance, and, he hoped, her destruction. But no soon-
er had he made her swerve from her original purity and
zeal, than, clothing his own servant in sacerdotal robes, he
subsidized the power of an all-powerful hierarchy in his
service. It was persecution in the Church that would
^ * We might add any amount of the like atrocities, described in terms
like these ; ' ' Red-hot plates of brass placed upon the tenderest parts
of the body ;" " sit in red-hot chairs till the flesh broiled ;" " sewed up
in nets and thrown upon the horns of wild bulls j" " beaten — put to the
i»ok— flesh torn with iron hooka ;" " stripped, whipped, and put into
» leather bag with serpents and scorpions, and thrown into the sea."
84
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
h
li :!
most effectually serve the Enemy and trouble the faithful.
As the Church became corrupt, as the Enemy secured its
demoralization, and the great apostasy arose, the demon
of persecution was let loose with a hellish malignity be-
fore unknown. The Inquisition, the stake and the rack,
Were the infernal implements of torture and death, now
applied, not by Pagan rulers, but by the professed minis-
ters of Christianity and servants of the Church. The pro-
fessed Christian Church, and not an ungodly world, were
the guilty perpetrators of the atrocious deeds the faithful
historian has recorded.
The great persecuting power is now to make a stride
onward. The clergy must first be corrupted, and then
exalted to power. The Christian Church must have its
High Priest, and he must be supreme and infallible, sit-
tii.g in the temple of God, showing himself that he is
God. This being done, and new power, and place, and
malignity were given to the Devil's choice work, the per-
secution of the saints.
This he in a measure achieved, as we have seen, during
the first three centuries. Now Constantine appears ; the
good, but the not altogether wise friend, patron and de-
fender of the persecuted Church. With the hope of pro-
tecting Christianity from the persecuting power and ex-
alting her in the sight of the nations, he united Church
and State, and largely extended, to the clergy the offices
and emoluments of the government, and thus unwittingly
contributed greatly to the secularizing of the clergy, and
to the establishment of tlie temporal power. A corrupt
clergy, made more corrupt by the temptation of power
and rich benefices, soon grew into a hierarchy, v/ith an
infallible Head, claiming power over kings, and supreme
authority in the Church,
All was now prepared for a new onslaught. Pride,
ambition, fashion, custom, wealth, power, were all on the
side of the hierarchy. The light of the Sun of Righteous-
ness grew dim. A night of a thousand years followed.
CHURCH DEMORALIZED AND MADE A DESPOTISM. 85
le faithful,
secured its
the demon
ignity be-
1 the rack,
leath, now
sed minis-
, The pro-
rofld, were
tie faithful
\.e a stride
and then
3t have its
allible, sit-
that he is
place, and
k, the per-
en, during
pears ; the
m and de-
3pe of pro-
r and ex-
ed CJhurch
the offices
nwittingly
lergy, and
A corrupt
of power
'-, with an
i supreme
Pride,
all on the
lighteous-
followed.
It was the Devil's millennium. The powers of darkness
reigned. The history of those ages is written in blood,
and sealed with groans and tears. Persecutions and tor-
tures the most exquisite, were christened as Church duties
I and superintended by her high dignitaries. The Inquisi-
tion, the rack and the stake, accompanied with horrors
that make devils quake, were Rome's means of grace
to convert the unbelievers. Never did the imps of the
Pit hold jubilee with such hellish glee. Such was the
Christian Church ! Would any one now doubt of what
spirit she was, or to what world she belonged ? The
Enemy seemed to have gotten the victory. The religion
of Calvary, the realization of a long series of prophecies,
and the consummation of all former dispensations, made
it death and torture refined to read God's word, or to
worship God according to one's own conscience.
From the very outset an important object to be gained
by the Adversary was to take the Bible out of the hands
of the laity, to imprison it, if possible, in a dead language,
and to allow the common clergy only such an interpre-
tation of it asshould subserve the interests of the hierarchy.
Then the traditions and commandments of men would take
the place of the word of God ; and the enlightening, sanc-
tifying power of the Truth being compromised, religion
would become, at best, but a form. The light of Truth
being on'^e put under a bushel, we need not wonder at
the degeneracy which followed, both among the clergy
and the lait}^ — though that of the clergy seems to have
been the most revolting and profound.
The faith, devotion and bloody sacrifice of the martyrs
witnessed to the world a good confession, such ?s had
never been witnessed^ before. The true religion had in
no former age given so indubitable a testimony to its
divine origin. The enduring and unswerving fidelity of
the martyrs evidences that there was something in their
religion that is heaven-high above every other religion.
y^ Satan saw this and changed his base. No violence, no
86
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
'
persecution, not even " the gates of hell" could prevail
against the Lord's Anointed. Hence he adopted *». new
mode c^ warfare. He changed his tactics. What he
could not do by daring and violence, he would essay to
do by craft and cunning. If he could not exterminate
the Church — if she must be a power in the world, ho will
make her a power to his own liking ; a power to subserve
his own purposes. He would divest her of her spiritual
life ; he would build her up as a great spiritual despotism,
for the oppression, and to secure the ignorance of the
people, and to cater to the ambition and avarice of the
priesthood.
Two points were now to be gained : the one to demor-
alize the Church — to emasculate her of truth and the
spiritual power that comes through the truth ; and the
other, to make her a great despotism ; in either case to
despoil her of spiritual power, to uso her as a medium
through which to subserve their own ambitious purposes.
The form of religion was retained while the pov/er and
vitality were gone. " Men suffered the precious perfume
of faith to escape while they bowed themselvcss befove
the empty vase that held it." A simple faith wab no
longer the uniting tie. Bites, cere^ inies, canons, mitres,
bishops, popes, became the cemenoiu^- boT}ds of the body
now falsely called after the name of Christ. The " living
Church retired by degrees into the lopely anctuar}?^ of a
few solitary souls ; an exterior Church was substituted
in its place, and installed [ in ail its forms as of divine in-
stitution."
But we shall not attempt to follow the bloody foot-
steps of the Foe through these dai'k ages. For darker
and more bloody did they become, till scarcely a vestige
was left of the pure and simple religion of the cross. In
the Pirice of Christ, the rightful High Priest and King in
Zion, WD.y. installed the Pope ; and the offices of Christ's
ministers, whom he had appointed to be teachers of the
igno 'a}it M)Kl -omforters of the poor, the oppressed and
M
CHURCH DEMORALIZED AND MADE A DESPOTISM. 87
d prevail
ed ** new
What he
I essay to
terminate
id, ho will
subserve
r spiritual
despotism,
Qce of the
'ice of the
bo demor-
i and the
1 ; and the
er case to
a medium
3 purposes,
power and
s perfume
v>:5S befove
ith waii no
ms, mitres,
f the body
he " living
tuar}'- of a
lubstituted
divine in-
oody foot-
Tor darker
f a vestige
cross. In
id King in
of Christ's
lers of the
ressed and
afflicted, were monopolized and abused by men who made
merchandise of God's house— became the vendors of in-
dulgences — sat in the place of Christ to hear confessions
and to pronounce pardon for sin.
To complete the work the more effectually, the Bible,
as we hfve said, was made a sealed book. This light of
heaven was torn from its orbit, and the Church left in
darkness. There was still power and ambition, avarice
and persecution. There were torture*:, too, nameless
and shameless, such as might put the foulest fiends to
the blush, but piety was gone. The followers of the
meek and lowly Jesus had disappeared in the dark cloud
that now covered the earth. Satan held jubilee. But in
this darkest hour, the few waiting, hoping, half-despairing
oaints, hailed the first glimmering of the rising light. A
few, of whom the world was not worthy, the persecuted,
the down-trodden, the outcast, now looked out from the
clefts of the rocks in the valleys of the Alps. These were
nearly the whole that remained of the living Church.
They had not defiled their garments. Thej^ had not re-
ceived the mark of the Beast. And the simple reason
why they had not perished in the general slaughter of the
saints, was that all the powers of earth and hell could by
no means destroy the last remnant of the Lord's anointed.
Satan had gone the length of his tether. *' Hitherto,"
said the divine fiat, " shalt thou come, and no further "
God the Avenger had arisen, and would vindicate Y s
cause upon the earth. The early lights of the Refon o-
tion, one after another, appeared. The great light, tie
monk of Wittemberg, soon followed. God said, ' ..et
there be light," and there was light. It was light ^ isen
on the thickest moral darkness that ever covere ;he
earth. No form of paganism had ever so completely per-
sonified the despotism and corruption of the Man of Sin.
The prince and power of the air seemed to have gained
the victory over the whole earth. No form of resistance
to the rising light was spared ; uo mode of warfare left
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88
THE FOOT-PKINTS OF SATAN.
untried. Yet this '' strong man armed " was again met
by a " stronger than he," and the glorious Reformation
followed.
Though a victory was gained, yet the conflict was
continned. Again new modes of warfare were adopted,
and new tactics employed to meet the changed aspect of
the fight. The political power of Europe must, if possible,
be secured. Hence the aid of Mars is invoked. Dreadful
wars followed. During all these eventful years of com-
motion and devastation, scarcely a war, civil or foreign,
raged in Europe which did not owe its origin to the arti-
fices of popes, monks, or friars. No devices were spared
to enlist kings and queens, princes and dukes, on the side
of the groat Moloch of the times.
But the most crafty, successful and devilish of all the
deviceb of Satan, was the organization of the Jesuits.
For cunning craftiness, for untiring devotion to their ob-
jects, for the most unscrupulous prosecution of these
objects, irrespective of the character of means an " agencies
employed, Apollynn never had servants more loyal.
They would assume any character, feign any opinion, do
any work, which should subserve the interests of their
lo) d and master. They are preachers, teachers, politicians,
anything and everything, that can insinuate themselves
into the good graces of those they would bring into
alliance with the great delusion.
We defy the v/orld to produce a more complete perso-
nification of Satanic craft, and unremitting, self-denying
unscrupulous activity in consummating their deadly pur-
poses, than is met in this same order. And we have here
the very animus of the Romish Hierarchy. Romanism,
in its essential spirit and working, is Je&aitism. Popes,
cardinals and all high Church dignitaries, if not the pliant
tools of the followers of Loyola, acjept the Jesuits as their
most loyal servants, their most reliable and effective agents,
and true representatives, and allow their cunning devices
to give character to, and to control the papal throne.
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PAPAL WAKS — IIISE OF THE JESUITS.
89
gain met
formation
iflict was
i adopted,
aspect of
f possible,
Dreadful
rs of com-
3r foreign,
) the arti-
3re spared
n the side
of all the
e Jesuits.
I their ob-
of these
. " agencies
3re loyal,
ipinion, do
,s of theii-
3oliticians,
hemselves
)ring into
ete perso-
f-denying
adly pur-
lave here
omanism,
Popes,
he pliant
ts as their
ve agents,
g devices
rone.
1
1
That we may be able to estimate the true character
and the inevitable tendencj^ of Jesuitism, we need only
revert to four of the leading characteristics of the Je-
suitical system, viz.y its hostility to free government, to
common education, to the use of the Bible by the people,
and to free thought aod private judgment.
These being the four essential elements of a free gov-
ernment and a free Christianity, we may rely upon it
that Jesuitisnni, which is the controlling power in the
Romish Church in America, can work nothing but evil to
our prosperity. As Rome never changes, and every
member of the Romish Church is solemnly bound in al-
legiance to a foreign spiritual despotism, whether or not
he can be loyal to his adopted country, we want no pro-
phetic spirit to tell us that the supremacy of Romanism
(that is, of Jesuitism) would be certain death to all free-
dom in Church or State.
Did our theme need further illustration, facts all along
the whole line ofhistor}^ would come to our is I We
are safe in affirming that Rome never yields one of her
characteristics as an organization, except from the sheerest
necessity. Wherever she has power, she is the same
persecuting body that she ever was. Or give her power
where she has it not, and her whole history warrants the
assertion that the \irus of the serpent would be as bitter,
as intolerant, as deadly as it was in the days of Hilde-
brand or Csesar Borgia. The popes were always infal-
lible ; and what infallibility did in one age of the world,
it would, if allowed, do in any age.
Such considerations indicate but too plainly what we,
as a people, have to expect from the rising power of the
Papacy — and we are hereby able to form a just judg-
ment of the patriotism of those who, by the gift of mil-
lions of the public money to support the institutions of
the worst of despotisms — worst, because a religious, per-
secuting despotism. Without following up the history
of Papal Rome after the Reformation, we might point
90
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
to certain isolated ebullitions of virulence, hate, and mur-
der, which burst out in France, in the form of the shame-
ful massacre on St. Bartholomew's day ; and, in England,
in the Gunpowder Plot. These were neither new nor
unusual events, but the natural outbursts of a spirit
which had been cherished, by men clothed in sacerdotal
robes, for a long series of years.
Rome never changes. — In the great spiritual despotism
known as the Sacerdotal System, the spiritual power of
the priesthood holds its subjects in such abject terror,
that the mind is paralyzed, and man cannot become a
self-reliant, self-governing creature, but must remain a
child. This is the purpose of the Romish Church. It
aims to control the intellect ; and putting its hand upon
the school, the college, and the press, it says : " These
are mine ! You must learn, think, and speak as I decree."
Nor is this an effete doctrine of Rome, a dogma of the
Dark Ages. It is reaffirmed in our day — in the Papal
Syllabus of 1865 — the salient points of which were the
denial of the right of the State to teach, the supremacy
of the spiritual over the temporal power, and the con-
demnation of freedom of conscience as a fatal error — an
undeniable proof that the position and pretensions of
Rome remain uncaanged.
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SATAN IN WAR.
WAR THE DARLING WORK OF THE DEVIL — STATISTICS OF
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — INDIAN WARS OF THE UNIT-
ED STATES — WAR STATISTICS OF CHRISTIAN NATIONS —
WHAT THE SAME MONEY WOULD DO IF SPENT FOR GOD —
WAR DEBTS OF DIFFERENT NATIONS — SWOKDS VERSUS
PLOWSHARES— STATISTICS OF WARS IN AMERICA— FOREIGN
WARS — THE SACRIFICES OF HUMAN LIFE IN ANCIENT AND
MODERN WARS.
We may adduce, as a notable illustration of our theme,
the horrible work of human butchery, called War. Yet
were we to do more than to sketch an imperfect outline
of this barbarous, bloody, body and soul-killing practice,
we should find no end. The expense of war — the sacrifice
of hfe — the wickedness of war — its wastes, cruelties, mis-
eries and demoralization, would each readily expand into
a volume. We must, however, dispose of the whole in
two short chapters.
I. The Expense of War. — And this, when regarded as a
tax levied by the Arch Apostate on his sin-beleaguered sub-
jeetsto support a darling project fortheruinof manandthe
robbihg of God, and peopling the world of perdition, is
surpassed by no other system of taxation in the wide em-
pire of sin, and equalled by none unless it be the deadly
reign of intemperance.
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THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
t,
1 *
The following statistics are given, not as the sum of the
expense of war, but as items in the account :
The Revolutionary War cost America $350,000,000,
and cost Great Britain $600,000,000; and her wars with
Napoleon cost her $500,000,000. Our war with Great
Britain in 1812 cost us annually $50,000,000, or a total
of $120,000,000. Our Florida War sent in its bill for
$40,000,000, and our Mexican War for $300,000,000. A
single ship-of-war may cost the nation $500,000 a year,
or from $1,000 to $1,500 per day. Christian nations are
said to be paying not less than $1,000,000,000 a year for
standing armies in time of peace. Of this, America is pay-
ing $50,000,000. And during the last fifty years her peace
establishment has cost her not less than $262,000,000, or
nearly $20,000,000 a year, to say nothing of her vast
militia system, which, if time be computed, would amount
to double the above amount.
It is said that the war-dehts of Christian nations vet
unpaid amount at this day to $10,000,000,000. This
sum embraces merely the arrearage, not what has been
paid, for carrying on war. The average of this amount
is $63.25 a head to the whole population of those six-
teen nations. The interest of this vast sum nearly
equals a tax of one dollar on every inhabitant of the
globe.
Since the Reformation, Great Britain has been en-
gaged sixtj'^-five years in the prosecution of seven wars,
for which she expended, in our currency, $8,982,120,000.
It has been estimated by our missionaries that a school
of 50 heathen children on the continent of India would
only cost $150 per annum. Then this sum expended by
a Christian nation in sixty-five years, in carrying on war
with other Christian nations, if applied to the education
of the heathen, would have schooled 46,062,154 children
per annum for sixty-five years ! Allowing five years to
each scholar, then 598,803,000 children might have been
educated for the money that Great Britain drained from
[< O
sum of the
50,000,000,
wars with
with Great
', or a total
its bill for
00,000. A
100 a year,
nations are
) a year for
jrica is pay-
:-s her peace
000,000, or
uf her vast
uld amount
nations vet
,000. This
,t has been
his amount
those six-
um nearly
ant of the
3 been en-
jeven wars,
82,120,000.
it a school
idia would
peiided by
ng on war
education
4 children
e years to
have been
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the sources and channels of her wealth and industry, to
wa'te in wars, every one of which degraded her people in
every quality of their condition.
From 1793 to 1815 — a period of twenty-two years —
Great Britain, France and Austria expended $7,330,000,-
000 in war. The interest of this sum, at six per cent.,
would have supported 30,000 missionaries among the hea-
then during the whole period of twenty-two years in
which these Christian nations were engaged in doing the
Devil's work on each other. The aggregate amount would
have given five years' schooling to 488,066,666 pagan chil-
dren, on the Lancasterian plan. The interest for one
\ month, at the above rate, would build 1,466 miles of rail-
Iroad, at S25,000 per mile.
Consulting the best authorities I can command, I find
[that the aggregate amount of the expenditures of our own
'Government, from 1789 to March 4, 1813, is $1,111,375,-
[734.
Now, patriotic Americans, will you not read this re-
Iflectingly ? Of this vast sum there have been expended
[only $148,620,055 for civil purposes, embracing the Civil
jist. Foreign Intercourse and the Miscellaneous expenses,
^hen it follows that $962,755,680 have been lavished upon
)reparations for war in time of peace, within little more
"lan half a century, by this model Republic ! Another
Fact : From January 1, 1839, to March 3, 1843, the war
^xpenses of this Government were $153,954,881 \—five
iillions more than all the civil expenses of the Govern-
znt from 1789 to 1843. Another fact : From 1816 to
[834, eighteen years, our national expenses amounted to
1163,915,756 ; and of this sum, nearly $400,000,000 went
one way and another for war, and only $64,0Q0,000 for
|dl other objects, being twenty-two millions a year for war,
*nd about three millions and a half — less than one-sixth
of the whole — for the peaceful operations of a Government
Ihat plumes itself on its pacific policy ! If we take into
account all the expenses and all the losses of war to this
^
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THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
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countrj', it will be found to have wasted for us, in sixty
years, some two or three thousand millions of dollars !
Great Britain, as we have seen, spent for wars, during
sixty-five years, about $9,000,000,000, and during the
same period $30,000,000 for education, or in the propor-
tion of three thousand to one ! And we have recently
closed a war that has cost us, as we shall show, more
than the entire aggregate of the wars of those sixty-five
years.
M. Leroy Beaulieu, an intelligent French statistician,
gives us the expense, in blood and treasure, of the wars
in Europe between 1853 and 1866, which he says might
have been avoided if those concerned had cared to avoid
them. The following are taken from his statistics :
KiUed. Coat.
The Crimean War 785,000 $1,700,000,000
" Italian War 46,000 300,000,000
" Danish War 3,000 36,000,000
** American (North) 281,000 4,700,000,000
" " (South) 619,000 4,760,000,000
•* AuBtro-Prussian War 45,000 350,000,000
Various 65,000 200,000,000
Total for 14 years 1,743,000 $12,036,000,000
Appalling as this may appear, we shall stand yet more
aghast when we shall come to read the statistics of the
recent war in Europe, (Franco-Prussian,) with its un-
paralleled record of death and devastation.
Twelve thousand millions in fourteen years ! What,
asks the philanthropist, the reformer, the Christian, might
have been done with this immense treasure ! How many
hospitals, universities, railways, agricultural colleges, and
working-men's homes might it have built !
Our Indian wars cost the country, during the first half
of the present century, $400,000,000. During the same
period we have paid for the education of these poor abori-
gines, $8,000,000 — one-fiftieth of the war expense. One
THE EXPENSES OF WAR.
96
IS, in sixty
lollara !
ars, during
luring the
ihe propor-
7e recently
how, more
i sixty-five
statistician,
)f the wars
says might
3d to avoid
itics :
Co$t.
700,000,000
300,000,000
36,000,000
700,000,000
760,000,000
360,000,000
200,000,000
)36,000,000
yet more
iics of the
bh its un-
What,
an, might
!ow many
Lieges, and
first half
the same
)Oor abori-
nse. One
li
♦ *i
dollar to bless ; fifty dollars to curse ! Yet the bullet has
probably cost less than the bottle, which we have inflicted
on them during the same period. But how stands the
I record during the last twenty years? Civilization has
advanced, the country has prospered, but has our policy
toward the poor red man been more peaceful, more
Ihumane ? Has the spelling-book and the Bible, and the
|olive branch of peace ruled our policy, and drawn them
lear and incorporated them with us, as was becoming a
reat Christian nation ; or have we chased them away by
le bullet and the bayonet, and driven them to the last
rerge of annihilation 1 And what has it cost ? In a
ipeech lately made in the Senate by Senator Morrill, it
wan stated that the cost of our military and civil service
imong the Indians in a single year was some seventy-
*ght millions of dollars, and during the last seven years
le military service alone has cost us twenty millions
lually. When these expenditures ire so profitable to
ly officers, contractors and others, is it any wonder
lat they stir up strife between the Indians and the
mtier settlers thtt they may reap the profits of a state
war?
These are but a few items gathered chiefly from the
jords of two nations. Had we before us the whole
lount war consumes in a single century, it would be
)unding. If only pecuniary sacrifices be taken into
^e account, war is the vortex which opens kis rapacious
iw and never says enough.
jWe are in danger of not adequately estimating the
ipendous aggregate of a sum when that sum is na-
^nal treasiu-e, to be used for public purposes. Millions
9a appear only as hundreds, or at most as thousands.
I order, therefore, to realize the vast amounts swallowed
in war, -et us see what the same amounts would do
mded for private, philanthropic, or benevolent pur-
Give me," says one, " the money that has been spent
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90
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
I i
in war, and I will purchase every foot of land on the
globe. I will clothe every man, woman and child in an
attire that kings and queens might be proud of I will
build a school-house on every hillside and in every valley
over the whole earth ; I will supply that school with a
competent teacher. I will build an academy in every
town and endow it ; a college in every State, and fill
it with ]>rofessors. I will cover every hill with a
church consecrated to the promulgation of the gospel
of peace, and support in its pulpit an able preacher of
righteousness; so that on every Sabbath morning the
chime on one hill shall answer to the chime on another
around earth's broad circumference ; and the voice and
song of praise shall ascend as one universal offering to
heaven."
This is not romance, but literally truth, as a little
geography, history and arithmetic would easily illustrate.
" War wastes more by untold millions than ambition
grasps or avarice covets."
A tithe of the expenditure of war would supply every
family on the face of the earth with the Bible, with a
preached gospel, and with all the means of education.
It would supply, abundantly, funds to perfect every
needed internal improvement, and to carry out every
scheme of benevolence and philanthropy which the most
expensive charity can devise ; while the other nine-tenths
would improve the navigation of every river on the face
of the whole globe, drain every morass, irrigate every
desert, fertilize every field, clear up every forest, work
mines, construct a canal, railway, and telegraph wher-
ever the extended business and commerce of the times,
or the convenience of travel or pleasure should require.
And were we to add to this the whole immense amounts
expended in the wars of all nations, as from year to year
they occur, we should have a sum sufficient to convert
our entire earth into one beautiful paradise. Every
waste would be recovered ; every deformity be removed ;
WAR AND PUBL.C DEBT OF EITROPK.
97
f land on the
i child in an
►ud of. I will
a every valley
school with a
emy in every
Hate, and fill
hill with a
of the gospel
le preacher of
1 morning the
me on another
the voice and
•sal offering to
ith, as a little
asily illustrate,
than ambition
d supply every
Bible, with a
of education,
perfect every
.ry out every
hich the most
|her nine-tenths
[er on the face
irrigate every
y forest, work
ilegraph "wher-
of the times,
jshould require,
ense amounts
Im year to year
lent to convert
•adise. Every
be removed;
immense amount of the natural evils that now afflict
16 earth, and the dwellers thereon, would be forever
inihilated; and, in beauty, fertility, and salubrity, this
)or sin-smitten earth would again be an Eden.
Or we may look from yet another standpoint. The
public or national debts of seven Christian nations amount
b the aggregate to $14,834,712,000, viz. : United States,
\2 385 000,000 ; England, $4,003,794,000 ; Austria, $1,-
16103,000; France, $5,000,000,000; Italy, $1,071,818,-
)0'; Spain, $819,887,000; and Prussia, $245,766,000.
r this enormous amount not less than "the almost
^imeasurable sum of $8,000,000,000 represent the war
£ll3 left to present and future generations to pay, bv
hose who contracted them." The paid in capital of all
le known banks of the world, it is said, amounted i-i a
igle year to $781,554,865 ; showing the war debts of
ly seven Christian nations exceed ten times the capital
all the banks. Or, including the war debt of Russia,
il,000,000,000), the aggregate stands at the enormous
mre of nine thousand millions.
! These war debts have been very essentially increased
^thin the past few years. The late terrible war with
3ia cost the powers engaged in it $1,000,000,000. We
5 set down the national debt of France at $5,000,000,-
Before her late war with Germany her debt was
than $3,000,000,000. To this has been added more
a thousand million for war expenses ; and another
)usand million indemnity to Germany,
le following paragraph, recently published, confirms
ajld explains the above statement :
#We are now in possession of most of the data requisite for fixing
llll amount of indebtedness which France has incurred, owing to the
eribts of the last nine months. M. Thiers estimates the war expendi-
tojipe at six hundred millions of dollars ; the deficit in the revenue, owing
' "^^le disturbance of trade and the impossibility of collection, at three
ed and twenty-six millions ; and the cost of suppressing the revolt
Commune at eighty-seVen millions— in all $1,013,000,000. When
lis is added one thousand millions of dollars, to be raised to pay the
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THE FOOT- PRINTS OF SATAN.
German war indemnity, we have the very respectable addition to the
public obligations of France, since July, 1870, of $2,013,000,000. At
the beginning of 1870, the principal and interest of the French national
debt amounted to $2,700,000,000 — and we may confidently reckon that
by the time the loans necessary to pay the mdemnity and other out-
standing liabilities have been issued, the principal and interest of the
public debt of France will have touched the astounding sum of fivo
thouBand millions of dollars."
Other statisticians give the public debts of all the Eu-
ropean States at $17,000,000,000. Six of these nations
are said to have standing armies in all amounting to
4,930,000 of soldiers, swelling the aggregate of the stand-
ing armies of Christendom up to six millions.
An able contemporary writer, presenting these facts,
says it is an aggravating circumstance connected with
this legacy of nine thousand millions of dollars, the un-
paid war bills to be handed down to future generations,
" that in some cases it will go to them with the assurance
of those who contracted it, that it was all a mistake, and
might have been avoided." Eminent statesmen of Great
Britain " have deliberately declared to the world, that
the long wars with the French republic and empire,
which cost Great Britain more than^^;e thousand millions
of dollars, besides a sacrifice of human life which money
cannot measure, were all waged upon a wrong principle,
and might have been safely and honourably avoided."
The sum of $9,000,000,000 only represents that por-
tion of the cost of war handed down unpaid. But the
interest must be paid annually, amounting at five per
cent, to $450,0p0,000 yearly, which sum must be taken
from the industry and earnings of the people, to meet
their obligations for wars past. For wars prospective or
possible, the yearly expenses of the forty-three independ-
ent States of Christendom are estimated at about an
equal sum. Nine hundred millions of dollars a year to
be paid by the people for wars past and prospective ! It
is a sum equal to the whole value of all the exports of
England, France and the United States put together.
' »*AY WAR DEBTS.
99
I addition to thtt
113,000,000. At
French national
mtly reckon that
;y and other out-
id interest of the
iding sum of five
of all the Eu-
these nations
amounting to
i of the stand-
is.
ig these facts,
»nnected with
lollars, the un-
re generations,
1 the assurance
a mistake, and
;smen of Great
le world, that
! and empire,
tsand millions
I which money
rong principle,
ly avoided."
lents that por-
)aid. But the
g at five per
ust be taken
leople, to meet
prospective or
Tee independ-
at about an
lars a year to
lospective ! It
the exports of
put together.
Jt would support 1,200,000 ministers of the gospel, allow-
ing each S750 per annum ; giving a religious teacher and
[pastor to every 1,000 persons of the whole population of
'le globe.
" Such was the condition of the people of Christendom
1866, resulting from the cost of war."
Or we may arrive at a very similar conclusion by an-
)ther calculation ; by which it will appear withal, who
ley are that very largely pay this enormous oax to sin.
The labouring men, or "producing classes," are those
rho, throughout Christendom, pay nine-tenths of the
Bvenue of their respective governments. The national
lebts of the various Christian countries contracted for
rars amount in the aggregate to $9,000,000,000. The
iterest on nine-tenths of this sum at five per cent, is
Ibout $405,000,000. In the next thirty years, the work-
hg men of Christendom will have to pay $12,000,000,000
Ht interest on this debt. Think how many days' work
is is at $2.00 a day.
This is not all that we do pay, for it does not include
16 preparations for war. For these the working-men of
iristendom have paid during the last thirty- two years
51,500,000,000. This expense is annually growing
ivier in the United States, Britain, France, and many
ier countries. A writer under the signature of " A
[orking Man of America," makes the following esti-
Lte:
[There are at least 2,500,000 able-bodied men in the
iding armies of Christendom — all able-bodied men
je, according to the surgeon's certificate, which is never
:ed when men are wanted merely to mow, plough, and
T, and make stone walls, or for any vulgar utilitarian
jirpose. Every common soldier is taken from the labour-
class, we feel sure of that. The population embrac-
the labouring classes of any country will not ave-
je more than one able-bodied man, according to the
^llllrgeon's military standard, to every ten individuals.
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THF, FOOT riUNTH OF SATAN
Thon it wtmlfi fnkpi ont nil f.lio mMp bodioil men frou)
2A,0()0.0()() of fho potmlo to i-niso Mie stnnilitijr army of
2,600,000 vvliid'h ht\» hmm Up\)t \\u in (^Inifllotuloin pvnr
Rinoo tho UmIIIo of Wf\l(Mloo Now, inRtcntl of hoinfr
morc^ mnohinoM Ww wur^h'r, RiippoMp ihrso '2,iiOO,()(M) nl»lf»-
lwii(vl nuM) lin«l hoow oniployiMl in wonio priuhicl jvo lMl»«nn*,
ovon t\i ilio low rnit> of loss flian Hfly fcniH a «lfiy, ihv
hnni oainotl monoy pni^l l>y Inbonrinfj nu»n Rinro I MIA, in
JM'opaving for war, anionnts, inohnling intoioHt, to nearly
^0,000,000,000.
Hnf, bore " lignroM." RayH fbo lion. ('l>nrl(>H Mnnmor, in
a lato spoooli, " M]>])oar fo losp flioir fn!»cfio!»H. Tlinv
se(»m to pnn<. as flioy foil vninly io ropros(>ni, flio (Miornions
s\in\R oi^nsinnod in (InR inijuiralloloil wasio. ihw «)wn ex
pcrionoo, nioa'inrod l>y fln^ eonrorns of (»onnnon lifo, jIoph
nof allow na MilcMpirtioly to roncoivi* fhoRo smnR. Liko
the ]>orio<lsi of jroolojiriciil t.inio, oi {\\o ilisinncoH of i,\\o
fixo«l stars, tlioy l>}\Olo tlu> iniaginatioti. Look, for instanop,
at tbo c«>st of llns systoni to tbo Unitcvl Sfntos. Witlioni
making any alUnvaneos (ov tlio loss HnRtainod l)y thc! with
drawal of aotivo mon from pro«lnotivo imlnHtry, wo find
that, from tbo adoption of tlio Kivleral tNtustitnticm tlovvn
to 1S48, thoiv has Ixhmi paid dirnotly fnnn tin* National
Troawnry— for tlu> army and fortilioations, $2({(;,7ia,20!);
for the* navy and it»s operations. J$20!M)!)4,()S7. This
amount of itself is immense. Hut thiR is not all. lie
gai\iit\g the militia a.s part of tin* wai- system, we mnsl
add a n\(Hlerate estin^ate for its eost dnrnig thia ])erio(l,
which, aceoixling to a ealonlation of an able and aeenrate
oconon^ist, may be plaeed at Jj^l, 500,000. The wbolo
pn>sent^s an inevmeeivable snm tot^al of more than two
thousand millit^vs of dollars, which have been dedica,t(Ml
by our (n>vcrnment to th« siipnort of the war syHteni -
moix? than seven times jus nuicli a« wa« set apart by tli(>
(><^vernmcnt tiuring the same period to all other purposes
what#!OCver !
" hook now at the Oonunouwealth of Kuropean StJittvs
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M'IAnrMN(J r(HVf|'AMfM(»NR
101
I inpn from
Hn^ nnny of
Lomloin pvor
nd of Immh^
(M),()00 nl»lo
ciivo ln1»onr.
<H a "Iny, Mh'
nrp IHlf), ill
(Hi, to lU'arly
{ Suinnov, in
ions. Tliov
ho (Mionuons
Onv own ex
uoi\ lif<N <l<>f^H
H\ni\R. liiUf'
anooH of Uio
, foviiiMiMnoo,
f>R. WiflioMi
hy tbo wiili
iHtvy, wo liml
iiiition tlown
<.1\(» National
,(»H7. TluR
i\ot all. Ho-
om, wo nuiHi
^ this ])ono(l,
a!\<l aoiMivato
Tlio wholo
>ro than two
on (lodioatod
vav syHtoni—
apari by tho
tbcr purposes
opoan Static.
T flo not, inffin*! fo wponk of f }m» war 'lolif, urulor whose
MOiMnnnlafoil woij/lif tlioso Sfalos aro now pr^qHod io the
•'arfli. TlioHP aro Mh» ffMriMo Ifgncy of Mi»» (»aqf. f refer
• liroody ir» the o;^iNl,in^ wnr HysioTri, (Im' oMfnMlRlirnenf of
llii> prosnnl. Aroonlin^ fo roronf, ralcniatifin itn annual
i'ohI '\» nof h'HM Minii m flioiiRMfid million <l(illar,q Knden-
vonr for m fnofm>nf, l»y a fontpariHon wiMi otiior iriferefltfl,
ill ^ra|)|il(' wiMi Mmh mini.
" M. iw lnr(/«'i llinn Mio nnflro profit, of all Uiocoriifneroe
luiil mnniifnvtiiioM of flio worM.
" It \H ]t\\w'V Mian mII flio oxpondifnrp for ajrri(!iilfiiral
laliotir, for tlio prodin^fion of food for man upon the whole
fRo«» of 1,1 1«» ^lohe.
It iH larj/or, l»y n hiitidrofl niillioriR, than the amount
[of all the «>xportH of all iho nations ni' the earth.
It \h Inrgor, l»y more than five Imnd red foil I ions, than
Ithe value of all the Rhippin^ of the (civilized world.
It '\H larger, hy nine hundred and ninety seven rrdl-
llionH, thfifi the anniifil e,(»mhined eharitieq of Kuro])e and
iiiHM-ioa for preaching the t/owpel to the heatlien
It
,:a|
Yoh! the Commonwealth of Christian Stat,es, inelii-
ling «»ur own eountry, ji,ppropri«te,s, without liesitation,
ions of
Rystem,
8 n matt«5r of coiirHe, upwards of a tliousand mill
lollaiM annually to the maint(uian(!e of i]u\ war
d VMuntR its two millions of dollars, lahf»rioiisly eol-
;t<Ml for iliffusing tlie light of the gospel in foreign lands
h<
f
ith untold prodigality of cost it [»erj>ettiates the worst
ieathiMiism of war, while hy eliarities insignifirant in
inpariHoTi, it dohis to the heathen the message of pen/;e.
Lt lumie it hreods and fattens a elond of eagles and vul-
IttreN, trained to swoop upon the land : to all the Gentiles
icroMs the s(ui it dismisses a solitary dove.
1 " Still further : evfuy man-of-war that floats costs more
than a well-endow(;d eollege.
" Kvery sloon of war tliat flr>atfl eosts more than the
largest puhlie lihiary in the country.
"Consider the prodigious sums, ex(teeding in all two
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WDpnniiioii lor wti.i, ln^^t\it:t with bits idi^.tonl tuA f/fiit
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104
TIIF. FOOT-PinNTM OF MATAN.
" Let any innii fry to Torni nn ndofpintn ooniM^piion of
wimi. iH luonni. l»y oiihor nrUu^Ho HnniH, ami lio will ^ivo
up Mio rHori. in <loHpair. Tho Haron nHliniaion fcbo war
i\\}his now iTHiin^ on ilio SintcH of Kuropo fit $7,41 S,-
OOO.OOO how Hhall wo oHtiniaio wlun. thiH (>nornionR huhi
ntoanH ? Sluill wo oonnt. ? Ai. Unt rt\U> of Rixty HollaiN
a ntinuio, Ion lionrM ov«M'y day, for Mnoo Innulrod dayH in
R year. i< wonM fako nioro than oiirlit InitulnMl yoaiH i(»
oonnt, tho pn\s(Mif war {\ohi of Knropi* alono. Lot \\n
look iV>r a nioincMit nt wlini Kn^l/nul wa.stod lor war IVom
tho rovohition in UIS.S to tlio downfall of Nn])ol(M)n in
lS1/>. Tho ,s\nn total, bosidjvs nil that, nho H[)ont upon Imm-
war Hystcni in tho intorvnls of piMivo, wmh $10,1 50,000,000;
an<l i1 wo add tho intonvit on hor war d(»htH oontraHcd in
thnt period, tho grand totnl will roarh nonrly $17,000,
000,000! At sixty d«)llMrH a nnnnto, lor ton honrn in a
day, or thirty-six thounnnd dollars n day, ami thn^o hvni
dnnl days in a year, it wonid roipiiro nioro than on«>
thousand livo hnndrod and stwiMity livo years to oonnt i'
all. AaUI ail average ol* $()0,000,000 a year for the (Mir
rent expenses of her war establishment since 1815, uii
.aggix\gato of $2,800,000,000 in these thirty-tivo yearH,
and wo liave a sum totjil of nearly iiventy thousand
viiUions.
" N(» wonder tho Old Worhl is reeling and staggering
under tho burden «f sueh an enormous expeiulituro for
war purposes. Twenty thousand millions ol dollars ! It
is nearly thirty times «.s much a,s all tho coin now sup-
ptv^etl to be in the world ; and if those twenty thousand
millii>ns were all in silver dollars and j)lneod in rows, il
would belt the globe more than one huiidrod and sixty
times."
As civilization advances will not wars diminish, and
I his frightful WJiste of treasure coarse ? It does not look
much like it. Siitan will never yield this, his stronghold
uii tho world, without a terrible conflict. And all the
signs of vietoiy on the sitle of our b]manuel do but mad-
AIIT OF WAK PKRfTKnTKD.
105
ontiooption of
I ho will ^ivo
nntoH tlio will
1.0 U $7,41 H,-
' Hixty ilollnTN
nulro.l <layH in
uUvA ywnH i(»
ivlono. Lot HH
I for war from
r Nm|m)Um)h in
spoilt. »n»()n 1mm
l().ir>(),(M)O,0O0;
H rontrartiMl in
Mirly $17,000,
on honiH in «
ml fchn^o hun
novo fcluui o\v)
ars to count i*
\r Tor fcbo cur
^inco IS15, an
rt.y-tivo ycnvN,
^uiy thousami
iiud Hfcaggering
xnonilituro for
ol (lollarH ! it
coin now huj)-
cnty thouHand
L'od iu rowH, it
Irod and sixty
diminish, and
docs not look
his stronghold
And all the
I do but umd-
m
len him to a nioro tlcRperate warfare. The flostroying
k,ngcl is t«Miiporarily rcstrnificMl that thn "Hcniing" of the
'elect" may he jw3compliHhed ; then we may expect the
mllict shall he heavier an»l hotter thnn ever before.
tciict* we hear of stupemlouH preparations for war —
Ipocially in Kiiirope, the great hattle-fiehl. In (beat
Britain we nre toM of new tlefctiHivc w(»rks in contctri-
)lation, estimated to cont Xr»0,000,000, or $250,000,000 ;
(i iH^w artillery at a cost of $50,000,000. We hear <»f
igates at a cost of $2,000,000 ca(!}i, and they an? " run "
Lt an expense of $,S75,0O0 a year.
Nothing that money, skill, ingenuity or inventive
jnius can <lo, is left untried to render the art of human
itchery pcufecjt. N(?»Mlle-giins, mitrailleuses, and im-
boved weapons (jf war; iron-(;lads, gunboats, and ovf^ry
igine of slaughter arc devised which can make the work
(lestruction complete. In no other way dfiCH the l)evil
eflbctually gatlier sucli countless millions into the
Dgions of <larkness and despair. In a mr>merit, scores,
mdreds, thousands of immortal souls are liurried from
le into eternity, unwarned, unprepared. T)ie battle-
)ld is the Devil's liarvest field.
We ask again, WffAT IT Costs ? An eminent French
itistician states Uiat tlie land and naval forr;es of the
iropoan armies numl)er 2,800,000 sfrurid, picked men,
the j)rime of their productive strength ; the annual
itlay recjuirod to kcej) uf) these annies ftfirl tfie malAriel
war is over $400,000,000, not including the value of
id or buildings occupied by fortifications, arsenals, lios-
ds, foundries, schools, et(;., moderaUdy estimated at
1,800,000,000, on which, at four y)er cent, int^jrest, the
rly expense is more than $150,000,000. To tliis arid
value of the labour which these men would pro<iuc-
rely perfonn, which amounts to more than $156,0(K),000,
" we have an annual war expense, paid by Kurof>ean
lucers, of nearlv $800,000,000. It is stated tliat the,
lean war cost all its parties mwe ttva/a amilliorb dollars
Kx;
TIIK K.>«>T IMUNTS OK MATAN
I
a (//If/, wiMiout. takiiifjf into uocotini. tho not.iuil wnnto of
»n>|u>r(y or M»o iinniuMiil Iohh in i\u> Hrn'rilico of hovimi
nimlnMi nu«) ril'tv <.Iio\inmiuI inon.*
Ami mon* It^Mrlnl Mum nil wjim Mh> oonI. of Mio |ji((<
i^ivn. War in Amkhica. Of tlu> ononiuuiN puhiic <l('i>|
whii'li l\M(l nvnnmilni(Ml (Imiuj^ (.lu> wnr, wo inny Hiiloly
|Mi(. «h>wM Sl\M)0.0()().0()() UN n war «lol»t. Hut Uhm Ih (»x-
ohisivi* o( iinM(KM>I.Mls, uliich W(» luny Mod (l<»wu in nXK'"'*
pio, at an mlditional $r>0(),()(MM)()0/in \Um\H liko ili<« lol
lowing :
II
UouniioNto m4«)uMfi. ft-om |tl(H) io l||t|.'2(H)(moli !||I'2(M),<NN>,(NM)
To HoMiovH" f:uuiliON IO(».0(M),()(H)
riwough SaniifU'v <N>innuH«ion ri.iMM^OOO
•• ' SupplioH 1),0(M),(M)0
(Mu intiaii ( 'otniuinaioti 4,0()0,0<H)
To \s'\\'uA\, ir wo add a low il.oniH liko tho ^iffc io llio
jj>>V(Mnni(\it by Mr. VandtMbilt ol'a st(»an»or \vt)rt,lj Si^l ,()()().
000. wo shall roMoh Mr. (IrooK^y's 0Ht,in»at(> on lliiM bond
i>fS»>00.000.000, whioh. M(KUmI to tho wnrdt^bt propor, ^ivos
us tho n>unil sun\ of H^JlOOO.OOO.OOO. And to this wo have
U> add tho tons ol' n»illit>ns. if not tho hundrods of nnllioiis,
j^>no aiul j^oiui^ in aid of tVoodnion an indiroottax on m-
count o( tho war ; hut not tho loss a pnrt and paroi^l of tin
oxpouv^o of tho j^roat rohollion, unloss wo ohooso to sot it
to tho aooount ofslavory in jjjonoral.
But this is by no moans jUI. Wo have to bring into
■ A nuMx» n>oont ftuthority, //(>/>»f»i(>n iVafiowa/f, umkcs the prosciit
)VJK'^'i?Hto of Muivpoan arinios sovoii luillioiiB, vig. :
Italv ; 1XM),01KI
Austria 1,200.000
Kvissia 1,400,000
OtM-manio ConfodorRtiou l.aOO.OOO
Frauoo 1,'200,0(K)
'Boaidos the ooutitigouts of 9jveral Europeau iSt«t«t, which ftiuouut U
anothor tuillion.
TIIK AMKHH'AN WAM
107
wi\\n\ wnHt«^ of
rilioo of HoviMi
)h{, of tho ljil(»
HIM |)\il)Ii«' <l<'l>l
wo nuiy HJiloly
Hut. tluM is (*x-
town in it^i^iv
MM liko Uic lol
!||f2(M),(HM),(MM)
M)O.OOO.O(H)
r).oo().o(»()
1),0(M),0(M>
4,000,0(H)
i\w ^irt to Mu'
,rvv()i*M»SI.()()0,
,0 on (his lu>)iii
hi, projHM", ^ivos
U) tins wo luvvo
rods of niillions,
HriM't tax on mo-
n«i parcol of tlio
I'liooso to «ot it
vo to brin^ into
umkcB the prosont
IMMVOIK)
l/200.0(H)
1,400,000
i,;uH).ooo
1/200, OIK)
I, which Auiuuut to
e MJinio Mcconnt tlu^ inunonf^n mnnMpnid, and to ho p'lid,
reform tlio rninHof th«» w»ir in th<» Into hI/ivo StatoH.
.„do wiiH |)anily/(M|, lalMuir (liHotgnni/.od, harvoHtM do-
roy^'d. ami HoMh laid doHolato. SoIiooIh, r«»ll«>|^(«H and
inMiai'i(*Mori(Mirninf^ liroktMi n|i, and no local tnoan.M to ro
scitalc^ tlmin ; rliinchoH doNtroyod, und a ^rnond wimto
d doHolation ov(M' tlio wliolo land. '!'(» Muy it in a ^rnat
iMHi(»nnry Hold, vvlio^o wantH, odnc^ationnl nnd n^li^iouH,
UHt ho mot now and for yoarH t(» oonio, \h to Hn.y litl/lo iih
coHt of tluMopairHof tliorninn inllictod l>y tlio wiir. Tho
|M«nHo of n^pairin^ tlio wid(^-HpnMid pliywioal ruin in bo-
nd ostiniato.
But tlion^ niniairiH anotlior <^laHM of war oxpouMOH, or
itlior loHsoH <Mi ji,(!(',ount of tlio war, not to ho ovorlookod.
e n^for to tli(5 1onh(?h of Nortli(5rn nion, (jHpooinlly of
orthorn nK^lcliantH hy Soutli(!rn oroditorH. It in ooni
tod, with an niu(rli a.(;(Mini(!y an \h n,ttii.inahlo, that n.t thiH
iom«>nt tho ind(d)iodnoHH ol'Soutliorn tnuhirnto Morthorn
ier<']iantH amounts to tho Huni of $.'t 1 5,000,000. V^o will
t proMUUKt to miiiKt tin; /.^rand total. Our HtatintioH and
iniM,t(^H ndornioropjirti<;ularlyto montantihitrjiriHaotioiiK.
niostio and inrHvlduaJ Iohhoh lay Ixiyond our rojioh.
e.so w(U'« f'onrfully ininiouHCi.
But wo havo brought into oiira(!(!ount only th(i oxpon-
[turo <)'n. one Hide. W(? may Hafoly rc^poat thoHo, HurriH aa
,e cost of war on tho otlior Hid*;: yon,, if wo allow <;orn-
DHation to thoowncrH for tli(!ir Hla,vo,H, it will nr>t Hufhoo.
wo (louhlo tho amount. W(!ro it in our powor to fi^un^
tho fjrand total (ixponwc^ f*f th(5 war (including 4,000,-
hIjivgh), wo .should oxjaict it wouhi Htand at t(5n thou-
d nullions of dollars !
|0f tho pecuniary oxpoiiHoof tho drcadfid war but rocont-
closed in Europe, wo havo im yot no definite HtatiHtioH.
^e bill is not fully made out Already we liear of fear-
estimates. One correspondent says the Franco- Prus-
warhas cost Prussia $1,000,000,000, and France four
es that amount, or S4,00O,OO0,00O. And in this no
108
THE FOOT- PRINTS OF SATAN.
Ill
account iH made of loss of labour and derangement, of indiiHtry
and trade, the devjustation of cities, villages and towns.
Imagination falters in any attempt to form an idea of tlu'
closing cabustroplie in Paris. The invasions of the Ger-
mans, the dreadful havoc and un[)recedented devastatioiiN
of one of the most destructive wars on record, all seemed
as child's })lay compared with the devastiitions aud ruim
in Paris of the Conununists' insurrecti<>n. Never was
there witncvssed on earth before so complete a portraiture
of the nether world. It wa,s a place " prepared for tlio
Devil and his angels." These foul spirits now return from
going to and fro through the land, everywhere spreadiiiir
devastation and death ; and taking with them seven
spirits more wicked than themselves, they at length gather
in the grand capital, where vanity and. vice, money and
fashion, infidelity and corru[)tion had reigned, and here
held carnival such tus none but devils can. Enclosed by
impregnable walls, the iron gates barred, and surrounded
on every side by the glistening bayonets of the besiegers,
hell, in hideous miniature, rioted within. The records
of those fearful weeks no one shall ever write. They are
sealed in blood — recorded only among the orgies of the Pit.
The final catastrophe came. The Versaillists enter the
city, but only to greet this great Babylon in tlames. A
third part of the city was in ruins. Her beautiful pal-
aces were scenes of woful desolation. The great cess-
pool of corruption wtis cleansed by fire. Vain would be
the attempt to assess the damages, or count the cost of
this one siege. The destruction of property in Paris alone
— houses, furniture, works of art, etc. — has been set dowii
at $160,000,000. And the destruction of merchandise is
said to amount to $120,000,000.
Such is war. Oh, when shall these immense resources
be rescued from the hand of the Destroyer and devoted
to the arts of peace ! How they would beautify the
earth and bless the world ! Come, blessed Potentate :
come quickly, and claim thine own.
SArniKICE OK HUMAN I.IKK.
109
[TientofindnHtrv
ges RTiu towns.
[I an idea of the
oils of the Ger-
icd devaHtations
!ord, all HeeiiKMl
itions aud niiiis
1. Never was
I to a portraiture
irepared for tlio
low return from
v^here spreading
th them seven
at length gather
rico, money and
igiied, and here
. Enclosed by
and surrounded
)f the besiegei-s,
The records
rite. They are
rgies of the Pit.
illists enter the
in tlames. A
r beautiful pal-
rhe great cess-
Vain would he
>unt the cost of
Y in Paris alone
been set down
merchandise is
nense resources
r and devoted
d beautify the
sed Potentate:
II. There is something worse in war than the pecuni-
cxpense. There is a Hcu^rijj/ce of hmnan life, ajvpall-
[g beyond description. No human (calculation can now
iwisur<' the rivers of blood that have flowed out from
jneath the altar of this Moloch.
The following is but a mere extract from the bloody
itistics of glorious war ; " one chapter in the annals of
lolence, crime and misery that have followed in the
ot-prints of the great Destroyer." The shrieks and
'oans of dying millions have passed away ; but the ago-
Bs of untold multitudes, plunged unprepared into a
►peless eternity, still tell, in horrors unutterable, the
f' hty scourge of war.
here were slain in different Jewish wars 26,000,000.
the wars of Sesostris, 15,000,000. Under Semiramis,
Tus and Alexander, 30,000,000. Under Alexander's
iccessors, 20,000,000. Grecian wars, 16,000,000. Wars
twelve Ca3sars, 30,000,000. Roman wars before Ju-
ts Ca>sar, 60,000,000. In one battle of Julius Caesar,
10 000. In wars of the Roman Empire with Turks and
•acens, 180,000,000. Wars of the Reformation, 30,000-
10. In nine Crusades, 80,000,000. Tartar and African
^rs, 180,000,000. American Indians slaughtered by the
laniards, 12,000,000. Nearly the whole army of Xer-
I, 5,000,000. Wars of Justinian, 20,000,000. War of
mgi's Khan, 32,000,000. Wars following the French
>volution, 6,000,000. Wars of Napoleon, 6,000,000.
18 battle of Issus, 110,000. The battle of Arbela, 300,-
Siege of Acre, 300,000. Invasion of Milan, 300,-
American Revolution, 200,000.
(And to this appalling list we may add, as not unsuited
til the same dismal record, the 67,000,000 victims of pa-
f. despotism and barbarity, and 2,000,000 Jews who have
Europe, first and last, paid the penalty invoked when
tiiey said, " His blood be on us and on our children." And
BK)dern wars in Europe and the East Indies have slain
tileir 50,000,000. In a single year, (1849,) there are said
no
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
to have been slaughtered in European wars more than
110,000 human beings.
Here it may not be void of interest to come down to
details. We have spoken of modern European wars—
of the aggregate of mortality. From the catalogue of thir-
ty modern battles taken from Alison's History of Europe
we have the revolting statistics of a series of wars most-
ly associated with the career of one great manslayer, the
hero of Corsica. We must here bear in mind that the num-
bers killed and wounded in battle are no full index of the
loss of life in war, and seldom comprise one-fourth of its
victims.
The following figures will give some glimpses of the
reality of the wars of Napoleon, and but too truly verify
the dreadful idea that the glory of war, whether ancient
or modem, is the multitude of the killed and wounded.
We quote from Alison's History of Europe :
" The BHdge of Lodi — The Austrians lost 2,OO0
killed and wounded. The French loss was also 2,000
men.
" Areola. — The Austrians lost in killed and wounded,
18,000. French loss, 15,000.
" The Nile{sea fight). — Nelson lost 895 men in killed and
wounded. The French lost 5,225 men killed and wounded,
besides 3,005 prisoners, and thirteen ships out of seven-
teen engaged in action.
"The Bay of AbouUr.— The Turks had 9,000 engaged,
the French 8,000. The Turks lost every man of the
9,000 in killed, wounded or prisoners.
*' Trehbia. — During the three days that this battle con-
tinued, the French lost 12,000 men in killed and wounded,
and the allies about the same number."
Regarding the campaign of 1799, the same writer ob-
serves :
" In little more than four months the French and allied
armies had lost nearly half of their collective forces, those
»«.**'
SLAIN IN MODEIt.N TIMKh.
Ill
rars more than
» come down to
iropean wars—
dialogue of thir-
bory of Europe
3 of wars most-
manslayer, the
d that the num-
uU index of the
)ne-fourth of its
glimpses of the
boo truly verify
vhether ancient
i and wounded.
B :
ans lost 2,001)
was also 2,00(1
i and wounded,
len in killed and
d and wounded,
)S out of seven-
9,000 engaged,
ry man of the
I this battle con-
and wounded,
same writer ob-
[ench and allied
Ive forces, those
off, or irrecoverably mutilated by the sword, being
mt 110,000 men !
}(ovi. The allies lost 7,000 in killed and wounded,
12,000 prisoners. The French lost 7,300 killed and
mnded, and 3,000 prisoners. •
Engers. — Loss in killed and wounded, on each side
le French and allies), 7,000 men.
Marengo. — The Austrians lost 7,000 in killed and
funded, and 3,000 prisoners ; the French lost 7,000 in
]ed and wounded, and 1,000 prisoners.
*' Hohenlinden. — The Austrians lost 14,000 in' killed
wounded, and the French 9,000.
VAusterlitz. — The allies, out of 80,000 men, lost 30,-
in killed and wounded, or prisoners ; the French lost
^y 12,000.
\'Maida. — One of the most remarkable battles on re-
[d. The French, out of 7,500 men engaged, had 70Q
led, between 3,000 and 4,000 wounded, and 100 priso-
the British lost only 44 killed and 284 wounded.
jenaand Auerstadt. — The Prussians lost about 30,-
men killed and wounded, and nearly as many priso-
The French lost 14,000 killed and wounded.
Eylau. — In this terrific engagement, the Russians
25,000 in killed and wounded, and the French
1000.
Friedland. — Russia lost 17,000 in killed and wound-
France, 8,000.
Wagram. — The Austrians and the French each lost
)00 men in killed and wounded.
Talavera. — After two days' fighting, the British lost
)8. The French lost 8,794 men in killed and wound-
^ Albuera. — The French loss was 8,000, that of the
ft||es nearly 7,000, the British alone having lost 4,300
* owM^of 7,500 engaged. When the muster of the Buffs
w|s called after the battle, three privates and one drum-
mir answered to their names.
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TIIK FOOTPRINTS OF SATAN.
" Salamav^ea. — ^Tho allies lost 5,200 men ; the French
14.000.
" Srmyfenski.—The French Iohh wjih 17,000 ; that of thp
Russians, 10,000 men.
"Borodino. — 'The nicfst nuinlerous and obstinatrly
disputed battle on reoonl' The French lost in killpd,
wounded and prisonei's, /)(),000, the Ruasians losing the
same number.
" The survivors of the French army from the RusHian
campaign were not more than 35,000 men out of an army
of about 500,000 men.
" Lvfzcn—T\w French lost 18,000, and the allies 15,
000 men.
*'n(wt2e7i.-~Tho French lost 25,000, the allies 15,000.
" Dresden. — (Continued dining two days.) The allien
lost in killed, wounded and prisoners, 25,000 ; the French
lost between 10,000 and 12,000.
** Leipsic. — The battle lasted three days. Napoleon
lost two marshals, twenty generals and about 60,000 men
in killed, wounde ^ and pristmers. The allies lost 1,790
ofli eel's, and about 40,000 men.
" FittoW^.— The French lost 6,000 in killed and
wounded, and 1,000 prisonei's, and the allies 5,180 killed
and wounded.
*' Toulouse. — The French lost 4,700 in killed, wounded
and prisoners, the allies 4,580 men.
"Paris. — The allies lost 9,093 men, and the French
4,500.
" Ligny. — The Prussians lost 15,000 men in killed
wounded and prisoners, and the French 6,800.
- " Quatre Bras. — The allies lost 5,200 men, and the
French 415.
" Waterloo. — The total loss of the allies was 16,63(1
men ; Napoleon's was about 40,000 men, and almost all
his guns, ammunition, etc."
AN.
SLAIN IN OUR LATE CIVIL WAR.
113
non ; the French,
^000; that of tW
and ohstinatclv
^h loRt in killed,
HHHiaiiH losing the
from the RusHJan
n out of an arni)
md the allies lo,.
10 allies 15,000.
ays.) The allien
,000 ; the Frenoli
lays. Napoleon
^bout 60,000 men
allies lost 1,790
in killed and
lies 5,180 killed
killed, wounded
ind the Frencli
men in killed
;,800.
) men, and the
lies was 16,63ti
and almost all
'a.ssing by the late Chinese war, the Sepoy Mutiny,
id the Crimean and the Italian wars — all of which fur-
ihed their full (piota to the insatiable maw of Death —
again stand agluistat the afjpalling sacrifice of human
in our late bloody civil war. There were in all called
the service 2,08H,523 men, of which number 1,500,-
cffoctively participated in the dreadful work of death,
these 50,000 were slain in battle, 35,000 died of
unds in hospitals, and 184,000 died of disease. And
en wo add to this dreadful bill of mortality the tons of
usands who died at their homes of disease contracted
the camj), and of other tens of thousands who, with
ken constitutions and the sure ravages of disease prey-
upon them, are only waiting the slower approaches of
'ath's footstej)S, we need not hesitate, perhaps, to adopt
common estimate of half a million as the grand total
[the slain in the late war.
et this is but one side of the dreadful conflict. War's
ul ravages tell a tale quite as appalling on the other
|e. We are probably safe in doubling the number as to
awful aggregate of the Southern slain. A million of
an lives swallowed up in the rapacious maw of this
st horrible Moloch! Such, again, is war; the Devil's
ling engine by which to waste, demoralize and destroy;
's fearful agency by which to break down and move
of the way what hindereth the onward progress
full establishment of Emanuel's kingdom on the earth,
e have assumed that the sacrifice of life on the part
ihe South wfis at least equal to that of the North. But
en we come to the estimate of the ^pecuniary expense
he cost of the war direct, and the fearful devastations
the land by invading annies and actual battle-fields
ihe comparison is vastly to the account of the South.
e following extract will aid us here. Alluding to the
111 retribution which fell upon the South in our late
a speaker in Congress recently made the following
tements, urging that such inflictions on a defeated
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114
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
k.
enemy ought to moderate our demands in the reconstruc-
tion of the revolted States : |
" For that rebellion into which in an evil hour the %
Radicals of the South plunged them, they have been
punished already by the sacrifice of all their slave pro-
perty, valued at three or four thousand million dollars;
by the sacrifice of more than three-fourths of all other per!
sonal property, probably two thousand million more ; Ly
the sacrifice of their public property and credits — at least
a thousand million more; by the depreciation of the value
of all their real estate at least sevent3''-five per cent.—
amounting probably to more than two thousand million
dollars more — making in all a sacrifice of property, credits
and values, in the Southern States alone, of at least nine
thousand million dollars.
But there is another bloody and terrible page in this
account — a page in account with death. It is estimated
ihat there have perished in battle, by disease, exposure,
or other cause incident to war, at least three hundred'
thousand able-bodied white men of the South. I take no
account of the unutterable anguish of millions of crushed
and bleeding hearts. No language can express, no figures
measure that. For that rebellion the white man at the
South has been most terribly punished ! Nine thousand
million of values are gone — lost for ever ! Three hundred
thousand able-bodied white men of the flower and
strength of the South now Jie in their bloody or prema-
ture graves ! "
These, as we said, are but items — extracts from the
bloody annals of war — not a twentieth of all that are
believed to have been slain in war. The whole number,
according to the estimate of Dick, is 14,000,000,000 ; or,
according to Burke, 35,000,000,000 ; fourteen times more
(according to the lowest estimate) than all the human
beings now living on the globe. " Blood enough to fill a
lake of seventeen miles in circumference, and twenty feet
deep — in which all the navies of the world might float.
^i^
IN.
Q the reconstruc.
in evil hour the
they have been
their slave pro-
l million dollars;
s of all other per
[lillion more ; h
credits — at least
tion of the value
-five per cent.--
:housand million
property, credits
of at least nine
'ible page in this
It is estimated
iisease, exposure,
i three hundred '
[outh. T take no
ions of crushed
)ress, no figures
te man at the
Nine thousand
Three hundred
le flower and
oody or prema-
racts from the
of all that are
whole number,
)0,000,000 ; or,
en times more
.11 the human
nough to fill a
d twenty feet
Id might float.
WAR A RELENTLESS DEMON.
115
im
placed in a row, each occupying four feet, they would
fl,ch 442 times round the earth, and four times round
[e sun- or they would form a globe of flesh (each 130
>unds average) nearly three miles in diameter, the whole
eighing 1,820,000,000,000 pounds."
But we must bear in mind, as we said, that the carnage
the battle-field is but an item in the sacrifice of human
by war. The exposure, the privations and general
trdships of war, induce sicknesses and diseases which
Isult eventually in a vastly greater amount of mortality
kan is encountered on the battle-field. And yet probably
le aggregate of both these fearful items fall short of the
Uth-list, which, in after years, ibllows in the dreadful
in of war. Of those who return to their homes, having
3aped both the hostile weapon of the enemy and the
istilence and diseases which walk by noon-day in the
ip, how large a proportion become, at length, the vic-
is of diseases contracted, and of broken constitutions
lere entailed.
Nowhere else do the annals of sin present such a per-
3t, wholesale, appalling scheme for peopling the regions
the dead and the abodes of the damned. Death, under
linary circumstances, gives premonition of his dread
Iproach — sounds the note of alarm, and warns the vic-
is of his unrelenting call to prepare to meet the sum-
And on this account Satan loses many a liege
)ns.
[bject just in the moment of his highest hopes. But
ith on the battle-field allows no space for repentance,
summons its victims in a moment to judgment and
jir final doom.
'And who are its victims? Not innocent childhood,
)t decrepit old age, but the young and the strong, and
more generally the most thoughtless and graceless por-
tion of a nation's population — the last class who are
Srepared for a sudden death. War is a remorseless
emon, whose rapacious maw is never glutted with
human blood. How triumphantly has sin here reigned
unto death.
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VI.
WAR, — (Continued. )
ITS UNTOLD EVILS — MODERN WARS — THEIR WHOLESALE
DESTRUCTION — THE BLIGHTING CURSE OF THE WORLD-
THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR — NAPOLEON's MISGUIDED
AMBITION — THE INFALLIBILITY DOGMA — THE GREAT AN[
FINAL CONFLICT — DEMORALIZING CHARACTER OF WAB
— NO NECESSITY OF WAR — THE DUTY OF CHRISTIANS.
Here detail is impossible. Folios would not suffice t^
delineate the horrors of war. Glance at the forbidding
picture where you will, and you turn from its horrid de-
tails in disgust. First, allow the eye to pass over ih
battle-field ! Two hostile armies, made up of the youtli
the strength, and the pride of two nations, confront eacli
other in all the array of military pride and of deadly
conflict. Human ingenuity has been taxed to the utter
most to invent instruments, and to secure the munitions
of war by which to facilitate the work of death, h
glory is in the number slain. The word is given— tk
onslaught is made. The Angel of Death has begun hii
work. The roar of cannon scarcely drowns the wail ot
woe from the wounded and the dying. The cloud ol
smoke that rolls in black folds to heaven seems but the
embodiment of the shrieks and groans which tell, as lan-
guage cannot, of the horrors of war. But as the work oi
death goes on, and the battle is ended, what a field oi
THE HORRORS OF WAR.
117
HEIR WHOLESALI
OF THE world-
eon's MISGUIDED
. — THE GREAT AM
LRACTER OF WAE
OF CHRISTIANS.
ould not suffice to
at the forbidding
om its horrid de-
to pass over the
up of the youtli
)ns, confront eact
le and of deadly
^xed to the utter-
re the munitions
k of death. Its
rd is given— tk
h has begun hi;
wns the wail o!
The cloud of
n seems but tlit
liich tell, as kii
it as the work ui
what a field oi
d, of anguish and death. Limbless trunks — headless
leg — scattered limbs — butchery in every conceivable
— agony and death in every shape.
_hree days after the battle of Waterloo, a multitude of
^^tched beings still remained on the field, unattended
f surgical aid, or by the offices of a common humanity,
d of the two hundred and fifty battles in our late war,*
aclhe more bloody than that of Waterloo, what untold
ti^s of misery and woe were breathed to the passing
flllids ! And though more than half a century has
djipsed since that great and bloody conflict, (at Water-
Idip,) many are the traces of wretchedness and woe, of de-
bilitation and ruin, not yet obliterated. Many are the
* eries which that day has entailed on generations yet
om.
|rhe horrific slaughter, the frightful butchery of the
itle-field, is but the first scene in the drama of war. All
fell there were either fathers, brothers, husbands or
g in as many households, which were at once clad in
cloth and mourning. Would we begin to form any-
g like a correct estimate of the miseries of war, we
t be able to follow the wail of the dying, till we reach
home and witness the bitterness and woe there. A
er is bereaved of an only son — a mother mourns and
ot be comforted because her joy, her hope, her staff
Id age is no more. Or a young wife and her helpless
ones are in a moment plunged into dependence,
lessness and despair.
It is difficult," says an eye-witness, " for the inhabi-
ts of a peaceful territory to conceive the miseries inci-
t to the theatre of such a sanguinary conquest as that
ween the French and the ' allied forces.' The soldiers
* Of these, 16 were naval battles. Of the land fights, 89 were in
"^ia; 37 in Tennessee ; 36 in Missouri ; 12 in Georgia ; 10 in South
ilina ; 11 in North Carolina; 7 in Alabama; 14 in Kentucky ; to-
ler with battlee in Florida, New Mexico, Indian Territory, and
'lylvania.
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THF- FOOT rniNTR OF RATAN.
on hMh siilon. <lvivrM\ \o <loqnpvnfion, l»orn»UP ropklosn rui<|
]>i(iloss. nnil slvji^iilinji) lV<tm IIhmi colninns in nil ditPc.
lions. Hiox connniHtMl cvorv r)mmm»'m nl ox«m'sh npoii ||)p
l^ooplo 'ri\o jirMsMnlM. \vijl» tli(Mr\vivPM nn«l clnMi'pn. Ilf-il
I
loiho onvos. i]\uovir'S t\)\\\ wooiIh. wIhmp (Iu'V wimp slinvci
(oilt\'Hl\ Tlip villMtios \V(M«M>v«M ywhovp l»nrn1. \\\9 \)wm
\\i\FiioA Mnd pilln^^oil. <1)p nlx-do^ of nwtn nn<l nil Ihnt
l>«»|(\ni>^ (o M jioMPclnl t'otnilrv nnd domoslio oinnloi'l tlo«n
1f\((M) Mnd »i(»sirovo(l <o huch m (|i*irn'(» \\u\{ woIvor mnl
oihov RMvna'c' Mnin\nl'^ iticroMMod rpMrlnllv in (hp (lisilrii>(q
llnm l^itl unsfp h\ Innnnn hnnilM ns IpiopionR ns flipji
own."
As >vp linvp nln\'\(h' m<M\ipp<1 onr 1m<p wnr, \vi«'l<(it|lv
wrtgo^l in (loiontp of sImvpiv, ms |n«vspn<injLr ilu' niowl, np
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nnnnn lilV. so wp niMv jMP'^pni if ns m no Iphs nppnllin^j
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wnr. To ]i!\ss y\\('v i\\o nnMPvips nnil wmhIps infliolfMl \\\
iho wnv on iho Noith. (llwMioh noiilnM- low \u\v Rninll.)
ih0 ^o\\i]\ loon^s n]> IvCovp \\h mh m ^IfORlly ntonnnuMili of
{hi\t '.\\\\\\]\\ rp(vilniiovv ponllipf. Ijnmls Inid whhIo,
lal>o.\n' <^is«^rgnni7P^^. indnstvy P!\vm1\7,(mI. <b(>y iht\\ \vm\
i\'>l)p«i in wpnitli t\n\\ Know no wnni fpdnpptl to nhjpcl jkv
vpvly : sp1\oo1s. Moinlt nnoM i\\u\ pol|p^■ps ImoUpii np, olnnciio't
nlv^ndonod or «i(^s(voy»Ml. nn<l i\\o lV{\n\, mvovU of soriolv,
tvfldo nnd indn>i(vy. <]n(>\vn inio diMtMilpv. ifnoi dpinoliHlicd
— wIimI Po\ild wnv do nior(> V V(\'\V'4 oannot ropny iis
v\uns. AVjn' is !\n :\\vfnl MV(Mi^,<n\ .mm wpII ms h pililpss do
Sitrovor, ;\ vow donion iVoni <ln» ]'i(, lot Ioonp to inllict
ovil. io po(^p]p <1n^ vc^jjions o( wop. <o mnmmi^p wronjir -lo
biVak in jnoops and riMnovo onl o1'(1n» wny \vl\MiPVor liin.
dpiN iho oww'.Wi] ]>roiirpsM of ivwih unl n^l«lpo\iMti(>ss
And. rtfi if " li«>no\n'aM(^ " wnrfan^ — rivilhod wnrfMro — Imil.
nvM onongli of d(\*Uli nnd niisovy nbonf it. wp nn* pon^pol
lod. ovpn in <liis \\>{\\ ponhny. <o pon(pin|>lM<p fpjilnjt^H of
wnrfjuvwhipli shonKi ovupv with slianio nnd oonfuMion tlio
veriest savAt^-e.
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l.'ito f\>Mi\ir(\M ('(
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'hn I
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I lionnl of Mif> nf ffK'if ioq, flip R))nTrif»!f»«iR
[bntilioFi (tl llio Sfpny Mufiny? Wf woip nsl'inifjlipd
|^H(j ^vilh Mip pi"(Zi''MS "I •»mm|»'IH civiliznf irm, Mio ff'firm-
it, ol'llio i\ii*\ III'' M»lvMn"»'Mif'nt. of ( 'lirJH{,lnriil.y, nrxl
proHciil piftvimilv mimI lM'f.|,«»r nfcpininhtrico /pf tlif na-
iili niHtilwr, IIimI. n. wnr could of-nr, ovon
hfi onf NV
[pro olio pnify ^vmm Imf wfini civilized, wlilcfi qlionld
in linrli)UotiM» riMdIioM f.lif prnct.icM of nniioriM in Hie
iinx
l«l And li
^[gl^l/.w.< Mjirno of III*' w'orlfl AfMl MOW ffiiicri moff' pro-
^nd lli»' MHJoniHlinH'nt. IIimI. flio ni.fo('if,if>H of Uif Mopoy
MtliinV Rllonl«^ iM.I only I>p rfpfnlod, l>id. in a fpnfold de-
tff8o pxcnodf'd in riiriMfinn Anifricn. Wlio linM nof, rfnd
llli Ri<'l<on<n(^^ InloH of Andorsonvillo nrifl fiihhy f»riHoriH,
g||0 (Jic ^t'lM'iMl lionlmfiif of NofMiorn prisonprs of war
kif ilip < '(inr«'d«MMf r> (lovf»rfiFrif'nfMf»nf fi V Tlio flt.arvati<in of
pl^oiKMs , flio inlliclion f»f iinn»'f'»»^Mnry nnd rnoqf. wanton
flftteilip^ slifKplin// down men if, Miroiifrli wr^al<nfHq,n('('i-
ifc or fUM'owMify, Mk'V r)Vf'rsfoj>(»pd Mirj prft.qf'ril»Pfl linp,
Cflft ftpp''nnMl nl, flio windf»w oF Mie prison for a Irroaih of
1^. — williltoldin^ wion'R sonf, to tdif^ir rfdif'f hy t/hftir
rUnMii IViondM, nnrl rol»l»in^ Miftrn of t-h^ir rloihin^,
noy mimI pprwonfil fdf'cH'fs. Wnr lias no rr>nRfupfK'e.
Wur iiliinl.'i nil Mm^ finor fVifdin^s <d" rnnn, and Ik friiftl as
Ml,
"Wliopvrr Hliall wriff> Mif> lii^f^ory of tlift Slavp.holdf^rs'
bullion will find liirnsflf oldij/fd f,o flisfignrf^ fiis paj/es
li rccifalM (pf ('MH'itips, oiif,ra(/('s nnd f>arharif,i^«i to pri-
eiH, wliicli will rrijiko Mio r^ad^^r f>lM«f» f,o own Mtpi per-
rnf-oiM MM Ikmim wif.li fiirns^lf of f,fif; SMrnft finrnanif,y.
ilio field of lpaf,Mf>, f'oo ninf>.f,« Top,, and f.fif^ j/reaf,fisf,
itclM^r in I lin ^rpaf,f'.«f, firro. Ho if, fcfiaf, this is hoTKnj rafale
rliini. I'lif. wliffi tfifi drf;ndful roTif,p,st i.s once decided,
on ncroH ()\' the slain lie wcltfrinc/ in their f»lo<)<l, and
e j^^MOMiiH of the woiindfid and dyinj/ are rending the air
Hiili t,li«.iir crioM, nnd the flfiffatf.d party have in good
^itli Hiirn',ndf;rof| as [>risoners of war, the simplest prinei-
iO of honor and tho, most readily conceded right de-
P20
Tin-l roOT PIMNTf^ OV SATAN.
ly.
I
ii
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lunnnno IroninuMH 'Vo siriko. inniin or loif urn n /<»//f/,
foo JH nn ou<rn|ro punl nil ioliMimro ninmi^ ImnoKililr
roufoHinniM. \\u\ yol moto oHliMinibly KiitingoouH Im ilm
»\o(, whon |MM|M^irM(rMl l»y nnliotm.
Ypf. iltvihiriil jm is (ho ngniuw of* wnr, liinnnn pnifnvii
iM how ^Vi^nily iiulnMod. Vow t\]v <l»o itiHJnuroR in wliidi
o]y\ hvhIoiws of (l(»Rpolimn, t»|>mo.q,qi(i?i, IhIho i(>ligioii, m
ovror of jiny Uin«l. Iimvo Ihmmj trfotinfil nii<l loll i<Mlii>ii
nn<\irni ilonth. Monil Riinsion Iu«h i(.M uhc ; dorfl hoih,,
iluiig <o pn^pMro iho \\i\\ h\)\\\v{\\\\\^ lo pi('|»nr(> |||,.
t\nthlM of Mio roloiinorM, nnu IIioro io Ix^ lornniuMl, for Mkiji
ruturo T\»iMHioi\. ViM <lu> in»>nMM»nuMon ngonoy llio fiioiP
ootuiuon oonrso of rioviiiiMico hns Itoon, nol. I»v rprninm
(ion. hut by nn-oliiiion mu\ {\vMv\w{'\\m\ \ l)r(Milvinmip ninl
nM\iovin^ old or^Mni/niioUH t\\u\ oonlrdiMiioioH ; dinnldin^r
;ind pwiling o\i< of iho wny IhcMiluMioiH and Ji^oidH ol'll),.
NVstotns to hv dostroynd ; ilniR cS'iirin^ iJio ground, lo
n»o\ ing obsinoloH, \hi\t iho now iMiildin^ niny v\ho on Hip
niins ofiliMl- whioli iw to ]mHH nwny. And <Jio Run* ninl
fonrftil a^Mioy wliioli juvonipliMlu^M ihln ond is wnr
Moody. rolot\tl(\Ms win*. Si'nn'olv Iuim n niiiion liccn
( jiristianiKOii ; nomtooIv Iwivo <lio spcmIh oT civil rnrnrin
boiMi sowti, tnkon n>o(., jv?\d (lu> fair laluic of a nnlioits
iruo graniliMir riN(>n, oxoi^pt (hrou|:^h ilu» drond nj/oncy ot
war. Tho nangs of rinldbirth. whioli yjivo (^xiHtrnce (n
tlio natural lifo of tlu^ indivithial nian, do luit tooirnly, yd
faintly, n^prosont tho throos, tho pangs, ilu^ oonviilMioiiMof
thoso wai-s. w]\ioh. as if born of tlio wlnrlwind, tlio «nuIIi
ipiako. and ihv storm, liavo given birth to nationM. m
opoiunl tho way for tho building up oi' Wvv and rivilizid
ron\u\unitios ou tlio ruins of old dospotisnis, whotbor civil
or ivUgious.
Tho followitig statistios, oidlod from tbo rrrords of
anoiont Nvai-s, will bo of intorost in (bis oonnootiou iis
further illustrating tbo dreadful powers of war. And
when we ivlleet that this terrilio agency bas boon at '\ii
PAN.
TiiF! imPiAiTfft, niwnnR nr wAn.
121
\w ItntloiMltIo niiil
»f loflnro n. Jnllr,,
Minon|r linnuiiililo
iuHlniMM'R in wliirli
ImIh(» roligiun, ni
'■ niul Icl'l i«) (lifMi
I URO ; (looq HniiiP
J <(» picpnn* llip
rpfoniKMl, ("or (Ihiji
ngonoy llio u\m
, nol. I>v lofnriiiii
; lutMiUing np Mini
oiMcioH ; tliHnltlin^'
nml m^oiiIh oI'IIip
IT (Jh» ground, m
r niny liso nn llin
\n«I i\w Bww n
lis ond is wm-
F4 M nniion Immmi
H of civil n»ruMii
)v'w ol* a nnlidii's
drond Mg(MU'y o
trivo <»xiHttMl('(» III
out. tooirulv, yet
hv C()uy\\W\{)\\H of
Iwind, IIk^ (^inlli
th to natiiUiM. or
Wvo and civilizid
inr.M, wliotlior civil
1 tlu> rrrords of
lis o«>nnootion !is
\s of Vfixw Aiul
^ has Ijccvn at its
pldly work of dcnlli tiirniij/lioiit nil Mio prflf j/f»fH'rnf ionq
tiinn wo «IimII «Mtmpn>lM'rid wlmf. wnr /nt» d'»rM». nnd
iftt if. «/'"/' do fill Mm» TriiH-o of IN>H,rf> hIimII r(.»rM'. Miid
IfiJilJMli liiH n'i^M upon MiocnrMi :
Tlio cil.y of TIn'licH lin«l a Imndrod ^af.oH, and roidd
d cud. nt cacli gnio |(>,0(MHiyld.in^ rriffi and 200 cfia-
jH in all, 1,000,000 inf>n nnd 2rk.000 rliaiioi«.
'' 'riMMirniy of Tronrli. Kin^ of I'-Miiopia, cnnHisilod of
100.000 uwu and 'KM) rliariol.fl of war.
H»'HoMl,riH, Kiri(/ of IC^.ypt-, lf>d ngain.Mf Iiim f-firrnicH
J,000 inofi, ^i.iMM) ravalry, and 27 H<yMio-arrnod 'fra-
^H^. I4!ll IM'.
V' If'iniilc'ar w»*fd, from OnrtJiaj/f', nnd landed n^-ar
ftJeniM.. Ilo had a fh>»-f, r,f 2,000 «hipH nnd JJ.OOO «rnnll
fllflplH, and a l/irid forco of '100,000 rnf-n. Ah iho \m.U\(\
hl^Which hn WMM d«^f«'at.nd, ir>0,000 wf^r^> slain.
.-*A l(<atin,n fh^^t, hid l»y |{^gidn« aj/nirmf, ( InrMin^o. f<>ri~
iriilod of aJM) vrHsolH, wiih I40,r)0() uwii. llih CarMmgi-
I Ihint rnnrdtrrf'.d .-J50 vf^RHfls, wiUi ir»0,f)()() rr>^ri.
Al. Mi»i haM,hi of (lanna^ ihf'.r^. wrr^i of f,h^\ R,ornan«,
uding allir.q, 80,000 foot and 0,0()0 horsfi ; <>f Mift
liMj/inianw, 40,000 fool, and IO/)00 hors*). ( )f UtCHf^
{){) w»;rn slain in all, and I0,00() taken f»ris<;ne,rH ; rrtorf-
^ half slain.
I'llannihnJ, during liis f.arnpaign 'in ftaly and Spain,
filnch'jo.d 400 towns nnrl dostroyf^d .-{00,()0() i()f\r,.
J' Minus, Dw. Assyrian kirig, about 2,200 ycnrn UC.^
against th(; i;a<;trians his army, f.ortsisti rig of 1,700
foot, 200,000 liors^), and 10,000 chariots, arrrj^d wifcfj
l^hoH.
# ItnJy, a litth; hnffjrc IT^innihars time, was ahle t*"* serid
' I the' field nearly l,0()f),()r)0 men.
Semi ram is employed 2,000,000 rnen In hrilfding the
mighty Hahylon, She, took 100,000 Indian prisoners at
ibe Indus, and surjk !,00() boats,
./'Sennaclierib lost in a single night 185,000 rneri by the
4((|troying angol.--2 Kings, xix., §5, 37.
!
i
" .
\ H '
• ii
\ ,
122
THK rf)(>T IMMNTM OV HAT AN.
of (\niM ,'onsiM<,Ml of (iOO.OOO r,u»(. r^()",00() lioiHo, iiih
2,000 ohnriois jnnuMl \vi(l» m«'vIIh>s.
" An nnuy ol' rM;nl»VN(»M. AO.OOO Hlrnn^r. wmm l)uri(>(| ii,
iho «1on(mI sMmlsiif AlVirji hy n nouII) wind.
" \VluM» \('r\(»M imivnl n< Thorniopylio. Ihm ImxI nn,]
N«\M foriMVM nmoitn((Ml («» *J.(I ll.idO. oxcIiiHiM* ol' H(»rvniils
iMnuu'hs. womni, snl lot's, do, in mII nninhoiinir 5, 2.S;{, ;{_•()
So sMV HorodoluM. IMulMirh. nnd IsocrMlos.
" '\i\o t\yu\\ of Arl.MMMNos. JM^roro Mm* Itnlllo or(*mi(i\,'i
,'»niounl(Ml <o'm1»o\H l.l'OO.OOO.
"' Ton (honsMUtl lioiNivs Mml 100.000 Tool, roll on l.lit> I'lil;!!
fioM of Issns.
" WluMi .lonisnIfMn WMH ImUoh by TiluM, 1,100,000 poi
isbod in VMiious wmvh.
" Tlu' foroiMif I>Mrius s\\ Arl»olM ninnlMMod nior(» Hun,
VOOO.OIUV Tho rorsi.'ms losl. DO.OOO mtMi in (liis I.mMI,.
AI(^x.'n\«l(M" .mI>ou( .')00 \\\ou. S\^ nMys I>i»>(lornM. Aiiu!
snvs (lio IVrsi.Mns in (his hnllli^ losf ".'iOO.OOO ; llio (Jrocks
i,ioo."
(\>nld \V(\ (^V(>n in iin;igin.'Hion, follow ihoHi* invndiiiir
.•wniii^N. .'ind (r.'\o»» IIumv \vid«> snr(\'id dosolnl ions, iVoin
i):<MUMj\(ion (o goniMMlion. wo slionid still Iimv(» 1»\iI. mm in
Mdoq\in((^ id(\'i o( 1]\(> di'OMdl'id rnv.Mi^os of ilioso wiiis,
Hail (hoy Ih^imi Mio work of ji si}hilr ^oniM-nlion. inii^lil we
suppose^ nil (bos(^ ,'UN'nnndM((»d horrors yy( i\\o l>M(.(l(>-li«>Iil
to bo oonoontrndMl in n sin^h^niMUMniion. fh(>y hnd l.'udUio
o:\rth in ruins; (hov lunl nmdi^ i(. ono iironlAooldMniji.
In ji wt>rd, wo niMy s;iy. wmt is Iho inliMTnplion of com-
nuMW. <ho susponsion o( ijidnstry, tin* dovMstntion of
proporty. nnd tho inlorruptitui oi' \>v\\i\\o nnd nnlioiial
ontorpriso. It onsls t\ pMiornl Mii^ht ov(M* (Ijo whole
nation, and oovors hov ]>ooph^ in vSMi'kolotli and nionniiiii:
Kvory intoivst languishos; (^^mt oondition i>f lifi> is iniulo
to tool tho opprossivo l^iudons o( war. Aw (liri/ patriots,
then i Aro thi\v frionds oi" thoir oonntry. friiMids of ninii
or of Ciod, who would nootilossly plunge thoir cDuiitrv
m
.■#
•AN.
lI'vltMI. iho luivrs
KUKM) Immho, ni„|
Vir. \yi\H ItnriiMl in
inivi* ol" Hcrvnnh
Imlllo oriNuuiMi
>l. fell on M>(» futnl
iM. I.IOO.OOO por.
1)«M(m| more* ilinii
Ml in (liiM l)n(lli\
>i<M|«>rnM. Aii.iu
.000; lli,» (Jnvlvs
V ihoHO iuvjidiiiiv
IcNoliilimiM, iVoiii
llMV(» l»Ut Mil ill-
I i^\' (ll(»S(> \\i\\\
T.'iliiMi. iiiiglij wo
r Mi(» l)!i(il(»-liol,|
(lu»v Imd Itiid (lio
vt\{ A('('I(1miii}|.
MTnulion orc(Mu-
» (l(»VMs(M<i(in (if
\io t\\u\ nnlioiiiil
o\ov i\w wliolo
Ih jiiul iiiouriiin^
m (>r lif** is iiiihio
Vr(> i/icff |»!ilriu(s,
', lVi(MI(ls (if IlliUl
;o tlioir count n
WHO AUK TIIK INHT(C1AT()MR OF VVAfl ?
12»
n will? Aniliilioti. rovoii^o, HoHlMlitinHn, tnny 1in
tilitMl, but \u){. n inonil viihir, tiol, n HPtiliimMil «»l lino
uiiiily, U'»< " CliiiMlinfi viiliu' piiIpim iiifn <,li<> Innlin^H
loll i^o <" •M»('i»ui'n^(^ (»r |»inv«»ko wnr. Tluw mn of Mi(<
til. oMrtliv. Vcn, inonv 'I'Im\v nr<> IV«mi hnu'Mtli, oimm-
i(»UM IVoiii tlu> Pit, wlirin mo vvniH ntid llj/litiii^fl,
hmIm jiikI HtriCoM. Mnko tlio lioHt V'MI run tti' it, wni in
itliriir,^ HCiMir^c; niid it will l»o tlio |irnyri of |iliilMti-
opist. PiidiotMud ('IiriNtinti tluU. onr liolnvod Iniid iimy
colorlli Im« prcHriVMMl IVoin tliin doHcdnlin^ Hcour^jv
fo.st oltviouHiy tln'ii wo Htiy nltn^rj.thor t(»<» littlo wlion
Hp(».'ik only of llio nvprnHivnir'^H ol' wnr ; <»r ovoti of tlio
rilico.s of liuiium lil'o wliioli it inv(»lvoH tli(^ pliyHirnI
icrios wliioli it iiillictH. TIiomo portmy wnr mm im
iTlH(»lv onljiiiiifoUH, nnd of ooiiHofpionoo to l»o Hovoioly
riM'nlod. Hilt wnr \h rnuro tlinti ('nlnrriitoiiH. All nj/-
gnpSfisivo wjir -nil WJir tlint inny l>o liotKtiinihly n,Vf»idod m
mlrally mid <'^M(«^i»)UHly wnrnff, in wickrd. No nntiori
<Nl|^ linv(? ji, ri^lit HO to nhiiHO tin .riHo|vo4; n.fMl oortniiily
n^ ri^lit t(MnHi('t HiK^li injurioH ofi nnotlior nation. Mon,
ShnpM, nov(»r nHNuni(! ho woit^hty roHporiHil»ilitioH tin wliori
y d(>toniiin(M»n nionHuroH of wnr. 'I'lioro, in no o.vil, nf>
c, no wi('k<Mln('HH or iniHory, of wlii»di wnr in not i]^(^
80, or tli(? occnHion. It in tlio, Mi^liting onrno <»!' tlin
ioiiH, tli(^ woo of tlio world. And in no (»tlio,r way aro
looHo H(nnnny f'urioH of tin? I'it to Mnst nnd rlontroy all
tin lovidy mid of good roport ainon^ mon. ('(irlHt
einto tlio world aH tlio " Prinruj of I'oaoo." Ilo, oairio
t^estnhliHli tlio r(;ifrn of poaco; and all that aro /m, in
it mid in truth, nnj " poaoo-rnakoTH." 'I'lioy iovf; poncp,
follow aft(T tlu; thirif^H that niako for ponrto. Tho
it of war i.s tlio Hpirit of tlio world — rathfjr tho H[)irit of
tll^ Pit. Ho that can lov(^ war for itn own Mako Ih a fiond.
llio following paragrapliH aro no oxaggoratod dolinoation
of tho foot-prints of thi.s f(}ll OoHtroyor :
^"Fire, flood, fairiino, poHtilonco aro among tho rnoHt tor-
e and oxhauHting iuHtrumentH of individual and utir-
vl
(2*
Tiir: rnoT PiuNTH or fiATAN.
nrn
ii*:
U:
i'i i:
11
nr
}\\)i hnir wn fvi^lnrul MH <I\OHO ofllu' tlon\on of win-
" T\\o \\t\Hio of )i>i)Wr'V if Hn* loMM< ol ll«o pvils <)uU w
Iniidrnotl witlHMViHion IT (l)o ihoUMMnd inillionH of dt
Imvm MlroMtly (*\]MMulo(l in (l\o I'ImrIoim wnr. nnd iMiinil
I'ov \iu1oM jLr(MWM!\<ii>nM j<M M «'lo^ on (l»o indimlry nnd pi
•M
]>(Mily o1'(l\»' )>«M>)>lt» oon\poNin^ ll»o nnlionM (M<ijng«Ml in lln-
s<r\ii?jL>l(\ oonM ho 1'oI1o>V(mI on< in \\\o tlrlnilM of op|m"j
Bion s\\u\ h\\\\oy\\\^ c\m\\oc{o\\ \\'\{\\ <m\ rolN^oiions. vnn li\
\ o.'H . oviMv <l\o linonoinl imumo would MioU(M» \ho lu^nri.
" \U\{ <l\o wMsto of /jyi' is « \\\v inoro lornn^lnhh^ rvil ^
hnll' n\illion i^r luin\!\n iMMnj^H. il is osfinwHotl. lunl Ik'oh
«l(^s<\o\ 0*1, l>y l>;H(lo or «lisoMHO. in <h(» ('rini^nn tMinliiot,
wlion tlio WMV Nv.MH iM^liovotl lo \\t\\o only )un) iJH lt(^^in
ning. *ri\(^ iVigliifnl onrnMfJo l>o<or(» or wiilnn i\w dcfcMim
o( Sol>Ms<o]>ol. Mnd il»!\l \v1\iol\ folKuvod in ll\o M»m»(1v
<oo(-prints onhat driv^dAil WMr, nil involving nntoM HMcri-
fuvs y'^i h\\\ niMV swi^ll (lu^ io(nl <o M lonrfnl smn. Hut
O'Ach lilV is i\M\not'(od \vi(h oiluMlivos, nnd fornm n link m
i\\o tl\Min »>r lunnan being anvl nyn»|mtl\ioH winoh ginllos
tlu^ old M-»M Id.
■ IKmuv M\«^ \vms((^ or/j<)»Wf.'» is frightOd. Tlu> Zimimvo
and iho Hidd.'indor. iluM'oHSMrU jnul 1'nrU, vtxch lw\,sn
\no{hor. i\ sisUM', ;\ wilo >sonnd>o«lv. in siun(M>l>N(Mn'o lioino
(o toUow lun\ \\'\{\\ i\ K>ving. Mnxions lionrt, io ihv (onicd
liold. juul tv> wooplutior loM',*s whrn war oIniniH Inni im its
viotiuu Ob, 0(>\dd tbo rnliM'N nnd .st.'d(^snuM» Avlumt^ miuIm-
tion is <bo ooonsion of bloody sfrifivs, ivi\co o»if ono by one
tbo dosv^latod hon\os of tboir soldiorv. nnd boar Mn> groans
v>f angnisb tbat go \\\^ from broken boards, as <lu> nn'ords
of tbo viojui distributo <boir woes an\t>ug (be nations, (hov
wowld pause before tbey
* l.<?t ilip iho y\ogn of wAr.'
" \y\\t the waste of morah is. [lerlm^vs, tlie darkest fea-
ture iu this catiiloguo of evils. ' War does more harm
IAN.
I tloMolnHdjis flf,
»n nl' wnr.
t«» ovilw Mini Wnr
<» n ppo|»|«» ov(i|.
I inillJoiiM or,{„|.
Mr. nixl »Mtlni|p,|
'luslrv t\\u\ prns.
M«M)m,^,M| in ilip
rii\'\h oC tt|»|)iPN.
looii(tn,i. v»'nr liy
nn«lnl)|(» r\ il i\
i.'Hod. liMii |)po|,
VinW'nti ronlliof,^
V Iwnl iJM Ito^if).
•tin <Im» «l('fot)pp„
in ibo 1»I,mkIv
nginifoM Htwvl
nrnl Nuni. Hm
ionuR n Hnl( „|
'H wliioh ginllos
I. 'I'ho Znu.'ivp
ool»N(>nro lionio,
'<, to (lio tonlcl
lUiMH liiin M.s iis
lMI wh()s(» Minlii-
in\i oiu» l)y 011,1
i(^ nations, thov
10 (lai'kost foa-
1^8 more Iiarui
MOllAI, Dir.VAHTATKfNa MF WAR.
125
'tho niitm
Iflof
tnoi
to n
II Minn nvnti to Mmir jii(»|M>ff,y n,n«l por
H,' HiiyH an on«i!HMit vvrit»M'. Ami nrioilinr rlmtMrlorizoq
l^ftH ' M. |.«nn|»uni,rv kPjuMil of nil Mio |it iiM>i|ilon n\' viitno.'
nriny, «'v«mi mnl«M tlio IiphI, riMninnrifl, 'm, nti'l mimt
a vumI, niUMPiy Mn<l linl, ImmI uI' •If'prnvily And Mn»
to of wMf iMMMiniPM, to Mm nntiori nn^nuod in i(,, |.Im» nlny
all lirnltlil'iil icrurniM, niifl Mh» IViiiMnJ MoniwM (»(' jMililic;
H(M'in
con
ii|ttion
|{,
n
i^ion wop|m nrnl wil,lior«
Wnnil < niriMl.iniiity nro lik»r tlin o|i|MiHil,M on»h fd* n, Imi-
lico, of wliicli ono \h (|o|MnHH»Ml l»y tlin ninvniion (»/' f,lio
ler.
lOr ^o wo not l»M('|f ln>yofnl Min roniiripncninnnl, of tlio
jRonI/ (••Mitury. Mow Ht»iiMlfl tl»n n'(r»r«l Hiriro (,li« ndvfril,
fcliiM nnHjiicinnH rra ? It Iwim Imuwi n cnntfiiy of pro^r f»cim,
thn dilliiHion of li^lit, of Mm oxtoriMJon oT rivili/ntion,
tln> M(lviUHMMn«»nt of ( 'liriHtiaiiity. ff, jq nr* n^»> or
[IroadH niid trln^rnpliH, of oxf,ondn<l fornrnnrco iirifl nrj
^god IVcodoin. And ynt fill tliiM fio(,wiMiH(,n,Hflin^, d^wnor-
[iifig and WMHtin^ vvniM. If, inHjiitn fd'nil Mmiwm forniid-
iUo <l!awl»M,cl<H to Hocial, civil, /uid rfdi^ioijq prot/rns.q, ho
niUcli IwiM Ikmwi a("c(»fripliHlmd, wlwit ini^lit lin,vo fm^ifi khiI-
iild Inul tlio vnst roHoiinicH wn.Htod in wnr l»of?n applied to
t|ie ]»roinoiion of tlio rciiJ ^ofxl of tlio nw;o ? And wfiaf,,
tlliider tlio roi^fi of univcfH>i,l \>(y,ii:f\ in»y wo cxpfvt wh^m
lllltion Hliall no nioro rino up a^ainnt nation, and loarn war
tlb inon/j'
But how HtandH tho war rccjud of tlio lant Hc.vcnty
yiarH? Tlio (Miiladolpliia L/^df/f'/r MtatoM tfiat tfioro fia^
lUH b(3on a Hiri|/I(» y»;ar ofontiro pcn/io H/nco tfiiw century
a fan. In tlio firnt fiftcion ycarM tliorf) wan war all ov*',r
ropo, «^xtondin(/ to tlii.H <;(;ntinc/it. [n Mh« nfjxt ten
yOftrs Moxi(;o, (Jontral.and South America were involvc.d.
In tho noxt twonty-fivo yoarn the t/rcat Kuro[>can power?*
Oftrriod on warn in Africa and A.sia, f'oljf,we,d by the (Ir'i-
mean war and other warw in varifMjH co(jntrie« of Kurope.
Since J 800, England has waged 49 warw, Franco 37, ftu«-
lU 21, Austria 12, and Pnmsia 7. All thi» do«H not in-
126
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
' I
elude the numerous revolutionary movements and intes-
tine struggles in both hemispheres, or our own Indian
wars or civil war, all of which occasioned great misery
and loss of life.
War is but the natural incubation of sin. The process,
as a high authority gives it, is this : " Lust, when it hath
conceived, bringeth forth Sin ; and Sin, when it is finished
(matured), bringeth forth Death." And not only does
sin produce Death in the regular course of nature, as dis-
ease or the natural decay of age numbers its victims with
the dead, but, not content with his sure and irresistible
ravages, as with his irreversible scythe he cuts down
every succeeding generation — he, through the ever restless,
wrangling fermentations of sin, effervescing in the dread-
ful evolutions of war, hastens his wholesale work of death
by maddening the heart of man to raise the murderous
hand against his brother, and by means of the terrific ap-
pliances of war, made as dreadful, terrible, and eflfective
as human skill and ingenuity, and Satanic malignity can
engender. It is not enough that Death pass upon all
men because all have sinned, but the grim monster must
be courted, provoked, maddened to deeds of cruelty by the
voracious demon of War.
Here, beyond controversy, is the most revolting incar-
nation of sin, and withal one of its most common develop-
ments. Like intemperance, fraud, oppres ' ^n, licentious-
ness, War is yet more emphatically Sin's own child. And
no wonder that in prophetic vision the cessation of wars
is made the prominent— the decisive prognostic of the
coming Millennium. " Swords shall be converted into
ploughshares, and spears into pruning-hooks, and nations
shall learn war no more." Christianity is an empire of
peace, though its advent among the nations is heralded
and its way prepared by war. Christ is the Prince of
Peace ; yet he says he came not to send peace on earth, but
a sword. So strongly entrenched is sin, and he that has
the power of sin, in all the relations of life — in all matters of
■ H Wii F ^qwi'Ma— an
CHRIST THE PUINCE OF PEACE.
127
business, and social intercourse, and in manners, customs,
ai)petites ; and so perfectly perverted have all these rela-
tioriH and Interests of life become, that the simple intro-
duction of a pure, peaceable, unselfish religion is received
as a hostile act — as a foreign element, and antagonistic
I element, a real antagonism, which awakens enmity and
the tinal hostility of wicked men and unchristian nations.
Hence envyings and strifes, jealousies and emulations —
hence wars and lightings.
We need not then be surprised at another dreadful
outbreak of war even in this favoured portion of the 19th
century. The Gospel of Peace had oeen so largely dif-
fused — the Prince of Peace so taken possession of the
g.^.t,h — the Bible so extensively circulated, and Christian
civilization and a living Christianity so advanced, we had
hoped that this most barbarous relic of barbarism would
cease among all civilized, and certainly among all Chris-
tian nations. But we have been again startled by the.
"confused noise of war and garments rolled in blood."
The late Franco-Prussian War, at the outset, threatened
to set all Europe in a blaze. It was one of the most
deadly conflicts that ever scourged the race. In four
weeks the number uf victims killed had swollen to two
hundred thousand, and more than twice that number of
prisoners. And in four months Prussia alone had taken
335,000 prisoners, and slain of her enemy an hundred and
fifty thousand.* The slain in a single battle had exceeded
the entire losses of the seven years of our Revolutionary
War. And could we follow each dread casualty of the
war to the bereaved homes, and witness the tears, the
mourning, the cruel bereavement of mothers, sisters, wives
— could we fathom the depth of sorrow inflicted, and the
myriads of homes made desolate — could we calculate the
amount of industry crippled, labour wasted and business
1! 1
'"b
4
m
* At Sedan, 135,000 prisoners taken by Prussians ; a^ Strasburg,
50,000, and at Metz, 170,000. *
128
THE FODT-IMUNTS OF SATAN.
ilornnj^od- «v>nl(l wn inonsnro (lio inngnitudo of Mio ovilnf
a sing1(» yonr's conllii't, wo hIiohM wriio down war hh \,y
dinvMi, (Mirso, hmvo o\u\ IhMl, our Awh lOnoiuy ever infliclcti
on M snfloving imimv
VVhil(» \v(^ cannoi. H\w\k doHniioly of Uu^ ooRt of iliis
war wluoli was (M»orn»ous, nor of Mm* Raorifico of Innniin
Hf(^ — wlncli was truly appalling, W(> may not Ikmo over
look its <'(f?f.sv', (ho .spirit and iuiiMit with whicli it wns
prosoi'utovl, and its irsitlfs. A nioniont's ron.sidoralion
of tlioso will rovoal tli(» n»al »nj/>>n/.'» oC tlii.s vnry unex
[)ootod strugglo, and will justify us in claHaing it among
the most oxtraordinarv war.s thai liavo ovor afHiotp«l tlu>
nations -jind probably the most far-roaching in its re
suits.
Thi^ first moving oaiiso of tho war may havo hopn
simply tho and)itii>n of Napoleon to distinguisli hinis(>l(
and aggrautlizo jiis ompiro. I^it Napoloon was tlio
" oldost son " of tho J\ipaoy, tho dofondiM- and ri^Hi,
arm o( Uonu» ; and, as instigated by the spirit of Honu',
he tlirew down the gauntlet Possibly, at hrst lie kiunv
not what he did. Hut thi» remarkabh* eoineidiuieo lio-
tween the proclamation v>f the l)ogn\aof Infallibility im\
the deolaraiiou of w\ar would seem to iden(,ify it from tho
ver\- first as a war between the !\'ipa('y and rrot(vstant-
ivsm. It wa.s a wanton, unrighteous attaek on PruNsi,),
ostensibly for dominion, but really, and as permitted bv
the great Uiihu' of nations, a war in defeuiu) of Ilonuv
" It is strange," says Bishop Simpson, writing from
Euro}H\ "that no sooner did the great (^)uneil dcM-Jaiv
the l\>pe infallible, than iho struggle hetwi^en Fraiuv
aiid P' yi^si-v began. Like thumler in a clear sky, caiuo
the proclamation of war, and strange (Uiough, France de-
clared it \vas a war between Protestantism and Roniim-
ism " — permitted on the part of Providence, we fain would
hope, to break the iron *' bands " and to " cast away tho
cords " by which Home has so long bound tlie natioius in
her thraldom.
I
A flwoiii) (loKTM nKroiir, rrrivt.
129
do of Min ovil of
»wii war MH Mio
ly ovor inllicioil
.1m> cosI, (»r tills
ri(icM» of Iniiiuiii
11 ol. hero over
I wliirli il, wiiN
fl oonsidomtioii
this vnry uii(>x
s.sin^ it niiKnijr
vvr niW'wM tlio
liitig ill iiH IV
nay liavo hopn
n^nish liiinsolf
)!oon WMH ilio
(l(M' and li^rli,
spirit of lloiiii',
t- Wrnii bo Uihmv
H)in(Md(>noo lio-
n fallibility iind
ify it from tlio
nd rrofcoHiMiit-
nk on PniM.siii,
I ponnittod bv
nn(!o of Homo.
writing from
^)l^^cil d(M'|{nv
'tvv(»on l^VaiKV
loar Hky, (•.■uiio
i^li, Franco do-
II and Uomaii-
, \V(»fain would
cast away tho
bbo natiouH in
Hilt, wo so© (\H yot but tbo )»o^inning of tbo ond. Tbo
hinos aro not distitiotly drawn- tbo oofitofidin// forcos not
lyot inarHballod. Yot tbo lirno no doubt basf.ffiM wbori tbo
Ipowors of ( 'briMt and Anticbrist mIwiII ninot fn,c«« to faoo in
jntitllo array, an<l tbo o?n» j/rnat final <'o?dliot Hball oomo.
jlf (IniHt bo Kin^, bo will vindirato bin ritrbt t<» df»fninion
L ho will Mo/ittor bis fooM -ln^ will ooiiMorrM' tboFFi witb tbo
Spirit of bis niontb — bo will doatn»y tbtMn witb tbo brigbt-
[nosH of bin ooniing.
Tho Hwonl ba.H in all agoH boon tbo tnigbfy powor of
|(J()d to brcMik down and n^rnovo out of tbo way wbatovor
oppoHotb bis onward pntgroHs, Ar bo inovoM on to oon-
Binninato bi.s purpoHos, a " Hword goolb boforo biin." And
!aH it vvn' liaH Immui, so it shall bo. Ah tb<^ lirios of F*rovi-
donoo oonvorgo, and bnnian affairs cnlininato to tboir groat
arid finaJ cotisuinniation, and as tbo art of war and its
ap))lian('0H boooino ni(>ro |)orfof^t and dostrncitivo, wo may
expoct ibis torrifio agoncy will boc.omo tonfold morfi tor-
rilio. So that wb<in tbo confodj'ratod foroos of ('brist and
tli(^ Antiobrist Rliall finally bo arrayod in doadly oombafc,
and tb(^ last groa.t orisis shall com(!, tbo conflict shall bo
di;arp, short and dnwidfully d(\structivo. fn sncli a uni-
vorHal, doadly Htrifo, W(? can mako no ostimato of tbo
rivers of blood tliat sball flow; tbo flood-gatos of grifif
tliat shall bo oponod; tbo bosts tlftit sliall bo slain, and
tho countless millions of troasun; tliat shall })0 expended.
Wo wait tbo dreadful issue — witb "fearful looking ff>r "
tbo yot more terrific conflict wbon tbo great and final
battle sliall bo fouglit.
Ibit before handing over to tlio future bist/onan the
dreadful drama just {)assed, in liorrors too painful to con-
tein])late, wo woubl ^ive a momentary glim[)3e of sorno of
tho appalling features of this dreadful onslaiigJit of war.
For where else can wo so surely discern the unmistakable
foot-prints of the great Destroyer ? If war b'j not tbo
instigation of tbo Devil, and that in wbicli bo fools a
peculiar zest, then we yield the [)oint that tbon> is a
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130
THE FOOT-PUINTS OF SATAN.
;!;iM
\ ',
hi, ]
ihji'
t 'if
!
I
iRit !•
Pcvil. For unless inovoii by n Rnirit from boncnth, no
mortal man would ever devise, instiguto, execute niid
glory in mich infernal devices and acts as are but tlin
conunon lot of war. The butcherieH, maimings, doatljs,
sufferings, bereavements of war, are not only inbuinnii,
s\iperhuman, but infernal — the issues of the Pit — tlio
legitimate incarnations of the apostasy — a genuine doviw
of that wisdom which is from beneath. Who will dor.bt
this that knows the history ot Libby Prison, Anderson-
ville, the Black Hole of Calcutta, and those hells on earth
created in war, not by men formed in the image of (lod,
but by men transformed into the likeness of Satan, and in
these acts given over to work the works of their father?
Wo will not cliargc humanity with so inhuman a crime,
The more than barbaric cruelties, tortures, protractivl
deaths perpetrated on prisoners of war, (to say nothitig of
the gross violation of the commonest usage of " honour-
able ' warfare,) were not the acts of men, but the doingn
of agenis acting — for the time, at least — under the inspini-
tion of the Devil.
The following paragraphs, penned by s[iectators of tlic
heart-sickening scenes which daily transpired on tlio
battlc-fieldvS in Europe, are but conunon illustrations of
the infernal doings of war. Yet it must be admitted that
this Franco-Prussian War has been more terrific in tlie
cjisualties of battle than of any ever waged before. Never
were battles so C^adly. Never wjis the ingenuity of man
'so taxed to perfect the art of killing. Not only the loss
of life has been uiuisually large, but the nmimed and
wounded count by thousands and thousands. Those who
fell in the field and found a ready death, were saved from
lingering tortures, the less favoured fate of the woundinl.
When applied to myriads of these sufferers, the c[)ithcts
"awful,' ••terrible," seem tame and inexpressive. The
fatality of the strife is vividly })iotured byacorrospoiulont
of the London Times. Writing from Floiviivillo, (?) near
Sedan, he says:
om iMnienth, nn
iiH arc but tlio
limings, Woatlis
oFily iiilminiiii,
tl>o Tit— tlio
goiniir.o dovico
yiio will (loulit
i.son, Andonsoi)-
n Iiolla on oartli
iiiiMgo of (Jod,
f Satan, atid i„
1* ilioir la til or?
nnian a orinic,
ires, protracted
Ray nothing of
^0 of •' lionour-
but the (loiu^r^
lertlio inBpira-
^ctators of tlip
spired on tlio
Ilu.strationH of
i admitted tliat
terrific in iha
before. Wovor
:cnuity of man
i only tlie kss
muimed and
^. Those who
sre saved from
the woundod.
, the epithets
)res8ive. The
[n)rres|)omlent
iville, (?) near
DESOLATION OF WAH.
ini
The appearance of the town of Pouj^y J cannot better
Icrihc tlian by s/iyiiig that it h)oked as if one great
mdorbolt had fallen upon and, in one moment, destroyed
iittcrly. The human bodies had by this tinie been re-
eved from the street, but the charred remains of helmets
„ shakos, and the stocks of rifles, with every liere and
;rc swords and bayonets, and every sort of weapon,
)wcd that while the flames were raging all around them,
the hcl))less women and children were literally being
jtcti alive in the houses and in the streets, tlie mai-
led cond)atants did i:ot cease fnmi the battle, but <lied
doubt in numbers, liennned in by the flames while
3y were fighting. It is almost impossible to realize
it Nuch things can have occurred in this age of civiliz.i-
>n, and that humanity and civilization and Christianity
nil<l be disgraced by honors that seem the A'^ery out-
ii'^.)fhell. It is like an evil dnam; but it is to be
Ipcd these terrible events will leave the world wiser for
future.
I" The completeness and suddenness of the destruction
jre evidenced by numberless little cinuimstancer- such
the burnt remains of birds and animals one would have
tpocted of all others to esca[)e — dogs and pigeons, and
^en cats in large numbers.
"Hundreds of the people betook themselves to the cel-
[rs, it is said, and there ])erished of suffocation. Nowhere
there an asylum for the miserable people — raging
inios and suflbcating smoke inside their houses, arid
liside falling walls and roofs, and men like fiends incar-
itc, fighting amid the flames and the blazing wreck.
"I walked about through the dreary streets. Here
id there wretched old men and Wf)rnen wore hanging
)out the ruins of their homes in a sort of stu[)()r apj)ar-
"ijllitly. Some of them were weeping and sobbing. *I
:|avo lived sixty-six years in this town,' (me poor fellow
Jaid to me : ' I was away from hr>me when this occurred,
ind now 1 don't know whether any of my family are left
i
p
HI
ins
mr, f\\\sr rmNiM or f«Ai an
fo uu\ or whollhM \\\o\ iHo not nil iMtrind ht lljoio,' |tniti{
\\\^ iw iUo \\\'\\\fi ol In M \\i)\\
H\^^ \\ woe o|> \\ V
W
Tho \
rUM^tHMM MMVO Hl'hUMi'il
f\M mIiu«*>4( tnnn((M t r.)*lo«l MUciT-iqioM of Mplt'Militl viclmi,,!
lif'ol 'V\\o K\\\\)\\o'.\\\ conoMpon.liMH o( (lw» Now \\\\\
V9i)u*s m\\^ {\\<,\{ {\\o t\\\i\\\ Mlinti>l»<iM ol" (l»i> HrrnmiiM in
iho lvM<<lo« fniun»<l M»»<7 hn-^ fjoul t» I Id ill ol" limrni' lluittiiil
TvUHMii^ \\\\\\ Sm\oh\ Thoir losqos mI IIimI plncp mIouo tni<
N!\i<) f«> t>o t\o( \o'^H {\\i\\\ ono lnin«lti«<l ilionMintM nl' Hkmi
U^'jnosi Mi\(l l>o«< turn Tho ||o\v«m ulilio I'rnMHiMU tmnv
in»'l\i.lit\!j <l\o u»Mj);tn(iiMMH i ojmioouIm »»( lloi lin. lltinh|pnlMiij>
Mn«l l\>nwMMni(\. ootnn\(\M'»Ml \\\ \\\o \(Mm^ noltlpinoii nf
(ho Uiuj^xloin. »ut» n! iohI in\tnl\ilMlotl All llnlin jm in
^uonnnnjL). nwA (hoiM» is h;n<ll\ omo oI" {1w> noltli* rtnniiiiw,
<l\Mi ]\Mv» tu>( l>i>on '^h it'Kon down wiil» sonow unil ^r\\o\
t\i {\w loMM of MonuMt^lnrivo in <luMn nn Mnoli. mIum. iw (Iii>
ssnl l\.'n o«' of WMV ' "
An*! <hi^ 1\m«I moju-i'oIv hoon mIIo\\«mI n pornmil when
nnoilhM" nMM<Ml. no< {\\o Iohm rovollin^r. lollowoil Incidrni,
of (ho ^on1^;^^^^n^on^ of Ho!n»!jono\ hv I ho rruHPinUM nio
finis »lopivHo\l h\ fho s.-nno oonoMpomlonl :
" An tnnnonwo tnjtnhfM- of nIuOIm loll inlo tin* (\>uv(>ii(
»h^s r\s\»]in<vs Tho timI ot><HN \\t\^ wmm llixHinj.) ovim i|
i\\\y\ o\ov i\\\ tho ho"^pi<Ml'i. hnl no poii of I ho (own w.is
sjvvixsl ^h\o sl\oll h\\VH{ \u {\w hM>n> . I' (ho ooIIojjo. wliicli
was or.nnnuNl \\\\\\ >vo\n\<lo«l 'V\\o \\holo(own wmh n vms(
h^^s^^i( il. :\\\y\ {hovo \\ i\H o\\\\ ono «loo(or onphhlo of p«M-
tovnnuj^ Mnipnlnlion.s In (ho (hoMdo MJom* wor(» npWMnl
of iiiH^ ^iospor.'Ut^ly >vonn«h^J mow I( w mm m Mcono w hioh
(]\oso \> ]\o sp<vnk li^hdv o( wtw shoiiM hnvi* wilni^MMcd
\Vv>nKl 'h.-u <hos<^ \v)h> h*>]*l n\ i\\o\\ hnndM (ho powoi- (o
n\;»ko |>(\'\oo oo\iKi \\n\o soon i( hn- (i\o nnini(vM! 'V\\v\v
\\i\s no vi v<v^v for ni.Mnv ho\nM in (ho pl.Moiv Tho ooM
>v;^,s intonso. i\\\\\ niMny i\ wvaw'h \\(o slippo*! nwny finm
(liow boiWii no owo s\jtViiM<MUly sl\illo«l (o hin«l up his
^Vv^un^^s Th»^ tioaii Iny (hiok anuuig (ho «lyin,o, ivwd ns
'F-
N.
Ill Minto,' |Miiiif
^ luiAO f»i<lti(.v..,|
It'MtlitI virji.ii,,
I Inl M(»i'»ilii>i. ,,(
i\\o Ni>\v VmiL
»<» HninnhM n,
lit'irnr j.||iniij,||
llMIMIll .)(' ||„,|,
rinMHinii niiin
n. I'imihIpiiIxii;
|J lioMniniMi ui
li l^'ilin JM ill
ll»tl»li> rmiiiliii.,
I'"»\v («Mi| f,rii,>|
K'lt. »ilnM. In III,,
pnruMMl wlinii
• >'l liiriilnil',
rillMMiiniM !||(>
<Im> < '(ttlM>||(
titiu^r ovor i(
In* (own \v,|,s
'''»II'*K»\ wlnVh
Wll WMM n V.'isl
|tnl»lo ol' |t(M
woro iipw.-nd
••<«'ono wliirh
VO WJllUVSMcl
I ho |M>w«>r (o
uIoh! TIumv
'«v Tli<» roM
I nwMV iVoiu
ImiuI up his
.vin^. nihl a.s
THK. I)I;AI» ANII THI^) WdUNMliiM
1 JUI
'I;
•1'^
1^ lonMor \v»Mo (Irny^r'il nnl, flioir plnpoq woip liifllntiMv
1(1(1 MJRiMnltIo t»l)j»M'lfl, Willi ItlnluMl jflWfl nl Oii'PR llfllC
i(ii' nwiiy. wiiiiiloroil iiIhmiI. puinl.iiit^ In IImmi «lri>rniriil
Imiii'Im. mikI niiiKiiit^ pilouus RimmlM Ini n-iil.»«t, wliidi il,
m iiiipt>HHil»lt» I'll IImmii <<» M\V(illt»\v <MliiMMn nn»l ni»>n,
lioiMiiM Mti*l Imiv^. mII liiy ill <iiio iii(llM(iii^iiiMlifiltl«> mhimm
nii'^i'iv. lOvciN- iiutdii I lull iJio liiimiifi vuii>»' i>Mfi iill.oi
m» iVoiii I. lull li'Mip nl' Mfjitiiy. fihil llio i'tj»»q nl ' Wnlf>r I
{)\- I lie lovo (►r U(mI, wjitiM ! A fliMilor ! A davXinl*
)VOr «MMIM(>l|
"Tlio IIimI- Ihmiho ill |,|i«» plnr«» WMfl «. ' IN'hMioii j|«» .Imiiiimm
(ii(>M * I (1(111*1, lliiiik Mini, niiy nl* |.|h> ImirniM nl' w>ii <|p
^^|(«l liy ilip liiilliliil pPiiM nl' l*]|('l< iiiiinii ('lifilrinn Imivm
lUfiili'd wlifil. Mini liniiHP pniilnitHMl I'lvnry i<M»m (fiii*!
jer(> \von> ninny), I'l-nni Mipcplljir l.n Mm> innl', wmm «'»nw«l«"l
pill (|(Mi(l (iihI hIiii viii|Lr nn«n, lyin^ ho Miicl< Mini il. vvim
lpiiM<(il)l(^ li> ninvo nnmii^ IImmii MiiitM> liml lM>(>n MioK*
tH>(> TiK'Mdiiy ovciiiiiir, iiiiiny hiimm* Wodin^M^lMy II' wom
IW Siitnulfiy, nnd ind, nn«» «h(»p nl" wn,l.«>r, Mnl. nitf) n.lntu
{\hh\, liJid yt'l. piiMH(>fl l,lM«ii lipM. Mniiy vvim »|pHppiM,M<ly
oninlod. yot Mtill nliv«v 'I Immo wkio h«>v«»im,I niVti'hm
nmif/ iJiom, niin l,«>ii(|(>rly nniHod liy »i, l»if»l<nn l«*t(t/''l
>rg<'Miil nl' liiM n»^iim«iil., wlin Ini,!) <invnnMl liiin wiMi liiq
m colli. Tlio wih<lnwH nl' l,|in liniiMP Inui l»»»oii lunkon,
kI Mior(» WMM ill) riiiiiil.iiio, n,inl all MioqM day^ nnd nit^dilM
hIiiiomI AiM'lio onid iJiny had Imioh lyintA <ni M»o hnin
)(ir. vvilh Uioii' wniindH iindioR.qod. Tho Hl,»«nrh w>m
'^I'u'. I')v(>iy Ikhiho ill iIm^ vill/i{/»^ w/im IJiorimiimv hi on*)
K)iii wori* l.vv«dvo itv Iniiil/^M'ii mon, iiniriy nl" Uiom <.ni]>'^<\^ I
N)iM(» Hl,ill ! Oiin pnnr hi,d wm,h lyin^ iilniio, «h»<|, l,hi.;ti;/li
10 llii^di. ('old and linn^or had in iJiroo dnypi irwido him
10 wuml piliMiiiM nhjocl, I i^vor hohoM. II 14 vvoid^, ' QurJ,
Viiln'Kr /' whoii ho ro«i,li/od l.hni, n, hiiiniui hio.o wnn noar
liin. will iiovor ho ror|/nl,lo,n hy Uioko whn hoz-rd him.
Chat nitjhl, a kind (/hlan d*M*,lor vnlunl-oorod ♦/> l»ind up a
&w of iJio woihI, of l,ho wnunrlH, io onahio Uio rrio/i Ut fio
PAnspoitod, hut ho had unthi/ig wiUi Ijiiii hub a pair of
I I
II
i
134
THE FCOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
scissors and some pins. Fortunately the resources of th.
English Society did not fail, and most of the sufferer,
were removed during the night or on the following diw
to the Convent des IJrsulines at Beaugency."
" War, at best, is barbarous." It claims kindred witt
the Pit, whore are wars and lightings, hatred and >strifi;
The rule of a pure Christianity i? the rule of the PriiK^
of Peace. The events daily occurring in the prostcutiof
of the struggle between France and Germany, sliuuli
suffice to make all nations dread the very mention of war
in all time to come, and stigmatize it as the work of tlit
Wicked One.
Notwithstanding the manifest superiority of the Gor
mans, and the victories which they have uniformly gaineil
in all regular engagements and pitched battles, the ex
penses of the war and tiie exhaustion of the contest ^Vl'lf
literally wearing the people out. The Germans were ml
to have a million of men in the field, and the drain on tlh
industry of the various States was enormous. One laive
iron establishment, which before the war employed ton
thousand workmen, had not now more than a quarter h
many hundreds. Mr. Wells, United States Revenue
Commissioner, estimates that the cost of the war to Ger-
many could not be less than a thousand million dollar,
while that of France wa« probably three times as great
The invaded provinces suifered loss to the amount of eight
hundred millions, and the sacrifice in manufactures wiis
still more terrible. One-fourth of the entire population
of Paris is said to be engaged in such pursuits, and as all
departments of industry suspended work, excepting those
which were essentially warlike, the effect could not but
be seriously felt throughout the entire commercial world
The prostration of productive industry was terrific. In
the German States it fell off thirty per cent., and in Prus-
sia the loss was said to be still greater. It entails sore
distress upon all her interests.
In a single battle, that of Sedan, 200,000 French were
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WAK DEMORALIZING.
135
3 resources of tli.
i of the sufferer,
he following d^^
ncy."
tns kindred vf\{\
latred and strift
ulo of the Priin,
the prostcutio^
Germany, shoul,]
y mention of war
the work of tlit
)rity of the Ger-
uniformly gained
battles, the ex-
the contest were
ermans were saij
the drain on tli^
aous. One lanre
ir employed ton
lan a quarter iij
States Revenue
the war to Ger-
[ million dollar,
i times as great
I amount of eight
lar^^ufactures \\%
ntire population
suits, and as all
, excepting those
i could not but
mmerciai world
was terrific. In
nt., and in Prus-
It entails sore
00 French were
was
ipposcd to 300,000 Prussians. The line of battle
Ive miles long ; 250 mitrailleuses answered the Prussian
irtillery. Five villages were burned. The Meuse was
(hoked up with corpses. The losses were frightful ; they
ire estimated at 80,000 killed and wounded. What a
[ommentary upon war ! God grant that the time may
oon come when nation shall no more rise against nation,
i)ut when swords shall be beaten into ploughshares, and
Ipears into pruning-hooks, and the mild and beneficent
" rn of the Prince of Peace shall universally prevail.
Jut let us look at another feature of war; we mean its
lemoralizing character. War is the prostration of nation-
well as of social and individual morality. War
as
eeps no Sabbaths— regards no moral precepts— has no
tooral principles — does not cherish a single moral virtue
or Christian grace. Its spirit is revengeful, hateful, ma-
lignant. It is the spirit of murder, theft, and rapine,
very footstep of Mars may be traced in blood. Cruelty,
ivatre ferocity and wholesale murder are the boast of war.
he theatre of war is the hot-bed of infidelity, of licen-
iousness, intemperance, vice, and crime of every name and
agree.
Perhaps there never was a war more pure both in its
otives and in its execution than our Revolutionary war ;
et that war left our nation little better than a nation of
fidels. The eight years of its duration sowpd more of
ihe seeds of immorality than the whole previous period of
our colonial existence,
Suj)pose our nation at war with some foreign power :
what would be the moral influence on our countrymen ?
First of all, the mind of Caq nation is put into a ferment,
and absorbed in the all-absorbing theme. Religious re-
straints are at once weakened, if not removed ; the influ-
ences of the Spirit restrained, our Sabbaths profaned, our
sanctuaries converted into hospitals or prisons, our bene-
volent enterprises deranged and restricted, if not suspend-
ed, our youth coiTupted, our systems of education broken
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136
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
up, and every means of promoting the morality of a peo-
pie trodden beneath the vandal feet of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte was wont to say, " to make a good
soldier you must first corrupt him." So to make a war-
like nation you must first make that nation corrupt. We
could have no hope that fifty years would repair the
moral mischiefs of a five years' war.
The history of Christendom furnishes ample, humiliat-
ing proof of these positions. The wars of the Reformation,
destroying no less than thirty millions of lives, put a stop
to the progress of that glorious reform which Luther had
so nobly begun. A like result followed more or less the
religious wars in England and Scotland. The blessed revi-
vals in our own country, commencing in 1739 under the
labours of Whitefield, came to an end at the^outbreakingof
the first French war in 1744; and from that time till long
after the close of our Revolutionary contest, those Heaven-
sent refreshings were *' like angel visits — few, and far
between." The degeneracy of New England, greatly
accelerated by those wars, has continued to this day ; and
never, till the millennium, will even the land of the Pil-
grims regain those moral and religious habits which she
had in the halcyon days of her forefathers.
We need only recur to the common conviction in regard
to the demoralizing character of war. We look on army
life as contaminating above any other position or service,
If a friend^ or neighbour has a son who has served for any
length of time in the army and returned to his home un-
contaminated, we congratulate the parents as especially
favoured. But why is camp life and the pursuits of war
so unfavourable to good morals ? Not surely because the
dread realities of war are not dreadful enough to lead to
the most solemn reflection and to tb s most earnest Christ-
ian life. It certainly behoves ti le soldier, above all
other men, to be prepared for suddei " ^ath. In a moment
he thinks not of, he is summoned before the Judge of all.
And how can he be thoughtless ; how can he yield to
N.
orality of a peo-
ir.
* to make a good
to make a war-
ion corrupt. We
ould repair the
ample, humiliat-
the Reformation,
lives, put a stop
hich Luther had
more or less the
rhe blessed revi-
1739 under the
le^outbreakingof
lat time till long
t, those Heaven-
-s — few, and far
Ingland, greatly
to this day ; and
I land of the Pil-
labits which she
s.
viction in regard
Jq look on army
sition or service.
IS served for any
to his home un-
ats as especially
pursuits of war
rely because the
nough to lead to
b earnest Christ-
Idler, above all
;h. In a moment
the Judge of all
can he yield to
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137
jmptationa, and riot in ains tlio nioRt gross and bonvcn-
krin^ ? Oamliling, drunkcnnp.sH, profatiity, linontious-
lesH are l>ut plants of tlio coinnion(\st growtli on the
jntod Held. Here you meet the hot-hed (»!' iniijuity. And
11 this in defiance of faithful chaplains, IJihIes, tracts,
iirious books, the earnest labours of colporteurs, nurses,
„ 1 a few pious officers and soldiers. We can in no way
[ccount for the peculiar depravity of a soldier's life excent
[n the ground that war is peculiarly the Devil's work;
tnd his Satanic Majesty claims some peculiar dominion
)vor all therein engaged. Hence the special temptations
)f the mibtary life.
War is most decidedly antagonistic to all moral and
iligious inlluences. It distracts the mind, and hjirdens
in<l corrupts tbe heart, and dis(iualiHos men for a saving
•ecoption of the gospel. It generates ignorance and intt- '
ielity. It produces a general disregard and contempt of
religion. It is a vast hot-bed of intemperance. It reeks
with the foulest licentiousness. It multiplies every species
[of vice and crime. ^
War also withholds the means of grace, i he five mil-
llions of soldiers now in Christendom, it deprives even in
[peace of nearly all religious privileges. It gives them no
feible ; it allows them no Sabbath ; it provides for them
no sanctuary ; it does not even insure to them the rights
of conscience. It treats them as so many brutes or ma-
chines.
War tends, likewise, to destroy the efficacy of the best
means of grace. It blinds or steels mankind against their
power. It debases the understanding, and sears the con-
science, and turns the heart into flirt, and hardens the
whole soul against the truth and Spirit of God. Could
you, with any hope of success, preach the gospel to men all
ablaze with the passions of war ? As well might you
think of reaping a harvest from seed sown upon an ocean
of fire War is the work of demons incarnate ; a battle
is a temporary hell ; and could you make the whole earth
r\
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THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
ono vast battlo-i'u^ld, it would tliiis boronioan outer court
a ])ortioo to p(>r(litioii. Kindlo tlio war-llamo in ovor^
bosom, and from tluit momontnnist the work of.salvatiiir
oca«e ovory wluno ; nor over could it begin again, till tiiny
fires were more or less iiuencluKl. |
The ease is plain. Does not war engros.s and exaHporiitc
the publie mind ? Are not its fleets and armies so nmiu
caldrons of wrath boiling with animosity, malevoliMn,
and revenge? Does it not cover the land with a sortoi
moral malaria infecting more or less the life-blood ,
almost every soul ? Does it not pour over empires a gulf
stieam of the foulest vices and the fiercest [)asai()nH;
Does it not accumulate a mass of abominations that drive
the Holy Spirit from his work of renewing and sanctifv
ing the hearts of men ? Let the war-cry ring from Maiiii
to Florida, from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains; lot
the bitter, reckless strife of war-parties divide, exjivSpcrati!
and convulse this whole nation ; let the war-spirit por-
vade our halls of legislation, and our seminaries of learn-
ing, every '^hurch and family, every pulpit, periodical and
newspaper ; let recruiting rendezvous be in every consi-
derable town, and encampments of soldiers in every section,
and war-ships anch >red in our harbours, and armies maroh-
ing in every direction through the country, and battle-
fires lighted among our hills and valleys, and every mail
filled with news of victory or defeat, conspire to keep tlio
public mind continually stretched to its utmost tether of
interest in the progress of the war ; and how soon would
the S[)irit of God fly from such " realms of noise and
strife," to return no more for years !
And what a lesson does war teach the imevangelized
nations ! It fills them with prejudices well-nigh invincible.
They see the history of Christendom wi'itten in blood; fleets
and armies, under Christian banners, burning villages,
plundering cities, and ravaging whole empires with fire and
sword. They regard Christianity as a religion of blood,
and its followers as aiming solely at conquest, plunder and
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AN.
rHuin outer r,),j,
[r-ihum) in ovor,
vvorlc ofsalvati.,;
I" ^ig.'iiii, tilJ tJ„„
i« 'ind oxaN,K.r;,t,
/innies «„ „,,„^
fcy, lualovoloi,,;
I'y ^•thas.utof
'^^> Iifo-blo,>,| '
•*''^'««t [)aNsi„„,s,
><^'<>nM that ,j,.^.^
'g «inJ sanctify.
»'n>g from Mui,;,
r Mountains; let
vulo, oxasjxTate
. war-spirit por.
inaries of loa,,,.
t, periodical aiij
in every coiisi- I
in every section
i armies maivh'
^y> and battlo.
ind every mail
n-e to keep tlio
tmost tetlier of
nv soon would
' of noise and
imevangelized
|gh invincible,
in blood; fleets
fling villages,
^ with fire and
'ion of bJood,
^, plunder and
WAU CJONTIUDICTS CHIILSTIANITY.
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)Owor. Its protcnRiona of p^Mico tboy H|>urn aa base, airant
lypocrisv. Its name rin^s in their vnv as the knell of
bheir own ruin. Tliey hate it, they scorn it, tliey dnwul it,
they arm tliemselves against it ; all because the wars of
llhristendom have belied its real character. All othi^r
..luses puttogether, except depravity, have scarcely tlirown
JO many obstac'(^s in the way of evangelizing the world ;
jttid never, till this chief obstruction is removed, can you
(construct a great moral railway on which the car of sal-
ivation shall roll in triun)ph over the whole earth.
But we should find no end of showing how the practice
[of war cripples the moral energies of the Church ; d(5-
bascs her in the sight of man and of God ; hangeth upon her
'like a manunoth incubus ; retards the world's promised
I salvation, and stands an imj)assable barrier against an ex-
Ipected millennium.
I Can Christians then l)e indifferent to war ? Can they bo
'otherwise than friends of pe; e ? Can they stand uneon-
cerned and see the cloud of war lower and gather black-
ness, and not be instant in prayer that the Ood of nations,
and the Prince of Peace, will avert such a national curse ?
" Let us have peace."
There is no necesaity of War, and no benefit to be de-
rived from it which may not be better secured by other
means. There is no more need of fighting to settle a na-
tional dispute than a private one. Sober, well-disposed
individuals feel no necessity of aj)pealing to arms to settle
their controversies. Nor would nations, were they to
act on the same principles. Two honourable, high-
minded men have a misundeT-standing — a dispute. But
they would quite forget themselves were they in hot
blood to resort to fisticuffs, the dirk, or the pistol. Thej/
would negotiate, explain, concede, and, if need be, arbi-
trate. So will honourable, higl^-minded nations a<'t To
act otherwise is to imitate, not honourable men, but fool-
hardy duellists.
Hen or nations may get their blood hot and fight,
140
THE FOOT-PMNra OP SATAN.
side but irntated passions on hothff^^""' °" ^'ther
and animosity— the wastP nf •»■ '''®^' ™"tual hatred
Sfom"'*^"^ °f 'hrsan<£'oTfcT tf P^^P^'^ th
jant of thousands of widow, »n!i ?' *''® ^"^ and the
ciety and the nation have oU^l ^'^'^'> ^^^ fiends so
tamely yield to a vile I^S^ "« ^^^'^^ ^e may not"
in no case may we ht fr ^ "^^^ ^^^ no claims Rnf
Wv •'^ 1^''"^° 'hi rt '-*J7 -d drive the h™'
Wty m his hideous work *^ ^* ''^''•5' <=«t»in. very
«« has been faintiy portrayed Thf T' ^ '"'='* '^'^ «^il
•f «^ vea, the question of duty is
ALL WAR SHOULD BE AVOIDED.
141
)lain. No friend of humanity, to say nothing of the
jatriot and Christian, can give the lease countenance to
this scourge of his race. He will deprecate it in his prayers
—he will himself lead a peaceable life — he will be the ad-
/ocate and friend of peace. He will do all in his power to
jontribute his share to create a wholesome public sentiment
)n this subject. And perhaps in no other way can the
patriot and the Christian, in a nation like ours, more
iff'ectually serve his country. We are not, and may never
fbe without men in high official stations, whose interest
or whose hot blood and indiscretion would not, at almost
any time, plunge us into a war. And what hinders that
they should do so ? Nothing, humanly speaking, but
the prevalence of an overpowering public sentiment against
it. To this our rulers are obliged to bow. And though
submission to public sentiment is obviously becoming
more irksome to them than it was in the days of a truer
Ipaoriotism, yet bow to it they still must. They cannot*
have a war without, or contrary to, the will of the people.
Some would plunge us into a war for party purposes ; some
for purposes of ambition or private interest, or to gain no-
toriety for themselves or others under a show of reputed
philanthropy.
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VII.
INTEMPERANCE.
THE SECOND GREAT TERRIFIC AGENCY FOR EVIL — A. STRONG-
HOLD OF THE DEVIL — ITS COST OF MONEY 4ND LIFE : IN
AMERICA, IN THE CITIES OF NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA,
CHICAGO — IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE — INFLUENCE ON
LABOUR AND INDUSTRY — ON MORALS — THE INTRODUC-
TION OF OPIUM AND ITS EVIL.
We have traced the bloody footsteps of the Foe as he
goes forth destroying and to de ^troy, in the horrible en-
ginery of war. We here direct attention to another line
of his devastations and ruins among the sons of men : a
line along which lie not less thickly strewn the trophies
of his direful reign. We speak of Intemperance. We
shall see, from a few selected examples, what a power for
evil in the hands of our worst Enemy is the use of in-
toxicating drinks.
We shall name a few of the specifications in the count
before us, showing some of the ways in which Intemper-
ance is not among the least of the strongholds of the
Devil — a fearful power for eviV and consequently a choice
device with its Author and linisher. And
I. Intemperance works the destruction of an immense
amount of property, and is the inveterate foe of human
,1
5/VLE //
riL — A. STRONG-
r ^^D LIFE: IN
PHILADELPHIA,
INFLUENCE ON
DHE INTRODUC-
if the Foe as he
lie horrible en-
to another line
sons of men : a
m the trophies
aperance. We
lat a power for
3 the use of in-
is in the count
tiich Intemper-
ngholds of the
uently a choice
[
of an immense
J foe of human
^
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STATISTICS OF INTEMPERANCE.
143
M
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Justry. This appalling evil costs our nation hundreds
millions annually. And it is a growing evil. Its on-
ird march for the last ten years has been truly appal-
Dr. Hargrave, the eminent statistician of Pennsylvania,
an essay on this subject, presents the following figures:
Y the census of 1870 we find there were distilled in
je United States, 80,002,797 gallons of spirituous liquors,
\hich, if sold by retail, would bring the sum of $016,020,-
r9." It is settled by all the writers I have seen on the
ibject, that rectifiers, wholesale dealers and retailers ad-
Iterate and compound at the rate of from two to four
lions for every one of distilled spirits, added between
le still and the bottle and glass of the consumer — say
\\it two for one. And add the imported spirituous li-
jors at retail figures, and we have $1,864,523,688 for
nrituous liquors in one year. '* The same year there
rere brewed in the United States 5,114,140 barrels of
jrmented liquors, which at retail prices would bring-
Sl23,000,000." Add the imported at retail price, $2,526,-
160 ; add the imported wine of the same period at retail
ires, $15,676,635, and then say that our home wine
Lnly amounts to the same, which is very far below the
rures, for the Cincinnati Gazette said, two years ago, that
)hio made twice as much wJne as was imported into the
fnited States, and we have $31,353,270, giving the over-
whelming grand total for drinks, $2,020,403,624.
To comprehend the magnitude of the cost of intoxi-
iting drinks, let us go one step further and compare its
Bost with some of the necessary productions of the coun-
By the census of 1870, we find the value of the six
leading productions of the country were flour and meal,
^524,000,000; cotton goods, $115,000,000; boots and
[shoes, $90,000,000 ; clothing, $70,000,000 ; woollen goods,
($69,000,000; books, newspapers and job printing, $42,-
000,000. Total, $910,000,000. Thus we have the appal-
t!
ii.
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144
THK FOOT-riUNTS OF 8ATAN.
ill
ling fact, thnt tho cont of liqiiors to drinkor^ iti oru> yonr
wn« J$I,ll(),4(KS,()24 luoro tl)aii the value of all the i|,„ir
and meal, eotton goodw, hoots a»ul shoes, woollen goo,]^
clothing, jvnd printing of hooka, newspapers, and up
other puhlioations in tho United States for the .siiiin
year.
The aetual net eost of intoxicating dritdcs in the ITiiiti,!
States for a single venrwc have seen to he $*2,()2(),4().S,()'J4
V Time lost hy drinking men, $7n}),()2(),r>7!). (\)st of criine
caused hy ititemperanee, $87,8(H),()()(). Cost of pMe.por.
ism, $27,OO0,()()(). Cost of litigation and |)risons, $241,.
()()0,()()0. The total proximate cost of intempernnoo,
therefore, in the United States for a single year is
$3,0l5,i>24,2()().
The civil and diplomatic expenses for 1802 were $\] .
59,5,188 ; ami for 181)3 were *ll,()(l(),i;i8. Thus the poo.
pie t.MX themselves over twt) hmidred times as much for
intemperance .as the ordinary cost of the United Stiitos
government. All the extraordinary appropriations for
the government, including army and navy expenses, for
1802, were $;n 3,20 1,029; and for 1803, $882,288,800,
During these two years of tcrrihle war, raising anujos,
equipping and clothing, ship-huilding and fortifying, the
ex|)enses of intemperance for one year were $1,81}),72I],-
777 more than all tho war expenses of tho nation for tluwe
two eventful years.
If each of 140,000 licensed rum-sellers in the United
States have twenty customers daily, then we have 2,807,-
000 tipplers on the direct route to a drunkard's doom,
And, as we may calcidate that one out of every thircy of
these will, in the course of the year, become a confirmed
inebriate, we have annually added to the disgraceful cori)8
933,574 confirmed sots.
And yet more appalling is the record of 1870. Hon.
David A. Wells, Special Commissioner of Revenue, gives
us stiitistics which we fain would believe an exaggeration,
did not the stubborn facts already stated pronounce the
N.
:mu
INTKMrElUNCF. AN!) liAHOUU.
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|P"IHM-H, and ,,j|
i^ '*<>»• tho N,,I,|,, ,
|f« in tlio IJ„iy
^ C'oNfcuf en,,,,,' '
■Ost of pJMjpo,,
[pnHfUKs, $241.
infcotn|MMvinoo
Hingle year ,«'
^(j2 w'oro $11.
"nni.s tlio pc).
OS ns nincli for
United «t„t^,,
)i*opnati{)n.s fo,
y cxponsos, for
raising ariiuVs
fortifyin^ir^ the
lation for tlio^e
in tlie Unilod
^Q liave 2,N()7^.
nkard's dooiii,
vary tliircy of
10 a confirmed
'graceful cor[)s
' 1870. Hon.
evenue, gives
exaggeration,
fonounce the
fholc aH but too true. " The value," lie says, " of the
)tail liquor sales, that is, tho firnt cost to customers,
jaclioH in a singlo year theeuornious sum (jf $1,483,4})!,-
J5, being $43 for ovory man, woman and child in tho
mntry." It is very nearly one-eighth of tho (;oHt of all
le increhandiso (ificluding the wholesale of liquors) l)y
rhol<*HaIe and retail dealers, auctioneers and connnereial
irokers during the same ptTiod, which was $11,870,337,-
|05. It is more than tho entire product of precious
letals from all tho States and Territories west of tho
tocky Mountains for twenty years, from 1848 to 1868.
[r. J. RoHS Browne, in his recent report to tho Secre-
iry of tho Treasury, estimates it at $1,165,502,848. One
I horror-stncken at tho Jiggregato of this gigantic powor
^r evil which these figures indicato.
There are to-day 400,000 more men engaged in tho
lanufacturo and sale of intoxicating liquors than there
ire in preaching the gospel, and in ail tho departments of
jducation tho country through.
The statistics of intemperance never can be com[)iled.
^e can only approximate to the evils resulting from tho
Bale of liquor ; 60,000 annually destroyed; 100,000 men
md women sent to prison; 200,000 children to poor-
louses and charitable institutions ; 600,000 drunkards —
)11 a sad hut small portion of the story. The destniction
jof intellect and of soul cannot be com[)uted. The sorrows
[and burdens of worse than widows and orphans surpass
[all arithmetical calculation. The loss in tho deterioration
of labour alone, among the moderate drinkers, cannot bo
[less than $1,500,000,000. The amount spent for liquors,
wholesale and retail, exceeds $1,000,000,000 — all worse
than wasted. Add to this the cost of supporting the crimi-
nals and paupers, the cost of manufacturOj of price of grain
hops, etc., which amounts to more than as much more
and we have over two thousand million dollars in these
items alone.
Or take a single State. Let it be that of Now York
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THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
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And how stands the dread account here ? The Jirst cost
of the liquors annually consumed we find put down at
$240,607,000.* And this is but an item. Suppose we
add to this but one other, the waste of time and produc-
tive labour, and the account is fearful. According to the
census the population of the State of New York was esti-
mated to be 3,831,777. Number of drunkards, (sots,) 8,340.
Value of yearly lost time to the State by drunkards
(sots,) at $1.00 per day, $2,600,310. Value of lost time
durinjT their lives, $113,012,977. Number of regular
drinkers, 83,400. Value of lost time to State, (their lives
being shortened twenty-two years, and their sickness in-
creaser twenty-two and a half days each year,) $13,677,-
600. /alue of time lost during their lives, $603,065,400.
Totnl value of the yeiirly lost time to the State from the
habitual use of alcoholic liquors, $16,257,920. Total value
of the lost time during the lives of habitual drinkers,
$715,878,380. The loss to the State by occasional drink-
ing has not been estimated. This statement shows but a
small part of the actual loss from intemperance. The cost
of the poverty which seeks shelter in the almshouse — of
the crime which employs an army of law officers — ^has not
been added to these startling statistics.
The deterioration oflahcur is a telling item in the ac-
count before us :
The ^lessrs. Ames, of north-eastern Massachusetts, who
employ about four hundred men in the manufacturing
basiness, certify that, under the operation of the license
law, when their men had free access to liquor, the product
of their work fell off 14 per cent, from what it was under
the pmhibitor}' law, when no liquor was sold in their
vicinity. This ratio would make at least fifty millions
* This is more than $G0 for each man, woman and child in the State.
Or were we to assess upon our entire population the grand total cost of
intoxicating drinks in the country, we should be obliged to levy on each
man, woman and child a tax of forty dollars. Tn the State of New York
are 21,242 licensed rum-shopii and 6,750 churches,
umm
mm
Thejirst cost
put down at
Suppose We
e and produc.
icoiding to the
fork was esti-
s, (sots,) 8,340.
by drunkards,
^ of lost time
'r of regular
te, (their lives
r sickness in-
Jar,) $13,677,-
$603,065,400.
^ate from the
• Total value
ual drinkers,
Jsional drink-
) shows but a
ice. The cost
Imshouse— of
cers— has not
em in the ac-
musetts, who
anufacturing
f the license
, the product
it was under
sold in their
i% millions
Id in the State.
nd total cost of
to levy on each
;e of New York
THE DETERIORATION OF LABOUR.
147
iifferencc, in the one item of labour, in favour of a pro-
libitjry law in Massachusetts, and fifteen hundred mil-
lions in the United States, from the deterioration of labour
lone.
Would we encounter the monster in his den we must
ro at once to the great emporium, where all that is bad (as
Veil as all that is good) riots in all its hideous orgies. We
leet the following from reliable sources :
It is estimated that the sum of $200,000,000 is invested
\n the rum traffic in the City of New York. The revenue
jceived for licenses amounts to more than $1,000,000 a
rear. The arrests will average upwards of 2,000 per
eek, and nineteen out of twenty are caused by the use
f liquor. An army of nearly 3,000 police officers finds
onstant employment because of the use of intoxicating
drinks. A New York journal puts it thus :
" We have one million population — one half native Ame-
icans, the other half born in foreign countries, of forty
itferent nationalities. Forty thousand kegs of lager-bier
re daily consumed. Fourteen million six hundred thou-
nd kegs a year, and but 4,000,000 barrels of flour. The
eat bill of the city was $30,000,000 last year, (1868) and
he liquor bill over $68,000,000. The amount of capital
vested in manufacturing establishments is $65,000,000 ;
vested in the 71 banks, $90,000,000 ; in the liquor busi-
ess, $200,000,000— $45,000,000 more than in both
manufactories and banks. There have been 68,880 ar-
rests for intoxication and disorderly conduct during the
past year, and there are 92,272 persons in institutions
under the care of the Commissioners of Public
Charities."
There are in the city of New York 7,000 — some say
8,000 — grog-shops (licensed and unlicensed) against 350
Protestant churches ; 7,000 grog-shops against 500 pub-
lic and private schools ; 35,000 persons connected with
irum-selling against 400 Protestant ministers and 3,000
teachers. The current annual expense of supporting these
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148
THE FOOT-PRIITTS OF SATAN.
churches m about $1,500,000 ; that of the rum-holes from
$40,000,000 to $50,000,000.
In the Fourth Ward there are but two Protestant
churches, (and three mission churches,) ten Sunday
schools and mission houses, while the RUM- holes in the
ward would occupy both sides of Broadway from the
Battery to the City Hall.
Appalling Facts.— There is a sufficient quantity of fer.
mented and distilled liquor used in the United States, in
one year, to fill a canal four feet deep, fourteen feet wide
and one hundred and twenty miles in length. The
liqaor saloons and hotels* of New York city, if placed in
opposite rows, would make a street like Broadway, eleven
miles in length. The places where intoxicating drinks
are made and sold in this country, if placed in rows in
direct lines, would make a street one hundred miles in
length. If the victims of the rum traffic were there also,
we should see a suiclJe at every mile, and a thousand
funerals a da^y. If the dr\.akards of America could be
placed in procession, iive abreast, they would make an
army one hinidred miles in length. "What an army of
victims ! Every hour in the night the heavens are lighted
with the incendiary torch of the drurkard. Every hour
in the day the earth is stained with the blood shed by
drunken assassins. See the great army of inebriates,
moie than half a million strong, marching on to sure and
swift destruction — filing off rapidly into the ^^oor-houses
and prisons, and up to the scaffold, and yet the ranks
are constantly filled by the moderate drinkers. Who
can compute the fortunes squandered, the hopes crushed,
the hearts broken, the homes made desolate by drunken-
ness?
Nor do we find relief as we turn to other principal
cities of our land. Philadelphia reports her 4,159 drink-
ing places, and a proportionate share in all the misery,
disgrace, demoralization and unmerciful expenditure of
time, money, and all precious substance. And Chicago
v.;ja
■Mm
THE DEAD RIVER RAILROAD.
149
tl
•um-holes from
wo Protestant
ten Sunday
■HOLES in the
way from the
quantity of fer.
uted States, in
teen feet wide
length. The
y, if placed in
aadway, eleven
icating drinks
ed in rows in
idred miles in
-ere there also,
^<1 a thousand
Brica could be
)uld make an
t an army of
ms are lighted
Every hour
)lood shed by
of inebriates,
n to sure and
e poor-houses
'et the ranks
Qkers. Who
opes crushed,
by drunken-
tier principal
4,159 drink-
the misery,
penditure of
^d Chicago
the unenviable pre-eminence, while yet in her youth,
supporting 2,300 licensed saloons, and how many un-
jensed dens our reporter quoth not. One to every 130
her population, and one to every twenty-six of her
iale adults ; and one house in every twenty-two is a
ram-shoD There are spent yearly in that city, for in-
jxicating beverages, $15,000,000, and $5,000,000 for
)bacco and cigars, exceeding by far the entire aggregate
all her taxes, city, county and State ; and all moneys
)r the support of churches, education and charities. And
rhat is the return ? Nothing but poverty, hunger, dis-
ice, misery and vice.
The following " Statement of the Business of the
^ead River Railroad" puts the thing in a shape worth
jpeating, though at the hazard of some repetition :
<' 1. — From an accurate estimate it appears that this
)ad is carrying 600,000 passengers per year, mostly
young men, down to the condition of Common Drunk-
ards.
" 2. — It is carrying toward destruction multitudes of
^e brave and noble young men in our army.
*' 3. — It has carried down to disgrace, poverty, and des-
fa'uction, many of the most talented men in the country,
iffom the Bar, the Bench, the Pulpit, and the Halls of
Congress.
** 4.— It carries more than 1,500,000,000 of dollars to
l)estruction. A distinguished observer of facts says :
* All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the
human race, nor alienate so much property as Drunken-
ness.'
" 5. — If the families of drunkards average five persons,
it carries untold misery and wretchedness directly to
BQore than 1,500,000 people, a large proportion of whom
are women and children. It sends 200,000 to the alms-
house.
"6. — 130,000 places are licensed to sell spirituous
liquors in the United States and Territories. 390,000
lit
1)
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'
j :'
1
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150
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF. SATAN.
I ,
\ '1
persons are employed in these grog-shops. If we add to
them the number employed in distilleries and wholesale
liquor shops we shall have at least 560,000 persons em.
ployed in sending their fellow-mortals to premature
graves.
" 7. — It produces disease, crime, war, misery and deuth.
No vice does so much to blunt the moral sensibilities and
keep people from the house of God. It is the deadly foe
to all moral and intellectual culture. We have more than
four dram-shops to one school.
" 8. — Crime is mostly caused by drunkenness. Crimi-
nals cost the United States $40,000,000 per year.
" 9. — The liquor traffic annually sends to prison lOO,-
000 persons, reduces 200,000 children to a state worse
than orphanage, sends 60,000 aniiually to drunkards
graves, and makes 600,000 drunkards.
" 10. — The people of the United States, according to
the Report of Commissioner Wells, swallowed from the
counters of retail grog-shops in one year, poison liquor
to the value of $1,573,491,856.
"11. — This terrible business against the laws of God
and man is rapidly increasing."
We here append a statistical extract that presents the
demon in yet another guise :
*' Internal Revenue Statistics. — From the report of
Commissioner Delano, we learn that the whole number
of distilleries registered last year was 770, with a spirit-
producing capacity of 910,551 gallons every twenty-four
hours, making for ten months — the period usually run—
203,912,800 gallons. The revenue cvollections from spi-
rits alone amounted to $55,581,599.18 , fermented liquors,
$6,319,126.90 ; receipts from tobacco, $31,350,707.88 ; to-
tal revenue, $185,235,817.97 ; thus making from whisky
and tobacco nearly one-half of the entire revenue. The
whole amount of spirits in market November 15, 1870,
was 45,637,993 gallons, of which 36,619,968 gallons were
If we add to
and wholesale
persons eni.
to premature
sery and death.
5nsibilities and
the deadly foe
ave more than
liness. Crinii.
year.
3 prison lOO,.
a state worse
to drunkards'
according to
wed from the
poison liquor
' laws of God
presents the
he report of
hole number
w^ith a spirit-
twenty-four
isually run—
•ns from spi-
inted liquors,
),707.88 ; to-
from whisky
venue. The
r 15, 1870,
gallons were
MANUFACTURE OF SPIRITS. 151
it of bond, and 9,018,924 gallons in Government ware-
mses.
["The following are the approximate receipts for the
ir ending June 30, 1871 :
ArPROXIMATE RECEIPTS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1871.
Spirits.
»dy distilled from apples, grapes, and peaches $1,410,208.21
fits distilled from materials other thau apples, grapes,
and peaches 29,743,974.32
stilleries, per diem tax on 1,901,202.54
itillers' special tax 5,081,340.75
bctifiers . 959,703.08
lers, retail liquor ... 3,051,570.51
wholesale liquor 2,149,910.03
lufactures of stills, and stills and worms manufactured 5,823. 10
ips, distillery warehouse, for rectified spirits, etc 759,309.01
(cess of gangers' fees 13,544.21
Total, spirits $40,282,403.82
Fermented Liquors.
lented liquors, tax of $1 per barrel on $7,159,333.85
jwers' special tax 229,807-87
Total fermented liquors $7,389,141.72
Total $53,071,005.54
[" From the above facts we Icam something of the im-
jnse power of a traffic that can afford to pay such
ivy amounts ot revenue tax, and then roll up colossal
fortunes upon the i)rofits of the business.
" The tax and profit, together with the original cost of
aaanufacture, must come out of the pockets of the
cbrinkers who spend the greater portion of their wages in
this direction, and then wonder what makes them poor
and their families wretched. Ponder the above facts and
8 jikve your money."
. Few are probably aware of the magnitude of the beer
! 1
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162
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
question. The consumption and the amount of capital
employed, no doubt far exceeds the conceptions of the
uninitiated. The beer aristocracy have their big Council,
their Grand Sachem, and fain would they have it that
they act as the great conservators of morality. But for
beer how much drunkenness there would be ! With heer,
we say, how is the highway prepared, and thc^ broad door
opened that leads to a surer death. But the Grand
Council shall speak for itself, and tell of its own doings :
In tiie National Beer Congress, at their ninth annual
session at Newark, N. J., in June, 1869, the president
gave the following statistics : Amount of capital invested
in the United States in the manufacture of malt liquor,
$56,856,638 ; value of land occupied in growing barley,
$34,000,000; and 17,000,000 bushels were used the past
year, 752,853 acres of land being devoted to the culture
of the crop. 6,685,633 barrels of beer were manufactured
during the year 1868, valuec' at $34,000,000, being an in-
crease of $2,000,000 over that of 1 865. The total amount
of capital employed, directly and indirectly, in the manu-
facture of beer was stated to be $] 05,000,000, giving em-
ployment to 56,663 men.
Or we arrive at a conclusion, in relation to our great
metropolis, no less startling by another mode of calcula-
tion. The direct pecuniary cost of the article consumed,
though enormous, and a thousand times worse than wast-
ed, would seem but the smaller item in the cost of in-
temperance. The loss of labour, as already intimated,
the damage done to the industry of a people, to say
nothing of morals, is a yet greater item. The same expe-
rienced statistician shall again furnish us data. No one
has had better opportunities for a knowledge of facts than
Mr. Van Meter, of the Howard Mission. In a recent re-
port he says :
** I have with great care prepared the following state-
ment. It is established upon the most trustworthy offi-
cial reports, much of which will be found in Dyer's Re-
mm
DRINKING STATISTICS.
153
of capital
- ons of the
oig Council,
, have it that
^ity. But for
' With heer,
broad door
the Grand
own doings :
ninth annual
Ithe president
^ital invested
|. malt liquor^
)wing barley'
Jsed the past
the culture
nanufactured
being an in-
total amount
in the manu-
), giving em-
to our great
le of calcula-
le consumed,
e than wast-
^e cost of in-
^ intimated,
)ple, to say
! same expe-
3" No one
•f facts than
a recent re-
wing state-
vorthy oifi-
Dyer's Re-
rt, recently published — the most astounding document
ever read. I believe them, and therefore present them,
ixamine them, and if you are not satisfied, call on me at
oward Mission an I Home for Little Wanderers, No. 40
ew Bowery, and I will furnish you with the proof,
here are in this city 5,203 licensed places selling intoxi-
ting liquor. Superintendent Kennedy placed police-
en at 223 of them for 24 consecutive hours, and this
s the result : Each rum-hole receives a daily average of
34 visits, making an aggregate of 697,202 per day,
,183,212 per week, or 218,224,226 visits in one year !
lach visit averages at least fifteen minutes. This gives
s 5,455,605 days of ten hours each, or 1,848 years. At
resent wages, each one, if sober and industrious, would
3arn $1 per day, or $5,455,605 in one year. But this is
lot all the lost time. The time of at least three persons
occupied by each grog-shop to do its work. This gives
18 15,609 persons — enough to make a large city. At $1
jr day for each, we have (not including Sunday) $4,87.0,-
)08, or an aggregate of $10,325,603 of wasted time by
seller and drinker — a sum suflicient to carry on all the
Sunday-schools, missionary, tract and Bible societies in the
land. But this is a mere fraction of the cost of rum. From
the same source we have the following : Each rum-hole
receives a daily average of $141.53, makiilg an aggre-
gate of $736,280.59 per week, $38,286,590.68 per annum,
,to which add the value of lost time, and we have $48,-
612,193.68. But the real cost cannot be estimated.
Look at the thousands of shivering, hungry, hopeless
little victims. What sum would compensate for loss of
character, domestic happiness, ruined husbands, wives,
sons and daughters — for the absence of every ray of light
in this and in the world to come ? Still, were this con-
fined to our Sodom, it would be comparatively a small mat-
ter. Bu^: the nation is deluged with rum. The rum-
seller drags down to deepest infamy and woe many of
our most eminent statesmen and bravest generals, our
'i^i-il
'r
THK FOOT-PRTNTS OF SATAN
il '
h\
countries, ropresonting forty (HlVoront iiMtionalit-ios. Thoro
wero 18,000 marriji^cs, 31,000 births, 24,()01 deaths dur-
ing the year,
"17,000 enugrauts hvntl per iiioutli. 418 Sabbath-
selioolvS, with about 180,000 in regvihir attendance. About
40,000 children out of the public schools ; 103,493 chil-
dren in the city.
" Local taxes, $*J3,300,000 ; federal taxes, ;?50,000,()00.
The mayor estimates 2,000,000 gallons of domestic spi-
rits aiui ()00,000 gallons of foreign wines ; 100,000 gal-
lons of forcign spirits ; 400,000 kegs of fm'niented liquor;
50,000 dozens of champagne, are ct)nsumed. The bare
tax on these amounts to ^2,000,000. The police arrests
lavst year were 76,()92, of which 34,()})() were for intoxi-
cation and disorderly conduct; 141,780 persons were ac-
commodated with lodgings at the police station ; 8,840 is
the average number of pei'sons continually in iisylums,
hospit^ils, etc.
*• It is cstin\atcd that at the last sea.son the 20,870 visi-
toi*s at Saratoga Springs s]>ent SI, 000 per day at the wine
room, and S800 at the bar for liquors, making nearly
$200,000 tor the seav^on."
Nor does Pennsylvania present a fairer record than
New York. So lucrative is her liqnor business, that her
government received in a single year an income of $317,-
WHAT (JUKAT HHfTAIN PATH.
155
«. «rti8t5,„„,j
nd our (i^vol,
>»» li^i} to U8."
^Imfc lias l)CGii
ition of Now
nboijt 7,000
Jniasions of
"•'oxicatinjr
; ^7,()()0,0()5
PPoi'toftho
• otn foreign
itios. Thoro
tlo.'itliH (hir-
•"< ^5abbatli-
>^'t>- About
'^^Mrs chii-
f'^0,()()(),0()()
IDONtic 8l>i-
0(),()()() gal-
tod liquor;
, 'I'lic bare
'ico arrests
f<^i' intoxi-
is wore ac-
; «,84() is
I ilvsyjuius,
V^7() visi-
<^1jo wine
^g nearly
ord than
tbat hor
af $317,-
f42 for HcenRca ; a handflome Rtini indeed. But, for the
WHO year, what did the trafHe eo.st lier? For one item
Jio had 24,000 criininalR and paupers, four-fifthtt of whom
ire made HO V)y strong drink. These (^ost tlie Htate $2,-
J(jOOOO a year, or more than six doHars to eaeli voter,
Hid seven times the ineomo for lieenses. A dead loss this
^f nearly $2,000,000. And this is l>ut ono of the lesser
ItemH. The cost of the lifjuors, the h)Hs of tinu^ and hil»our,
jtnd tlie damage <h)ne to all sorts of industrial piirsuits,
iwcll the amount lu'yond ealeulation. In Pennsylvania
"lore are 71),H00 rum-sellers, and lf),H70 sehool tem^liers.
Jost of su|)porting seliools, 1^5,86.^,72!); value of licpiors
smned, $.S31,4.S7,000. Does it pay? And yet wo
mve not l)rought into the aeeount the greatest item of
til. We mean the general demoralization of a [)eople.
Some one has estimated, and we apprehend with too
Anuch trutli, tha,t tlie eonsum[)tion of intoxicating liquors
%n this <'ountry for the last Hfty years lias cost more than
* bhe whole aggregate of the wealth of tlio nation at the
)resent moment.
And the " prinee and power " of alcohol levies a tax not
less grievous on Great Britain. And Franco flows with
|wino, and Germany with lager-bier. We hear of England
)aying $70,000,000 a year tax on spirituous liquors, and
^7,000,000 to benevolent pur[)oses. And how must
jLondon be distancing, in the ignoble race, our great
?ftaetro[)o]is ! Some one tells us of one hundred and fifty
,',gin-p!ilaces and publie-houscs in one mile square in the
eastern |)ortion of London, which take from the hard
earnings of the {)eople luit less than $2,250,000 a year.
i The "Alliance News," the organ of the United Tem-
perance Societies of (irea,t Britain, states that during the
year 1870 more than £130,000,000, or $('50,000,000, was
directly expended in the United Kingdom for intoxicating
^drinks. If wo simply double this sum for waste, wear
[and* tear in the us«> of these drinks — for waste of time,
jloss of labour, damage to industry, and the use of capital
i '. !
!>l
1
U>(?
THK 'OOT rUlNTM OF SATAN.
nwosfiv^ in ilu» irnflio. w.^ hnvo ^I.HOO.OOO.OOO. or moro
tliMn 3^.S..">00.()()0 a \h\\ ; ihol iy to snv. <Ii«' (MHiro nnhniid
nnnnnlly otnUrilMifod l>y nil i\\o c\\\\w\\oh '\\\ Ku^\i\ut\ luv
l>(Mu>volon< jMivpoHos* wonM dolVny tlw rosi of Ium- <lrinl<.
in^ hMlufs b\i( <\vo <lnvs. As Homo ono Iimn sMid. "fniiv
HON or(Mj:>:ns i^liMM^d on oMi'h vorso of llu» Hihlo wotild iinj
iv|nvson< (ho nuMiov snoni in (ivoai Hiilnin for intoxical,.
ing iliinUs ovorv two <tays."
']'l\o tl\iriv-tAVo nnllion*^ of p(M>pI(^ in (ivoni flriiain twv
sai«i to *v>ns\nno Mnnimllv ^(i.OOO.OOO l»Mr»olH ojbrpr.
Now ]>hMsos o1*th(^ Hfuno talo two prosontcMJ l»y ^lillonMil
onoH as (bov MttiMn|>t io ilrnw tlio mm(I porlrnit Wo givo
'Otliov iMiirlisli stMlisiii's. 'Vho tollowinj); tiirtnivs nro I'nv
nish<Hi hy rolinMc^ .'nithoritios : XI PJ.OOO.OOO nrt^ nntninlly
s|>(M\t lor into\i«\'ning li<jnor. (Mnployini)- IS(),01M» porsons
in its smIo Miiilinir tbo in»iiro«'( «'ost. snob ns tb(» Iomm ol'
lnbo\n\ «b\stnhMion o( j.i opovty. pnMir Mm! privnt(' (^xpiMjHi*
ot' p!ni]>orisn\. iMiniinMls, polio(\ o\\\, jni^in^ IVoni «lrinUin^
bMbit.s. Mn«l it ninUos .-vn Mg-^n-gnto of XlMH).OOO.O(M). TUow
is on«^ pnblio-bonso io ovory IS^! of tbo popnlation, nntl
ono in ovory .S4 bonios ; 1/2.S|,(I.M porsons wiMi* «»n tbo
K>«>ks ot' r.Mrisb llnions ms pnnpiM's, .iMnimry 1, liSTO. Tbo
oapit^vl invosttvi is ostimMtivl at XI I7,()(>t\ nnil tb(» iniporiMl
ivron\io <b">rivo(l tVoni tb(^ tr.-nb^ Inst y(\'vr wns X24,iSiI(),(U)0,
or moro tban on(^ (bird of tbo wbob^ rov(Mnn\
Tbo Wrst'miDsffr Rcrific savs : " l>rnnk(M«nosM is tbo
oiirso v>f Vinglnnvi -n o\ns(^ so gn^at. tbat it far (vlipsos
ovorv otbor oalannty nndor \vl\iob \V(^ snllor. Ono bnn-
drod :\}v\ tit'ty tlionsand \vorknuM\ go t»> lu^i «lrnnk mory
SatnnJay nigl\( in ].on»bMi aloniv It is impossible to
oxa^gorato tlio ovils of tirunkonnovss."
In'^Tbo Vit^'ii Statistios of Strong !)rink." tbo llov. 1).
Bnrns o\llibit^s tbo annual loss of lito \\\ tbo IJnitod King-
dom a^*« r)4,*2(i,S :
* Oontribntions of Knglish oh\ir»'ho8 for foivign uiieHiou, f.'l,'2SKt,*2S>r> ;
for home objootR. |t4.(>(H\CHH). Total, $7. '2%. '2^5.
WHAT rUANlT, PATH. ( f)7
moo.
"I-
I'M- inl,.)xi,.„|
K>
/Mil Jl
IC
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"•' •'MiimimIIv
OJ)(j
|MM-S(.nM
"" '''illlviiur
''•''•oil. .'Ill, J
^von> on |,|„,
• I'S^O. Tho
lio iinpoiiMl
'H.SiJO.()0(),
•ii' nclij)s(vs
<>iin Inin-
iiiik
(n'ory
»os,sil)|o to
ff'^.'-.'jm.'.Min
Mv linnfrt-l .IvitikiuK . i\,W\9.
TIm^hmuo 'ir).M,*270 licofiHofl Mlinpq in Mir (Jnilcd King-
lom. Mini tin* ('MliiMMtofl Mmcnnit m|»»>iiI. for li(|(int' y«>nrly iw
;|0'J..H,S({;2H(). Mm^ImihI (MmMumpfl l|,OOO,0O(f j/Mllnris of
OiiNUy a ycnr; Iiplnn.l, 4.77.M,7IO ; and MccMand, 4.!M)7,
fOl ^allofiM.
And \\u' litjMor f«M'nrd n\' l^'ianoo l« KParrfdy \(^m a(»j»n,1
m»^
Hon. V, ( !. iNdnvan nHl,Hna,i»'H Mm' (.ol,a,l valiui of
nloxicMlinf/ drink in iJiai r(»nnl,iy. during; lln'i yfar iHOTj,
lio $l.r»l(l,rrMI,000. According to Mm* following Htntw-
loiil.. in»fniy $1,000,000,000 are iiiv(3Htf3d in UiIh vortex of
loMtinciion :
" In l'Vanc(\ nol,vvitliHtandin^ Mm clioapno.qM of wine,
)rnndv is ono of tlm HfM|»l»» drifd<H. Tin* annnal prodiic.t
)f vvino iH ovor !IOO.O(l(),000 gnlloiiH. Kroin Miir, tln^ff^ aro
[innnnfMctnnMl y.'{, 000,000 ^all(»nH of'firandy.or wliicli ordy
j7,000,0()0 (/nlloiiM an> 'xporttMl. Tlio annual ((HtMwrnjttiori
(of li(|norH in l''ran''»> in an frdlowH : winn, 770,500,000
gallnnH ; l)(>or, 80,000,000 gallons ; I. randy, 10,000,000, f,r
an a.V(>ra.^n of tw«^nty four ^alloiiH for f'>^/f)ry man, woman
ftlul (iliild (tf Mm^ population, (/'aidinal Af.ton, tlio Hiiprfimo
lud^o of U.oino, Ha,i«l, ' Noarly aJI tln^ crimoH in R.fjmfi
[ori^inai(» in l\m uho ofwino.' \)v. Wald, of Kf»ni^Khf«rg,
Oonnany, said Mia.t in tlni Stat'iw of tlio ZolJvoniin, a(;f;ord
iiig to oHicial rntnrriH, thorn is a yf^arly (',r»nsMm|>tion of
3ti7,OO0,()OO (juart-H of alcoliolif, lifjnorH, a,t a, coHt <>f orm
hundred and tw«irdy-two millions rd' d(»llarM, mostly
drawn from tlio oarningH of tlio lowfvr f.laK«^;H."
I>nt tlio misory of intom[>oranf;o dooM not Htf>]t horf,.
TlinMvfourtliM of tlio <;'mm; in our land in U> ho Hfit t/» its
ac(M)Mnt. And of conrHO thn',o-fourt}iH f>f tlio, taxoH (>aid
for Jaits, (iriminaJ ootutH, and [>ri.HonH aro taxos paid to
int.(>nip(iranc,(;. And also throfi-fourtliH (S our pauf)f',ri«m
nni.st 1)0 .sot to tlio Hamo a/;ronnt. (JonHorjUontly, wf)f;n a.
taxpayer payH a tax of forty dollarH, he ha« 'dib satisfac-
I
P*
w
\SH
TUK f<V>T PUINTS or MATAN.
tioi» of knowMug lluvt ihir'y ilollnrs \h t\ tux pnid i,,
itvto\ioM(it<)» »;riukM ; i\\u\ lo sunporl. a oIm m of nuM». n
<iunisin\<i (im«»s woi'so (lum um(0»'nm. who IruMir in ^\\^^n^^
\{ is ou'^ ol' (ho shMn^;o (hinjj^M o( our woihl (lin( a
i>ooi>h^ mI\i>uM MiipiiuMy NMlunil <o pnv .mich n <»i\ In a
lt»a(nsoiuo vio(V Au«i why »h> (hovr Sittipiv h«M'Muso
t\ >vor(hlt^Ms part ot* tho «'on»i\mmlv wish to drink . ntul
anolhor po»'lioi\ ns xvorthloMs wish <mo prolil ot'(!H» (r.Mllic
Thoso will tool .'«N»;5^ri(>vovi if vou intort'iM^* with thoir prno
tioo *>r thoir (r.-uio.
No »>iio noovl ho i^nortnjt ot' t'nots \\ovo. An m NpiMMinon,
wo havo tho r»>s»il( ot' m porsotial nn»l o.-nolul ovMiuinntion
<>t' :\ll tho pri^lot\s. oi>»nity J.'uIn nud poor housivs in ll»o
St,'Uo ot* N«nv York, ni.'ulo by Mr rhipiMJUi. u «'iti/,ou o|"
AIK'UW, \V(> will tnko a sinolo (\>imtv iQuo«mi'n') ms h
sporiu\<M\ :
Wholo nmuhcM' oomiui(((>d i\y jnil in ono voar. 70: iv\\\
porato. }i ; douhtt'nl. (> . int(MnporMt(\ '>r>. Ot' \\\o sis thujhl
tnl oas«vs. (wo wor«> va^jrants, pnd>ahly iutoniporativ atul
oi\o an Irishwoman. ^Vholo nutnhor in poor houso. lU ;
t\ot tn>n\ inton\poraiu'«\ !il ; doiil tt'ul. (^ ; ii»ton«poratt\ 'Jl).
Tho ahovo voiiohod tor \w tht> propter anthi»ritios.
Horo wo havo .'>vS out oCjO in tl\(^ prisoi» and '2!> \\\ tho
pov>r honso as tho viotinis o\' int»Mnp<M"ano(V
^.\as<^s liko tho t'v>llinvin54-. w hiv'h oanio und(>r Mr. Chip-
\\\at\'s ohsi^rvation at tho li^liot^ oiWco in Alhai\y. aro not,
unovMinnon in (ho annals ot' lnt»Mnporano(* ;
"Tho wit'oot'a vory rospov't^ahh^ luiv'liani' appliod to ho
sont with horthroo ohildron to tho ahns houstv 'VW hns-
K'uul had boon in i;o(>vl husinoss n>ooivt^i $!.;'>() por »lay
and onu>Unn\ont onouiih. Hut for sotno wo(>ks ho hail
aKsontOvi hin>solt* t"n>ni his shi>p ; spont his tinio in drink-
ing, auvl his oarninijs and onnht to pay for it. His family
are i\ow g-ono to ho sup[H>rtoii hv tho pnhlio froni tho
oarniniTs o( tho sv^Ihm* anvl industriinis. Tho vondor o(
ivniont spirit^s ha.s his mont\v." All is Kkss. and a t.liousand-
Inl
|V I
rol
m
m
th
INMTKAH <»r* I'lilin A r<)tM«»N.
I AH
* 'MX |,ni,| |„
"<H of I, ,0,1 jj
•M''v l»,v..ui,so
'* '''i'llx. .'Ml,!
"' 'fH« (niii;,.
'< Mu'ir |,r,i,.
'^ •'• N|H'riiuri,
''^"••liiiMfi,,,,
OUHOH in flu,
'» «'i<i/.(Mi of
'«'•• 70. <,Mn
"* Ni\ »l.»ul.|
'P«*»'.'»l(v .,,1,1
'■ li«MiN(». ;{|
ioM.
' -J' in (ho
'»V. MIO Mo(.
»l»'i«Ml (o bo
' in 'irinlv-
'i-^ Onuilv
iVom tho
voiidor of
'liousiind-
)lii wor,Mi\ oxn^pl (o Mio trnlDoKor. Ami Wm ^iiiii Im tmid
nallv iVoiii i\\o oMt'niiigM uT llio muImm" mikI liuhiMiiionM.
'/hili» iUo IrMlUc l»riii/^« ii Nliilliii^ iiiln (lio purKol, nl" Mm
iMulor, it Mul>lnu'lM n dolliir (Voni l,lio |MM«kr(. ol" Mh> liuiiPHt,
anlwoilvinj^' rtumimuily.
A jiiMli«'o of iJio ponroMud jiiil rdiiiiiiiMfuunof ol' 'rmo.'sio,
ihuuIji. mmvm I.IjmI. nil 'hmiI. oI ItMiorMio mnln |iiiMniioi7«, nii<l
\) out. of 'JIO of llii" fpiunlc. liMVo Itooii lumifjrlil, l.lioio l»y in-
,Oxi«'iili»jt: li<initrM, In roiir yoniM iJioio vvnro V.o.OOO |»ii-
lOiuM's irj (Iio jails oil 'iUiiuin, V!'!,0()(h»rwliom vv«m'o iMoiijjrIil.
h(«ro Ity iiil.osicnlini-^ diiiilvM.
\\\\l ihovo m nuulJior wny tn Mpjnuxiiiinto l,h(> i'omI, of
Ihm «'vil. Ainoii^^ nlluM" itriiiM rioiii I,Ih» r'urij/n juohm w«>
^{ipnil IIm> lollowin;.!; Hl,nrMin;,j; Inci.M lolnlivo In l.jio iiiMiiiirnr
;|i\ir«M>rNir<>u^MliiiikM : "lA.V^il^ 'mmtm cd" In.rid Mrnofiijiinynd
^in Mn^dniid) ill Mm ndl/ivniinii of lurim ; n.nd l,()(M),()(M)
||(Mt*s (c ;jjn)W Itnrlpy to <*oiiv«*rl» iiil.o Mhnrip; diiidi. H*
%]\v land (UiiployiMJ in j^rowiii^^ ^rn.iii \nv l,lm idiovo pnM'ouft
of dt'stniclion wm.h I.o I>m n.|>|Mn|»riji.l,<Ml l.o Mm iir»»diirMoii
%f ^Maiti for (ood, it. would yinid morn IJiimi a lour pound
,'-|[()ni lor each of IJk' HUppoHrd nuiidM<r of liurnnri Imin^n in
tlu* world. Or il* would ^^iv(^ l-lir<M^ |(»a,VMM pnr wnolt l,o « n,c,|i
family in <ln«ai liril.ain. licMidn.'i lO.OOO.OOO l»iifili«d'» of
)arl(>v, a, ron;;id(^ra,l»l(i «pia,nl,i(.y of oat.M, ry«\ rarrol.H n.rid
pol.al.o(i.s, and rvnn vdi'iii, arc nnnually <lcMt,i<»y«Ml in ma.lcinp;
gin. whi.sky and l']n;j;li';li rum.
T\u' corn wa,Ht,(M| in hrcwing a,n<l di:d/illin^ in I'Inj/land
Vould i'vvA .'{.()( )(),()()() pcriionH, ovory y»',ar." Tlio land
OC(nipi<»d in Mh^ f^rowl,li of l)a,rlny mjmI liopn for Mm hr<?w«rr-
ies (jf (3r(»al< hril,a,in a,nd Inrlnjul would prodmui inor<*, Mian
twice a,s much wheat, a,H iH annually iinporl.tMl,
■^^ But W(^ ha.V(5 no iwvA t,o f^o from hofn«5 foi' r)ur fif,atifitif;f».
In our own counl-ry inorci tha.n ei;^ht niilliorm of enpitji,!
aro invosted in tlm manufac.tun; of innJt n.nd f.piritjjouH
liquors, whiclHunploy.s 5,500 men. And mord t,ha,n .'>0,()00.
000 husJK'ls of^n-ain, (ineludin;^' rye, corn a.nd harle,yj ar»d
vast (piantiti(!s of appleH, ans yearly pervert(;d in the nianu-
j'lli
i:
, ;
I GO
TUB F(H)T-PniNTS OF SATAN.
facture of intt^xicatiiig (Iriiiks: aiulat proHent, pricjvs, at a
cost, and doad loss to tlio nation, of soarcoly loss tluui
$i)0,()()(),0()().
And thoro is yot anotluM' it(nn to bo addod to tlnw fcin.
ful oxpondituro. It is, as wo liav(^ said, tlio loss of inifiiKtnj *l
to our nation. Tlio wealth and stronjrth of a. Jiation li(>H very
nuu'li in tlio aniouTitof iior prixiuclUu' lahovr. Lot us seo
how the " sin " of Intoniperanco " roijjfns untodoath " here,
Th(» intoniperato man ;^etrtiuds the community in a ^ivat
degree o^ his la nir
And besides iu':-- i 'uso of his [)roporty is nearly lost to
society. Instead : a «v'eful man, ho is a sot — wliidi
means, be is good for nothiii g at home or abroad. Tf he
iind not an early grave, bo will become as j^oor and beg-
garly Jia be is worthless.
It is estimated tliattli(To is a loss of life to the nation of
twelve years' avtM-age on each drunkard ; wdiicb is a, dead
loss to the United States, for every generation of hor
()0(),()()() drunkards, (at o!ily 50 ccfits pi^r day each) of
$1.12(>,8()0,()00— or an annual of $}):3,40O,OO0. But this
curtailment of twelve years of life on each drunkard is
perhaps a less loss to prodiu'tive industry than the loss of
labour while be lives. He is not only a lounger and idler
in a great degree hinis(^lf, b\it it leipiires many more to
hel}> him abuse and squander timt\ And wo should
probably be within the mark if we were to add another
S90,00(),000 for this item. And to this wo must add the
time of distillers, tratlickers, retailers and all sorts of
loungers and loafers, who are a, sort of cam[)-followcrs to
his Alcoholic Majesty, and wo have a waste of industry
fearfully ominous.
Again, it has been ascertained to bo tho opinion of
commercial men, that at least three-fourths of shipwrecks,
loss of property, and disaster's at sea may be traced to the
too free use of intoxicatintr drinks. And the same is
true of steamboat and railroad disasters, and stage coach
accidents. Indeed, turn which way we will, we are sure
Hilt, pric(\s, Mt a
ivoly losH tliiu,
\M to this f(.ii,.
^oss of in (I !(}<(, ',1
iintioji li(\s Very
ur. Ijot UH se(>
todcath " here,
lity in a great
mnonrly lost to
i a Hot — wliicl)
abroad. If li^
[oor and beg-
U) tho nation of
vdiii'li is a (lead
KM'ation of hor
• day each) of
mi But tlm
b drunkard is
ban tbo Iosh of
mger and idler
ni.'iny more to
lid wo nbould
o add another
li nniHt add the
id all sorts of
n|)-f()llowers to
<te of industry
bo opinion of
of shipwrecks,
traced to the
d the same is
nd sta-ge coach
11, we are sure
TlfK UKC'OUI) OK A HIN(a,K i'VVY.
if;i
moot tbo ravagoH of tins diro Dcstroyf*?". Takdji Hln^^lo
ity, an<l tbiit not a largo ono, and bciiold tbo tax paid to
e tyrant liuni.
Jnfenin<'r<(.HA'(: in, NrvHtrk. — Tbo following HtatisticH, j-o
tiiu' to tlio inanufa,cturo and vending of intoxiciating li-
rsin tbo (yityof Nowa.rk,bav(^ JiiHt Ikm'ii roiiipil<Ml by a
niniittco ajipointcd by tbo pastors of tbat r\ly : Tbo
iniber of placets wb(;ro intoxicating li((uor.s aro Kold, for
entcd and diHtill<Ml, is about Hf)4 ; during last yviiv tboro
ere manufactured in Newark i.S!),l)7'l' barnils of boor,
.on vvbi(;li tax was paid. Tbo aggrogat*; cost of bKiuor
tailf'd and drank in Newark for tli(5 past year is esti-
at(!u at .1P5,()0(),()0(). During tb(5 last year 1,1^51 pers(niM
er(M',omndtted to tbo county jail, tbo aggregate incas
^rations amounting to about l'J5 years; five-sixtliH f
ese commitments were tbo result of interripera,^^e,
tSO'li li(iuor dealers of tbo city, 745 soil witbout a
jense.
And aside from these direct and certain loss(!S. Uio
Kl intluenco of intemporanco is felt tbrougb {ivv>ry
Branch of industry — reiarding our advance as an eritor-
g'ising, prosperous nation — lessening tbo valmj of tbo
hour of its vi(;tims to- an immense amount, and in a
thousand ways occasioning loss wbicb it is inifjossible to
eitimato. Let tbo history of a single tavern or grog
shop, wliich has been at its work but five years, bo fully
ai|d correctly ascertained, and it would be a tale of bor-
j^ — a history of ruined families, broken-hearted wives,
Squandered fortunes and jjrematuro deaths. What,
then, must bo the devastation on our national [)rosperity
of hundreds of thousands of these withering engines of
rain ?
A little article in the Young Reaper, entitled " A Year's
Work of Dram-selling," m-multwrn in jxirvo :
" Carefully compiled statistics sliow that sixty thousand
Uvea aro annually destroyed by intemperance in tbo Uni-
ted States.
U
^li
Hi
) !l
!i!
I.i .
'/*
1()2
TllK FOOT-rillNTS OF SATAN.
'^ \f}^
" Ono liundrcMl ilioiiMnnd uww s\\u\ wotikmi »in> yearly S(>nt
to prison in ('onHcMpionco of hI ron^ drink.
" 'r\V(MJt\ -(hnnsaiid clnMicn two. .yenrly noui to Mu» poor
lio\is(» for tlio Hiiuw rojison.
" 'riir(H> hundrod nuirdiM'M aro arjoilirr of Mh* yviyyU-
frui<H orint(Mnp(M'{in('(v
" Four Iniudrod .siiiiMdoH follow thoHo foarfnl calalo^rnps
of niisorioH.
" Two liundr(»d tlion.sand orpliniiH arc l)0(pi(^aUR'd oudi
yoar to privaio and |)ul»lir cliMrity.
" TwiHunidrc^l million dollnrH jiro ycNirly expondcd In
produce tluH .shockinfrjuuoiint, of crime and mi.scry, ami as
nnich more is lost I'runj the sjnne cnnse."
But the expense of intoxicating drinks on tlu; |)nrt(it
the ctMismuer, itud tlie consetpient waste of property aiid
(iamage to industry, and downright demoralization of tJn'
practice of drinking, is hut one coutit in the matter. We
are to bring into account, (though with less sympatliy,)
the expense- -at lea,st the moral loss and waste, on the part
of tlie manufacturer and ven(h>r. It almost inevitably dc-
moralizes the man at once, and puts him on the desceiuliiii;
grade, ami is sure to entail on his ])osterity a eondition
worse than his own, so that the hust state of that man is
worse than the tirst.
We h)ok perhaps in vain to find a, business so oonnectod
(perhaps inseparably connected) with dece})tion counter-
feiting and fraud, a^s the liquor business. 80 common are
spurious liquors — the sheerest counterfeits, and not un-
frequently poisonous, murderous counterfeits — that few,
if any consinner of tlie present day knows wliat the gon-
uine article is. Take for exani})le what are claimed to be
imported wnnes, and judge, from the following statcnioiit,
how little chance the purchtiser has of getting the artiolo
paid for :
" The United States are represented to be the largest
consumers of champagne in the world, and the consump-
tion per annum is estimated to be one million baskets.
i
Ainn/r}''-UATi<>N ov ugnoiiH.
ir,n
aro yrnrly R(»nt
'lit to Mu> poor
<»f Mio yearly
rful catalogues
Kjiuiatlied oiidi
y ox|)(Mul('(] III
iniHory, and as
on the \y,\ri of
:' property and
ulizatioii of the
(^ matter. WC
e.sH Hyin[)at1iy,)
Hte, on tli(» part
) inevitably dt-
the de.setMulini'
'ity a eoiulitioii
li that man is
ss so conncotod
ption counter-
So common aie
Ls, and not un-
eits — that few,
1 what the goii-
e claimed to be
»^ing Htatemoiit,
ting tlie article
be the largest
. the consunip-
1 ill ion baskets,
wlioh^ <'lwunpngne <iiHlri(*t is about i vvonty thoM.saiid
rcH, nnd the niiioiint of wine mamifnctiin'd for exporta-
lon is ten million bottles, or about eight liundr<Ml tlious-
,n(l ItasketH. Of thiH, lluKnia eon.sumes MIO.OOO ; (Jreat
ritfdn and her poHSCiHsionH, \V)!>,{){H) , l<'nuiee, 102,000;
ernwmv, 14(;,000;and th«^ United States, 220,000. The
ew York Custom-houHcs through which passes a birge
,liionnt of the cliampagne irrjported into this country, re
rts oidy l7r),02(S baskets per annum. Sevf;n liur'dred
,] (>ighly thousand baskets, therefore, of tlie wimi drank
this country for importfui champagne, is (U)unterfeit — •
junount e(|ual to the whole HUpply of the champagne
istrict for the world."
To this we may add the following testimony of one
ho seems to know whereof he afhrms :
"(h'oKH D'lHhovmifi of flic f/h/nor Tr(iffm.--^T. (Idol-
iho Wolfe, the celebrated flealer in Schiedam schnapps,
recently issued a pamphlet, furnishing the results of
8 own ex|)erien(;e and observation, proving the criminal
acti(H^ of the li(pior tradf^ in the general adulteration of
uors, and the extensive concoction of spurious articles.
e states that while the returns of the New York Custom
use show an importation of 20,000 half casks of brandy,
,000 quarters, and 2.3,000 eighths, twenty or thirty
(mes that number arc sold to retailers and country dealers
genuine French brandy. Three-fourths of all foreign
andies and gin are imported for the express purpose of
ulteration. The Custom-house books show that one
an who has sold thousands of gallons of a certain kind
foreign liquor, has not imported more than five pipes in
e years. He gives a list of the vegetable and mineral
isons and acids that are employed in this work. Ho
states that the greater portion of the foreign brandies
at are imported are whisky sent from tliis countr}^ to
returned with a French brand as genuine French
liq[uors."
Or would we read a yet more disgusting page in the
11 !
164
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
history of this vice of " 80 frightful mien," we may read
it in the annals of the present " Whisky Frauds ; " which
had assumed such gigantic dimensions, and presented so
barefaced a front of dishonesty and fraud, that even drunk-
en consumers seemed to blush for shame, and governineut
officials could no longer bo bribed to silence. Not satisfied
with the ruinous workings of their vile traffic on their
beleaguered dupes, while they were themselves rioting on
their immoderate gains, they perpetrated, as if by concert
or common consent, one of the most stupendous frauds
against government which in this age of frauds have
been perpetrated. Discern ye not the foot-prints of the
great enchanter here ?
Comparisons often give the most striking comprehension
of numbers. The clergy in the United States are said to
cost $12,000,000 ; lawyers, 870,000,000; criminals, $40-
000,000; rum, wholesale, $680,000,000— retail, $l,oOoi.
000,000; with the loss of time and industry included, on
600,000 drunkards, or 1,000,000 more or less fatally ad-
dieted to strong drink ; and an annual loss of 00,000 lives
— and many of these men capable of contributing the most
essentially to the industry and general prosperity of the
country.
As a confirmation of foregoing statements, we quote a
paragraph from Dr. Edward Young, chief of the Bureau
of Statistics : " During the last fiscal year the receipts
from retail liquor-dealers who paid $25 each for license
amounted to $3,650,000, indicating that there were 146,-
000 retailers of liquors in the United States. By includ-
ing those who escaped paying license fees, estimated at
4,000, the number is increased to 150,000, who, on an aver-
age, sold at least $4,000 worth of liquors each, making
$600,000,000, as before stated. These figures are sufficiently
startling, and need no exaggeration. Six hundred mil-
lions of dollars! The minds of few persons can compre-
hend this vast sum, which is worse than wasted every
year. It would pay for 100,000,000 barrels of flour, aver-
4.,
■'8
^
■iMMH
RUM AND IJOENSE FEES.
165
e may read
u Js ; " which
presented so
,t even drunk-
governineut
Not satisfied
[attic on their
es rioting on
if by concert
ndous frauds
frauds have
.-prints of the
joraprehension
es are said to
iminals, $40,-
etail, $1,500,'. I
y included, on \
jss fatally ad-
of 00,000 lives
)uting the most
sperity of the "
is, we quote a
of the Bureau
r the receipts
.ch for liceuse
3re were 146,-
3. By includ-
, estimated at
ho, on an aver-
each, making
are sufficiently
hundred mil
as can com pre-
wasted every ■-§.
of Hour, aver-
ing two and a half barrels of flour to every man, woman
nd child in the country. This flour, if placed in waggons,
n barrels in each, would require 10,000 teams, which,
lowing eight yards to each, would extend 45,455 miles —
early twice round the earth, or half way to the moon !
f the sum were in $1 notes, it would take 100 persons
ne year to count them. If spread on the surface of the
ound, so that no spaces should be left between the notes,
e area covered would be 20,446 acres, forming a paral-
elogram of six by a little over five and a quarter miles,
,he walk round it being more than twenty -two and a half
iles"
And a word does the same statistician here add on the
pium question : " The influx of Cliinese," says he, " has
ntroduced a new luxury, viz., opium, prepared for smo-
in^, the importation of which for the last year was 315,-
21 pounds, of the value of $1,926,915.
"A careful inquiry among druggists reveals the fact
rhat there are in New York city* about 5,000 confirmed
ers of opium in its various forms of sulphate of morphia,
audanum and the crude root. The ranks of these inebri-
tes embraces all classes of society, from the lady of Fifth
Avenue to John Chinaman of Baxter Street. The drug
His sold by many respectable druggists over the counter
flwithout a physician's prescription, but, as a general thing,
Sonl} to known and regular customers who have become
Ithoroughly used to it. Sometimes a stranger can get it,
'but it is only because his appearance unmistakably indi-
'Scates that he is an old opium-eater. ' Yon can always
Mtell 'em,' said a worthy up-town druggist. * There's some-
thing about their expression, about their complexion and
eyes, and about f ^leir nerveless manner, that tell on 'em
|at once.'
"Sometimes the unfortunate, brought to a low ebb by
f the cravings of the horrible appetite, will steal all the
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laudanum he can find in the store. A reapectably-dresHed
lady was recently detected V)y a clerk in a dru^ .store on
Fifth Avenue hiding a bottle of laudanum in her dress,
The devilish appetite destroys all moral sense Jis surely us
it ruins all the jihysical faculties.
" The o[)ium in its crude state is sometimes bought and
greedily eaten on the spot. ' They chew it,' says one
druggist, 'as you would chew wax.' The crude oj)iuiii,
however, is not the favourite form of the drug among the
confirmed <^aters. It is ustnl more generally both for eat-
ing and smoking by the Ohini^Ke pagans in the dark cel-
lars of the Sixth Ward than by any other class of cuh-
tomers. It takes longer than morphine to affect the sys-
tem, and the principal desire of the inebriate is to betake
himself to that gorgeous hind of fancies, that delicious
garden of perfect rest to which morphine at once trans-
ports him. Sulphate of morphia is the favourite form of
the drug, and it is in that state that our New York devo-
tees mainly use it. Some of the doses taken by the ' sots'
are enough to kill half a dozen men innocent of the habit-
ual use of it. One lady sonic time ago bought ten grains
of it and drank it off at once witliout leaving the store.
An old gentleman, well known in this city for his extreme
age, is said to be in the habit of taking twenty-five grains
of it daily."
The newly-discovered remedial agent, hydrate of chlo-
ral, is fast becoming a |)opular and dangerous stimulant.
Chloral drinking, according to the physicians, is super-
seding absinthe, opium and alcoholic stimulants among
r,ho better classes. An insidious sedative, its use gi'ows
more dangerously on the tip[)ler than more actively in-
toxicating drinks. The manufacture of this drug is the
best evidence of the extent of its use. In Europe
its production has become one of the leading chemical
industries, and it is sold by the ton. Baron Liebig
affirms that one German chemist manufactures and
sells half a ton a week. The London Spectator says;
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CIILOIUI. AND TOBACCO.
1G7
^ihly-dressed
1'"^ Htoro on
fi lior (Iroas,
as Huroly us
^HJUglit and
t',' says Olio
nido ()|)iuiii,
••ini()n<r tho
oUi for uat-
H^ (lark cel-
I'lasH of cns-
bct the sy.s.
i« to Ix'take
lat dolicioiis
onco. trans-
rite form of
York devo-
by the 'sots'
of the hahit-
t ten grains
g the store,
•his extreme
y-five grains
''ate ofchlo-
^ stiinuhint.
IS, is siipcr-
iints among
^ use gi'ows
ictively in-
finig is the
In P]urope
g chemical
^ron Lie big
stures and
tator says ;
Taking chloral is the new and popular vice, parti-
3ularly among women, and is doing at least im much
lann as alcohol. The drug is kept in tlumsands of
Ircssing-cases, a.n»l those who Ixgin its use often grow so
iddictiid to it that th(\y i)ass their lives in a sort of con-
tented stupefaction, (chloral drunkards will soon be an
idinitted variety of the species."
Did space allow, we might pn\sent the use, the cost and<
the evil of tofxfcco as a (^ounter[)art of the use and evils of
dcohol. Let it suftic(;at pr(;s(;nt to (piote a single extract
from an imj)ortant ref)ort on the subject. Jt exhibits the
^qn.'intity used, and the internal revenue fnmi the same,
leaving us to infer the enormous cx[)ense of the consump-
Ition.
Israel Kimball, head of the tobacco division of the In-
ternal Revenue Department, has j)repared a T)aper for the
use of the committee on ways and means, in v^hich ho
estimates the number of consumers of manufactured to-
;;bacc() and cigars in the United States at about 8,()()0,()00,
Igiving to each individual consumer an average of 11
Jlpourids and 14 ounces of tobacco, and 1(57 cigars, the basis
:of calculati(m being the 95,000,000 ])ounds of inanutactur-
ed tooacco and 1,883,000,000 of cigars on which taxes
were collected during the fis(;al year ending with Juno
last. The average would be larger if the tobacco manu-
factured and sold illegally were added. From other
estimates, Mr. Kimball reaches the conclusion that tho
tax on tobacco has in nowise diminished its consumption,
and that the fact that the government collected last year
taxes on upward of 95,000,000 pounds of manufactured
tobacco, shows that the taxes are very closely collected
amounting in all to $25,000,000. And we may add a'
word on
The Effects of Smoking. — A French physician has in-
vestigated the effects of smoking on thirty-eight boys, be-
tween the ages of nine and fifteen, wlio were addicted to
the habit. Twenty-seven presented distinct symptoms
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of niVotino poison. In twonty-two there were serious (lis-
oncers of tlie circulation, imli^cstion, dnlness of intellect,
and a marked a))p(^tit<M'or strong drinks ; in three tli ere
was heart affection; \u eight, decided deterioration of
Mood ; ten had distin"l)ed sleep, and four had ulceration
of the nnicous nienihrane of the mouth.
Soni(^ one calculated that onl}- the working classes in
Orcat Britain j)ay for alcoholic beverages £()(),()()(),()()(), or
^:U)0,()()(),(H)() annually, a tenth j)art of which would suf-
fice to carry forward the ojierations of all the heni^volcnt
societicv'^ in the world. Last year England paid to the
government a tax on spirits of $70,()()(),()()(), and searc{>ly
more than one-tenth that sum to all her benevolent insti-
tutions.
re sorious (I'm,
of intellect,
n three tliore
terior.'itioi) of
i<I nleenition
Ti^i^ eln.sses in
<),()()(),()()(), or
^VOUld Nllf-
henevolcnt
paid to tlie
{iii'l .scarcely
Jvolent iii.sti-
VIII.
INTEM VEUWE.— (Continued.)
A DEADLY FOK TO NATIONAL rROSPElilTY — THE INTEMPER-
ATE MAN NO FRIEND TO HIS COUNTRY — COMPLETE DE-
MORALIZATION OF THE WHOLE MAN, PHYSICALLY, MEN-
TALLY, MORALLY — THE AUTHOR OF THE SADDEST CALA-
MITIES ON LAND AND SEA, AND IN THE EVERY-DAY WALKS
OF LIFE.
If tlio worst of intern i)crance were its pecuniary cost, we
[hnve shown it to be one of the most virulent enemies of
man, and a most effective agency of Satan for mischief.
[But dollars and cents are here but the merest beginnings
[of evil, stuf)endous as this is. Intern i)erance is a moral
[upas thft l)rcathes blasting pestilence and death on every
icie. No interest is secure from its mildew; no relation
is too sacred to be assailed ; no position or employment
in life that docs not witlier under the poison of its touch.
\i shall chronicle a few more of the wf is ting desolations
' this pitiless scourge, and —
The ravages of intemperance appear again in their rela-
ition to civil li])erty and good government. The i/iteuiper-
late man, and all whose business it is to furnish the intoxi-
[Cating beverage, are Jxtd patriotn. They not only invest
an immense amount of capital in unproductive stock — in
Ian enterprise whicli produces nothing but ruin to national
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prosperity, but they withhold themselves, ineniaMy,mor8My
and corporally, from the service and benefit of their na-
tion. It is a maxim with us that virtue and intelligence
blended are essential to the prosperity and even to the
continued existence of a rei)ul)lican government. I need
not say that intemperance is point-blank opposed to both
virtue and intelligence, and cousecpiently the enemy of
our government. It is as demoralizing and debasing a^j
it is impoverishing. There is no one vice which so com-
pletely disqualifies a man to perform his duty at the polls
— nothing which so confuses his brain and perverts his
judgment — and nothing which, in the eyes of law, ought
sooner to be regarded a civil disability. Every producer
and every consumer of ardent spirits is, as far as his prac-
tice goes, an enemy to the best interests of his country.
Where have there been mischief and crime, poverty .iiid
distress, fightings and murders, woe and death, and tlif<
demon of intemperance was net there ? Yet there are
found men calling themselves ^^^^Hofs, and perhaps wou-i
resent not being called philanthropists, who are nickless
enough to introduce an engine at the poll'? for tht? 'very
purpose of disqualifying men to take .1 dispassionate , :,w
of the best interests of their country, and maK og ti.eid
act for personal or party purposes.
But let us here open the ar>ual>? of intemperance and
copy a single page as touching our national prosperity.
The calculation in the i^^ilowioe itej^is is made for ten
years. Though the scourge has been somewhat dimin-
ished, yet so fearfully does intemperance still prevail in
our land, that it is not necessary to do more than make
a moderate abatement in the facts. The appalling harvest
of the Arch Destroyer for the decade of years would seem
to stand thus :
1. Intemperance has cost our nation the last ten years
(wholesale for liquors) a direct tax of $080,000,000 each
YnhT. and an indirect tax of as much more.
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of
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INTEMPERANCE AND PATRIOTISM.
171
talIy,moralIy
of their na-
intelligence
even to the
ent. I need
)osed to both
he enemy of
debasing as
lich so com.
^ at the polls
perverts his
)f hiw, ought
ery prodiucr
.r us his jjrau-
his country.
poverty ,'ind
sath, and tl,-.
'^t there «;e
^rhapfj wouf i
are recldess,
for tho very
isionate , iw
laK'ng tltiu
perance and
i prosper! t}^
lade for ten
vhat dimin-
11 prevail in
than make
ling harvest
would seem
it ten years
1)0,000 each
lives,
3. It has sent a million of men and women to jails and
risons, and a million of children to the poor-house.
4. It has instigated the commission of .3,000 murders,
,nd caused 4,000 suicides.
5. It has made 200,000 widows, and bequeathed to
ublic or private charity a million of orphans.
G. It has destroyed by fire, shipwreck, or other disas-
ters induced by intemperance, property to the amount of
' 50,000,000 a year, or $500,000,000 for the decade.
7. It has endangered the fair and rich inheritance left
s by our f\itliers, and fixed a foul blot on the fair fame
^f America.
B Who, with such facts before him, will call himself a
patriot, and not rise in his might and take up arm^:
^gixmHt the common fi^e and drive him from the land. ?
i| Or we may estimate the national evil of intemperance
^y contrast. The direct annual tax of intemperance to
"^^he United States we have stated to be $680,000,000. If
devoted to other and useful purposes, it would do either
of the following things :
It would construct a railroad 34,000 miles in a single
^ear, at $20,000 per mile ; or,
2 It would, in a single year, furnish a Bible to every
||amily on tlie face of the globe ; or,
I It would, in the same period, build 1,860 ships of the
'line, at $500,000 each ; or,
4 It would build a city of 136,000 houses, at a cost of
$5,000 each, sufficient to accommodate a million of p(*o-
rile.
Less than half this sum would support 300,000 y ng
men in college at $500 a year; or support 200,000 mis-
sionaries at $1,000 per annum ; or,
It would buy a farm costing $4,000 for each of the
150,000 paupers in our country.
Now, is he a patriot who would foster — who would
license a system which is at work so diametrically afrainst
our national prosperity — undermining the morality of the
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nation, — wasting its substance, — weakening its strength
and with fearful havoc preying on the life of its subjects?
Again I say, the whole liquor-producing and liquor-
consuming fraternity are had patinots.
We will examine for a moment the deadly ravages of
intemperance on mind. And here again we shall find
" sin reigning unto death."
On this point a learned physician and professor in
Columbia College, Dr. Sewall, says : " Here the influence
is marked and decisive. The inebriate first loses hia
vivacity and natural acuteness of perception. His judg-
ment becomes clouded and impaired in strength ; the me-
mory enfeebled and sometimes quite obliterated. The
mind is wandering and vacant, and incapable of intense or
steady application to any one subject. The imagination
and the will, if not enfeebled, acquire a morbid sensibility
from which they are thrown into a state of violent excite-
ment from the slightest causes. Hence the inebriate
sheds floods of tears over the pictures of his own fancy. I
have often seen him, and especially on h^'s recovery from
a fit of intoxication, weep and laugh alternately over the
same scene. The will, too, acquires ixn omnipotent ascen-
dency over him, and is the only monitor to which he
yields obedience. The appeals of conscience, the claims
of domestic happiness, of wives and children, of patriotism
and virtue are not heard.
" The different powers of the mind having lost their
natural relation to each other, the healthy balance being
destroyed, the intellect is no longer fit for intense applica-
tion or successful effort — and although the inebriate may,
and sometimes dues, astonish, by the wildness of his fancy
and the poignancy of his wit, yet in nine cases out of ten
he fails. Where one has been abl'^ to struggle on under
the habits of intemperance, thousands have perished in the
experiment ; and some among the most powerful minds
the world ever produced. On the other hand, we shall find,
by looking over the biography of t le great in every age,
.^■,
its strength,
Its subjects?
and ]iquor-
\y ravages of
^e shall find
professor in
'he influence
■st loses his
His judg.
*th ; the me-
srated. The
of intense or
invagination
d sensibility
iolent excite-
he inebriate
>wn fancy. I
?covery from
bely over the
)otent ascen-
o which he
^ the claims
:)f patriotism
glost their
ilance being
nse applica-
sbriate may,
3f his fancy
s out of ten
e on under
shed in the
rful minds
i shall find,
every age,
RAVAGES ON MIND AND MORALS.
173
that those who have possessed the clearest and most pro-
found minds, neither drank spirits nor indulged in the
ploiisures of the table. Sir Isaac Newton, John Locke,
Dr. Franklin, John Wesley, Sir William Jones, John
Fletcher, and President Edwards furnish a striking illus-
tration of this truth. One of the secrets by which these
men produced such astonishing results, and were able to
perform so much intellectual labour, and of so high a grade,
and to arrive at old age in the enjoyment of health, was a
rigid course cf abstinence."
It is a matter of melancholy history that the use of
ardent spirits has made worse havoc among the intellectu-
al powers of man than all other evils that have befallen
the human mind. It is here the great destroyer.
But for a blush of shame we might instance sad cases
of intemperance among some of the brightest lights of
land. Some have fallen to rise no more. Others
our
have yielded to the seductive snare to their own dishon-
our and their friends' shame. Would that we could ex-
cept any class — even the most sacred order, that has riot
made an unwilling sacrifice to this homble M iooh. Ad
enemy hath done this.
Intemperance works death on a man's moral powers.
Here the havoc is awful. Intemperance is a foe to moral-
ity and religion. Select the most amiable, industrious,
domestic and moral man, and withal one that is apparent-
ly religious, and see what a change may be produced in a
few months by the habit in question. He is now a good
husband ; a kind and tender father ; an obliging neigh-
bour ; an affectionate friend ; honest and prompt in his
dealings. He is cheerful and happy at home, and re-
spected abroad. He calls the Sabbath a delight — his
seat is filled in the sanctuary — the Bible is the man of his
counsel — the family altar sends up the morning and even-
ing incense. He fuads the ways of wisdom pleasant and
all her paths peace.
Such is the man as nature and grace has made him
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The connection of intemperance with immorality and
crime does but again illustrate the magnitude of the evil
in question. Our enemy is fully conscious of his power
here, and is not slack to use his advantages. By no other
devices does he so effectually people the dark realms of
the Pit. We shall subpoena witnesses who will on this
point testify to what they know, and bear witness to what
they have seen ; and we shall incline to receive their wit-
ness as true. We have, first,
English Judges on Strong Drinks and Crime. — There
is scarcely a crime comes before me that is not directly or
indirectly caused by strong drink. — Judge Coleridge.
If it were not for this drinking, you (the jury) and I
would have nothing to do. — Judge Patteson.
Experience has proved that almost all crime into
which juries have had to inquire may be traced, in one
way or another, to drunkenness. — Judge Williams.]
I find, in every calendar that comes before me, one
unfailing source, directly or indirectly, of most of the
crimes that are committed — intemperance. — Judge Wight-
man.
If all men could be dissuaded from the use of intoxi-
cating liquors, the office of a judge would be a sinecure. —
Judge Alder son.
This we shall follow by a " Judicial Testimony " of one
who, with a long experience and judicious observation,
gives the following
Judicial Testimony. — Roland Burr, Esq., justice of the
peace in Toronto, and jail commissioner for nearly twenty
years, in a statement to the Canadian Parliament, says
that nine out of ten of the male prisoners, and nineteen
out of twent}'' of the female, have been brought there by
intoxicating liquors. He examined nearly 2,000 prisoners
in the jails throughout Canada, two- thirds of whom were
males, and nearly all signed a petition for a Maine liquor
law, many of them stating that their only hope of being
saved from ruin was to go where intoxicating liquors
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l.roiight there by intoxicating liquors. He has kei)t a
record of the liquor dealers of a single street in Toronto,
lOO in number, for o4 years past. In these families there
have been 214 drunkards, 45 widows, and 285 orphans
1,'ft 44 sudden deaths, 13 suicides, 2().S premature deaths
bv drunkenness, 4 murders, 3 executiom, 1,915 years of
lunnan life estimated to have been lost byarunkenness,and
.1 loss of property once owned in real estate amounting to
S:^.!)3,500.
Sin in the shape of intemperance, reigns unto death
'livskally. It works an immense amount of natural
(leafk And first we meet intemperance as the insidious
foe to health — the sapper and miner of the constitution.
On this point we are particularly indebted to the Medical
Faculty. And, by the way, we feel pleasure in acknow-
lechdng that the cause of temperance is, in this respect,
more indebted to gentlemen of the medical profession'
than to any other class of men. Though the prevalence
of temperance will endanger their craft more than any
other (unless it be that of the lawyer), yet they have
come up nobly and given an unequivocal testimony
ao-ainst the vice, and lent the full weight of their influence
in favour of reform : testimony and influence the more
valuable as given in opposition to their pecuniary in-
terests.
The large and highly respectable body of physicians
called before a committee of the British Parliament, at
the instance of the Hon. Mr. Buckingham (late traveller
in this country), composed of several hundreds of the
most eminent of the profession from England, Scotland
and Ireland, unitedly declared that " intoxicating drinks
are never necessary to men in health, but on the contrary
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productive of wholesome results, but which it would be
preposterous to thiuk of using as a beverage."
The following may be taken as some account of the
manner in which this potent foe invades the human systen:.
Stone after stone is made to fall from the firm fabric till
the whole lies in ruins.
" The habit once formed, the whole system," says one,
" soon bears marks of debility and decay. The voluntary
muscles lose their powers and cease to act under the con-
trol of the will, and hence all the movements become awk-
ward, exhibiting the appearance of stiffness of the joints.
The positions of the body are also tottering and infirm,
and the step loses its elasticity and vigour. The muscle.^,
and especially those of the face and lips, are often affected
with a convulsive twitching, which produces the involun-
tary winking of the eye, and quivering of the lip so char-
acteristic of the intemperate. Imleed, all the motions
seem unnatural and forced, as if restrained b}^ some power
within. The extremities are at length seized with a tre-
mor, which is more strongly marked after a recovery from
a fit of intoxication. The lips lose their significant ex-
pression — the complexion assumes a sickly leaden hue, or
is changed to an unhealthy, fiery redness, and is covered
with red streaks and blotches. The eye becomes watery,
tender and inflamed, and loses its intelligence and fire.
These symptoms, together with a certain dropsical appear-
ance about the eye, bloating of the whole body, with a
dry, feverish skin, seldom fail to mark the habitual dram-
drinker. And they go on increasing till the intelligence
and dignity of the man is lost in the tameness and sensu-
ality of the brute."
Such are some of the tokens of distress which tortured
nature gives of violence from without. The strongholds
of the man are giving way. The fortress is yielding.
Though unseen and unsuspected, morbid changes are
taking i)lace within, fatal and irretrievable.
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The use of ardent spirits deranges the functions of the
stomach, and, if continued, changes its structure The
inebriate first loses his appetite and becomes thirsty and
feverish ; he vomits in the morning and is aflfected with
spasmodic pains in the region of the stomach. He
is often seized with dyspe})sia, and either wastes away
by degrees or dies suddenly of a fit of cramp in the
stomach.
The liver, the brain, the heart and the lungs, each in
their turn fall a prey to the ravages of the great des-
troyer ; and a long list of diseases, some of one organ
and some of another, are the legitimate results of intem-
])erance. But it stops not in any preliminary work of
death. It actually peoples the grave with more victims,
and hell with more inhabitants than disease, pestilence or
war.
I am not going into the blood-chilling details here. A
few shall suffice ; and I shall content myself with a few
of a single class.
Whose blood has not been chilled on reading the heart-
sickening accounts of the loss of the Kent, the Rothsay
Castle, the Ben Sherrod and the Home ? — to say nothing
of scores of other accounts of more recent date and scarcely
less disastrous. And whose indignation against the use
of intoxicating drinks does not rise when told that these
were the authors of such death-glutting disasters ? The
Kent was an East Indiaman of 1,400 tons, and had on
boi^rd more than 600 souls, all of whom must have per-
ished ill the flames or sunk beneath the waves, but for the
timely relief of a passing ship. Eighty-one lives were
lost. The vessel took fire from the carelessness of a
drunken soldier.
The destruction of the steam-packet Rothsay Castle is
still more appalling. She was wrecked on her way from
Liverpool to Dublin, in 1831. Here more than one hun-
dred men, women and children, in a single hour found a
grave beneath the billows of the deep. This dreadful
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catastrophe, which destroyed some of the moat useful lives
in. England, is rharr/cdhle to the drunkennem of her com-
7nan<l{'r. Ho fell a victiiii.
But we need not go lu^yond the records of our own
country to find some of the most appalling monuments to
intemperance. Many a heart still palpitates with grief,
and many an eye tills with the hig tear at the remem-
brance of the Ben Sherrod or the Home.
The former was crowded with passengers of every rank,
age and sex, and moving majestically up the great river
of the West, and when all were locked fast in the embrace
of sleep, (May J), 18.S7,) a drunken crew were preparing
the engine to burst in all its dreadful fury. One hundred
and fifty died an excruciating death. The report of the
Committee of Investigation says : "At the time the Sherrod
took fire, the hands on duty were in a state of intoxica-
tion, having access at all times to a barrel of whisky
placed forward of the boiler deck for their use ; " and
that "the engineer furnished the firemen with large
quantities of brandy or other spirits as an inducement to
keep up excessive tires, with the view of overtaking the
Prairie, then ahead of them."
Or who can forget the heartremling scene of the steam-
boat Home ? With 90 or 100 j)assengers, and a crew of
43, she left New York for Charleston, 1837. Seldom has
a ship's company numbered on her list so many persons
of character and respectability. Many who had been
spending the summer at the north, were returning with
glad hearts to the bosom of their families. Husbands and
wives, parents and children, lovers and friends, were an-
ticipating a speedy and happy reunion as they stepped
on board the magic- named and speed-famed vessel, the
Home.
But alas, how different their destiny ! They were at
the mercy — not of the raging elements, the lire or the
storm, but of a drunken captain. Sixty hours had not
elapsed when they presented a scene which beggars all
description.
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'* The boat strikes — slio stops, motionlt^ss Jia a bar of
iron. A iiiomentary pause follows, as if tlie angel of
death shrunk from so dreadful a work of slaughter. But
soon the work of death l)egan. A breaker, with a deafen-
ing crasli, swept over the boat, carrying its unfortunate
victims into the deep. Heartrending were the cries and
shrieks of those who were calling for help as wave after
wave showed them struggling amidst the billows, or of
those who exj)ected tlu^ next wave to submerge them in
the yawning abyss." There was seen the niother witli
her little ones clinging about her, in vain imploring a
mother's protection, till a merciless wave swept them
uway together. Husbands and wives — some clinging
together as if knit l)y the embrace of death — others see a
fond })artner torn away by the resistless toirent and buried
beneath the waves. A lady was seen standing on the
deck as the second wave swe])t over, with an infant
pressed to her V)osom. "i'lie child was torn from her arms
and thrown u})on the angry deej). "The ])oor woman,"
says an eye-witness, " s|)rang from the deck with a loud
shriek and leaped into the foam after her babe," and they
perished together.
But there was another scene. While some were frantic,
some prayed, some were ])etrified from fear, others Hew to
the bar for liquor, and spent the last hours of their lives
in drinking, cursing and swearing. The bar had been
closed, but those already mad with intoxication, and re-
solved to have more, lushed on the bar and broke it open.
Some endeavoured to ])ersuade the bai-keeper to destroy
his liquors, but he would not sacrifice so onuch 2>TopGrtj/ !
" Poor fellow ! " adds the narrator, " he did not live to
enjoy his gains."
But why proceed ? The whole affair was one of un-
mingled wretchedness and woe. Ninety-Jive human
beings were thereby plunged in a moment into a watery
grave ; and more than twice ninety-five families were
bathed in tears and clad in mourning.
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competency of an intoxicated captain. It was the habit
of taking a little when one thinks he needs it. The cap-
tain called himself, and his friends called him,a temperate
drinker. He took a little wine and cordial as he thought
he required it. And bj^-and-by he was so intoxicated as
to be obliged to yield the command of his vessel to another,
but not till it was too late to save ninety-tive useful lives
and thousands of property. How long will men continue
to patronize their worst foe ?
Such instances as I have here alluded to, ought to be
emblazoned on the annals of Temperance, and be made to
ring in the ears of its friends to elicit their compassion
for human woes and to fire their zeal ; and in the ears of
its opponents, till they too shall unite their efibrts to dis-
lodge this monster scourge from his dwelling among men.
Where war has slain its millions, intoxicating drinks have
slain their tens of millions. Where war has cost itsmillions,
Intemperance has cost its tens of millions. The little fin-
ger of Intemperance is thicker than the body of the
demon of war. But its cost, either in the destruction of
property or in the awful havoc it makes of human life, is
not the worst of it. Intemperance, as we have seen, is a
deadly disease on the immortal spirit. It not only fills
this world with wretchedness and woe and death, but it
does more than all other evils to fill the nether world with
its miserable inmates. It works death temporal and death
eternal. It is a poisonous evil— a devouring monster,
leaving nothing in his train but poverty, woe and death.
Once throw yourself into his deadly grasp, and you have
surrendered all, and received nothing in return but
shame, disgrace and ruin.
Alas, what has not Intemperance done as the angel of
death to people the grave ! Not even the bloody annals
of war equal the death-record of rum. Here is the Devil's
stronghold among men.
IX.
THE PERVERSION OF INTELLECT.
MENTAL RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES — MIND THE PRIME
MOVER OF ALL ACTION — OF ALL POWER — LITERATURE
—SCIENCE — HISTORY—MUSIC, AND THEIR SAD PERVER-
SION.
II
" Knowledge is power" — a, power either for good or
for evil. All action lies in mind. Muscle is nothing ex-
cept as the servant of mind. It acts only as set in motion
and guided by this wonderful yet unseen agent. You
see riding proudly upon the bosom of the ocean a noble
man-of-war. It is a grand achievement of human power.
Every mind, field and forest — every species of human
skill and power, were employed in its construction ; yet
that mighty thing was once but an idea — a thought. Or
you board an ocean steamer, and contemplate all its mag-
nificent arrangements — the varied skill in its construction
and fitting up, and the power that moves it over the face
of the angry deep, and you have again before you but an
elaboration in all its varied forms of a thought. In like
manner we may trace back to its humble inception in
some mind the idea of the present steam power. What
is now ramified into all the multifarious forms of engine-
ry — what is now embodied in all the modes of steam-
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power, whether to propel the mighty steamer, the rail-
way-car, or the wheel of the manufacturer — the whole
was once a thought in the mind of an individual man.
How from step to step the thought unfolded — how, from
the most imperfect inception it developed and grew into
colossal stature and gigantic powers and endlessly multi-
plied forms, would set at defiance all efforts to delineate.
We allude to it here simply to suggest the houndltss re-
sources which lie hid in the human intellect. We meet
here an exhaustless mine. The deeper you delve, the
richer and the more abundant the ore.
Great revolutions have been the result of simple and
often accidental thought. Political ideas may sometimes
be expressed by a single word or sentence, which becomes
the watch-word for millions,'and turns the scale in the des-
tiny of empires. The effect of a simple song, founded on
one thought, is untold. In our own country great politi-
cal changes have been ensured, and Presidential cam-
paigns have been won, by the influence of a stray thought
whic^ has become current, and adopted as a rallying cry
for . enthusiasm of political parties.
It was a brilliant and beautiful inspiration that entered
the mind of the artist and the philosepher, when in his
studio he conceived that the dull iron might thrill with
immortal ideas, and might be made to bear messages
from land to land, and perhaps encircle the world with its
countless wires. But it was realized ; and by means of
that thought the world is to-day annihilating time and
space, and making the hearts of nations beat with simul-
taneous emotions.
The mind of one man produced the idea of the expan-
sive power of steam ; another confirmed it ; another used
it with a beam to pump water ; and James Watt devel-
oped, contemporaneously with Dr. Black, the law of latent
heat. The application of this law to mechanics led the
inventor to a beautiful combination of principles and ap-
pliances, and the steam-engine, elevated to the rank of ihe
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(Teat motor of civilization, has raised the world by a more
than Archimedean lever to a far higher level of progress
and development.
An unknown and humble man conceived the idea of
using steam to paddle vessels, but the inventor struggled
through life, and died without realizing his hopes. John
Fitch never saw the success of his plans, but Fulton de-
signed a rotary paddle-wheel ; and now all over the world
steamers ply their rotating feet, and float on every tide.
Neptune rides in a mighty floating palace, and oceans are
crossed with scarce a fear.
But the press, the great " art preservative of all arts " —
printing owes its existence to the simple idea of stamping
letters rudely cut on a block. Out of that incident grew
the art which is now, and must henceforth be, the world's
great teacher. With a few ])ieces of metal, curiously
shaped, it prints on paper thoughts and words that sweep
over the world. It is the wonderful and genuine thought-
machine which kindles the fire, and wakens the intellect,
and moves the countless thoughts of millions of minds.
The energy and action — the revolutions and changeswhich
have resulted and will yet result from the original idea,
are beyond conception.
The apple that fell at the feet of the philosopher started
a thought out of which grew the demonstration of laws
and principles in science which unfolded a whole domain
of unperceived truth, and enabled the mind to weigh the
spheres, and compute motions of celestial mechanism for
immense periods of the future.
We are in no clanger of overrating the power ofthovght.
There is inherent in it an energy, the capabilities of which
we are in no condition to estimate. All our inventions
and discoveries, all improvements and reforms are but the
realizations of thought. But this power, like all the
powers subordinate to it, is an agent for good or for evil,
according to the influence which guides it, or the purpose
to which it is directed. Fire, water, steam, electricity, are
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as mighty for niisdiiof. when left uncontrolled, or when
devoted to hurtful purposes, as on the other hand they
are mighty for good when beneficially applied. The
lightning uncontrolled, is the sure agent of devastation
and death ; but when guided by the hand of science and
made the servant of man, it becomes an agent of locomo-
tion swifter than the wind, bearing messages of love and
executing eirands of business to the remotest ends of the
world.
And not only do we discover in the human intellect
the hiding of all power, either for good or for evil, but we
here meet a power that is capable of an indefinite increase
or expansion. Education, in its true and etymological
sense, is not a process whereby any new faculty is added
to the mind. To educate is to educe, to draw out, to de-
velop what is already in the mind. In every school of
learning, in every process of mental discipline, there is an
unfolding of mind, an expansion of mental power, and
consequently there is a corresponding responsibility for
the right use of this increased mental power. Unto whom
much is given, much will be required.
I migbt dwell on the responsibility and urge the duty
of an honest devotion of whatever of original talent, or
of mental acquisitions we may be possessed, to the cause
of truth and righteousness. But it is rather the design of
the present chapter to conduct the reader over the ravages
of sin as we shall meet them in the perversions of the
human intellect. Behold, what desolations our Enemy
has made here.
It would need none of the romance of hope or of specu
lation to divine what our world would soon become if
there were no such thing among men as the perversion of
talent — if all learning and science and art—if eloquence
and poetry and logic, and mental training and endowments
of every kind, were devoted only to the real and lasting
welfare of man. But what do we find to be the melan-
choly fact ? What hath the enemy done here ? How
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little of learniiif; subserves the cause' of truth, of right, of
freedom, of religion ! How little of literature — of poetry,
of history, of eloquence or art I How sninil a portion is
en<?<ige(l for Gorl and his cause ! The usur])ations of the
Enemy here are melancholy indeed, and almost universal.
Tlio thought finds a melancholy illustration in actual
life. We might adduce any num})er of examples. Among
the most brilliant and gifted men and popidar writers, we
number such men as Lord Byron, Voltaire, Hume, Gibbon,
Rousseau, Paine. They were giants in intellect, and
withiU they were endowed with talents of a ]V)pular char-
acter, fitted to exert the highest order of influence on other
minds. But what infiuence did they exert ? What mark
have they left behind them ?
In the social and moral influence left behind them,
they have been as the scorching sirocco that passes over
a fertile and beautiful land. It may be said of them mor-
ally, as the prophet said of a desolating army wnich he
describes : " The land before them is as the Garden of
Eden, and behind them a desolate wilderness." Man is
scarcely the victim of a more blighting curse than that
inflicted by the pen of a corrupt and coiTupting, yet popu-
lar writer. ^
And how sad the use some of the most gifted men of
the present day are making of their talents. We might
here instance, were it necessary, any number of popular
wTiters of the present day, whose mighty minds and ready
pens and eloquent tongues, if they had Ijeen employed to
illustrate and defend the truth with only the same zeal
and assiduity they have engaged in perverting and oppos-
ing it, they would be mighty men in the earth. " One
sinner destroyeth much good." In nothing does this aph-
orism hold md^e sadly true than in respect to the influence
exerted by one commanding mind over the minds of the
mass. If every thought is a power, and every thought
expressed is a power exercised for good or for evil, then we
may estimate, in some degree at least, what resources for
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evil aro garnered in tlie ])erverted intellect of a single
great mind. Whether he write, or speak, or act, there is
following in his wake a ntultitude, who, as he leads them,
will go on to do evil.
We may select any of the modes by which mind gains
a suprcimacy over mind and directs it whithersoever it
will, and our thoughts will be abundantly illustrated.
Poetry has a charm over the mind of immense power.
Yet how extensively is this noble art wrested from its high
level, from which it tends to elevate the mind, to creations
of its own, to rouse the better passions of the soul, t^ in-
struct, and to move to right feelings and actions, and
brought it down to grovel with debasement and moral
corruption. How often it has been shamefully surrendered
to the enemy, and he has used it without stint, to cojrupt,
to rouse the latent passi(>ns of a nature already corrupt,
and to urge to feelings and acts which curse our common
inheritance, and bless not.
Eloquence is a rjire power, too, among the elements that
move to action. It is a mental power, developed and used
for the control of other minds ; and when used only to
persuade man to right action, or to the adoption of right
principles, it is truly a divine art, as well ^ mighty. But
how little of this noble art is as yet devoted to the real
interests of man, the establishment and defence of the
truth, or the support of human rights, or the promotion of
human happiness ! How extensively is this divine art
employed merely to amuse as its better function ; while,
what is a thousand times worse, how much oftener is it
employed to mislead, to deceive, to fortify error and wrong
— to make the worse course appear the better — not to
bless, but to curse.
I cannot better illustrate what I mean thAn by the aid
of a contrast recently drawn by an unknown, yet not an
unpractised pen. It is of two men of professional life who
recently died in the city of New York. They were both
born of religious parentage, educated under the most fav-
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ourablo circnmstancis, and both t.'led a large space in the
public eye. Both have gone to their rest, and now the
impartial verdict may be pjissed upon their lives and the
fruit of their professional labours. The death and burial
of both, nearly simultaneous, seems to admit of runnin
out a parallel, instructive even if painful :
They started alike in life under the most favourable
prospects for usefulness and elevation of character. They
travelled the same road together but bricHy, and when
tliey separated, one took the " straicfht and narroiv path "
which leads to life, and the other the " broad road which
leads to destruction." One espoused the cause of Christ,
and devoted time, talents and the energies of a long min-
istry to the cause of his blessed Master. The other gave
his rare native gifts, and the industry of weary, toilsome
years to a profession which yields only the most bitter
fruits of unrighteousness. One laboured untiringly through
life to lead men to seek their spiritual safety to-day, and
to advance their true happiness by following the way of
positive religious duty. The other, not less diligent in the
walks of a public profession, insidiou.sly seduced men from
their allegiance to Christ, by ridiculing the character of
his disciples and caricaturing their professions and prac-
tices. One was engaged in every good word and work,
striving to elevate the character of his fellow-travellers to
eternity, and valiantly defending the truth at the hazard
of personal sacrifice and suffering. The other devoted his
life to the frivolity of the stage and its consequent dissi-
pation, and by example, if not precept, led many of the
young into snares from which they were never extricated
The life of one was a beautiful illustration of the power,
of faith in elevating and purifying character, in sustaining
protracted suffering, and giving serenity and submission
to an afflicted disciple. The history of the other shows
the power of the sensual appetites and passions. One
enjoyed the respect of all good men and the love of a
large circle of eminent Christian friends. The other had
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the approbation mainly of men of similar habits and loose
moral propensities, with but few to adhere to him in the
hour of sickness and sorrow. One died the cheeiful,
happy disciple of a beloved Master, ready to go when
summoned, and who is now in the possession of the
" unspeakable joy " promised the Christian. The other,
" without hope or God in the world," suffered bitterly on
his dying bed, remorse biting like a serpent and stinging
like an adder, lamenting, while he had contributed so
much to the sensual mirth of others, he himself had been
the victim of the sorest dejection and grief. One was
carried to the gi:-ave, surrounded by the sympathies of
earnest friends and the warmest aftection of Christians
whose memory will long be fragrant with the churches.
The other died under circumstances of peculiar gloom,
leaving few incidents in a frivolous and wasted life, to
cause society to mourn his departure.
Comments are needless and might seem invidious. The
one has heard his Master say ; " Servant of God, well
done." And, greeted by a goodl}^ company which he had
guided to the heavenly Zion, and followed by the bene-
diction of thousands who wait still the Master's call, he
enters his eternal rest. But what, when viewed from his
standpoint before the tribunal of the great God, does the
great comedian now see in the life-elevation of his no less
gifted mind, and probably more brilliant talents, that can
minister one drop of satisfaction now? Does he wish his
works to follow him ? Would he now be greeted by the
array of that great multitude, which, during a long and
much applauded professional course, he had the most
'?,fFectually helped onward in their downward course in
the broad road to death ?
I pause only to ask the young man now buckling on
the harness for life, endowed with brilliant talents, and
aspiring after great things, in whose footsteps he would
choose to tread ? Would he follow in the career, and
j*eek the world-wide renown of William K Bukton ? Or
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would he, as an humble, faithful disciple of Jesus Christ,
and a minister of the New Testament, like James W.
Alexander and George Whitefield, yield himself up a
servant of the Crucified One, and seek honour with God
by turning many to righteousness ?
But there is yet another class, whom, though I would
not rank them in the category of the classes before named,
are satisfied to employ their mental endowments in a
department of literature which can scarcely claim a higher
office than that of catering to the transient, and too often
not the innocent amusement of readers. We cannot too
deeply regret that such rare, brilliant, commanding talents
for popular writing as are possessed by such authors as
Dickens, Bulwer, and scores of writers of that class, should
not have made their great powder felt in a higher sphere
of intellectual and moral teaching. It seems but a melan-
choly perversion, a sad waste that sucli powers should
aspire to nothing higher than to amuse, — and perhaps
sink so low as to demoralize.
"An enemy hath done this :" and scarcely do we else-
where discover ravages over which the good man should
more bitterly weep. What could not such men do if
their glowing minds and warm hearts were enlisted on
the side of truth and righte(jusness. A moment's contrast
will again confirm what I assert. Contrast the class of
men to whom I have just referred, with such men as
Samuel J. Mills, Howard, Wilberforce, Harlan Page,
Knill, and Payson — all of them men of moderate talents,
compared with the authors I have named ; and what have
they done ? I speak not so much now of the quantity of
the respective doings of the two classes as of the quality.
The one is engraven on the marble, the other written on
the sand ! I am doubtless safe in saying that Samuel J.
Mills — neither a poet, philosopher or sage — neither a
genius, a scholar or a wit — contributed more, in the
simple truths he preached during a very brief ministry,
and the plans of benevolent action ho devised, to the real
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enlightenment and the true progress of his race — left more
behind him worthy to be remembered, and did more for
the substantial good of man, than all the sceptics, all the
learned infidels, all the writers of fiction and comedy, and
all the religious errorists from the beginning of the world
to the present time. Being dead, he speaks more than their
whole united voice combined.
But we should here not overlook, as strongly corroborat-
ing what I have said of this class of men, that, while we
may thus hold them up as examples worthy of all imita-
tion as having made an unusual consecration of their
powers, they themselves indulged the humiliating thought
that they had done little compared to what they might
have done — that the devotion of their talents and oppor-
tunities had been but partial. Nothing gives a sure,
lasting and wholesome efficacy to our intellectual efforts
— nothing makes mind truty in the right direction, but
the power of a good life. " We have," says Dr. Chalmers,
" many ways of doing good to our fellow- creatures ; but
none so efficacious as leading a virtuous, upright and well-
ordered life. There is an energy of moral suasion in a
good man's life, passing the highest eff()rts of the orator's
genius. The seen but silent beauty of holiness speaks
more eloquently of God and duty than the tongues of men
and angels. Let parents remember this. The best in-
heritance a parent can bequeath to a child is a virtuous
example, a legacy of hallowed remembrances and associa-
tions. The beauty of holiness, beaming through the life
of a loved relative or friend, is more effectual to strengthen
such as do stand in virtue's ways, and raise up those that
are bowed down, than precept, command, entreaty, or
warning. Christianity itself, I believe, owes by far the
greater part of its moral power, not to the precepts or
parables of Christ, but to his own character. The beauty
of that holiness which is enshrined in the four brief
biographies of the Man of Nazareth, has done more, and
will do more, to regenerate the world, and bring in an
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everlasting righteousness, than all the other agencies put
together. It has done more to spread his reUgion in the
world than all that has ever been preached or written on
the evidences of Christianity."
We can, in the nature of the case, take no more than a
surface view of the perversions to which allusion has
been made. Could we penetrate into the secret springs
of action we should be astonished to find how little of
the world's activity is as yet set in motion by consecrated
talent.
We turn to the learned professions : the Gospel minis-
try, the law, and medicine. These three professions
embrace a very large share of the talent of a nation, and,
of consequence, exert a very controlling influence on every
class of a community. We would that we might pass by
the first as too destitute of illustrations to detain us. But
alas, it is not so. Though no profession devotes so much
of its real and lasting talent to the good of man, yet a tale
too sad may be told here. We shall now leave out of the
account the priestly orders of all false religions, though it
is here that we meet the most lamentable perversions of
talent anywhere to be found in all professional life. For
it is among false religions that nearly all the learning of a
nation is monopolized by the priesthood ; and if it be used,
as facts show it for the most part is, to foster superstition,
to enslave mind, and to crush liberty, it is one of the most
wholesale, unblushing, wicked perversions of talent and
Satanic malignity ever devised, or that the Arch-Fiend
ever practised.
It is rather to the clerical profession as it exists under
its best form, as the ministry of the evangelical church,
that reference is made. No profession, as I said, devotes
so large a proportion of its talent to the best interests of
man, whether for time or for eternity. Yet, by one perver-
sion or another, how large deductions are we often obliged
to make from the intellectual efiiciency they might have
rendered ; while the most devoted class have grievously to
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lament their lack of entire consecration of mind, soul and
spirit, to the great work of their calling.
The profession of law is a noble profession. It is, when
taken as embracing jurists and judges, legislators and exe-
cutors, the guardian of some of the highest and dearest of
man's earthly interests. Man's relations to man, and the
duties proceeding from these relations, are second only to
his relations and duties to his God, and in the divine
arrangements they are not separated. The profession in
question is charged with these interests — to define these
relations and to enforce these duties. They are, in the
most extensive sense, the ministers of justice, to define,
enforce and defend its claims. The science of government
falls within the sphere of their high and responsible
duties. And withal this numerous c^ass of men possess a
very large share of the talent of our country, abundantly
fitting them to meet duties so onerous and honourable.
What opportunities has the statesman to play the patriot
and use the highest order of talents for the noblest of pur-
poses ; yet often, shrinking in the merest truckling poli-
tician, his country would be the better if he had no talents
at all.
. And who has a nobler field than the lawyer — to stand
forth the defender and dispenser of justice — nobly to serve
his fellow-men in those mazes and intricacies of life where
most they need a friend ? But how often is he the worst
friend justice has to fear ; he makes right wrong, and his
tender mercies are cruelty.
If ever}^ statesman were a true patriot, and every poli-
tician a true man, and every lawyer an honest jurist, soon
would our world be, at least civilly, socially and commer-
cially, prepared for that golden age, so often sung by pro-
phets and sighed for by all who wait to welcome the res-
titution of all things through the Mediatorial King.
I shall leave to the sons of ^sculapius to determine
whether there be among their fraternity any special in-
tellectual waste. A verv sacred trust is committed to
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learning and science — of native and cultivated talent.
But it is not easj' for the uninitiated to enter into the
penetralia of their art, and determine how far the great
intellectual resources and the large fund of experience
possessed by the craft are made to subserve the best
sanitary interests of their respective communities. Has
the healing art advanced with the advance of knowledge
and science ?
Similar remarks will probably appear not the less just
if applied to general literature. Of two thousand writers
in our land, one-half are writers of fiction — a large pro-
portion, indeed, devote themselves to the mere amuse-
ment of a people. For most of these writers aim at
nothing higher — and many of them aim at something
vastly lower. They make a well-told story a decoy to
inoculate a large mass of mind with a moral poison
more fatal than death. More minds are probably cor-
rupted, more hearts demoralized, more error inculcated
by th . novel than in any or perhaps all other ways : and
so plausibly, so stealthily, so insidiously, that the infatu-
ated patient is insensible of the disease contracted till
it is past all remedy* A vast amount of the most
sprightly talent of the present day, of the most lively and
excursive imagination, and inventive genius in the pro-
duction of the literature here referred to is thus prosti-
tuted.
What would be the infiuence on the world if such
talents and aptitudes were devoted only to illustrate and
enforce truth — to promote the mental and moral improve-
ment of their readers ? It would add an immense power
to our present resources for the renovation of the world.
This is however but one way in which our literature is
perverted and prostituted. Many books are written pur-
posely to propagate error, to demoralize, to stir up strife
and party animosity, to defame character, to excite the
carnal passions, to exalt wickedness and to prostrate
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A similar course of remark would apply to business
talent as engaged in the guidance of the great commercial
affairs of the world. Few fully estimate the value to civi-
lization, and to all the great movements of the world, of
men of capital, and of that tact and talent so to employ it
as to make it answer its great and beneficent ends. With-
out this agency not one of the great ^plans of human ]n-o-
gress, and for the extension of Christianity, can be carried
out ; and were this once to become a sanctified agency,
we could want neither means, resources nor facilities for
the consummation of all our purposes of benevolence for
the final regeneration of the world. But nowhere else do
we more distinctly trace the foot-prints of the Foe. Ex-
ceptions we have of merchant princes, and princely men
of business, who are truly pillars in the church, and whose
arms of benevolence reach around the globe. Yet how ex-
tensive and lamentable is the perversion ! How do the
shrewdest minds too often aspire to no higher function
than that of devising ways and means to overreach, de-
ceive, defraud and oppress.
And science has by no means escaped the hand of the
destroyer. It is rather a painfully interesting fact, that
some of the most beautiful and valuable discoveries of
modern science are highly serviceable to crime and fraud.
Counterfeiters and forgers seem to be as much inclined to
use them, and promise to be as much benefited by them,
as honest men and honest arts. A new process of repro-
ducing facsimiles of manuscript writing from stone was
exhibited at the last meeting of he French Academy of
Sciences. A M. Lachard, in the presence of that body,
requested some of its members to write, and sign their
names to a few lines upon a sheet of paper. This while yet
moist was placed by Lachard upon blotting paper, which
he took to his house, leaving the original in the hands of
an Academician, M. Segnier. The next day M. Segnier
and his colleagues received two copies of this, one upon
parchment, and the other upon ordinary letter paper, go
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exactly like the orignal in all respects as to defy a stran-
ger to the experiment to tell which of the three first was
written — which were copies and which was the original.
The Academy requested Lachard not to make the process
of this dangerous discovery public.
And more forbidding still is the survey when we con-
template the schemes for mischief and villainy which are
planned and executed only by minds great in wicked-
ness. The whole power of some of the greatest minds is
employed only in schemes of mischief — at least in some
way that only debases and preys upon the best interests
of man.
Music, history and the fine arts each affords a field of
illustration which we may now scarcely enter. The
marble has a voice — every painting speaks, and each
carries a lesson to the mind and a moral to the heart.
But how sad that that lesson and that moral should so
often serve only to debase and demoralize. The prosti-
tution has here been sad indeed. But our survey of the
powers and perversions of music and song must not be
quite so hasty.
Perhaps no species of talent is so largely and so sadly
perverted as that of Music. The Devil has been per-
mitted almost to monopolize this mighty power over the
human mind. I have spoken of the power of poetry, and
how extensively it has been prostituted to corrupt, debase
and to persuade to evil, rather than to purify, to elevate
and to charm into what is good. Music and song are
exercises of the same power. And each is itself a power
which we are not likely to overrate. Music is of heaven-
ly origin — a native of Paradise, sent to cheer man in his
earthly pilgrimage, to speak to the heart in the mellow
strains of celestial harmony, and to teach him the language
of the angelic choir.
In religion, in politics, in the social sphere, music is
an acknowledged power of no secondary order. The ex-
traordinary success of Methodism, in our country more
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especially, in its earlier history furnishes an illustration.
We scarcely know whether preaching or singing had the
most to do with that success. The statesman, the patriot,
and more especially the politician, understands the value
to his cause of the power of song. The demagogue and
the military chieftain, perhaps, understand it better.
Many a revolution has greatly owed its success to the
influence of song. It is enough that- we instance the
Marseillaise hymn ; the popular songs of our own Revolu-
tion, Indian war-song.«, and the songs and ballads which
are used to act on the masses, to stir them up for some
great public movement, a riot, a war, an election. Song
often does more than the public harangue to persuade
man to good or to evil.
We need no more than allude to the perversion of this
talent. Most ruthlessly has the Enemy invaded this
lovely domain. We may not attempt to determine how
large a portion of music is perverted from its natural and
legitimate use — made the means of debasing, demoraliz-
ing and ex^^iting to all manner of evil. The perversion
is enormous.
Nor has the field of History been overlooked in the
devastations of the Foe. Though recently in a degree
recovered from the hand of the Destroyer, yet history
has been to a great extent, surrendered to the tender
mercies of such writers as Hume and Gibbon, Volney and
Voltaire.
Of all the deadly onslaughts made on history, none
was ever more audacious than that of the Romish Hie-
rachy at the present moment. In this ei-a of progress, of
light and knowledge, of civilization and religious and
civil liberty, the Romish Church is made to feel that
th*ere are certain prominent, glaring, hideous features in
her history which stand out before the eyes of the world,
a burning disgrace, an indelible stigma on all decent hu-
manity. It is the history of the Inquisition — of the
block and the stake — of murders and massacres and per-
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secutions infernal. As seen through the lurid atmosphere
of the dark ages, they seemed but of the earth, earthy.
But as the faithful page of history holds them up before
the eyes of a modern civilization, to say nothing of the
light of Christianity, they put to the blush the succes-
sors of, and the vouchers for, those who perpetrated these
unearthly deeds. No such stigma rests on our race as is
to be read in the horrid tortures inflicted on the humble,
unoffending followers of Christ in the days of those Ro-
mish persecutions. The burning record stands engra-
ven on the page of history, and " what can they do about
it?"
They have determined what to do. The foul record
must be blotted out. The truth of history must be de-
nied. Facts so disgraceful to themselves and to all hu-
manity must be repudiated. The undisputed facts of
centuries must now be branded as " Protestant lies," and
Rome be received as a tolerant Church,
This is what the Papacy are attempting " to do about
it." Though Rome did nothing in the darkest of her
dark days of persecution and blood, which, if she had
the power, she would not do now, yet she is determined
to ignore her own history, if by any means, fair or foul,
she may wipe out the stigma of the past. It is a reck -
less, fearless Devil that dares raise his polluted hand
to blot out the page of long-confirmed history. But we
need not be surprised. No device is left untried.
But we pursue the subject in this form no further.
Sin not only perverts thought, but is, to a sad extent, the
enemy of thought. A few very wicked men have made
great advances in learning, have become sages and philo-
sophers. But they have become such rather in spite of
their bad moral character. Sin, in all its elements, in all
its actings and developments, is the foe to mental re-
searches and acquisitions. While on the other hand, a
pure religion is the most favourable to the cultivation of
all sorts of useful learning. The peaceful and sanctified
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conscience which belongs to such a religion, the pure
mind it secures, the good habits it engenders, are all di-
rectly conducive to intellectual progress and attain-
ments. And what is yet more to our purpose, in respect
to the resources of knowledge, fields of investigation and
materials of thought, the enlightened conscience and the
sanctified mind have the decided advantage.
The objects of all knowledge — the entire field of scien-
tific research, in a sense more or less direct, relate to God,
his works, his word, or his ways ; their relations one to
another ; man's relations to them ; their laws ; their oper-
ations, qualities or uses. Now, shall we be told that the
condition of the mind, the state of the conscience and the
affections, and the habits of the man, have nothing to do
with the progress of all true science ? Is the knowledge,
the love, and the reverence of the Creator no qualification
to a more ready and thorough acquaintance w^ith his
works and his ways ? There is, subjectively, no doubt,
a reason why the pious, devout mind has a decided ad-
vantage in the pursuit of any branch of knowledge. As
it is said, " he that doeth the will of God shall know of
the doctrine" — he shall be in a position, his mind shall be
so guided that he shall understand the truth and know
what to believe, so a mind right towards God is in a state
to understand and comprehend more of all that pertains
to God. " The secret of the Lord is with them that fear
him" — they that love and honour God are brought into a
position most favourable to a knowledge of him, whether
it be of the works of his creation or of his providence or
grace.
The same idea is conveyed in another expression of
the Psalmist : " The works of the Lord are great, sought
out of all them that have pleasure in Him."* Delight in
the Lord, complacency in his character, supreme admira-
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tion and reverence, are again, the best possible qualifica-
tions which a mind can bring to the study of God's works;
in other words, to the pursuit of all science.
Whether, therefore, the materials of thought, the field
of investigation, or the resources and preparedness of
mind be brought into the account, we are justified in the
conclusion that true science, that all intellectual advance-
ment, finds its only congenial field within the domains of
a pure Religion, Sin is its most formidable foe. Did*
we need further confirmation of this we might find it in
the history of useful learning as it has existed under the
auspices of difierent forms of Religion. It is here safe to
affirm that practical, useful learning has nowhere found
a congenial atmosphere except under the protecting, fos-
tering care of a pure religion. Nowhere else is general
intelligence encouraged and the masses educated, and no-
where else is knowledge and science to any extent made
practical. And what strengthens this position is, that the
history of those nations over which false religions hold
sway, shows that those which incorporate the most of
truth in them, and consequently approach nearest to a true
religion, are the most prolific in the useful arts and
sciences ; while those at the other extreme are the most
barren.
It is not intended here to deny that Egypt, Greece arid
Rome did, though they were idolatrous nations, produce
some truly learned men. But it is intended to assume
that these learned men were in no sense the products of
false religious systems. They were the merest exceptions
from the ignorant masses : and more, it is intended to
assume that the Platos, the Senecas, the Socrates, and
Aristotles of those nations were, in connection with their
intellectual culture, and in consequence of it, emancipated
from the shackles which kept in mental bondage the mass
of their pagan countrymen. As they penetrated into the
deep things of nature and of mind, they discovered there
was a God of nature and of mind, raised infinitely abovQ
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all the gods which the masses of their countrymen so
ignorantly worshipped.
Pagan idolatry has drawn over its intellectual empire
a cloud almost impenetrable and well-nigh universal.
Yet in defiance of which a little light has shined, and a
few minds been enlightened. Mohammedanism has ad-
mitted more light, and the Papacy yet more ; and learn-
ing has prospered in the same proportion — owing noth-
♦ ing, in either case, to a false religion, but to the Truth,
which, in spite of all systems of error, has wrought out
such a result.
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MONEY A POWER IN THE HA.NDS OF THE GREAT ADVERSARY
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more universal empire over the human mind. When
honestly gotten and properly used, it is a power for good
scarcely second to any other. If perverted, it is a
mighty power for evil. Money is the motive power of
commerce, and the raght arm of the arts and sciences. It
gives wings to the gospel, speeding the angel of mercy,
with healing in his wings, on his blessed mission around
the world. There is not at the present moment a more
practical question, if there be a more important one, than
that of the right use, or consecration of property. Fidel-
ity, as touching the unrighteous mammon, is a virtue of
very high order, but of rare attainment. Defection here is
but too common and almost universal. Monej', in the
present position of the world's regeneration, is a very
essential agency. Here too it is the sinews of war. All
sorts of reforms must be effected. Men, in vastly greater
number, must be sent abroad to evangelize the nations.
Schools and all the needed appliances of education must
be sustained on a vkstly enlarged scale. The press must
h
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204
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
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Jiii
enter upon a mission of unprecedented magnitude and
magnificence ; and all the agencies for a higher type of
civilization and Christianity must be furnished. The de-
mand for pecuniary resources is perhaps at the present
moment more imperative than any other.
We design, in this chapter, to present a few facts, illus-
trating the dominant power of sin and Satan, in the mis-
use and perversion oftvealth. And in no other way per-
haps can we more vividly portray the dreadful depreda-
tions sin is making on the happiness, the health, the mind,
the life and the soul of man. But we shall allow, in the
discussion of the theme, considerable latitude.
There is a guilty perversion of wealth when it is
devoted to purposes decidedly sinful, as in the case of offen-
sive war, intemperance, licentiousness, gambling and the
like. And there is the culpable perversion of the same, to
purposes which in themselves may be right and proper,
and wrong only in the excess, as in the matter of amuse-
ments, extravagance, waste, pride, luxury. It will not al-
ways be easy here to discriminate between the lawful and
the unlawful. But we shall have no need to insist on
doubtful cases. Those obvious and conceded will suffice
for our general illustration — will indicate but too clearly
how small a portion of the world's wealth is devoted to
purposes really human or benevolent ; or that even minis-
ter to the common weal of man — to his improvement or
happiness. The proportion prostituted to purposes decid-
edly, temporally, and eternally hurtful to man, is, as we
show, fearfully immense.
But, be it understood, we enter on no crusade against
riches. They are good — to be desired and sought for.
The great sin of the world is not that all men are anxious
to be rich. Nothing is more laudable — ?/ riches b^ sought
in a proper manner and for right ends. By all lawful and
right means, and in a manner not interfering with higher
claims, and for the purpose of gaining a power to be used
for good, it is desirable and right to seek to be rich. In-
ii>*^
USE AND ABUSE OF WEALTH.
205
dustry is a virtue of high order; and as industry is
almost the sure road to wealth, and the lack of it the sure
road to poverty and its manifold temptations and vices,
we are justified in the inference that he who pursues a
course that must inevitably make and keep him poor has
the greater sin. There is a very general concession that
worldly substance is a good thing. The rich feel it ; the
poor feel it. But there is, it is feared, a much less rational
sensibility as to the responsibility imposed by the pos-
session of wealth. Money is as mighty a power for evil
as it is for good. The better the world become, the more
riches will increase. Compare the wealth of Christendom
with that of heathendom. Wealth, indeed, is a needful
auxiliary to the progress of the race. Systems of educa-
tion, advances in civilization, and the spread of the gos-
pel, are all, instrumentally, dependent on pecuniary re-
sources. Our enemy well understands this ; and hence
his many devices to pervert or monopolize the use of
wealth. Some of Satan's mightiest, wickedest devices are
to be met here. In nothing has he, in a more melancholy
way, vindicated his usurped claims of being the god of
this world. He has not failed to appropriate to pur-
poses of sin the greatest part of the wealth of the
world. Here we might go into an interminable illustra-
tion. But we shall keep within prescribed limits.
We might range what we would say under three gene-
ral heads : misdirected wealth, wealth hurtfully appropri-
ated, and wealth wickedly applied. This classification,
though sufficiently general, is not sufficiently distinctive.
We shall simply specify some of the ways in which wealth
is perverted and made not to honour but to dishonour the
great Giver ; not to bless but to curse man :
I. Pride, fashion, love of show, ambition, simply to
outdo others, absorbs an untold amount of money. After
making the most generous deductions, in myriads of fami-
nes in the land, for the necessaries and comforts of life,
whether for food or raiment, houses or equipage, — immense
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VWV. 1t)OT -nnNTS OF SATAN
«lis(» 'u\ i\ singlo voMV. All oihvv oxp<Muliinr(»s of Mmhiiion
f;\11 iii<«> insi^uificMUco wIum^ «'on\|K\r(Ml will* (ho <'«).«j^ o/*
?r(7r. AUoinpls io i';\l(M\l;i(«^ \]\o immonsi* n\hmm oxpiMidtMl
in \va\- indin'o <lu^ iVolino- <li!\< our ^innl I"'<m» Iwjm Ihm(»
nu>uo|u>li7,(«l (lu> \v»\'\Hh o( \ho world. A l\»w slnrilinir
itiMus. in ;\»l<li<ion \o \vb;\< hns 1wm> piVMoniiHl in nnoMior
connoolion. will sorvo ns oNMnipK^s.
Tlnvo w:\rs of {\vo',\\ I^riiMin in hulin. fronj 1.S:^7 Io
1.S47. oosi \]\o \v.\i'\o\\ i^ \W^, {){)[), (){)() . licsidoN <lio o\p(>n<li-
\\\vo oi' nnoiluM' .'nnonnl immUmj^s ;\s j^vc^nt, dining {\\v sfnni*
period, in iho'w wnvs in Uminnli. C'liinM. and Intiin.
'Vlio rrinu\\n \\nv«>ost Uu' alliens (^ England. Kran«'(^ and
Tnvkov^ J!^|(^(>.(H)().()(V). to say noticing «>l'(lu» nsnal aminal
sn]>nlios lor tbo avniy and navy ; iho vast dos(\iu'(.ion of
proiHMty, and a loss not li^ss \lisastrons. of product. ivi* in-
(instvx , And Iho (^\pons(^ «^f tho sann^ war on tho ])art oj'
Unssia is In^liovi^l io h:\\o Ihmmi at least o\\\\',\\ to Wu^ aggre-
ijato inonnvd \\\ i\w Allies. It l\a,s Immmi (vstiniated i»y a
well intovnied and apj^avently an honest writ(>r at ^^."tO,-
()(^(\()()() a voar t'ov extra n\ili(ary (^xpiMiws oeeasioned l»y
the war. an«l as nnu^b nion» (or the wiH'nl «>v neeessary de
stvnotion ot' ]>ropevty. At this rate, tlie war nnist have
cast l\\issia halfasnnieh again as tlie Alliens. ai\<l ^()()().-
00(\(>(i() wonld not si^nare the aeeo\nit. Ihit a larg(^ por-
tion t^f this e\]MMuiitnve was in biiildings, ships, pviulneo
and merehandise. and thongli as serious in tlie long v\n\
as the ex]>ondit\nv v^t' hard eash, it will he longiM' in heing
felt. IVohahly three hundred millions of nu>ney have
passciHVoni the Imperial treasury into the hands of army
ai^vnts, eontraete-i-s. ]mrveyt>i's and .speculators on acet.unt
of the arn\y. Taking this tigmv j^s the basis of ealeula-
tion. Nve arrive at the eonelnsion that within loss than
tirolve months, about seven hundred millions of doUai-s
havo been diverted from trade and agrienltmv, and ex-
pended by the Wlligorent^s in t]\e ])roseeution of the war.
Sonu^ uioa of tho enormonsness oi" the sum may he
donvtHi from a kno\vk\lgeof the fact that the united in-
STAN 1)1 N(< A MM IKS IN TIMK OF PEArK.
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u«lo«l
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\v,\\{ ol'
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i>f army
j!\CCO\U\t
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liud ox-
Iho war.
Iiway 1h»
Litcd in-
('(>nu>H (»r llio wlinio |»(M)|>lo (»l (ln'Ml, hritnin aful Irolntifl
nil' only sii|»i><»h(m| jo nnionni tn live Miiuvm hh irnicli. It
is <m]UmI <o I lui'c^-fonrtljH tlio total (l(>I»|, of AiiKtria, imdor
whirh (li(» ll()ns(» \)( I l.'ipslniig Iimm Immmi Infixing thin
niMHV a yonr : mkik* IIimii liall'tlio wlmlo (l(»I»l, of l*'jnn(U3 ;
(wit'c <lu» (Icltl of Kiissin ii)» let l(Sr».-»; nearly I'cmr
linu'sllic MViMa^r asMolM of (In* I'ank of JMiirljiiwI at tlio
jnt<s(Mi< (Imv ; a>i(l innn^ tliaii loiirlfMMi timoM mh imicli mm
(1m» wI»oI(» natin?iMl (1(>I»( nl' llin I'liitiMJ Stat«'H Ix'Ton^ tlio
lalo war.
Or iiHpnip wp .Mn«M' |Ih» cost of Mh» laic llaliaii war?
A (i(Minj>n |»a|>(>r lias ma(l»» llio lollowiiig calciilniioti <»r
jIh» HuniN arjunlly <^\|»('n<l(M| liy (liMrtfMit, ('(timtricH iti Ku-
ro|u> in Mupporj ing IIk^ lnt«> campaign, licsiJcM tli<»s(» raiKcd
l>y niMilral p(»w(>rM in consiMincnco of tlio war. Tliis \h
only an approxinjalion, aM Mu' wril(M" sayn tliat it i.M ini-
|utssil»lolo('s<iinal(> tin* nItNolntc cohI, of a. wai',Hin<'(> itsinfln-
oiHo on (ratleand iiidnstiy, ili(Migli ini!n(>ns(\ is iiidofinilp.
Austria. alxMit $ I ()().()()(),( ioo ; Kranccsilf l(HMM)(),(M)(); Pied-
inoni. $U(M)(MM)(U);,,M„M- Italian StatcH, SkOOO.dOO ; l!,ns-
sin. $(i,00(M)0() ; Kngland. $4.4()(MMM) ; (Icinnany, $2r),(;()(),-
000 : making .M total of ijf^iMMIOO.OOO.
Or wi* may approximate tlio point from anotlirr class of
stiUistics. Look for a m(»mciit at the («x[)(Uihc of "stand-
ing armies," or " peace eHtal»liHliment.s."
licfore tli(» outltreak of tin* late Kur(>pcn!i wars, tlio
"peace (vstaltlislinuMitH" n\' ilu^ live principal States were
ivportedat l,.SL>r),(M)0 men ; ( Jreat Hritain, .'tOO.OOO; Krance,
.r)0,()()();Hus,siji,7r)(M)()(); A>istria,ti7r),()(l();aml I'rusHiaJoO,
(KH); and at an animal cost of .|(;tM),()(l(),()()(). And if tho
other States "he added it would swell tlie nundteiof men to
1S0(),0()(). And if we (\stimat.e tJHM'xpense of eacli sol-
dier at $500 M year, and tlie annual loss to pnxhK^tive in-
dustry at $\M) for eai^li, we should then have an aggregate
t»f SUOO,00(),()0(), nnd a, loss of services to tlu^ industry
<4" tluM'our.try of $420,000,000 ; or a grand total of$l,-
8*20,000,000. And if wo may owtimato tho average life of
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'ri)i« (vsUmaio is l»(>li(»v«Ml to l)o (pnto wilhin honmls.
\V<» hav(» N(M>!» (Im» lollnwiti^' m<m(<mh('?iI. mm l,()uchini( siinply
<lio <\).v/ oi" li(ju()!-s «'onMinn«»(l in (ircni hiilinn nn<l Irrlniid
lor l.STO; i\u\\ it will l»o s(mmi MimI Mh* IoImI IcMVt's l)n(i .-i
Hin.Mll iMMij^nn foi- nil coH.'Horjil \vnMl(>M. (In^nd Hfitni!i
n(m!»(Is ('hniiri^d will; llio .•ninn.'il «'oiiMunin(,ion of lM>.()()().
()()0^•;^llonM of homo Mnd lortMLCn M|)irilM, ni. n comIi ol'SirjO,
OOO.'OOO; with T^)!).!)! )(),()()() pAl^un of Immm". nl, $-J I .S.7r»().-
0{){) ; wilh I -VOOO,!)!)'' i^nllouM oflonMi^n Mtul coloni.'il winrN.
M M cosl, of ^(j."),()0().()0() ; Mini ri(|(»r mihI doincMliic wiin\M.
;$7,^()0.()()()— a (lOtnl of .^IH/JoO.OOO -wind) 1(\'iv.'m lm(,
;?:)S.()()().()()() for un(\Miiina(,(Ml comIiS, to ny.iko np i]w $M){),-
OOO.OOOas al)ovo.
Wo alroadvliavc^ an avcM'airi* ofHiviiMMi dollnrM for ovmm'v
inliabiinni of Mu^ kiiiplom ; or Hixly-llvo dollars lor oarli
aduH.
\V(^ so(Mu <o approach mvinM* to iho root, of tlu^ovil, and
t-() bo aM(^ <ho b(^f((M" io appr<MMa((» t.li(» wicked /wrrrrf^ion
of the good things of our li(\'ivonly KathiM', whcMi wtM'onio
to ino,nir(» whonco two tluvso intoxicaling drinks ? (\>ino
tihov of th(^ tliorn an;' tln^ hriiM* ? Aro ihoy niannfacinnMl
from earth's i>oisons. tliat. th(\y slmnld Ix^ th(^ vi('(»g(Mvnis
of sin and Satan, to spnsMd doath and all its woos anion^
tlio chilchvn of nuMJ ? Aro tlw^y compounded, dcM'octcd
an(i domoni/od from earth's vilest ]M'odncts, and thus
Httod only tor tlu» W(U'k o( devastation and woe ? No :
tlu^ great Perv(M't(M' of all good h(M*(^ shows the <lir(^ perfei!-
ti(>n of all his wicked devices among the children of men, —
that, by the most heaven-provoking perviu'sion of one of
heaven's most preeio\is gifts to niaii, he produeed the fatal
drink wliicli eiirses and kills, out of //nr/??, tliestatf of life,
wliidi our bomitiful Parent gave as the greatest tem]>oral
gift to man In (^reat Britain fifty millions of buslu^ls of
grain are annually used to make drunkards, ])aupers and
criminals. And a yet larger (piantity is, in tlio United
States, in like manner perverted from being nuin's great-
est blessing to be his ijroatest curse.
CONHUMI'TION <»r HIMHTT^.
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Or OMiiliiin wo our f-nlnilnl ioriH !.»► m h'mi^Io «'ifv,»«iMl wlint
idra (In wo ^r(.j of (!),> rrimiiinl wnsto of i?»f«Mn|i«>?)UM'(» in
its onri'JMii hiHluiy nj" m, Hitii^lo yrnr- ! Sii|i|M»sin(r tlio «lnily
siilcH Ml Mio .S,()(M) hulrlM, <liiiiki!i;^r hmIooiim jiihI ^mo^ hIiojih
ill tlio city of* Now N'nrk nvornjro li^lO ojirli
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;if2,'MM).(M)0 M, iiKMitJi ; ^tiS.SOO.OOO n. yonr. Aful iJiin rn-
|»r(»so?i<M Honrooly inon« Mum «iiio JiiiH' of tlio }io|,nnl WMHt<^
of iiil,(Mn|)orMnco in iJnii ono oily. Wo slionM not, liavo ho
g(» \)\r in <\sl.iin.'iiin^ in-oporly doHtinyod. ti.'olo injuiod,
indnslry inipjiinMl, nnd lirnonl" Mio l,r;illi(>l<oiH nfid dri?d<orM
wasl.iMl, ;uid W(^ Hlioidd ?'o;iri» .'iiioMior M<j^<^'?(»^r!i,t.o (juiio jiH
la
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tlio Dovir.s doin^M in iJiis litio of liis dovMsbiiinf/ Tnaroji,
in Irohind, in M. Hin/^l)^ ycNir. Tlio wril.or omIIm il- tlu^ " l)ovirH
li)iiV(\sfc." it is n Iniof rooord of niin'H doinj/H IVoni yoar
to your. M'lio HMMird sjiyH:
In Iroland, wliiMky, wino jiiid hoor jmo larj/oly (v»fi-
,sntn(Ml. 'i'lio popnl.'ir <li'ink iw whisky, nnd JilnioMtnJI Uio
criino of tl)(Mronntry is oli!ii)ro<l upon il,. In IH^|(S, 70,()()()
jHM'Hons woro .'irrost.(Ml InrdiimkonnoMs. Tlio oonHninptioTj
was r),(),*J({,8l4 jralloiiM ofMoinoslio spiril,s, nrid .Siir>,!M)r> ^m,I-
lons ofioroi^rn M|Hrii,H, wiMi \;H)H,'1X\ j^rjillons of l)o,or, n,nd
1,5:^8,20}) l)}MT(dH of wino, ooslin/^r i,, all $4(),.Sl.S,7.sr>, or an
iivorMgo of $.S7.5() for ovory ffiTnily. i'»nt- Kn^hind and
Scothmd «,ro no lM^ii(;r.
And all tins niiscuy onlnilod, ;uid nil tliis ruin, povorty,
affliction and doatb iniposo(| nt snoli a,n oxponso to the
country,jind what rotnrn doos slio nM-i^ivf; '{ And tliis sim-
ply tlio wlioh^s.'ilo (H)Mt of tl)o d}unnin<^ l)(5vera,g(!, or tho
Hrst item in tlio a.p|)allinj.,' ncc-onnt.
Tlio Chicanro Trllmvr Iims hu ;i,rti(^lo on tlio amount of
iiiont
sy paid
innujilly l>y tlio |)oopi(5 o
f tin; Unitod States
I tol)a(;(;o. tlio statistics of wlii(;li
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for spirituous Ii(|uors an(
arc startling. Wo mak(^ tlio following oxtra(;tR, an(
the attention of domestic, as well as [lolitical ocoiiomists to
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«lo«'lnim»MM rofiM- <o. or nilvocMlr n nMlnolion ol', viz, Mh»
moni^y spont Tor liipiovH Woinvih' Uhm! nllomiou l«i llio
MtiUoinoiH oi* fho S|>«mmmI Kovcnm* ( 'oimnisMiontM, Mr
Wolls, in \\\H i«»pori <o ('. >nm«»MH, ^ivinjr Hh> mimouiH. pniil
out. l\v <l»o poopli^ for Mpirilno»m niii! mull litpiorM Jmiii^
tho yoiw liS(i7. Wo <lo \\\){ rolor lo lljo hmIpm I»v wIioIo
m\\i\ l>\n to tboso n( roinil. sworn <o l»y tlio rolMilors, who
]\«vo pnid tl\o lioons(* \;\\ on (hoir mmIoh Wo ^ivo (ho
tahlo hy SiMtoM, ;\i\<] <ho (i^nvos lopromMit llio ninonni p)«i»l
hv tho HvinKovs Mn<l tonsntnorsj (o Iho lofMihMH ovor l,ho
oo\intor ;
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Vii^iriin 2f;,IM2,iM>ri
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Mnnlli ('Mn.liiiM \()y,\{),V,2r,
iNnifj, ('Mi..ii„n \n:-zii;Mu
VVrsI, Vii|rir.iM «.H(Mi.'2:{r,
A t k M HHHs 7,Kr,K.M2()
I >•-!(« \vMn» .'{.770..'{r,r,
MiHMiMHi|(|.i 4,4!»:{,.'{Or.
( )n'^. .M 4,2f; 1 ,240
Novn.ld 4,M:m.7.M5
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Tlio 'r(»rfil,(>ii(»H 14,M;<),4()0
Tni,Mi |;l.48.-;,4i»i.Hf;r,
TlniH it. will l»p s(MMi tliMl, «lMrifi^ Mio ycMir 1870 Mim
|i(»(i|iln of Mm i'nifnd St.'vtrM pni«l Tor Kt/rori^ drinkK ovf^r
ilio (MHnii(»r <«(» n'l.MJI (Ij^nhwM, iht) Hiirri of fonrtfifiri fiurwlrcifl
(Hid oij/litf-Miioo iiiillioiiM lour Imriflrrd nrid nirKit,y-ori<;
tlittUHMiid (li^lil. Imndiod jifkI Hixty-fivo dolhirw. Tloit
sum iw iiMtro Minri (Miiini Ut (uu-haJf fhr, pritu'/ifHil (f/nd l.lu:
auiiniilinlvird (tfllir pnh/ic dchf,. ThMfcHurn, if* >i.ppii<;d to
tlio pnynu'iit ol' tlio drl»t, would n'dcjvrn ifc all, in j^old, in
two y«MirM, Tlio Mfiioimt, oF nionny jwiid l>y a(;hial con-
siiiiK^rH for this Htrorig drird^, in tfiroo yoars, would p^jiuiI
ilio cniiro dohf. of tlio Union, Jind of mII Mio Stntos and
(•full tlici (Ml,i<»H, coiintioM Jind towriH of thn (Jnit(!<l States.
Tlio [)(M)pl(s of tlio sinirhi Stfito of lllinoiH cxpf-nd for TKjUor
a Huni nlnio.st ♦mjumI to tlio annual interest of tfic, national
(J(ilit !
lucludod in re(U)ints of salf;s of li(juor doalfrs aro such
sums M,H may 1im.V(3 Iich'Ti r(3coivod for cicrars at tfic.ir bars
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which do not exceed the value of the liquors imported or
purchased wholesale by consumers, and the sum of sales
by establishments which make no returns, or fraudulent
ones. But the cigars and tobacco sold at the bars of
saloons are but a part of the same reckless extravagance,
which wastes upon the useless luxury of strong drink
nesbvly fifteen hundred millions of dollars a year.
During the last year of the war, when the United
States had one million of men on its pay rolls, when it
was paying two prices in a depreciated currency for food
and clothing, and for labour and for materials of war, the
total expenditures of the government, including the hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars actually stolen, and as much
wasted, did not equal the amount of money paid last year
to saloon keepers and other retail liquor dealers by their
customers.
A people who spend $1,500,000,000 annually to retail
dealers of liquors and tobacco; who spend perhaps $50,-
000,000 more for liquor imported or purchased wholesale
by consumers; wha spend $100,000,000 annually for
cigars and tobacco in other forms, can hardly be said to
be badly " oppressed" by a debt, the interest on which
is only one-sixteenth of the amount of these reckless ex-
penditures for the luxuries of liquor and tobacco. A man
cannot be said to be severely crushed by the weight of
his debts who spends in the course of a year for liquor
and tobacco a sum equal to two-thirds of his share of the
national indebtedness.
Again, as but too nearly related to our last specifica-
tion, the article of tobacco lays in a demand for millions
more. The annual consumption in Great Britain is said
to amou'it to $40,000,000 ; and in the United States to
$32,000,000. In the City of New York alone $10,000 are
puffed away in smoke daily ; or $3,650,000 a year. Yet
this sinks quite into insignificance compared with the
consumption of some European cities. In the City of
Hamburg, one-sixth the size of New York, more than a
million of doUars every year dissolves in smoke.
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The entire tobacco crop of the world is put down at
4,480,000,000 pounds ; of which the United States pro-
duce 200,000,000. Merely the cigars consumed, yearly,
in the United States, cost more than all our common
schools, and more, some say — possibly it is an exaggera-
tion — than all our breadstufFs. When we add to all the
other items of this most useless, inexcusable of all ex-
penditures, the labour of a million and a half of men who
are employed in the cultivation of tobacco, or in its pre-
paration for use, and also the immense quantities of fer-
tile land used for the cultivation, we are able to appre-
ciate in some degree the value — at least the cost — of
a single useless, nauseous, hurtful, and therefore sinful
habit.
The New York Times, of more than a year ago, was
found discoursing very suggestively, and we suppose cor-
rectly, on this very theme. It says :
*' The Treasury tables for the past year will show some
curious and rather striking results. The great grain-
growing interest may be thought to figure to poor pur-
pose in the list of foreign exports, when it is known that
we smoke up, in Spanish cigars, the whole export of wheat,
and drink down, in French cognac, the entire export of
Indian corn. For the rest of our breadstufFs, the flour
sent abroad suffices for something like two-thirds of the
interest on the foreign debt, leaving the rice of South
Carolina and the deferred faith of the repudiating States
to settle the remainder.
" In the fiscal year ending the 30th of June last, the
United States exported wheat to the value of $2,555,209.
During the calendar year, the City of New York alone im-
ported cigars to the amount of $1,878,744, and other
ports, say 40 per cent, of the whole, would swell the total
to $3,131,216. The difference against us, in these two
articles, is barely made good by all the rye, oats, and
oljier small grain, $334,471 ; rye meal, $04,476 ; potatoes,
$115,121 ; and apples, $48,635, which we sent out last
year.
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" Tlio oxporl. of Indinn oorn wmm of iho vmIium)!' $1,540,-
225, i\\\i\ of n>ni inonl. $:)7KM.S0,-^-i.>m^,)uM- *2,1 IKOO").
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This riiy ii\i])or(o(l in ono your Krcncli cotrnno miuI ollinr
bnnidios o( (lu» vnhio ol" $1,4IM<,().M."), which wonld h(»
hw«»11(m1 .'d otIuM' |>(m(m, nUowino- Now York liiTnr<*s to iv-
]>ros(Mit (50 \)ov »mmU. only of ll»o wholo. to ^2.4S7,i(»l."
<)n iho .'uiil\ori<y ol' l>r. (\)h's, 1 wonM jnhl, i\w AnuM-
'wi\]\ ("hnroh nnnnnlly i^xptMuls Sj^,"). 000,000 lor {\\\h vil(»
n!\n'oti»\an(l Uvss llian $1,000,000 lor lh»» «'onviM-.sion of tlio
world.
Mow \h\ 11mw(V^, of llMrlfonl, (^1., hns rcriMilly pn»}U'h«Ml
i\ s(r(>no' sornion j<^MinH(. iho uso of ti'h.Mcoo, which pro-
dnoos (|\ii<(^ n sonsMlion Ho cxhihiiod ImoIs nnd sImI is-
tios slunvina' its dt^sliuol ion ol" h<>,'\llh Mnd sMnity, iis >\':-
inoralizinii' inllnono(\ jind ils UvScUvsh r-vpcMiscv It ooHlHtho
pooplo ol' tho Tnitoil SImIos over lorty nnllion tlolhirH jui
miMlly — lar mow ihtxn is sjhmiI lor ,mI1 pnrpo.scM of (Mlnci-
tion. Now York Oitv \is(vs npd.-nly $10,000 iti oi^nrH and
$S,5()0 in broad. Wow a Christian ooidd who it, hoW it,
or onltivato it. was Avliat ho oonid not nndorsta.nd. Ho
iMvdiotod that <ho vall«\v of thi^ ( 'onniH'tiont wonld ho
olaMod hv it, and IxM'onio as harr«M» as tlu^ old tohaooo-
tiolds ot' Yir^inia and Maryland.
It is not tivnorallv kno\vn that tin* oivili/.od nations ol"
tho \vv>rld dorivi^ thiMrohii^l'v^vonno I'roni t(d»aooo. With-
out it tho Vo\>o wonld ho bankrupt in a nionth. Ijast
year tho Knglish (lovornniont «hMMvod $2S,00(M)00 rov»>-
iuio. arid tho Kronch $,S(;.000.000. tVon\ tho wood that
vanishes in snioki
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>st. ol' th«^ tobacco which
yields io t'oroi.L^n pi>\vci*s thoir chiot rovonuo is grown in
America..
And Mii'ain, and in vot noaror atlinit y, and as a still
moiV! nialiii-nant aovnt of man's worst Foo, opiiiDi tuUils
tho nauseous, deleterious mission of tobacco, — oidy a
■givat deal more so. Likt^ tobacco it is a narcotic — with
properties more terribly pungent, nion^ hurtful to b(fcjy
and soul, to nerve, nmscle and mind, than all tho narcotic
(pinii
(ienio
('ONSHMITION i)V (H'lnM.
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(pifllifioH of f(il»n('('«). I(, inotn rornplpf.oly nruiorvnR and
(l(MH()jnli70N (liP \\\m\ llinu nh'uliol. A Mnivollor in Tnr-
kcy ilniH (h'Hciilu'M ilio (>j»inni onioiH iA' ( '«»nHl,MnMnoj»lo :
" 'I'luMr ^I'HJnrrH wrn* fVi^Iii-fnl ; tJinH(» who wrir nndrr
ilu* inlln(MHM» of n|)in>n tnlk(Ml inrolMM(Mi(.ly ; tlioir f'eM-
inr(\M w»M(> ilnHlicd, l\w\r oyos glnrinj/, nnd Mio gonoral
(>x|>r(»HMi!»n of MuMi" connionnricoH liorrildy wild. Tlio d(v
l»ili<y, 1m»|1i nmiMl mid |»Iiy«i('nl, ntirndnnf. on tlio pxcito-
nuMds iM (cniMo ; \]w n\}\uA'\U* m Hoofi d«»Htn»yod, n.nd
(»vory lil»i(« it» Mh» iHuly ti(«?nl>l('H. 'I'ho nrivoH of iltc
niM'k IxMMMiio nllcclrcd. niid t,lM> innsclcH ^o(. ri^id iM'«'kH
wfT Jvnd fing(»rH (MtnliMcliMl, hut h{,\\\ ilioy rarinot, altnndon
(Im' (MiHtonj." Wmh Mumo (wnr n uum^ vomyAvU^ ir'\\\u)])h
(»r SMtaiiic" nwili^nity ovrr man i Waw tlio inm^o of (iod
ovor HO coni|)l(»trly ddfaci'd ? — man ovor ho nearly made a
(lovil ?
\\\\i< onr ronciMii witli ilns diRgnRiing topic nt proHnnt
]H rntiMM' willi the jxMMiniary anpcct of it. I low mii(')i of
(,li(» Lord'H Hilvrr nnd j/old iw iim(hI to crdail on mn.n,
tliron^h thin dnig, ono of (,]h> hittorcHt, th'J moHt wliamo-
loMH (Mir,s(\M tluit diH^raco iMimarnty ! It coRtM irioro to do-
nvcntand domoralizo itumi, tlirongli tluM wifi^lo dnig, tlian
all tliat iH (>xp('nd«d (.o nd'orm, «Mln('at«\ elcvntf"- and cvan-
goli/o them tliron^h nil tlu> Ix^nevolcnt Kc.lx^mcH in vo^uo
tin* world Mroimd. hidccd, tlio <'OHt of opinin conKumed
in Oluna alono conHiderJiMy oxrccdH tlio total incoirui of
all tlio [iliilniitliropic, (Hhicatioiwil Jind honcvoh'ritMocictieH
in all CliriHtondom. In a Rin^lo city of C^liina (Arrioy)
tluM'o arc Hjiid to Ito n. tliouHnnd nliopH for tlic sale of
opium, the MTinunl salcH nmounting to $1,2()(),()0(). And
there M,re four other <lepotH along the coant of the Haine,
province.
The total amount of opium nnnnally introduced into
China, jirincipnlly from India, we find net down at HI,7r>()
chestH — otlierH say l(),0()(),()(K) pounds — at a cost of ^58,-
*228,;U)9. And it may not excised tlic tnith to Hup|;)OHe
that at lea«t an equal quantity m consumed in India,
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Tiivkoy i\\u\ ihr oIIum- opjntn f^nfiiijr cnnnTrifR of Asln.
\V»» sl^ill prohnMv bo mm To in I'hnririn^ Asin wiili St^llH.
(U)(),(HU) lor <!)«» vilt» nsp sln^ iumUiv^ of 1 his; (IniiLj Hnj Mu»
loss of' iMMMiniMvy fnpilMl is nol <)<•» worst of il. No(
1UO110V. lMi< n\\is(>lo mind, skill, indiisjiy.lnltoiir. nil woiso
tliMn los(. \vhi«'h s\v»Ols (h(» ncronni hryond fiili ninl ion.
'V\w »'on»plo(o il»Mnor;ili7!\< ion ofiho whoio niMH as soitn ns
fnivly soizoil In (1\(»ivrinni\ of'opiinn o!i(ing. is lluMM-own-
in^- iMivso o( nil
("liinn |>.*\ys Indin for o]M\nn nlono mow ilun) llu* <o1mI
vnhio of all Ium- oxporfs of <(»ms and silUs tho inrnvsl lillu^
of winoh >vonld |>ni a MiMo inio I'vorv f nnly in (Iu> kin^
don\. snpi^ly a <Mnis<ian liloraimo ah«l sn|))ioif a ntission
»vv in ovorv villa^^ in iho kinj^doni. and an adoipiaio snp-
]^lv for (now oitv
And >vho will orodii i< i\\;\{ <l\is Itaibaions. Iioallionis|»
lial>i( has roaohod Anunioa. and is luMi^ oxlondinjr. and
bas inonvrsod iho las< iwont v <i\M* yoavs in fln^ raiio of six
Iwindvod |HM- ooni . and was novor inoroasinjj^ bo foarlnlly
as at (ho pivsont lUonuMif. Thoro aro aln\Mdy oonsinnod in
the Uniiod Sfafos 1,MV(UU) pounds, af a oosf of fr»(hl.(M)().
of wluv^b moro than A().()0() ]>onnds ai*eannnally (H»nsnnHMl
in tho City o( Now York.
]M\i tobaoiH'* and opinni iwo woi ijio oidy l>anof\d »jar-
rotiosoxtonsivoly \isod. Vho Indian Itonip is umihI asasnb-
stit\ito for tobaov^o and opi\nn l\v IL'.^O.lU)!),^^^) of pi^oplo ;
and tlio boiol n\it tv half asniany miu'i*.
Though wo wonld no< plao«» itn and coffee in llu^ san
H>
oflto^'orv avS
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K\\\ oi)\un\ an<
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iooidodlv luirifnl. vot <ho\ aro at host, hnf Inxnrios, and
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not aU^^J;:othor har\>; cxss. Wo may at loast tvll what. t.h(>y
/, and loavo tho v«^ador io his own jn^lf^inuMit whrthiM-
thov piTiy. Tho poonio of thoso Uniti^l Stat(vs aro said to
Ov^nsnnlo 149.(H)(\0()() po\n\vls of ot)tfoo annnally. at « cost
(avoraging twonty-tivo oonts por |u>nntl) (<f $.'C*2r»t).()tH).
And (iroat iMitain pays noarly tho sanu\ And tho two
\ouiUrit\i pay wot lo.ss than ;?5l),000,0()0 for ton. TIumo
TUfJ; WfiHI.hH MKNr-VOf.FlNCP;.
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nro »'oiiHnin»Ml ifi I Im» world firnrly HOO, {){)(),(){){) pfiiiridH ortfA,
( 'Itinn n|»|trn|»flMlin^ tlio lintrH hIi>m«v Wr rnny mf»t, riown
ili(> woiM'm VdhmlMiy l'«x lor ton ni !|priO(>,(MKM)0(>.
Wo <»n<*ii Mirivo ni. n iiinrc np|»ip('inlilf» coHt, (if ono Miin^
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tv n cumpMiiNdii willi juiolln'i
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hIimII moo hnw Mio oxjt»MiHH of iiiioinpoinrico I(»o|<h }»y Mio
Hidr of Roiiio ollior oxpofiROH wliicli nro Rofriolirnoft Mioii^ht
Ifn^r. 'I'lio n^j/io^nlo nfiFHUilly rnisod for forf>i^ri fn'm-
MimiH, liy nil KvMfi^olicnl (dmndioH in ( 'liriHrondorri, is
$7,<><'<>,<>nO. Tlio comI, «d* iid.oxicnMfi^ lifpiftrM (wlioloRfvIo)
wo linvoHltowii fo l.o S|^(;.S(>,()On,0(K>, or !iPI .KfKM'OO a dny.
Tlio nimiml iiio«»ino of nil Mioh(» Hocifd/ioH Mioroforo would
Hiippoii l.lio li(|Moi' finllio jirid supply <Mir fip|»lorR a lif.Mo
moro llmf» lliioo dnyM. 'riu» sinri l.olnl (d' fdo jifirninl in-
(Minios (d" mII «Mif Hori(dfioH, lionovolordr, philnrdJiropic, nrid
roroiniing — oxohisivo of odncMiionnl inst.ifiiti(»ns is $0,-
(S''r».(M)(). TImh would Horvo flio Hnino vilo purfiosos loss
lliMU fouf diiys. A^Jiir), <luring tlu^ Inst, tword.y yoars fcho
AnioiioMii oliu?(dios, flifou^li all Mioir l»onov<»lord,, (diilan-
iluopionnd odi;cafi(»nal ifistjliufions liavo dovotod fo Uioir
wvonil objoois S}p.'iO,(MK>,0(l().* A fid Uio grnrid n^^ro^aio
coniriliulod hy nil tJio l>onov(>lord.ar»<l kiriflrod socifjtiesiri
* DflftilH luMTiriny iidi be wiilioiif, iritfTPNt. f'^port.H nhow that flu r-
ing tliP Inst iwf'iity years nfteMi sooiotieH receivwl and disbrirBftd tho
f(i||(iwii)f,5 HuiiiB :
AmoricRn l?iMo Socinty, fri,ril5,l20
AiiHM-icHii Tra'it S««'ioty, r»,'-{8?{,488
lltimo MiRfliuimry So(>i«ty 2,fJ88,8r»8
K(»rf>i^Ti Honrd «»f I'r(Hl»ytPri«.n Miflpi(»nB, 2,'2(>0,4()7
Aitioiicfln ll«ittrd of K«tn>i^ri MiHsifmH, 5,039,983
Kdroi^n l',van|^«'|icnl SMc,i«!ty, I84,9<>9
Mnptint lldino MisRionary Mdciety, 510,049
American Anti HIavery Society, 874,870
Seamen's Kriend Hocieiy, 391,894
Celoni/fttion Hoeiety, r»<>2,29f»
American Teinperance H(»c.ioty, 72,837
American S<>ciety for Amoliorating the ('ondition
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cater to the insatiable demands of intemperance almost
thirty-three days !
Our estimates are here made only on the direct cost of
strong drinks ; loss of time, cost of litigation, support of
criminals and paupers, and the whole indirect expense
does not enter into the account. This, when added to
the difference between the wholesale and retai^ cost of
liquors, is estimated at least to double the fearful amount.
More is wasted in one day, to demoralize, dement, pau-
perise and ruin men for time and eternity by the intoxi-
cating cup, than is expended both by the American Bible
Society and the Board of Foreign Missions in a year !
What would the "god of this world" have more?
As far as money is concerned, is not his usurpation
almost complete ? How much to ruin man ; how little to
bless him !
Or we might supplement and confirm the above illus-
trations of the comparative expense of the useful and the
good, with the hurtful, the bad and the ruinous, by like
illustrations of a bygone generation. We go back thirty
years and hear a speaker discoursing on the comparative
cost of missions and intemperance, replying to the cavil
that the former is a waste — that so much money is
sent out of the country. Even at that period, when
Education Society, $274,769
Female Moral Reformers, . ... 63,707
American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 25,390
Total $24,161,479
Other Societies, 2,000,000
Total $26,151,479
This is a truly noble aggregate, and if the contributions of the other
minor societies of a religious and benevolent character were added, the
total would amount to at least thirty millions of dollars.
* To Amer ica is credited $30,000,000 . To Great Britain, $28,000,000;
And to the est of Christendom, $2,000,000.
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he estimates the cost of intoxicating drinks much be-
low the present fearful expense, a startling contrast is
presented.
Take the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions for an example — the oldest, most extensive, and
distinguished institution we have. The wJwle amount
of its receipts into the treasury for the first 31 years
($2,753;605) does not equal the cost of foreign distilled
spirits and wines for four months. We see, then, who it
is that is likely to send all the money out of the country
— the missionary societies or the consumers of foreign
liquors. More is paid out in four ^nonths for foreign
liquors than ALL that has been paid into the treasury of
the American Board in 31 years.
Let us take five years, and compare the cost o^ foreign
liquors in those years with the donations to the Ameri-
can Board for Foreign Missions in those years.
The American Board received in five years, $889,S79 56
Paid for foreign liquors in five years, $8,455,345 20
(Estimating these at one dollar per gallon,)
which is for six months, $845,534 00
The consumption of foreign liquors, therefore, sends nearly
as much money out of the country in six months, as the
American Board for Foreign Missions in five years ! If
the consumers of foreign liquors will give us what they
send out of the country in 40 days, it will sustain the
American Board for 365 days, better than it is sustained
now. The American Board is not one-ninth the expense
incurred by the consumption of foreijrn liquors alone. Let
not the consumers complain that ioreign missions are
making the country poor.
If we had the income of five of the most prominent
benevolent societies of our land, we should not have enough
to pay the direct cost of the spirituous liquors consumed in
our country in Jive days ! Men of strong drink are giving
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inoro for tlioir Ixn'orniro '\n five dnj^fi (Iimii all tJuit. is tfivon
in it ifrdvhy tlio honovolont. to tlii'sc /f?v proniiiuMit, nisti-
fiiiioim ! In i<. worth wliilc^ for drinking jM^opIo l,o ooni-
plnin }il>o\it {ho oost of 1,1 n',sool>i oris ? Why, if iiioy would
ahsinin for ovr wiu^k o»it of i\\o jifhj-iiro (ovon if Uioy
drank on Siniday), llH\y woidd .sa\x* onongh to Hiistain
thoso /t/v soricfirs tor m y<\'ir.
Or U\ko up tlio Mccounts. tluMi, of tliCHO /rr^ IxMiovolont,
inatitntiv>ns from tlioir tirst orgnnizatioji, atid you would
not havo (M\ough to pay tho diroct contof Htrong drink in
o\ir land for 64 (/«r?/.v /
Hoar with nio a littlo longor. Sonio of uh may bo moro
familiar an«l intorosto«l, p(M*na]>N, in political ooononiy, and
intornal improvomonts, than in suon benevolent a.s.sooiu-
tioUvS. Moro grain is oonsumod in this oitj, month by
n\onth, and year by year, for distillation into ardent spiritM,
than all that is oonsumod for food by all the inhabitants,
and all the hoi'sos, cows, and oth(M* animals in this oity !
Let the ])olitioal economist, and those taxed to support
the poor, make the application — let them judge of this
buvsiriess of distillation.
We boast, in this State, of the Erie (^anal. It is tho
most stupendous structure for artifioial navigation in tho
world. It ha.s given us a name abroad, and constitutes
one of the bold items of our nation's glory among tho
older nations of the globe. It cost much. Its oHieial
proposal to the Ijcgislature was loudly scouted ns a scheme
of wnldness and extravagant expenditure. It was said it
never could be paid for ; and every year, for 24 years, the
snbjoct of its expense, and the payment of it, have occu-
pied no small portion of attention among our legislators
at Albany. It cost $10,7.^1,595. This is a great sum for
our legislat-oi-s to grapple v^ith ! Men of strong drink
could easily t^ikc care of it. They pay enough to cancel
every cent of the whole expense of building it in 93
days !
But, let us add this to othei's :
TTir, IIAFITII HKNOVATF,I>.
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Tho m*,\ fiiiloH of ilio Kr'w Cafinl cost, !|^I(),73I,5%
r\w \)7 iniirs oftho ( Ihnmn^o (him\ 2,()0l>,r).S2
Tho 7() miloH of i\w. ( 'liMinplairi ('aim!, 1J7!»,H72
Makinga total of, $\:\,U2\,{)i>U
TluvMO aro tlui tljioo j^rrmt woiUh of tlw Stat(?. l»Kt tlio
cost of tlio HpiritnouH licpioiH (^oiihiiiikmI in onr nation wonI<l
payrvory<H'ntfortli(« vvli(>l(M)f tlirui in KOUIl JVIONTIIS !
And Ikmo tliiH |)ron(l " Knipin^ Stato " Iwih Ikmifi cinluM-
rasHing li(»rH(3lf with this f\v\)t for 24 ypavH ! and it in rK)t
paid yet!
Wlwit a glorionHdny tlint, wli(>n tlic^ Hilvcr and tliogold
an<l nil tliat now conRtitutfw wfmltli, nliall l)0 dj/votcid to
CJod nn<l to tlio liiglioHt intorcstR ol ninn. No drMcit will
tlion roniain nnnM'lainM'd. No thorn or hri(;r irjfoHt tlio
earth. N<^ call of [)hil}int]iropy or honovolonnf; hIimII go
unhctMlod. " Kvory valley Hlwdl he exalted, and every
moiuitain an<l hill hIimII l)e niachi low : the (-rooked Hhall
be made Htraight, and tlie rough placijs plain," Tlirough
Iniinan .skill and hi))our and a piofn.se expenditure of money
— all re.seued from the <lemoralization and de.seeration of
intemperance — tlie defornnties and wanteH of eartli shall
be restore<l, and pence and plenty hlesH n, yet happier race.
It .shall extenuate the curse und(!r wliich man has so long
groaned — relieve from poverty, leclaim from vi(;c, enligh-
ten tho ignorant, elevate the lowly, and furnish am[)le
means to restore, with heaven's blessing, all that sin luiS
taken away.
The conversion of money, and its rescue from the grasp
of the Foe, and its devotion to the .service of our King,
shall be the talisman, the signal, and the efficient instru-
mentality of the final renovation of the world.
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THE PERVERSION OF WEALTH.
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M0DB:UN EXTIUVAGANCK — expense of chime — OF AMUSE-
MENTS — OF FALSE UELKUONS — AVAIUCK — WICKED IN-
VESTMENTS.
We may not stop here. In nothing, rather than in the
monopoly of money, does tlie Devil sliow himself a roar-
ing lion going abont seeking whom he may devour.
Like the horse-leech, he ever cries " Give, give." We have
other items of no small maixnitude to chari^e to his ac-
count.
We may name Kvframganee. as another of the all-de-
vourius^ demons that never say " Enouirh." Their name
is Legion. Extravagance in dress, in modes of living, in
annisements, but too often absorb.^ money by the hun-
dreds or thousands, where the real necessities of life, or its
charities are satisfied with units or tens. We should find
no end of enumerating here. Nor should we well know
in all cases how" to discriminate between what is a prudent
and justifiable ex[)enditure, and what is culpable extrava-
gance. Yet there are cases enough that are beyond doubt,
and allow of no extenuation.
But the common forms of extravagance, prodigal as
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they oft^^n nro, nro linniiUvsH ronipnnMl with that i^Jiirh
very naturally arcoinjwinit'H overgrown cHtatrs and hi^h
poHitionH in life. Kxtia valance owmvs its origin, in .some
ptod (Ic^rt'c, to tli(» un(M|ual division of property, and tlio
temptations which tlic favonred class ha\'e to a {jrofiiscand
ol'tentimes a foolish nsi^ of riches. A wist^ and henevolent
I^'ovidence has, as a (lood Kather, kindly considered tho
wants of his <'hildren. In onr Father's honso there in
" enongh and to spare" for all. If the Divine scheme
were followed ont, there conid he no snch thinjj^ as suffer-
ing and want on the one side, if there were not supcr-
Mhundance, surft^tinj.^, and monopoly on the other. The
extent of the extrava^mce and monopoly of the rich just
measures the extent of the want and suffering of tho poor.
The one is tho cause and countiupart of the other.
TIjo idea finds a very ohvious illustration in England
— though we by no means lack illu.strations in our own
country. England has thirty-two million acres of land.
This would give each family, if equally divided, land
enough (two acres to each individual) to place the whole
in a state of comfort and comp(itence — in connection, we
mean, with mechanical and other avocations of the peo- 1
pic. But what is the fjict ? What of une(|ual division —
of overgrown estates and monopolies, extravagance and
oppression on tlie one hand, and poverty, suffering, dis-
content and revolt on tho other.
The practical working of the ]irosent unequal distribu-
tion of wealth, and the mischief of monopoly, is well set
forth in the following paragraphs:
Some of the New York Fifth Avenue " swells" make
very respectable attempts to do the "palatial" in their
houses and style of living, and put forth ambitious efforts
to imitate English country seats, the possession of which
the English call " a snug box " on the Hudson River, and
ten, twenty or a hundred acres. An account before us of
the luxurious style of living among the English aristo-
cracy, throws our parvenu pretenders considerably into
the shade :
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tho Inghost jot in tho worlo. Chatswortl\ oontains .S.AOO
aoros. but tlio Pnko owns 9(>,000 aoros in Dorhvshirc. —
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But we must have a word more with Old England. We
are told of one hundred and ninety -five individuals in
Great Britain who hold $1,745,000,000 worth of British
consols — an average of nearly $9,000,000 to each. And
will any one tell us here how many starvelings are made
by each one of thepe " bloated bondholders ?" Lord Der-
by has an annual income of £190,000, or S1>000,000. This
would give a competence or a good working capital (of
ten thousand dollars to each) to a hundred families.
Our thought is well illustrated by the following notice
of the great money-king of Europe, the late Baron Roths-
child.
We doubt if any ordinary person can contemplate, with-
out serious misgivings, the announcement that Baron
Rothschild, who recently died in Paris, was worth two
thousand millions of francs, [or four hundred millions of
dollars. It was observed at the time that he was a
charitable man, and that the poor of Paris deplored his
loss deeply.
Yet during all the long weary years that he was en-
gaged in amassing that stupendous fortune, men and wo-
men were starving to death, or committing suicide from
want and suffering in that very city of Paris. Who can
tell the multitude of unfortunates who, wrecked in for-
tune by the changes on the Bourse wrought or controlled
by this man, have plunged into eternity to escape suffer-
ing and reproach ? Who can tell how often the loaves of
the baker have been reduced and the poor punished be-
cause some of the Rothschilds had run up the flour mar-
ket ? Who can tell how many widows and orphans
have had their little all engulfed in the maelstrom of fis-
cal operations that brought ruin to thousands and fortune
to him ?
Charity ! How many millions did he give to the poor ?
In order to be truly charitable he ought to have devoted
about half his fortune to such purposes, for nothing else
would have relieved him of the responsibility for the evil
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he had wrought in seeking to pile up such tremendous
hoards. Stephen Girard achieved a colossal fortune in
commerce, but he left the bulk of it to educate the orphan
children of the poor. John McDonough, of New Orleans,
followed his example. George Peabody did not wait for
his death-bed to warn him of his duty. He gave his mil-
lions to the needy.
Rothschild could not take his money Tvith him into the
next world. All he carried with him to the grave was a
wooden box. But he still contrived to let the evil of his
system survive him. For the wealth of the Rothschilds
is jealously guarded against division by preventing the
children from marrying out of the family. Even tc the
day of his death he managed to keep those nearest to him
ignorant of half his wealth by opening a great number of
accounts in false names.
How often have the schemes of this dead Rothschild
produced embarrassments in the markets of America ?
now often has he not spread ruin over thousands of our
countrymen by means of influence centring in his house
in London and Paris, over which no American could have
any control ? There have been times when such men
were supposed to have rendered great public services by
the command of fiscal resources. But the late Emperor
of France at last emancipated Governments fuom depen-
dence on this class, by means of his great popular loans,
raised by appeal to the whole mass of the people. That
invention has exploded the bubble on which the reputa-
tion 0^ nien like Rothschild had been resting. In any age,
in any country, under any circumstances, such colossal
fortunes arp nuisances. So far from benefiting the people
in any way, they increase the downward tendencies of
the poorer classes ; and all the benevolence the million-
naires can achieve by their gifts or bequests will not atone
for the misery they inflict upon millions of the human
race.
The summer r^jsidence and snug little country seat of the
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Baron contained 37,000 acres of park and grounds. By
this appropriation to one individual — not to meet his ne-
cessities but his luxuries — just one thousand families were
left without a snug homestead of thirty-seven acres each
— the means of a comfortable and independent subsistence
in all time to come.
Whether or not the Baron disbursed bountifully as he
had bountifully received we do not assert. We find in
his record one instance of his hospitality which looks suffi-
ciently large. It is the visit to his superb mansion, in
1865, of the French Emperor (Napoleon III). This visit
of a few daj's cost the noble Baron the nice little sum of
a million of francs.
We are often asked if there are no signs that the expen-
siveness of English society, especially in the higher ranks,
may speedily begin to decrease. We see no signs of it,
and hold it to be much more probable that we are on the
eve of an era of ostentation as tawdry and of extravagance
as pitiable as that which marks the past. That is the
American tendency, and we see nothing, no new and
strong idea, which should mark off the manners of our
society from those of the wealthy classes of Great Britain.
Public life is becoming rather less than more a itractive to
those who have all but power. The taste of art which is
developing rapidly is the most expensive of all tastes,
except the taste for gambling, and that is not on the de-
crease. The millionnaires are becoming more numerous
every day, and certainly do not spend their wealth more
for the public benefit. The electors seem every year to
prefer the great spenders as their representatives, while
the wealthy, who might check the evil, are experimenting
in a new and most costly enjoyment — that of becoming
the leaders of cosmopolitan waste, and, like the patricians
of Rome and Spain, maintaining establishm^^^ts in a dozen
countries at once. It is, says the London Spectator^ com-
ing rapidly to this — that a first class leader of society, with
a first class fortune, to be " on a level with his position,"
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wants, or chooses to think he wants, a house in London, a
house on the river, two palaces at least in the country,
a shooting-box in the Highlands, a hotel in Paris as costly
as his London house, a vUla at Como, a floor in Rome, an
establishment in Cairo or Constantine, a yacht, a theatre,
and a racing stud, and then thinks that life is as mono-
tonous as it was when " in his cool hall with haggard
eyes the Roman noble lay."
Exorbitant salaries are somewhat akin to overgrown
estates. They are income from another species of capital,
and are but too often the result of fraud and despotism.
Both Church and State afford examples of this kind of
money monopoly. The annual revenue of the clergy of
the Church establishment of England is more than $42,-
000,000. The income of the bishops is enormous. That
of 28 amounts to nearly a million. For instance, the
Archbishop of Canterbury receives $75,000 ; of York,
$50,000 ; the Bishop of London, $50,000 ; of Durham,
$40,000 ; of Winchester, $35,000. The salaries of the
inferior clergy are grossly unequal. For instance, 1,500
get annually about $5,000 ; while another 1,500, though
worJcing ministers, get but from $400 to $200 each.
But these are moderate when compared with the reve-
nues of the Pope and the great ones of the Romish Hier-
archy. Nowhere does the power of money tell more effec-
tively for evil. The matter of excessive salaries in general,
belongs more properly to our next chapter.
Other occasions of culpable extravagance are weddings
and funerals.
Funeral Extravagance. — The remark of the gentleman
who said that he could not afford to die in New York has
doubtless been echoed by many a victim to funeral bills.
The following sensible discussion of the subject is from
Hearth and Home :
" The desire for display on funeral occasions keeps pace
with the passion for ex )ensive weddings, until some peo-
ple come to act as if they thought all of one's worldly
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and death. A few years ago a simple coffin, plain hearse,
and a few carriages were looked upon as a sufficient mani-
festation of respect and regard for the dead. Now, costly-
shrouds and appointments, the most expensive coffins, and
long trains of carriages are regarded as essentinl to a
' genteel ' funeral. Those who have wealth can make
these outlays without infringing upon their actual wants.
Fashion's dictates, however, lead many thousands to pur-
sue a similar course, when by so doing they rob themselves
of the necessaries of life. How many widows devote to
their funerals more than half the funds left by husbands ;
and how many cliildren, in displaying a final regard for
death of parents, encroach upon their bread money ! As
the young married couple will squander hundreds of dol-
lars on a showy wedding tour, and return to take lodgings
in the sky-parlour of a cheap boarding house, so will wid-
ows and children often devote to a husband's and parent's
funeral what is actually required to keep soul and body
together, and all to conform to custom and be * genteel.' "
We have spoken plainly on this subject, but it de-
mands plain speech. Funeral extravagance has become
a crying evil, bearing heavily upon the middle and lower
classes, and no false notions of delicacy should deter
either the pulpit or the press from endeavouring to arrest
it.
Again, immense sums are sunk in the vortex o^annuse-
meiits. We refer now only to hurtful, demoralizing amuse-
ments ; as amusements, when neither hurtful nor demoral-
izing, are not necessarily sinful. The cost of amusements
is beyond all convenient calculation. There is here a
strange infatuation. Men and women who would not
give a sixpence to any charity, and who dispense most
grudgingly even for the comforts, perhaps for the neces-
saries of life, not unfrequently will squander, or moT-e
likely suffer their children to squander, dollars for some
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It would be impractical to do more than to name a few
of the items that indicate the enormous tax which is
here levied bj'^ this insidious tyrant. The entire expense
lies beyond the power of any one man to ascertain, and
not within the sphere of our common arithmetic to calcu-
late. We have an illustration in the expense of theatri-
cal amusements. Yet this is but a drop in the bucket
compared with the whole amount.
There are now in the City of New York, in full blast
night after night, at most seasons of the year, theatres,
capable of holding fourteen thousand persons, and receiv
ing in the aggregate probably $5,000 per night. Five of
these furnish facilities for licentiousness by providing
prostitutes with accommodation in their " third tiers"
or otherwise. Take away from a theatre its *' third tier"
and the accompanying bar, and one of the chief sources
of revenue is dried up. " The saloons of the late Broadway
Theatre, when first opened, were rented at $5,000 per
annum, arid the receipts at the office were nearly $2,000
nightly." Of course these figures form no criterion by
which to judge ocher theatres, or even the same establish-
ment at the present time ; but taken in connection with
the fact that a New York theatre, now extinct, received
1800,000 in seven years, they serve to show that time
and money and character are not squandered in brothels,
gambling-hells, and lottery-offices alone.
Again : From the fashionable and fascinating opera-
houses and ball-rooms down, through a long gradation, to
the vile assemblies of "The Points,"' amusements are
graduated so as to gratify every class, however degraded
—every taste, however depraved — every desire, however
debased. Theatres, circuses, museums, minstrels, mena-
geries of the lowest order, model artist exhibitions, sailors'
and strumpets' dance-houses, attract audiences, more or
less numerous, every night in New York. Time would
fail me to tell a tithe of what may be seen on any even-
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haunts of sin, and it is more than doubtful whether such
a narration would serve any good purpose.
But there are antecedents to the habitual frequenting
of these places of amusement, which need a moment's
notice. Unquestionably the bowling-alley s,billiard-saloons,
shooting-galleries, ale-houses, and the attractive and re-
splendent restaurants, are, to many a youth, the primary
schools of vice, in which are learnt the first lessons of ir-
religion and dissipation. Howev3r harmless in them-
selves some of these places of recreation may be, there are
associations formed and habits contracted by frequenting
them whose inf aence sways a lifetime, and imperils the
immortal soul. From hence to the theatre is but a step ;
from the theatre downward the descent is easy.
lliC following items give us some idea at least of the
expensiveness of amusements. In six theatres in New
York, and in two places of occasional theatricals, and in
one circus, there are from one to two hundred persons em-
ployed in each. A single theatre (the Bowery) pays $1,-
000 to one paper for advertising, besides handbills, cards
and posters, amounting to several thousand more. " Hard
times," writes a correspondent ; '' but," continues he, *' the
theatres were full last night to overflowing. The prob-
able receipts for the night, from four theatres, were said
to have averaged from |l,000 to $1,600."
These four theatres doubtless received not less than
$1,000,000 annually — and all the theatres in New York
not less than $2,000,000. Such a princely income is re-
quired to meet the correspondingly profuse expenditures
of these places. The celebrated actor Kean used to be
paid at the Drury Lane Theatre £50 ($250) a night. At
Park Theatre actors were paid from $80 to $100 a week.
Professor Bronson was offered $1,000 a week. He would
accept, if the dissipation and the profanity of the stage
could be removed ; and the nuisances could be taken away.
But he was told that could not be done !
In all this we have said nothing of the immense expen-
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EXPENSE OF FURNISHING AMUSEMENTS.
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ditures for biiildings, furniture, apparatus, scenery, etc.,
compared '/ith which all the expenditures for conducting
all our philanthropic and benevolent enterpiises are but
an item. The expense of theatres in New York alone
greatly exceeds the expense of all the evangelical pastors'
salaries in that great metropolis — and probably we might
add the whole expense of all the benevolent organizations
of the city. And it is possible that more time and service
is there devoted to theatrical amusements than is by all
other classes devoted to religion and the supreme good of
man. Friends of religion and good morals, therefore,
should not patronize these places of demoralization and
waste, but unite their influence and example to suppress
so fruitful a source of evil. Scarcely has our arch Foe a
more subtle and sure device by which to decoy the
multitude on in the broad road to death. Surely he is
the god of this world.
Items like the following give some idea of the expense
of furnishing amusement, and of the willingness of other
classes to pay to be amused. An Italian singer has re-
ceived $70,000 for a single season ; and a nobleman has
been known to pay $1,500 a year for a single box in an
opera. Jenny Lind, the Swedish singer, was offered
$200,000 to sing two hundred nights, and all the expen-
ses of herself and her father paid, and a carriage always
at her command.
A late writer gives an aggregate of the annual cost of
public amusements in New York City at $7,000,000, and
the amount of intoxicating liquors sold at 8,000 drinking
places at $16,000,000, or, including time and labour wasted
and capital involved in the traffic, not less than $48,000,-
000.
And, as nearly akin to the last, we might take a few
items from the history of gambling, that shall further
illustrate the same profuse and criminal perversion of
money. It is said that $35,000,000 are annually lost in
the gambling houses of London — $5,000,000 have been
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THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SA.TAN.
known to be lost at one house (Crockford's) in a single
night. One gambling saloon in London cost $500,000,
and its receipts are half a million a year.
But the pecuniary waste of gambling is as nothing com-
pared with the moral devastation. The epithet applied
by common consent to theje dens of all manner of ini-
quity, is aptly sijrnificant. They are "gambling hells." And
so true are they to their disgusting cognomen, so demoral-
izing in all their doings, so pestiferous their atmosphsre,
that the common verdict of all decent people is that all
the frequentei s of these pits " go down to death ; their
feet take hold on hell." Point out a mar who is a con-
firmed gambler, and you need not fear to charge upon
him any sin in the whole catalogue of human depravity.
Some people perplex themselves about the locality of
the Devil. Let them go into a first-class gambling hell
about twelve o'clock at night, and their doubts will be
removed.
The etormous expense of criw.e noxt demands our
attention. Virtue, religion, benevolence, cost something.
But their cost sinks into comparative insignifica,nce by
the side of the cost of sin. The slightest glance into the
annals of crime will verify the assertion.
We may take the numbei' of criminals in the United
States, already corrlcted and suffering the penalty of
their guilt, at 20,000, and the number in custody, but not
yet convicted, 6,000. The cost of maintaining these per
annum at tLOO each, is $5,200,000. Cost of arrest, trial
and conviction not les". than $3,000,000 a year. And if
we admit into the account but a fev/ of the items of the
waste and destruction of property perpetrated by this
class before their detection, such as waste from rioting,
dissipation and drunkenness, say another $3,000,000, and
loss by fres, the work of incendiaries, $5,000,000, we shall
find ourselves paying (besides incidental wastes not easily
calculated) more than $16,000,000 as the more direct,
tangible annual expense of crime in a single country;
EXPENSE OF IDOLATRY.
241
ngle
,000,
com-
plied
ini-
And
loral-
)h3re,
at all
their
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upon
vity.
lity of
ig hell
7ill be
is our
sthing.
ice by
to the
EL.
United
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(ut not
;se per
it, trial
|And if
of the
y this
iotliig,
0, and
e shall
easily
direct,
luntry ;
and this not including the expense of making laws for the
suppression of crime, the building of prisons, the support
of magistrates and police, and the whole corps of execu-
tive officers.
The expense of prisons alone in Great Britain is re-
ported to have amounted, in a single year, to more than
82,000,000. And the number of persons convicted of
crime the same year was not less than 25,000. But
who furnish our criminals and paupers, and how are they
made such ? A recent publication states that of the
criminals in New York City for twenty-one months, 31,088
were natives of this country, while 89,589 were foreigners ;
of whom 60,4i42 were Irish, 9,488 Germans, and 4,000
English. Of 28,821 persons admitted to the alms-house
*in ten years, 22,468 were foreigners; 15,948 wero Irish,
1,240 Germans, and 1,297 English. During the same
time, of 60,015 admitted to Bellevue Hospital, 41,851
were foreigners. Of 4,335 inmates of the lunatic asylum,
3,360 were foreigners. Of 251,344 committed to the city
prison, only 59,385 were natives, while 86,431 professed
to be members of the Church of Rome. And we have
elsewhere seen that a very large per centage of our crimi-
nals are made such by the use of intoxicating drinks, one
of the most direct and sure agencies of the Devil.
But the masterpiece of invention by which Satan has
contrived to monopolize the wealth of this world, and to
secure to himself the power wealth gives, is that of Pagan
Religions. The following facts will indicate something
of the profusion of expenditure on account of spurious
religions.
The celebration of a single feast of the Hindoo goddess,
Doorga, costs at Calcutta alone $2,500,000. And besides
this, the bloody sacrifices are enormous. A single indi-
vidual (a Rajah) has been known to expend at this festival
S45,000. There have been sacrifices on this occasion of
30,000 sheep, and a single Rajah has been known to ofiier
65,000 animals at a single festival. Indeed, the people
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iin-: rooT riMNTs of hatan.
\\oh\ ovovv<lnnjr H\il)jpi'i lo \\\o cmII of lltoir jtimIm tiinfipy
>W\\A
\V}\,
(1
\o\y t>\vn
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ii'M iind H(»\iiM
t;
nph'M mo iiMnMlly
bnili l>v in.li\i.l\iMls. Soino c.sMi^lO.OOO, Hoin.> lif lOO.OdO,
In <ho Kino(l(»in ofSiMin. fo? m imiimiImI ion of I'nnr nv livo
luillionM, lluMc nro mI IimimI LM).(M)() prii^HlM, mikI m |)io|tui
<ii>nM<o n\nul>or of Hplcntlid inxl ruslly pn^dilMM, nil Hun
i>o\lo(l l>y t>n(Mo\)s t»\M('(ionM on n prioHJ. ritl(l«Mi jmm>ji|«v
Tln» n\MSH ol' {\\o ]>ooplo. rirli nn<l pom-, rxpiMnl U\v (Im»
iMV^or moioi V oj <lioif onrnin^M or inconw* in (iHorin^M (o
i»lo]M. i\\\\\ <bo roiniilcss vWoH nnd IvslivMlH t'onnocliMl wilh
idol worshin Tho lollowinjii linl of nil irUvs n sin^l«» \V(»nll liy
\y.\
livo 1
\MS
ir»
n Known to oIIim- ni iho iM-KOnnl ion of on
o
iVsiivnl: .S(V(HU) jM^niulM oT Hn^nr. I .(KM) snilH of r.olli^nr-
luonts, 1 .(M)(> s\ii<M ol' sillvM, nnM 1 .000 oll)>rin^H of i irr nnd
fniits ; ',\\u\ !\n«<(bor (o o\pon«i npwMidM ol" #1 riO,00() nt n
sinvrlo tVstivnl, nn»l Jj.SlVOOO MtinuMJlv lo Iho rnd oI'Ihh lil'o.
U is no \ln^^>nnn•^n o«MMinonro llinl n wonllhy iMniily is
ivd\uvd to poviMty (luongh (hoir prot'iifUMind oHliMiliiliouN
otlonuiis
(v> (1
WW jL^ods
Tlu^ IvijmIi ol' nurdwMn s|HM\dM ^ll'.^.OOO nnnnnll}' upon
pviosis ;\nd idols. Kov. Mv. \V*>r(ln(M'ld, sponkin^ ol" a
visit l\o n\;\do lo Ibis l\;\iM]\. smvh, "I fonnd l)in\ Hillinfr
in his tr(\\s\ivv. Kiflv bn^s of n\on(^v. «^>n(Mininjr $i!,00()
o\\ch, woiv plai'od IhM'oiv him. " Whal/'snid I, " twv you
dtnug with nil this nionov ?"' " It is for \\\\ ^o{\h,'' Hnid
bo, "How?" nskod 1. " (hio ]>nrt; is to bo .sen f to H(>-
naros, vvhoiv 1 havotwo tino toniplos lUitbo riv<M' Hi»lo, and
many pviost^s who ]^ray lor nu\ Anotbor part goos to
dug"gvvna\it. and a third io thmga." Horo ia onr nativo,
aunnallv spondinj^- on a class oi" idlo and worse than use-
loss Hrahniins. ;?10l).()00. Lot tho riob fbristMUi r'U'oivo
a ]ArolU<\blo hint tVon\ tho oxamplo oi" this poor, doludod
idolater. How long w<ndd it roipiiro a similar liborality
on tho part of t^'hrislians in ordor to oxtond the blossingH
of tho gosjH^l to tho onds oC tho oarth ?
It is oon^nitod by Uov. Air. Dean, tliat tho Chiiicsj ox-
m,:
WHAT IMF, l'AI'A(JY C'OHTH
24a
jH'inI Mmnmllyioi /NfV'/>Nf' nlnfiM, lo Imrri li»'l'ni». llM.jr jdfih,
tioi |pfHl,lifniiif:i(;n,(MM).(MM> An<l w«« riM' »mM ,,( „ \\]ui\nn
\\\\n rx|M'iiil«'<l liiill" n iiiilliiui (if (InllfHH in n Hiri|r|«. fomlivMl,
Mini nrniinlluM- wl»n HjU'lll, l,w<» iumI m, lifilf millidriM lor l\u)
Miiitititrl (»!" idiiluli y
IIh'Ip in n (»'Mi|ili' ifi M«'ii^nofi (flio Inr^cH*, in tlir> lliir-
iiiMti I'lnipiir) wliicli niVM'rH twi'lvo juti'm of* ^ronn«l In
ilir (M'?i( !•» is nUMiMi Iwi-nly niliilM HfjiiMro, in wliicli (if»»
pliu't'il ifnn^rfiq nl' cmcIi nn'inln-i ol" Uio royni Inniily nnclo
dl' |tnit' |j;n|(|, llit> niMiinnl. (tf^dld in »'ncli irri/i^«' ninnf/i nj/
ill inrii/lif |Im» iinlividnnl Inr vvli(Mn i(. vv/im rriMiJi' ; niso
iinnj^r(<q (»r (»Mcli nultlcMiMii in Mif» cnipiir, mukN' al' nolid
Ivn, jmmI llH»Hilv«'i vvi'iiflicd (t/rninHf, cMrJi t
HI
irinn.
V
vory-
lliiiij^ mImiiiI, MiiM |»m^ikIm JH on ii. Mrnlo of vnsifrif>«H Mlrrifnt
(tvt'ipowriin^r. jf'oj- i»xmiii|iI«>, I,Im» JioriM Muit, ^iinrd llio
hImIih l»Mi(liiit( IVon^ lli<> livrr ii|i io I,Ih« MMrrfd i-rK-io-
Hiin*. Mioiijdi in m, ri(nirlinid. |» ishiic, ni(\ nifMd,y ff-f't in
lici^dil
Tin* (MdclnMl.nd 'I'A.f, of Ajt/i. tlio nunmolciii
ri f'rf'ft(>d I
y
(lie l'lin|i('ior SIimIi .hdinii in nicmory of his liivoiirilo l>f'-
gimi. Noor MiiIimI, would now cost to l»nild it in Inrlin, it
JH Moid, not IcMH tlinn $r,{),(){)i>^{}(H),
Or turn wo to tlio HoniiHli ( -Imnli, wo rncf t illiiKtrMtioriM
iiiiiin tln> IcMM Htrikin^. 'rirff4 (rnind roiintof IVit of tin)
inir Initli Iimm licldy moiitrMl tli«5 titio it lins hcon
irdcd, ol' iM'intr n, "(!|i(ir(|i of rnonoy." Il;id S>i,f
II w.
itri
no otlior |tiir|ioRo in tin* invrid-ion nrnl Mn(»[»ort of thin
loriii of i(>li[,don timn tlic monopoly (»f incMjridnhlo, r
('nninry trcMHiiicH, nnd by Wic^o rno/iris Mf)«tr?u',f irn/ tl
K'.-
nrri
an
fidin tlM> ^ront airn/i. of Inininn pro^rcHH and (^!|iri«ti
licin'volcin'c, tlio dcMi/jjn would hf; wortliy of tlif, f>ri^inal.
I-
on rni
W(^ cnn ^n» into no c'dciilntionH a.M to tin; rnilliorm
lioiiM tlint iwv wrcinln'd from tin-, pf,of)lf> jirni Jihsr>rh('d in
ilic. pMrnplicriwdiM (»f tin- Scnrh't lic^ist. Jn \{(iv. xvi. fi-
ll), wo luivo aHin^nihir dcMcription of tho Hurx-rahfjimdinc/
ri(
hoH of tlrtH ^rcnt roligioiiH doluMion. MarnirK)n }
jfis
laid the abuudaiico of his riches at tho feet of thia reli-
V
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Tinr rivvr nnNVH or hatan
^lon
n
OW
i\\
\'\H '\H \\\mo wo hiwo fv i\i>l!il<lo illnpijinl ion
in tho oNiiolion^^ of ( luM ( 'Inncli in cmm \ ' 'iii Intlic connli >
r
n>
liisi
I V ol"
\V»^ \\\:\\ Moloot IrolMnd MM im oxMnipliv
i]\;\{ |nios< vidJ'Mi. novorl y MJiii'Kon oonni rv I'mniMhoM m,
in«MMn«'l\olv v'huploi' on <ln^ nnMiM y Mn»l Hlinvnlinn ol" ii
pooplo i;rvHJUvl luMUMllh <iu^ irO!\ lu'ol ol" H[»lli(UMl tloM-
\\\\\ \\o <1\oso who pilyin^ly roMil < Ihm chnpliM" oT priosil ly
o\(ov< i onw. «'on»)M'^h»M>(HlnMt- nu^^ntil n«i(W IV» Hioy !<>mI
17,0 wliMl MhipiMhiouM snn\'Hln' KonnMh pt iosl Mood yotnlv
nhsiiMiM tVon\ \\\o in«in>^iriMl MNooiHionM ol' (IimI connlrv i.
Tho I'ollow m^- shot! Mn<l iniptMiorl li;( (NMnp«iM(>M ncMtly
^7.(h)0.0(>(> vvhi»'h {\\i\\ i\\\y';\y\y povorj y MdirKiMi p(«oplo
aro innuiMlly piW inj^ to snppovl (ho nn\V!nrMnlMi»h> pi(>
tvMi^ion'-i «^r Mn nhnosi n'-iOosM prio-.l hood : lor oonloMMions
;rii.ol»0.tH^(V lor hnn;\ls Jj^l oO.OlM). I'oiunol ionw $:UM).0(M). lor
wiMvriMj^N^"^ ^I.S(H>.0(^(). lor dohvoi inj> lVon> piuj^Mlory Jjf/iOO,-
(\)(\ lov oh\n-ol\ ooUoolions S:.\;»OvV(M)()
This d»>(^> lillK^ \\\ovo ih.Mn indionlt* {]\o );)(),/<' \\\ \>hi»'h
<]>m( ('Iwn^']) (^\<ovls inonoy hotn (h.^ poopl(\ and (h«» (M>or
nivMis snnis whioh i( o\(oiN. And \\' slMivin^' lv«^i.'ind
pays s(^\ \M\ nuUu>ns ;innnally. snnply lor (h«^ IimIT «h)/,(»>,i
i<«Mns
n,;n\od. wlio sh;\11 loll ns oT iho innntMisi* r«»V(Mni
(<S
\\ \\\o \\ ou\'A\\ on (]»o Soavlol Honsl in oontdri<vM nioK*
wo.'ihhv
<o s,\\ nolhino' ol llu^ n;un(MOs,s wis'dlh h«
<ldl
tv
{]\o Ohniv]^ of Konu^ m^ Ium- \\\o\o ponn.;\nonl inluM'il.Mnco
1
n nothing- pv^iiMps ixw
(h,
o\nn»mi»" movum's oi our
K
111
h
vcM ouonu" u\oiv oonspiouinis iUMn ni ium nu^jiopoly o
luonov. Woll tio«^s ho \u\»l(Msl,'ind dial nionov .'IHswmm':
>r
n
U tl
UUlI'S
In (ho t"orn\ of hrihos il inipoiMls (Ih* hoN(. iji
torosts ot n Iroo pooplo, piM'snadt^s (o oNtMv (Minx* and piM-
potratos o\ ovv niisoluor. 'IMum^^ is no villainy so hiaok. no
lunrdor so atrvvioiis. thai its porpolralion oann«>(. ho hon^hl
oiX with \\\onov
M
>no\ as an moontivo lo iM*inu\
hlin(l>
tlio nund. rondors v>hl\is(> (ho hoai'l. soars (lu» oonsoionctv
oblitoratos tho lino botwooN wnniLi" and rii^hl. and niakos
luau tUo victim ot' vlislionostv and shanioloss wrono-. TJio
i
iii'WAN nriMiAVfTr.
VAn
prMvily mihI ••!' Snlniiir iiiciii imlinn mio. n(. Uhm nmnirnt,
curHinjr mn lniin> rilinq. Mm of wt'nif li. iKmHioM. rdiirii-
lion Miiil itrnlcMMiMMnl Hlninliiij,r. nio, liy iinntiM (if liMlufy
iiihI liiiMMiiMi rliicMiiPiv. )M«r|i«>l ml iiiK in^mwWi' IVniMh
III
kmiimpIvpm. mill nwiiiir (!i(> j'ouci nl 'Inir iriiiiHMiMo ntid ill-
^dljpn wrnllli In «|piiiMiMli/<> Mini rorni|il, III lirtM, <<nr«»iir;i(/-
intr llioni in llio Rnni(» IVniHliihnl. <'<iiiih(> wIiiIo I hoy tln'iri
HclvrM iMMip llio WMj^rt'M itrilirir miMiiMirmjr iiiifjiiily. 'I lin
iiKiMJ, lili(,rlil iny- iMiiMn in n cniiijiiiiiiily is n rich inxii w'}io
liMivs hiH rirhcM niil\' (o npnirfifi iiinl mciiim? m h/'' I. he |»('0|)
l,h
o.
Tlio |i
»o\vrr (i| funli n iiiiiii iM iiicmik
lihh
i\\\i
I ii it. I
)(i
III
hi
riMy<*<l n^niiiHl, virlin\ inoi»ilil,y mimI irji^iori, il. imm. Iivnit(
I irii
(MirM«»
^^tMcy, whoii iinl. R»ifn'l irM'ij, chrjiMhcH (•ri«l«\ nhMofhw
llio wholo nmn in lh<» itihrr'ilM til' nininrnon, hliri'lH Ih^
oycM (tf lh(» niiiKJ In mII Inhirr rrnJilicM, nnd iri>iloH Iho
iiiiiii
hnl II
H» iMilKl
lM\p n
r II
lO VV«»||»|
• •kIi »iri'
I U
)()
hcvil. liiMlrnd nl lilt* nvnuliohninir |imvv<'I which trinncy
JM lill»Ml In ('SPK'iMr I'nr j/nnd in llic wnr Id, il, if* hindr, hy
ilH |n»r\ (MMiun. Ili<* nii^rhlicMl n^crcncy Inr evil.
Avnrirr. rnvcdonMiirMH. Invc nl" hnnrdirif/ fill iriMl iffil inrift
if I lie l',vil < hie nhfini I
• M, vvn
I Id nl I he enrl liM I renMiireH,
jiiid enns(M|n(>nl h' m ItMlinel. I hem IVnin I he vnriniiM iiFe,-; nf
ItciK^vnleiiee, philiinl limpy iirid hiiniMn irriprnvernerif-.
WIimI. he eniinnl, Mnhsidi/.e diieelly in hin (twn ner viee, ho
will IncK' ;i|> in Mm* ^dnnniy eellM nl' Ihe rrii.'.er, mfkI IIium
(jiiilc MM elleclively wilhdinw il. I'mfri the |)Ur)»nMeM fd' ime,-
IkI Jielivily, I jnw niiieh in IIimh perverled nnd enrnpletely
ii(Mili!ili/ed, MM l.n nny hetielil, l,o rrinn or hejisd., if, is irti-
|M»M,sihl(^ l,o niJike nny |iinh)ilile eMl,irnnl,(5. llundrerlM <S
iiiillintiM Mr(^ in Umm wny |nil, heyond tlm ronc.h of/iriy hu-
iiiiin iililily.
II WJiM lh(» M('(Mirse(| lnv(^ nf /^^nld flmf. moved the, Sjci-
niiirdM In fnvn^M' Ihe lenitniicM nl' Me,xie(», In vinhite, every
|»riii('i|)Io of* jnHf.i(!e nnd linnmnil.y, f,n mnHMncn; flie, ):)foph!,
nnd lu p(M'|)of/rn to fJio most horrid enndfiew. And it, wan
f
!i
. J
\ i
i!
■f
94.rt
trtf roivf rnmrw or* satan.
(v!)tli\ nnd jXM pol \i!H»'<l, in ninn* hnjilM IIimm n\\v<A, (,Im» lion
V(M\ pi>noUiH]L» Nvronj^r o\ hmnt\M
l>oH(|;
lirt>
And. MS soinow hiH Minn. n< loir^l in ^fnt'inl (M>nqiM|niMn'«>R,
wo ni.'W n«l»l <hM< of m irvmif \Mii(»l\ nl" nnrij^lHvonH iinwfif
Wf )?/,^ oC nvo|MM Tv. w l\i('I\ ' i>l onlv ctnl i iltnlt» nnlliinir 1(»
Inin^nn }nl\ !\n(MMnonl t»r h. ipitn^'^H. ImiI. on Iho conlimv
in<iii>< \n\nu»Msnr<>(l imitmos wnch nro invcMJ inonis in iliHlil
](Mios« Mn»l it\ in<(^\i»'Ml ini> tlrinK,^. in jiin pmImitw mikI Hpl<>ii
iini
il>]
ilinnnhniT |\o!1mom. \\\
n\<M)l
f
on i>si f\n<i Htix'KH. in
Snl.l.nl,
iloso»MM< in^ (MMnpnnioM, imd in Icn llumMfUul wmvr in
\>
In.'l
\ nionov is niinlo (o mM\ o Iho h(>vil nnti not, (lod
If is» (IniH rliMf "sin roijvnn nnlo donlh." nu)no|M?li7,in^
iho sihor Mnd iho i)ohl. mioI {nKino iho cnilh* on n Ihonq
Mn
\ h\\\
s Mn*
1 tUMlv
{]
vnio riuMn s(>vvr
ih
\0 IMHItORCR Ml niH OWII
|MH|
Ih
vih» ni!n'l\in!\l iotv^
All oon»'(^lo nionov io ho i\n n^oni'v <»! vhrI. powor itf
nlnuKl nnliniiloil ]io';vt>r. Ami wo hMV(\ lo Honio oxioni,
Rliown how Ibis p(\wov i.'^ nscd how ppivorroil Mini nwuli*
lo s«M\ o (ho woisl inloroslq of innn Ihil fin onoiny hnlli
Aowo lhi« In iho "rov|ih\lion of .mII lhinjj;s." nn»n(*v Rhnll
ho ivsonod i\o\\\ Iho hMnds of Ihi* PsmmM Mini iorIoiimI |o
n
1<^ sovvioo ol lis n
^h{\\\\
ow nor
In Iho ImIIot (Imvh
Nvo sli;\]l soo whnf n ooniplolo I r:\nRlonnMl ion Ihrif^ will
bo in Iho wovM ^hon Iho powor and inllnonoo of inonoy
sh:\ll ho nsisl lo fiwonr llu» onnso {^\' viohloonHinvw on Iho
•h
K
ornsMlcin oonn» down
OMvll^ nnd l»> h<\'Uiliiy lln^ Now
ivom hoMvon 77^^' riijJif vsc of profunijf, wilh mII iIh
foo li
mos. prnioiplos Mno :\oli\\ln\s nnphod in nnoli m \ini\
will hvinii' nhoni ^l^«' Millonninni.
Inforono*^ : WhnI m h(\'\nlifnl. i^lorions worhl llnR will
ho \vli(Mi l1\o si1\(M- Mn»l Iho i>;oM Mini m11 ihs pr(»oit»nR Ihin^s
sIimIi ho niM^o lo oonlvihnl<^ lo ils r(\^lilnlion lo ilH VAow
st;\to' An«l \vl\(ni nil il^-^ vmsI ri^sonroos hIimII ho M|t|)r(»pvi-
MOi\ io hloss. Mn«l wo luovo lo vMivm* iumh. wIimImii iinnionsi*
popul;Hiv">n iho oMvlh will ho oapahh* of Hn-^lMining !
XII
Tim puiiviaisioN ok wkai/i'ii,
(CoHluiued,)
ni'idAi. ANi» Ai!iHT(K'i?A'rf<' r.xrnAVAnANrr, nuF.sr rrtatka
— TRMI'TAriONH nr lUfUKSl WAK'IK OK wr,Af/rM fM THK
MA'I'I I'-ll 0|r in';MUI(»N IRMITK <tV (iKJ.f rK — .rnfJOPRMA f ;T
— RP. IM'/IKU'm AC noMK IfMIMJ-, OK SKlrfNUAPORK PRO-
TKHIANI' K.X'lHAVAdANrK,.
Wk, «Io iiof. lor^f'f, Mini, rnonoy i« n, ^rrfnf, powfT, flosi^^rK"!
ror
Mil l.lio |tnrt «•(' III** ^rixnl, (iivr-r mm m. rfii(';lil.y uiffucy
(rood. Wm nip in JiMJo (Imm^mt of ovrr fslirfixl-ini/ l\tf
H'M|MiiiHiliilil,irM of l,li(»M(* wlio Jirr> fnvf>nr'''l of fifavMi wil,h
nn M
l)tllMl>
(iiicn ol Mm» ^oo(| l,liiri(_(H '»
1 Ml
,\' I]
IR WO
rid, Kfid if,
l»(M>ii llio (rood ((N'MMiiiM of (}od l,o liJiv»^ rruidf. nn rf/iinl
diMl.rilml.ioii of llicwn (rr,(,d Miin^R, Micrf. doid.t,lf>ss would
Imvo luM'ii M. Imppy corriixdc'rico, mm wf. havf, said, to o-vcry
(•(iiniiMinily, fniiiily or individiuvl — m»oiij/Ii t,o HMpf)ly ^'Vf^ry
lUM'd Mini MiiiiiMlrr to «'.v«Ty lo(/it,iirintr. w«ril,>irid rfaftonahli^i
luxury, liiil, iiolirni(.( for v/nnton wn
;t,*', or v/\<:\<f)f\ fxhrnva-
|/n
iicn iioliriiifr \,(> ininistrr to n, siritrlo, vice,
')}
I ft Hilvftr
d til''- ror<'Kt, of
Id
nnd t.lin {r(»|d, tlifi productH of t,li<'. rnirif- nn
t,li(i HCMi mid l.lif, dry land, if ffiiuilly dist,ril/ut^,<l, wou
givo a (rciwrouM port/ion t,o all.
liiit Hucli in not tlio. [»ia.n of I'rovi
df'.rif.^'-. ft i.H rathcT to
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248
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAI^.
make a very vmequal distribution — to giye to the favoured
few an abundance, and to the great masses sparingly. The
plan seems to be to make the few the almoners of the
many. Instead of directly supplying the wants of the
multitudes, he makes the favoured few act in his stead to
scatter his bounties to the destitute. In either case he
makes it a test of character and a means of grace — the
rich how they give, the poor how they receive.
We are not without delightful examples of the God-like
generosity of the rich. Yet these are but the exceptions.
The rich receive bountifully, but " consume it on their
lusts." Examples of this kind aie, alas ! but too abundant.
We shall quote a few :
I. Regal Extravagance. — Kings and queens have re-
sponsibilities in proportion to the profusion of wealth
which falls to their lot. In the day of Zion's glory, when
a pure religion shall reign in the whole earth, kings shall
become nursing fathers and queens nursing mothers to the
Church. They shall bring their silver and their gold with
them and devote it " to the name of the Lord their God."
The influence of their exalted position, the power of their
wealth, shall be made to beautify Zion — to build up her
walls, to enlarge her borders that she may become co-
extensive with the earth. When this shall be, the day of
Zion's triumph shall be near.
But how different it is now ! Princely wealth is to a
lamentable extent but the representative of princely ex-
travagance. Yet we do not here forget what is due to
position. We would not measure the king by the subject,
but accord to him ail that by position he may appropriately
claim ; yet we shall, in the^e high places, meet much to
be set down to a foolish, wicked extravagance. A few
examples will illustrate.
We may take as a fair specimen, perhaps, the rer^al
expenditures of Great Britain. England is a limited
monarchy, and we have a right to expect, where the
voice of the people is heard, where the people control the
COST OF A QUEEN.
249
finances, regal expenditures would be measurably re-
strained. A few statistics will show. We shall not
pretend to give a full list of items.
The regular annual allowance of the Queen of Eng-
land is £385,000, or nearly ^2,000,000 ; of which £60,000
($300,000) are assigned for the Queen's own private use,
and the remainder is expended in the departments of the
Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Master of the
Horse, the Clerk of the Kitchen, the Gentlemen of the
Wine and Beer Cellars, the Mistress of the Kobes, the
Groom of the Robes ; to say nothing of Maids of Honour,
Lords in waiting, Hereditary Grand Falconer, and scores
of others, consisting mostly of men and women of aristo-
cratic rank, all lustily paid, and nearly all sinecures ; and
in royal bounties, charities, pensions and special services ;
all to keep up the domestic arrangements of royalty.
This, however, does not include the expense of a large
military corps kept up for the defence and show of the
royal state.
Again we see how the money goes as it slips through
royal fingers, in the exchange of kingly presents. Take
the following, of recent occurrence, as iin example, though
not among the most munificent. The Rajah of Cashmere
has sent to Queen Victoria a tent of Cashmere shawls,
with a bedstead of carved gold, the whole valued at
8750,000. But this sinks into the shade as of minor
worth when compared with the present of Cleopatra, the
famous Queen of Egypt, to her lover Antony. It was a
diamond valued at £800,000, or $4,000,000.
We refer, to England only as an example. Some other
European courts far outshine her in the gorgeousness of
kingly display, as the imperial throne of France, Russia,
Austria, Spain. Take a single item. The diadem worn
by the Princess Olga of Russia, presented by her imperial
father, cost 18,000,000 of francs, or $3,384,000. The single
central diamond cost a million of francs.
For a " sick man," says a recent writer, the Sultan of
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Turkey manaj]^es to dispose of a heap of money upon the
personal gratification of himself and household. To " keep
the pot b')iling" in the imperial kitchen costs $llfi,160
per month, whilst the royal steeds run away with $38,720
in the same period, sup])osed to be rtquired to keep orien-
tal nags in good condition. Five princesses and their
hushnnds modestly content themselves with the bagatelle
of $207,000 for tlie necessary expenses of thirty whole
days, and a brother of the Sultan hardly makes both ends
meet with $48,400 per month. Then thirty-six wives of
the Sultan {dear creatures!) are cut off with $1,548.80
per month each, to which out of charity an annual present
of $4,840,000, or $40:^,3;}3 per month, is distributed among
them, by which means they are enabled to "keep up
appearances," and get a supply of sweetmeats, besides
buying a few jewels, perhaps. The grand mistress of the
treasure, with her twelve female assistants, contrive to
perform their duties on a stipend of a trifle over $SO,000
per month ; and the 780 female slaves of the imperial
harem, who contribute to the pleasure of His Majesty,
require only $56,000 to satisfy their moderate wa.its
during the same period. The chief of the eunuchs takes
$34,818, and a thousand janitors and body guards are pro-
vided for at tlie rate of $07,7(50 per month. The Sultan
is fond of music, and a dozen bands charm him for the
trifle of $77,740 per month. The Sultan does not forget
his old friends, and so those girls, married or unmarried,
who have left the harem, are consoled for the loss of the
light of his countenance by pensions amounting altogether
to a little over half a million of dollars once in t^hirty days.
And thus the list goes on, until an aggregate of $8,932,-
314 ]ier month, or $47,187,708 yearly, is reached. And all
for the Sultan and liis household. The amount and items
seem fabulous, but a French paper avows that they are
copied from the imperial registers themselves.
And the humble fisherman at Rome has been able thus
far to gather up the fragments on the shores, so as to secure
II
EXPENDITUKE OF WEALTH IN PALACES.
251
a very comfortable Rubsistence. Tbc income of tbc Pope
is said to be $8,000,000. Of this, $500,000 are appropri-
ated to bis private affairs, $2,192,000 to pay interests,
$2,700,000 to 8up])ort the army and police, $000,000 to
support prisons, and $24,000 to scbools. Had we a voice
in the councils of His Holiness, we would recommend an
exchange of prison and sci ool appropriations. $000,000
forschools would, in a few years, render $24,000 for ja-isons
quite sufficient.
But would we witness tbe yet more profuse expenditure
of wealth in palaces and imperial courts, we must turn to
the more luxuriant Orient. The ancient kings of Babylo-
nia, of Persia, of India, and at a later date the imperial court
of the great Moguls, shone with splendour no longer seen.
They were the concentration of the boundless wealth of
the East — of her silver and gold and precious stones.
Yet they ministered only to the baser passions of man : to
pride, ambition, love of pleasure, and the merest outward
show. They had no power to bless the masses, to enlight-
en the ignorant, or diffuse the blessings of civilization
and a pure religion.
Take as a specimen : The fnmous Peacock Throne of
the Great Mogul of Delhi cost 160,500,000 pounds ster-
ling — money enough to defray the whole ex^jenses of
Christian institutions for the next generation. " If all
the churches, cha})els and cathedrals of Scotland," says
one, " were swallowed up by an earthquake, a mere frac-
tion of its value would be more than sufficient to rebuild
them all and replenish them witb all the needed furni-
ture."
The palace of the King of Oude, Kaiser Bagh, is said to
have cost four millions of dollars.
A glance at the salaries of European potentates and
the expense of royalty will appropriately supplement the
above statistics. The Emperor of Russia has a salary of
$8,250,000 ; the Sultan of Turkey, $6,000,000 ; Napoleon
III., $5,000,000; Emperor of Austria, $4,000,000; King
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of Prussia, $3,000,000 ; Victor Emmanuel, $2,400,000 ;
Victoria, $2,200,000 ; Isabella of Spain, $1,800,000; Leo-
pold of Belgium, $500,000. President Grant receives
$25,000.
The above gives the Emperor of Russia $2.5,000 a day ; the
Sultan of Turkey, $18,000 ; Napoleon, $14,000 ; Emperor
of Austria, $10,000 ; King of Prussia, $8,210 ; Victor Em-
manuel, $6,340 ; Queen Victoria, $0,270 ; Leopold, $1,043 ;
and President Grant, $G8.50.
And another list of not kvsq ^Mnount represents the
ap})ropriations granted for hout;' I .M i-xpenses.
In the above statement we have left ^ ^ the " pickings "
(to use an expression of great modern signiticance), which
in some of our great cities are esteemed of considerably
more account than lawful salaries by officeholders.
How Louis Napoleon has destroyed the power of France
is thus described by the Army and Nairy Journal :
" The truth is, France has been completely betrayed by
the empire. Compelled by his insecure tenure upon
power to pui;chase the support of the statesmen who
managed the civil, and the generals who managed the mi-
litary affairs of the nation, the Emperor has f^woured fraud
in every branch of the service. Receiving a larger civil
list than any other monarch in Europe, amountiiig to 37,-
000,000 francs in money, and the free possession of palaces,
parks and gardens, his entire income is put at 42,000,000
francs, or $8,000,000 in gold. But this was ftir from
enough. The crowds that swarm the streets of Paris,
forming a Republic out of a despotism, tell of the fraud by
which he has taken enormous sums from the army fund,
amounting, it is said, to a further total of 50,000,000
francs. The commutation money paid in by rich conscripts
has been taken, and the old soldiers who should be found
in the ranks as substitutes are not there. Pay is drawn
for regiments at their maximum strength, which lack
one-third of it. Forage, subsistence, munitions, all have
been paid for, but not bought. In spite of the enormous
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INCIENT EXTRAVAGANCE.
253
cost of the armament of the country, Gen. Trochu was
obliged to toll a crowd of new-made republicans that there
were no arms for them."
But this direct larceny was by no means all. The fraud
was carried still farther, and " fat contracts " have been
more common in France than in any othar country in the
world. The truth is, the personal government was con-
ducted by a set of bold but very needy adventurers ; and
if the misfortunes of the ringleader are of a kind to silence
the voice of accusation, the infinitely greater misfortunes
of the people he has misled are such as to rouse it again.
History 'las borne to us the report of many instances of
the most foolish extravagance among the old Romans. We
copy the following :
Cleopatra, at an entertainment given to Antony, swal-
lowed a ])earl (dissolved in vinegar) worth £80,000.
Claudius, the Comedian, swallowed one worth £8,000
One single dish cost Esopus £80,000, and Caligula spent
the same for one supper; while the more economical
Heliogabalus contented himself with a £20,000 supper.
The usual cost of a repast for Lentulus was $20,000. The
same is said to be true of LucuUus.
Missilla gave for the house of Antony £400,000. The
fish in Lentulus's pond sold for £36,000. Otho, to finish
a part of Nero's palace, spent £187,000. And to climax
the whole ^if it be not fabulous), Scaurus is said to have
paid for his country house and grounds $5,852,000.
When put by the side of some of these instances of
regal extravagance, Napoleon's display at his second mar-
riage (with Maria Louisa) seems quite modest. The ser-
vice of plate alone used at the banquet on that occasion
cost 2,000,000 francs.
But it shall not always be so. The silver and the gold
are the Lord's ; and he will be honoured with his own.
The time will come when these royal gifts and bounties
yet more bountifully " will flow together" to adorn the
ihro7ie of the Great King — to beautify the place of his
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THE FOOT rUl NTS OF HATAPf.
K
uy^H
Oinll h
uintr lljoir proqrnlfl nnio In
{<) (I
no.
'V\\o kin^s of 'rnvsliisli ni\"l tl\(» islos (Iln> HfHion** uf
iMirojio^ shnll Imimij |Mrs«»n<M ; <lu» kiii^s of SlioltM nml
Soh.'i s1i.m11 o\\'ov jLiills. VoM, nil kinjrs sluill TmII down l>o
foro hiiu ; all untions hIimII hovxo Inin." Wlirii (lod hIimII
ttppoar to lil'i np Zion, now IroddiMi down, " kingH nlwdl
conio to till* l>vi^htn(\Ms of \\ov rising. They slinll luin}/
gold ;\nd intMM\st»" shall lay tlioir ricluvs and liononi" and
gl(>ry at tluMoot of tbo<ir«'al King; and thus slinll ll»<»y
" show forth th*^ praisi^s o\' (In* liOfd." ,
II. Uistovv is not wanling in illnsirations of ihiMiti
natnval ar«Mnnnla(ions in llu' hamls (\f a few. and iluMi-
wastot'id and w ii'kiMl c^xira vaganciv and ol' (lu* cojiso-
t^KMit in\]>ovorishnuMit of tin* niany. England agaii\ fur-
nishes (*\ani|tl(s yA' this ]i(M\oii(Ml W(*aUh piMv otio.l, hc-
oaiiso lookod np in tho hands oi' a fiMV. and for th(» nn>at-
part s«]n;tndort*d in luwnv or sunk into fix* lioHomh^ss
pit o( dissipation, and «*onsO(pnMdly withheld from the
groat arena o( every day utility, -hoih in niinishMing to
the ei^nnnon wants and eondoris o\' tin* niass(*M for wdn>ni
they w «M'e providentially int(*nded, ami from iln* yofc
wilier arena (>f puhlie improv(*ment. and hntnan ]>rogi'(*ss.
An»l of all, and ahove all, ]H*rhaps the* giganlie land mo-
nopoly o( the Knglish arisvo«raey is tht* most disastrous.
Tho Mar(piis o( Hreadalhaiu* rides (>ut. «)f his house a.
luin<lred nules in a, straight line U) the sea, «»n his own
pro}>erty. The Puki* o( Snt1u*rland owns the (.Annity «>f
Sutherland, str(*tehing aeross Scotland tVom si*a to s(*a.
Tho Puke o( Devonshire, besides his other testates, owns
9(\00() aoros in the Oonnty of Derby. Tin* Duke of llieh-
mond has 40,(>(>() aoros ntGoodwood, and .S0(),()00 at (Jor-
don Oastlo. Tho Duke of Norf(>lk\s park, in tho Hoh.ri-
des, contains 50().()()0 aoros. Tho largo (hunains are grow-
ing larger. The groat estates are absorhijig tin* small
freeholds. In 178(>, the soil of England was owned by
2(H). 000 oorporations and proprietors, and in 18*22 by l\2,-
000.
These broad estates tind room on tliis narrow
WICKKI) I-ANI) MONul'ni.niH.
256
islnixl. All uvcr I^^iH^InfMl. MrnK.cnMJ mI, sl»«»ff, iiih^rvnls
ninof)^ hImP ynnis, niiiwH mimI Im^rq, nf»> Mm' |»!ini«liHf'M (»r
llin noltlos, wImmc Mio livn-lon^ icpoMP nii*! rrfiricrru'rit nro
1i(M;^1i<<mum| liy iIm' rniiliMHi. willi 1Ih» ronr of iiMJiistry ami
iHM'OHsit V nnl. n\' wliirli yon linvc mI«'|i|m'(|.
\V<> m|»|i«mhI In liir Mititvn lli(> f'!nif/i!</i rniiiirirrilnry
riitln'r Hum our own. Of IIi'ih IjumI iii(ino|ioly nn Mn^lisli
wiitfT MnyM :
" W(> HJioiiid 1h> hIio('I<(mI ill IIm» iimmi wIio would, irt,li<»y
rouM, RtMii np I1m» wmIcim in llicir or i^^irml roiiril.MiriH, t\i\i\
Holl lluMn Ity tiKMiMHic lo I'cllow lM«iri//s fnrriisiiificr with
tliirst.. VV«> slioiild ill no (|n!ilirMMl t,«»r?Fi.« (Icnouncf^ Uinso
who, iflliry liM(| IIm' powrr, vvonld l»(»tl )»• np tli(Mi.ir juhI
|(>t it out lor i\, ur'uM) to lollow niortnlM ^MMpirii^ for hnnitli.
W(» HJionld fiMM nil unuitriMldo dctrstntioii of any who
would, if they could, fViico out the miiii, nnd let in hero
Mild tli(M'(» M rny of the Rw«M»t lij/Jit to tliown wh(» ('oiild pay
for it. How, then, cnn wo justify nnd consent tlintoiir
hiwH should Jiulliorizc some men to c(»vcr with titio deeds,
nnd hold as their own, millions of acres which they can-
not occupy, and know not how to improve^ while mil-
lions of their fell(»vv hein^M who liave hands to work tlio
soil, and skill (,o direct their lahoiir, have rujt a, rod (A'
earth on which t(» r«Mir a dwellint^ place, mmdi less a field,
a vineyard, an orchard, or a ^iirden - as nvvAy Jew liad —
from wliich to gather food lor his family ?
" What an astoundintr fact it is, showing to wliat
lengths (■hristian men may ^o in this inifpiity of land mo-
iioj)()ly, that the soil of (Jreat J{ritain, occupi»;d hy 'H'),-
000,000 of ))eo|de, slioiild all Ix^ held hy a few thousanrls;
tliat imnicnse tracts are kept uno(3cupied, that they may
be occasionally visited l)y tlieir lordly ownfus for pur-
poses of idle and cruel sports, and that those portions of
land wliitdi tlu^ monopolists .allow to Ix; used for th'-; pur-
poses for wliieli Ciod nuuh^ the eartli should he leased and
re-leased at Huch lates that the men and women who till
them can, by tlieir utmoyt diiigenco and economy, raiso
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THE FOOT-PKINTS OP SATAN.
barely enough to pay first rents, and the tithes, and then
to keep themselves from starvation ! "
And who too often is the landlord ? Lord Courtenay,
son of the Earl of Devon, has an immense estate, yet he
is said to owe £1,200,000, or $6,000,000, and can pay
but ten shillings on the pound. During the past few years
he has been living at the rate of £100,000, or $500,000
a year. His tailor's bill in a single year amounted to
twelve thousand pounds.
But we may come nearer home, even to our own plain
republican people. A Philadelphia letter-writer says of
a party which was given by Mrs. Rush, a millionnaire of
that city, a few days ago :
" About two thousand invitations were issued, and the
entire cost of the entertainment, I am informed, was in
the vicinity of $20,000, the bare items of bouquets alone
costing $1,000, which were distributed in elegant pro-
fusion around her splendid mansion. It was nothing but
one incessant revelling in luxury from beginning to end.
At half-past four in the morning green tea, sweet bread,
and terrapins, as the closing feast preparatory to the de-
parture of the remaining guests, were served up." And
we more than suspect that Madame Rush is not the only
millionaire in this land of republican simplicity who goes
into those little twenty thousand dollar episodes.
The following little item shows how the money goes in
one of ouryoung and thriving towns of the West :
In one year Quincy, 111., spent $2,604,000 for groceries,
$3,682,000 for liquors and $1,008,000 for tobacco.
But how much faster would she grow, and how mucli
more healthful would be her thrift, if these vast resources,
now perverted only to weaken and demoralize and sadly
retard her real prosperity, were employed to further her
educational, physical or moral interests. But Quincy is
probably not at all singular in her perversion, and worse
than waste, of her resources.
Perhaps the Devil finds a fairer field for his monopo-
THE COST OF DEAR WOMAN.
257
nd then
artenay,
3, yet he
can pay
ew years
^500,000
unted to
wn phiin
ir says of
)nnaire of
1, and the
'd, was in
aets alone
jgant pvo-
)thing but
mg to end.
-eet bread,
to the de-
ap." And
,t the only
r who goes
es.
ley goes in
est :
groceries,
ico.
how much
resources,
and sadly
■urther her
Quincy is
and worse
lis monopo-
lies of wealth in the covering of the outer man than in
the feeding of the inner. Dress, dress, extravagance in
dress, is his darling device. We shall not pretend to ad-
duce exact statistics here ; but only present what some
people say on this delicate theme, and leave the gentle
reader to compare what we say with what s/ij may hap-
pen to know.
" There are in New York and Brooklyn not less than
five thousand ladies whose dress bill could not avera<re
less than two thousand dollars each, or ten millions fur
all.
" There are five thousand more whose dress expenses
will average one thousand each, or five millions of dol-
lars for the whole number, and five millions of dollars
more would not cover the dress expenses of those whose
hills average every year from two to five hundred dollars.
Thus, at a low estimate, the annual cost of dressino- our
fashionable ladies is twenty millions of dollars. Per-
haps we should not exceed the truth if we estimated the
annual cost of dressing and jewelling the ladies of New
York and its vicinity at from thirty to forty millions of
dollars.
" What wonder that poverty and suflfering are so rife
in that city ! Twenty millions of dollars, to say the
least, waste(/ in fi.aery and extravagance — worse than
wasted !"
Or see how another writer puts it. He says : " It is
estimated that there are 500,00v0 ladies in the United
States that spend $250 a year, on an average, for for-
eign dry-goods, equal to S125,00U,000 annually." So
much capital withdrawn from home industry and ex-
pended in foreign markets. No wonder exchancre is
so against us.
It is said there are not wanting individual ladies who
spend on dress alone from $2,000 to $10,000 a year.
" A fashionable dry-goods dealer advertises a lace scarf
worth fifteen hundred dollars. Another has a bridal dress
17
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258
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
;
for which he asks twelve hundred dollars. Bonnets at
two hundi'ed dollars are not unfrequently sold. Cash-
meres, from three hundred and upwards to two thousand
dollar^, are seen by dozens in a walk along Broadway. A
hundred dollars is quite a common price for a silk gown.
In a word, extravagance in dress has reached a height
which would have frightened our prudent grandmothers
and appalled their husbands. A fashionable lady spends
annually on her milliner, mantua-maker and lace-dealer
a sum that would have supported an entire household,
even in her own rank in life, in the days of Mrs. Wash-
ington."
Add to this, expenditures for opera tickets, for a sum-
mer trip to the Springs, and for a score of other inevit-
able et ceisras, and you get some idea of the compara-
tively wanton waste of money carried on year after year
by thousands, if not by tens of thousands, of American
women.
But is this wanton waste and wicked extravagance a
sin only of women ? A disgusting tale might be rehear-
sed on the other side. Wine, cigars, horse-racirg, and
many foolish and eome nnmencionable expenditures ab-
sorb their millions, which do but too nearly match with
the millions squandered by the other sex. Take the fol-
lowing, which recently appeared in a New York paper,
as perhaps not altogether a rare specimen of a Wall-street
sprig, who would s^'^m only to need a little more age, and
tact and experience, and the means of gratification, to
make him a full grown man in all the fooleries and sins
of a fashionable extravagance :
" Fast Young Men in New York, — To show your read-
ers that extravagance here is not such an exception as
those people probably will say who prefer to take a rose-
coloured view of things financial, I append a copy of a
stray piece of paper, aj)pai'ently forming a part of a me-
morandum-book, which was found on the street a few
days since by one of our New York journalists. The
thf
nets at
Cash-
lousand
way. A
^ gown.
, heigbt
mothers
y Spends
ce-dealer
)Usehold,
s. Wash-
»r a snin-
iv inevit-
com para-
after year
American
ivagance a
be rebear-
acir.g, and
i tares ab-
.atcb with
,ke the fol-
ork paper,
^all-street
ire age, and
tication, to
les and sins
r your read-
jLception as
^ake a rose-
copy of a
[rt of a me-
breet a few
Llibts. The
FAST YOUNG MAN'S BILL. 259
latter permitted me to copy it. It appeared to be the
page of a diary, en which a conscientious Wall-street
youth had put down his expenses for September 3rd.
Here they are :
Breakfast at Delmonico $6.00
Omnibus to Wall Street .10
Sundries to facilitate business affairs 3.00
Bet and lost a hat 10.00
To a poor man .05
Luncheon at Delmonico 2.00
Refreshments in the afternoon 2.00
Omnibus going up town .10
Dinner at the Hoffman House 9.C()
Carriage for self and Miss Z 10.00
Ice cream for Miss Z 1.00
Having brought Miss Z. home, went to
Pierce's and lost 22.00
Went to Morrissey to regain what I had
lost at Pierce's, and lost again 47.00
Left Morrissey and took another carriage 3.50
A man is not made of wood 25.00
Total expenses for September 3rd $140,75
" Now, I do not wish to he understood as saying that
all Wall Street people waste their monpy day after day
in the above style, but I do say that the memorandum
picked up by my journalistc friend gives a fair example
of the manner in which a large class of our influential
young men live nowadays. It is they who give what
is called tone to * society,' and it is only when they com-
mence to reduce their daily expenses that there is the
least glimmering of a ho[)e that our public expendi-
tures will be kept within bounds."
But does not the habit of profuse expenditure make
the same individuals liberal givers in every work of be-
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262
THE FCOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
* I ;'
friend of CiceTo, is said to have been worth $4,000,000.
Apicius spent in dissipation and debauchery (he was the
great glutton) £500,000, or $2,500,000 ; and finding, on
looking into his affairs, that he had only £800,000,
($4,000,000,) he puisoned himself, not regarding that sum
as sutHcient for his mainteuance.
^long with these we may rank the "Rothschilds. These
millionnaires are kings — reign with a pow^r mightier than
diplomacy, mightier than war — than common kingly
power. It is the power of gold. How rich the Roths-
childs are, nobody knows. They are the heirs of Dives
and Croesus. Their wealth is a great mysterious problem,
which no calculation can solve. The power which springs
from it is the grander and more imperial because of its
unknown and hitherto unmeasured extent. If I should
guess at the millions, I should probably fail far on this
side of the fact. The mystery of their wealth is, like the ob-
scurity which hangs around the every-day life of kings,
one of the sources of the awe with which the people re-
gard them. I do not think that i.ny save the Rothschilds
themselves know it.
In the announcement of the death of Mr. Crawshay,
the great iron-manufacturer in England, .1 ^s stated that
he left an estate of seven million pounds, or ^*3->,U0'\000.
Modern wealth has an acknowledged p'T:-enin .nee in
point of practical utility, and as a power for human pro-
gress, over the wealth of the ancients. They were rich
in gold and silver and precious stones, yet <"hey were not,
in the modern sense of the term, a commercial people.
Their immense wealth in the precious metals consisted,
not as at present in a large circulating medium, but in
orrmments and drinking vessels, temple furniture and
utensils, in '^bieKis and targets of gold, and the like. It
did compaiativ?lv Uttle to promote the commerce of that
period, and as l;tvle to advance the general interests of
society. Thfj ar^cicrt Persians abounded in the precious
metals ani ciir\3val=. beycni anything we can at the pres-
'I
m
0,000.
s the
ig, on
0,000,
b sum
These
r than
dngly
iloths-
Dives
^blem,
prings
of its
should
n this
^he ob-
kingH,
pie re-
schi Ids
wshaj,
that
000.
nee in
n pro-
rich
^e not,
leople.
sisted,
but in
and
It
f that
sts of
ecious
> pres-
e
Ke.
WEALTH OF THE ANCIENTS.
2G3
ent day well conceive. We read of the " Immortals " of
Darius, a choice troop of 10,000 men, who appeared at the
battle of Issus clad in robes of gold embroidery, adorned
with precious stones, and wore about their necks m.^^ssy
collars of pure gold. The chariot of Darius was supported
by statues of gold, and the beams, axle, and wheels were
studded with precious stones. Hannibal measured by the
bushel the ear-rings taken from the Romans slain at the
battle of Cannae.
One is astonished at the immense amount of gold and
silver and precious stones which were found by the early
conquerors of India, Egypt and South America — not so
much as a circulating medium or a representative of trade
as in the hoarded treasures of temples, sacred utensils,
and ornamental trai)ping3. The riches of the ancients,
.'ike their learning and science, was of little practical utiU
i''>y. It had little to do with commerce or public improve-
ment. It was scarcely known then as a lever of human
progress, or as an angel of mercy to alleviate human
suffering by a well-directed philanthropy.
Doubtless there was never a time when the power of
money was made to contribute so essentially to the bless-
ing and elevating our race as at the present time. It is
not because we yet have more of the precious metals in
use than the ancients had, but because we make a better
It '6 of them. California and Australia, and all other El
Dorados, may pour their precious treasures into our land
for years to come before we shall be " replenished " as was
the land of Judah in the days of David and Solomon.
We have spoken of the wrong done to others — the pri-
vations and hardships suffered by the masses, from th^
overgrown estates of the few ; a surplus in the one cast,
a rioting in luxury and dissipation among a few, with a
consequent privation and destitution, undue labour and a
life-struggle for a common livelihood among the many.
Yet we would not overlook what too often proves the yet
more deleterious influence of inflated wealth on the own-
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264
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
i \
ers themselves. Wo speak not now of the pride, and
overweening and tyrannical spirit too often engendered
by wealth, nor simply of the extravagance and pleasure-
loving proclivities thereby cherished, but of the sadly de-
moralizing influence of wealth upon the worldly mind —
especially that of sudden wealth. Cases like the follow-
ing are not rare.
In 1864, one of the principal oil farms in Western
Pennsylvania, the daily income of which was $2,000, was
bequeathed to a young man of twenty. He was bewil-
dered by his good fortune, and at once entered on a career
of mad debauchery, in which he squandered two millions
of dollars in. twenty months. He is now a door-keeper at
a place of amusement, and the farm has been sold for
taxes due the Government. The young Duke of Hamil-
ton, the ro])resentative of the Stuarts, and of the first
family in Scotland, some years ago succeeded to an estate
the annual income cf which was $350,000. By mLa,ns of
horse-racing and attendant forms of dissip.^^ion, every
one of his lands, his palaces, and town residences, was
soon in the hands of Jew money-lenders, and he a pen-
sio/ier of his creditors. Fools and their money are soon
parted.
The temptations of richep* and the facilities they afford
for hurtful and forbidden gratifications, make the posses-
sion of them doubly dangerous, and impose responsibili-
ties and administer cautions of the most serious character.
He that spake as never man spake, gave no needless
alaiTxi when he said, "How hardly shall they that have
riches (that trust in riches) enter into the kingdom of
God. For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's
eye than for the rich man to enter into the kingdom of
God."
III. We have already in another connection adduced
examples of the enormous waste of wealth in the matter of
false religions. We shall add a few more, and then pre-
sent a few statistics showing that the true Churcn is but
too deeply involved in the same sin.
B, and
idered
jasure-
ily de-
lind —
follow-
^c stern
0, was
bewil-
, career
lillions
eper at
old for
Haniil-
le first
1 estate
Ld,ns of
every
j.s, was
a pen-
e soon
afford
Iposses-
sibili-
.racter.
leedless
It have
.om of
eedle's
.om of
llduced
itter of
in pre-
is but
COST OF HEATHEN TEMPLES.
205
It is known to have been the custom of the ancients to
make their temples the repositories of vast r'ches, as well
as to spend fabulous sums in the edifices and the apjmr-
tenances thereof The temple of Belus in Babylon was
an accumulation of two thousjuid years. Xerxes, on his
return from his Grecian expedition, having first plundered
this temple of its immense riches, demolished it entirely.
He took awav gold, it is said, to the value of £21,()()0,()0(),
or $100,000,000. The image which Nebuchadnezzar set
up was of gold, sixty-six feet high. Another image is de-
scribed — it may be the original one of the temple — forty
feet in height, of pure gold, which contained rich(\s to the
amount of a thousand Babylonian talents, or £8,500,000.
And various lesser images contained in the aggregate
5,000 talents, or £17,000,000. Xerxes carried off a golden
statue of a god twelve cubits in height. Besides these,
vast sums w^ere invested in furniture, utensild, ^.-t-
ments, statues, tables, censors, sacred vessels, and akurs
for sacrifice, all of the purest gold, said to be valued at
$100,000,000.
This famous temple, having the external appearance of
consisting of eight towers built one above the other,
stood on a base which was a square of a furlong on each
side, and its topmost tower is said to have been a furlong
in height, giving the whole the appearance of being one
huge pyramid, more magnificent than the pyi'amids of
Egypt. " We have good reason to believe," says RoUin,
" as Bochart asserts, that this is the very same tower which
was built there at the confusion of the lano;uao:es."
Such a supposition (if it be no more) would seem to give
additional appropriateness to our general title. This most
stupendous of all idol temples n)ay be taken as the first
great, bold challenge of the god of this world in the fierce
conflict now fairly inaugurated for the dominion of the
earth.
The Temple of Juggernaut at Puri, in the district of
Orissa, India, built in the 12th century, is said to have
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coat $2,000,000. The principal tower rises to the height
of 184 feet. The wall wliich surrounds the temple is
twenty-one feet high, forming an enclosure 550 feet
square. And if we add to this first ifem in the account
the uncounted treasures invested in the paraphernalia of
the temple, in the expense of worshi}), in the rich offerings
which are continually made, in pilgrimages thither, and
in the annual festivals and immense processions, we have
an amount exceeding the entire aggregate ex[)ended for
Christian mi. ions in India the lastfilty years.
Yet this is but an item when compared with the expen-
ditures of the Papal Church. St. Peter's church at Rome
is said to have cost, first and last, $200,000,000. But
this is no more than the beginning of Rome's expendi-
tures. The investment in the brick and mortar of that
magnificent edifice is but a small part of the wealth of
El. Peter's. The silver and gold, the sacred vessels and
costly vestments, diamonds, precious stones — in all un-
told treasures — are abstracted from the common utilities
of life and from the great works of philanthropy and be-
nevolence with which the Church of Christ stands charged,
and made but to pamper the pride, the ambition and ex-
travagance of the Pi pal hierarchy.
A late traveller, speaking of the churches of Rome and
the immense amounts of treasure invested in these struc-
tures, says, " The aggregate would pay the national debt of
the United States," which is more than two thousand
million dollars. What superstition and devotion to a
spurious Church has done may yet be done by a holy de-
votion to the true Church. When she shall receive the
full Pentecostal baptism spoken of by the Prophet Joel,
and the " power " of the Holy Ghost shall come upon her,
the channels of her benevolence shall overtiow, no re-
sources shall be wanting for any good work, even to the
moral renovation of our entire world.
To say nothing of the Vatican, or of Pontifical palaces,
or the palatial residences of cardinals, or of the untold
single
reminc
Withii
distan
halls.
of one
of the
is form
of the s
I eight
pie is
feet
count
.lia of
erinsfs
r, and
8 have
ed for
expen-
, Rome
But
cpendi-
()f that
;alth of
jels and
all un-
utilities
land be-
harged,
and ex-
imc and
le «truc-
debt of
tiousand
on to a
holy de-
eive the
het Joel,
pon her,
no re-
n to the
palaces,
untold
MONEY AND PAPAL ROMK.
2G7
suma lavished in regal profusion on the heads of the hier-
archy, it will be sufliciontiy suggestive if we may catch
a glimj)se of a certain procession l)nt too frecpiently wit-
nessed by gazers in the Papal capital. It is a procession
of the Pope and his cardinjils, the successors of the poor
fisliermen and of Him who had not where to lay his heatl,
as on some great State or rather Church occasion they
sliow themselves to the people. The sight is suggestive
as to how the money goes in the Holy City — how poor
Peter's pence fire expended. An eye-witness R[)eaks of
the princely carriages of the Pope's cortege, lined with
scarlet of the richest texture. The trappings of the hoises,
the liveries of the coachmen and footmen, the uniform of
the Papal guard, as also the garniture of his throne and
tlie stool for his feet, are of the same glaring hue and costly
materials. " Each cardinal has three footmen, one to help
him out of the carriage, another to support his scarlet
robe, and a tlurd to carry his scarlet parasol."
Paganism furnishes a parallel to this. Indeed, the more
false a religion, the more lavish the waste of wealth upon
it. This is one of the favourite devices of the Devil.
India affords examples. Dr. Duff's description of the
temple of Seringapore will serve our purpose as one of
many :
"It is a mile square, and in the centre of each side is a
tower ot gigantic height, the lowest pillars of which are
single pieces of stone, forty feet long and five feet square,
reminding the spectator of the stones of Solomon's temple.
Within the outer square are six others, three hundred feet
distant from each other, and between them are numerous
halls. The roof is supported by one thousand pillars, each
of one solid block of stone, very finely carved with figures
of the gods and other devices. Siva, the god of the place,
is formed entirely of gold in solid pieces, the entire height
of the statue being fifteen feet. The platform also on which
the god rests is of gold. All his ornanjents are in propor-
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jeweller's shop in London could exhibit anything like it.
The whole gives an idea of the immense power of Brah-
minism in former days, grinding down the people and
turning all their wealth towards themselves."
How humiliating the comparison of all this with the
stinted measure of expenditure for the support and diffu-
sion of the true religion. The one is by tens, hundreds,
or thousands, the other by millions and hundreds of mil-
lions. It was not exactly a vain boast of the tempter that
the world with its power, wealth and glory was his. His
claims have as yet been almost universally conceded.
And we would that we did not feel constrained here to
pass a stricture on a certain class of good and highly re-
spectable Protestant churches of the present day. We
hear of church edifices costing one, two, or three hundred
thousand dollars(or more), and the current annual expenses
of the same churches, five, ten, or twenty thousand; while
they would think themselves pressed beyond endurance if
called on to give a tithe of this sum for the furtherance of
benevolent and philanthropic purposes. It is said that the
annual aggregate expenses of three churches in New York
are seventy thousand dollars.
We do not object to a generous expenditure ; but only
ask why, in a locality where a church edifice costing forty
or fifty thousand dollars is suited to the locality and would
afford all needed accommodations, it should be allowed to
absorb $100,000, leaving the church with a burdensome
debt, perhaps, and affording a never-failing excuse for a
most stinted benevolence, and this at a period when the
Master is opening the whole world for its renovation, and,
as never before, is calling on his people for the most
generous and enlarged benevolence.
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PERVERSION OF THE PRESS.
THE PERIODICAL PRESS — RELIGIOUS PRESS — PRESS CATER-
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FIDELITY — ROMANCE — FICTION — HISTORY — THE TONGUE
— MUSIC AND SONG — THE CHURCH AND THE OPERA.
A SUBJECT kindred to the last is the press. The dis-
covery of the art of printing is confessedly a very marked
era in the annals of human progress. It revealed a new
and hitherto un conceived power in furtherance of all the
higher and best interests of man. And the time of this
discovery claims some special notice. It was just as the
energies of the truth and the Church, of civilization and
reform, were rousing themselves from their long sleep of a
thousand years. Christianity was now as a bridegroom
coming out of his chamber and rejoicing as a strong man
to run a race.
Here commenced a new era in the history of the Chris-
tian Church. The night was far spent, the day was at
hand. Henceforth she should be nerved with new strength
and clad in new armour, and should put forth a new life
and go forth to new victories. And among the elements
of power and progress now vouchsafed to her, the pi'ess
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power for the renovation of the world and its final subju-
gation to Emanuel. The press is a boon to Christian-
ity. It has hitherto been confined almost exclusively
to Christian nations. Pagan nations have, up to this
day, scarcely used the press at all, and Mahoramedan
nations but very partially. And its use PMong Chris-
tian nations has been, it is believed, very much in the
ratio of the purity of the Christianity current among
them.
We may therefore, we think, safely assume that the
art of printing and the press was a loan to Christianity —
or rather to the Reformed Church — to stimulate intellect,
to diffuse knowledge, and to perpetuate the triumphs of
religion. As subordinate to these ends, the press is in
no inferior degree the servant of science, the powerful
agent of civilization, and the auxiliary of every huitan
pursuit.
Were it my province at present to speak of the power
of the press, I should be in no danger of overrating its
importance. Its relations to education, to science, to the
whole subject of human improvement, to the cause of
benevolence and the final conversion of the world, are
important above all we are in a position at present to
conceive. We are so accustomed to contemplate human
affairs in connection with the press and its wonderful
realizations that we can form no adequate conception
how many degrees the dial of human improvement would
be turned back without it. But for this the history of
the arts and sciences of the present day might be lost in
the mists of coming ages, as those of past ages only live
in a few imperfect relics and tiaditions. Our conHdence
that the tide of barbarism shall never again run over
these fair fields of science, of art and of religion, is because
all these modern advancements stand chronicled in the
enduring page of history. Every science, every art, every
invention, discovery or improvement that blesses our age
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inpf generation will read, digest and improve on the past,
and in their turn leave their record to those who shall
follow. They can never again be buried beneath the
rubbish of time.
But for the printing press the forty millions of copies of
the Word of God which lie as good seed scattered broad-
cast over the world, and are accessible to half the popula-
tion of the globe, translated as it is into KiO different
languages, would be reduced to some few hundreds of
copies, and these imprisoned in the libraries of the learned
and opulent, and generally inaccessible because locked up
in an unknown tongue. The tedious and expensive pro-
cess of transcribing the Bible with a pen would scarcely
allow a more favourable sup])Osition. And what would
be found to be so disastrously true in respect to the
multiplication and diffusion of the Bible, would not be
less true in respect to education, to commerce, and to the
whole business and progress of the world. Annihilate the
mighty enginery of the press, and you would seem to
bring to a most painful stand-still a great part of the
machinery which now keeps in motion the wheels of the
world's business and advancement.
But my business is not with the power of the press,
though it is invested with one of the mightiest elements
of power which works in human affairs. We are at
present concerned with the perversion of this power, and
may arrange what we would say on this topic under the
following heads, viz. : the perversion of the periodical
press-^of the religious press — the prostitution of the
press to the service of fraud, of corruption, of hurtful
amusements, of licentiousness, of infidelity and all sorts
of religious error. The Devil never subsidized in his
service a mightier engine of mischief, than when he laid
his sacrilegious hands on the press. A popular, well-
written book is a power for good or for evil beyond any
possible calculation. Thousands and scores of thousands
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of the truth, and of a sound morality, it may endure
to all coming generations, a healing medicine to the
soul — the aliment of growth and of mental and spiritual
vigour. On the contrary, if it be the vehicle of error,
of immorality and vice, it is a poison thrown broadcast
over the living masses of men, and eternity alone can
com])ute the number of its victims, or the amount of its
mischief
We shall not attempt to present full statistics, but
only to indicate the deplorableextent to which the press is
perverted and made to subserve the purposes of our arch
Foe.
I. We may call attention to the periodical press. We
are in no danger of over-estimating the influence of the
newspaper and periodical. As some one has said :
" The newspaper is the great educator of the nineteenth
century. There is no force to be compared with it ; it is
book, pulpit, platform, and forum, all in one ; and there
is not an interest — religious, literary, commercial, scicn-
titic, agricultural, or mechanical — that is not within its
grasp. All our churches, schools, colleges, asylums, and
art-galleries feel the quaking of the printing-press."
The preached gospel is justly conceded to be one of the
mightiest agencies for moral reform and human progress,
to say nothing of its higher mission. Yet this agency is
confined within narrow limits when compared with the
influence of the periodical press. Once or twice in seven
days the pulpit speaks to a few thousand congregations
of a few hundreds each, while the newspaper is the morn-
ing visitant of the millions, seven days in the week and
three hundred and sixty-five days in the year. In the
parlour and the kitchen, in field and in workshop it is the
daily, the hourly preacher. It whispers its truth or its
error, imparts food or infuses poison by the wayside — in
the railway car, in the street and in the counting-room.
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of the press. "The newspaper is omnipotent the land
over." " Why, next to the Bible, the newspaper — ^wift-
winged and everywhere present, flying over the fence,
shoved under the door, tossed into the counting-house,
laid on the work-bench, and hawked through the cars.
All read it — white and black — German, Irish, Swiss,
Spaniard, French, and American — old and young, good
and bad, sick and well — before breakfast, after tea, Mon-
day morning and Saturday night, Sunday and week-day."
And what may we not expect of the press when it shall
put on its great strength — when it shall be sanctifie d —
consecrated to the truth, liberty and righteousness — when
it shall come forth from the dark chambers of sin and
corruption, and go forth as the herald of light and know-
ledge among all nations ? Aided by the vastly increased
facilities for travel and by the telegraph (which is the
press winged with lightning), extended into every nook
and corner of the earth, the press shall become the great
preacher — the angel flying through the midst of heaven,
having the everlasting gospel to preach. Not the book,
not the teacher, not the preacher shall, from day to day,
bring their daily supplies to tribes and tongues and peoples
that shall daily crave the bread of life, but the daily paper
— the ten thousand times ten thousand streams of sancti-
fied knowledge — the rills and the rivers of the living
waters, shall daily, and hourly, and with the speed of
lightning, course over the broad expanse of the earth, and
fertilize all its arid wastes.
We do not mean the press shall supplant or in the
slightest degree impair the power of the gospel ministry,
but rather give it increased vigour, honour and beauty. In
its high and holy sphere, the sacred office shall be yet more
influential and honoured.
But alas, for the perversiop of the press ! Its sad pros-
tration before the Dagon of this world ! The almighty
newspaper — the daily, the weekly, and the monthly peri-
odical — how few of these now give utterance to the
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swoot luossMgCH of trutli and ri^liteou.sness 1 How many
are tlio merost |mvk-horsi's of sin and slianie, vvhilo tlio
great nir.ss are neutral for good aii<l only [)otent for error
or frivolity.
\Vc sliail not pretend to define the proportions hy sta-
tistiCvS. Tlie eonunon observation of ai^y one will sullice.
What proportion of all the newspapers and periodieals
within your knowledge are vchieles of truth, and safe
guides in the great realities of morality and religion 'i
Tl\e great majority are either " unite speetators of the
conlliet with Satan, or array themselves under Ids haniuir
by their aetual o[)position to gospel truth and its develop-
yu>nt."
Of 2*20 newspapers published in New York, only 4(1 (or
one-lifth) profess to be ehannels of religious inlluence,
while of the remaining 174, lifteen ileseerate tlie SabDath
by making their apjiearance on that day, twelve are
avowedly tlie organs of Ciernmn inlidelity and rationalism,
and eight bend their energies to the task of sustaining
and ])ropagating Popery ; leaving 131) newspa[)ers whieli
may be elapsed as secular.
In addition there are issued from the j)ress in our midst
118 distinct ])eriodicals and magazines, of which 20 only
are edited with a view to the dissemination of religious
intelligence and instruction.
But the open avowed infidelity of some of these publi-
cations — their open opposition to the Sabbath, the Bible,
the Church and the gospel ministry, and to a })ure reli-
gion, is not the worst of the evil. Their virus lies deeper,
more latent, more subtle, poisonous and pernicious.
They have not less of the world and the flesh than the
intidel publications of a former age, but more of the Devil
— more of concealed scepticism, more baptized intidelity,
more rottenness of hejirt beneath a fair exterior. Under
the profession of a more liberal Christianity, a " Chris-
tianity for the times," there lurks a poison more danger-
ous because more subtle than ever cursed the world in
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t,lH» (Imvh of IViiio or Voltaire. Imlocd, tlio Devil lia,s,
ihroi".jb tlioso ten tljou.sniul daily avonueH of iiHhiciice,
turned retonner, teacOier, preaeher — anytliiu^ that may
the most eHeetually .suhserve the jmr|)oH(»H of his craft.
As says another when wilting on the same theme, " f
liave purpost^ly nvoided partieidari/in^' individual (;,\miii-
ples of reekle.ssness and immorality in tin? mnna^emiMit of
that migldy en;^dn(5 which makes the pen more powerfid
than the sword ; and, if practicable, it W(»uld Ik^ appropri-
ate to follow out this train of thought, a.nd ordar;^e upon
tlu; intiuence of the nu^tropolitan [)ress, and its almost
controlling power over nnnds and consciences. — I'lut alas !
that this inthuMH'o is so largely perverted and made oidy
a power for evil."
Our periodical press is hy no means guiltless a,s it re-
s])ectH inunoral teachings and influences. Few of our jour-
nals and periodicals are decidedly on the side of religion,
or even of sound morality.
" If any one doubt that the powers of darkness, tho
agents of the adversary of souls, have broken loose upon
the world, and are working with ])rodigious energy at tho
present day, he neetl but glaiuui at some of *^he issues of
the periodical press and see in what adroit, seductive
forms the Enemy is presenting temptation to youthful
minds. The agents of evil here display a degree of wis-
dom in aiming at the young which the friends of truth
may wisely emulate. The snares are laid everywhere to
catch the feet of the unwary. The great city, so filled
with wickedness, is full of traps and pitlalls into which
young men are falling every day to their ruin." And
among the chief of these pitfalls is a corru])t literature.
II. The perversion of the religious 2>r ess. We use the
term not to designate the true i-eligion, but what in com-
mon parlance is called religion. The press is confessedly
a mighty agency in the diffusion and defence of our blessed
religion. It gives light and power to the Church. It
gives expansion to revelation. How restricted was the
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be confined but for the press ! The preacher of the gos-
pel proclaims the word, he stereotypes his utterances,
whether they be the words of his lips or the more ma-
tured thoughts of his study — writes them as with a pen
of iron and the point of a diamond, indelible as if inscribed
on the enduring rock. The press gives wings to revela-
tion which shall never cease till the end of the earth shall
hear thereof
But we need here only adduce the judgment of our
enemies as to the power of the religious press. Nothing
do the enemies of Christianity so fear as the influence of
the press. No pains have been spared to resist it. If
they cannot suppress it, they pervert it — turn its moni-
tions against the truth. Never has that wisdom which is
from beneath been more craftily engaged than in its resis-
tance to the religious press where resistance was practic-
able, or monopoly and perversion where opposition was
vain.
Among Pagan nations, where the reign of the Wicked
One bore unquestioned sway, the press had neither place
nor power. And the same is essentially true among
Mohammedan nations. Not till Christianity introduced
the Christian press among the nations before unevangel-
ized, as an aggressive power against their sins and errors,
did their master introduce the infidel press as a defensive
power. The press, like coal and the English language, is
Protestant and Christian. It is only by extortion, perver-
sion and abuse that it is ever used in the defence of error,
infidelity or sin, or in any way to the disadvantage of the
truth and a pure Christianity.
Yet it has been made a most formidable antagonist of
all Christian truth. The father of lies would seem to have
exhausted all his wisdom and skill, his depravity and
power, in getting up false philosophies of religion, false
theologies, religious fictions — anything and everything
that should seem to " know God," ,yet " glorify Him not
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as God " — anything and everything that should parry the
arrows of the trutli and satisfy the mind with error. The
religious press is teeming with books just enough charged
with evangelical truth to beguile the unwary mind, and
allay his fears while he is drinking the very dregs of infi-
delity, disguised and attenuated, yet just enough savoured
with a deadly yet covert scepticism to neutralize all the
truth. Here we might instance all such works as " Kenan's
Lifeof Jesus," "Ecce Homo," and most of our modem books
of fiction. And most of these books are religious. Tak-
ing the garb of religion, they stealthily stab religion to
the heart.
And when we consider that books of this character,
together with the productions of the iiTeligious periodical
press, constitute far the greater portion of the reading of
our people, we may form some idea of the controlling
power in this line of influence which the Devil has over
the mind of such a people.
And if it be so in nations where Christianity has had
the growth and maturity of centuries, much more may
we expect to find it so among heathen and unevangelized,
where it is but recently introduced. The press is no
sooner made an element of influence on the one side to
defend and diffuse the truth, than it is brought in as a
great antagonistic power to refute if it can, but if not, to
pervert the truth and clothe error in its garb. As an ex-
ample we may instance what has recently been reported
from Syria, especially from Beyrout. Thero the Devil more
than keeps pace with the missionary in the use of the
press. In Beyrout there are seven presses that " are print-
ing books of injurious tendency." One only (the mission-
ary press) is sending out the healing waters into the thirsty
ground — seven to one.
It has recently been announced with great satisfaction
and gratitude, as a promising sign of the times, that the
Bible has been translated into Arabic. The hundred mil-
lions of that singular race, scattered as they are over all
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Africa, may now read the wonderful things of God.
But no sooner does light arise upon those benighted
regions, than the prince of darkness in like manner, by
his enchantments, seeks to smother the light by a yet
thicker darkness. No sooner is it announced that the
Bible has become an open book for the sons of Ishmael,
and that the press shall give it wings, than the Devil
finds translations to transfer into Arabic, and the infidel
press to multiply and infidel clubs to propagate the writ-
ings of Voltaire, Eugene Sue and such productions.
But at this very point there comes to us a delightful
instance of how the Devil sometimes gets foiled in his
devices. At the very time in Beyrout when a great fi^ood
of infidel publications was pouring into that point, and
threatening to arrest in its very incipiency the work of
the gospel, a Scottish missionary relates the following
fact :
" Among those who had been led favourably to regard
the claims of Christianity was a young lady, the daughter
and heiress of a Jewish family, who manifested a disposi-
tion to give her heart to Christ. And there came one
to her father, saying, * You need not distress yourself
about her conversion ; I have a book that will quench
any desire she may have towards Christianity.' The
book was R«nan's * Life of Jesus.' It was placed in her
hands. She was a young lady of about nineteen, well
educated, gifted by nature with a keen mind, sharpened
by judicious discipline. She read it, and so deeply was
she interested that she read it a second time ; and then
she came to this missionary, and said, * Kenan's Tnaii
never lived. Kenan's concessions to Jesus, as to what he
was, prove that he was and must have been divine.'
Kenan's book settled the question in her mind, and she
Ctime forward to receive Christian baptism."
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in riiina, and on the islands of the sea, wherever tlie gos-
pel has taken root and the press is used for its diffusion and
defence, the infidel press is sure to be used to counteract
its influence. The policy is to shut out the y)ress from the
heathen as long as possible. And all heathen countries
are but too sad illustrations how effectually this has been
done. But when in the course of events — in the advance-
ment of civilization, in the progress of light and know-
ledge, in the increased facilities for communication with
civilized and Christian nations, and yet more especially
in the spread over the world of a pure Christianity, the
press could no longer be shut out, the policy becomes to
so pervert it as to make it an engine of corruption and
mischief.
And in this work of "rule or ruin" — prohibiting the
press, or perverting and subsidizing it to their own use,
the benefit of their own craft, the Papists perhaps pre-
sent the most notable example. The press is as really
prohibited to the people of Papal countries as it is to
those of Pagan lands. It is in either case effectually mo-
nopolized by the few, and that chiefly by the priesthood.
Wherever contact with Protestantism, or the progress of
civil and religious liberty, has forced on Papists the free-
dom of the press, they have not left a stone unturned so
to prostitute it as to neutralize its influence for good, and
to make it the abettor and support of error and infidelity,
or at least the channel of a corrupting and hurtful litera-
ture. And thus the press, which was designed to be, and
which is fitted to be, one of the greatest blessings to a
people, is made one of the greatest curses.
Had we room for statistics here we might exhibit an
appalling catalogue of the issues of the Papal press,
which are fitted and designed to propagate anything but
the pure and unperverted truth of the New Testament.
There is indeed in circulation an incredible amount of
literature tinctured with a spirit of hostility to revealed
religion, and calculated to sow the seeds '^f doubt and
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error in the mindH of those who, like the old Athenians,
" employ themselves in nothing else hut either in telling
or in hearing some new thing." German Rationalism
and Pantheism, with all the brtod of idle speeulations
hatched out in foreign lands ; Popery, in many respects
worse than infidelity, aiming at empire with character-
istic ambition — perhaps hoping to ])repare, even here, a
home for the Sovereign Pontiff — each has its literature
and its press, energetic and influential in their respective
spheres and languages, wanting only the ability to sub-
vert republicanism and overthrow evangelical religion.
And as with the press, so with education. In Pagan
or purely Papal countries, " ignorance is the mother of
devotion." In our Republican Protestant country, where
education is popular and cannot be suppressed, the Papists
affect a laudable zeal for it. They seize on the most eligi-
ble localities for their immense educational establishments,
spare no expense in their erection, and leave nothing un-
done that shall draw into their fjiscinating toils the un-
wary youth of Protestant ftunilies.
And here we might rehearse a sad tale of the press as
prostituted to fraud and corruption and subsidized in the
service of par-ty rancours and party politics, and as made to
cater to the worst passions and habits of man. It is the
ever-ready agency by which the gambler, the pimp, the
rum-seller, advertise their nefarious trades and allure their
willing victims. Perhaps in nothing does the prince of
darkness more diabolically exult in his wiles and in the
works of his hands than in the use he makes of the press
in the putrid domains of licentiousness.
Licentious literature, which, under cunning disguises,
or with fearless eflfrontery, circulates among us, defying
all decency, sapping the morals of all classes, is doing
Satan's work with most mischievous energy. But here
it is difficult to gather very definite details. That ob-
scene books and prints are published, imported, and sold
in our cities arid through the country, is a fact which we
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all are familiar with. Whatever their Hource or theii
nuinher, it is easy to estimate their evil potemy, and,
were the truth told, we fihouid learn, I doubt not, that to
the inHuenee of this inHamin»^ agency it is due that so
many y<nmg men and women fall away into evil couraes
and make shii)wreek of character and hope.
The statistics of this great source of sin and suff(3ring,
could they be collected, wouhl be of most solemn interest;
but to him who would attempt the collection I can only
reecho the warning voice of a distinguishett clergyman of
this city, who, when consulted upon this subject, said to
me, " Sir, you had better handle the castaway rags of a
small-pox hospital, than meddle with matters connected
with the class of writings to which vou refer."
Bishop Bay ley, in a late charge, gave a very timely
warning on this important theme. He well says :
" If we are bound by every j)rinciple of our religion to
avoid bad company, we are equally bound to avoid bad
books — for of all evil, corrupting company, the worst is a
bad book. There can be no doubt that the most perni-
cious influences at work in the world at this moment,
come from bad books and bad newspapers. The yellow-
covered literature, as it is called, is a pestilence com-
pared with which the yellow fever and cholera and small-
pox are as nothing, and yet there is no quarantine against
it. Never take a book into your hands which you would
not be seen reading. Avoid not only all notoriously im-
moral books and papers; but avoid also all those miserable
sensational magazines and novels and illustrated papers
which are so profusely scattered around on every side.
The demand which exists for such garbage speaks badly
for the moral sense and intellectual training of those who
read them. If you wish to keep your mind pure and your
soul in the grace of God, you must make it a firm and
steady principle of conduct never to touch them."
Startling disclosures have been recently made in New
York. A gentleman of the city became apprised of the
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fju't MiJit HystiM witio afifoncioH were iit work for the eircMi-
latioii of lascivious books and pictures aiiiotijT the youtii
of l)ot]i sexes in juiblio and private schools. Pursuing his
in([uiries lie found that the business was hir^e, many men
and women engaged in it, and tliat by emphiying agents
to show tlie publications to children and youtli a demand
for them was created, the secret sup|)ly was kiipt up, and
the work of corruption carried on to the jH'olit of the
trader and the ruin of the young. He resorted to the
hiw. The sale* of such books is punishable by a tine of
5?1,()()() and State prison for one year. Thousands of books
and pictures were captured and the guilty parties arrested.
" A large portion of these are such as cannot be described
in a public paper. The detads are wholly untit for pub-
lication or exhibition. But the fact is ap[)alling. We
venture to say that no decent ])erson has had the slightest
suspicion of the nature and magnitude of the evil now re-
vealed. Familiar as we supposed we were with the wiles
of the Devil, we had no idea of it." And, by means of cir-
culars and agents, the poison is diflused in the country,
until thei'e is not a nook or corner of the land which is
not permeated with the virus of this |)lague.
But perhaps the yet more dangerous prostitutit)nof the
press is met in those sly, insidious, characteristically Sa-
tanic productions, which under the guise of liberalism sap
the foundations of evamxelical reliijion. " As the secret
tissassin is more to be dreaded than the enemy who openly
attacks, so the specious, plausible, sugar-coated infidelity
of much of our current literature is really doing more
harm than the o])en attacks of such joui'uals as the
" Liberal Christian," which is at least to be respected for
its manty vigour and the clearness with which it shows
its colours. Let us have pronounced opposition rather
than pretended friendliness, masking we scarcely know
what."*
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lication of ro»nance and ficrtion, and oHjooks wliicli, if they
do not corrupt the heart, do little hut to dwarf the mind
and give perverted and false views of life — of its duties
and res))onHihilitieH, transcends any means at our com-
mand to ascertain. Works of truth, of fact, of practicjd
utility, of moral or religious instruction, are doubtl(;ss far
in the minority of the issues of the press. Could we know
the gross amount of reading matter which fr^m week to
week and month to month Hr>ds its way into our families,
we should he amazed at the very small ])roportion which
contributes to improve either the mind or the heftrt, and
at the very large proportion which is decidedly hurtful.
In nothing perhaps is the taste of our people so lamentably
demoralized as in respect to our reading matter. The
great charm with those esteemed the better classes of
society is for iiction and romance, which can do little but
amuse. They convey false ideas of real life. The strong
proclivities of other classes are for books and publications
which are positively demoralizing.
But we shall not essay to canvass this boundless field,
or to gather up the noxious growths of its fertile soil.
With a most pestiferous luxuriance the tares have sprung
up with the wheat, seeming to overshadow it and to root
out the precious grain. We need only say again, " An
enemy hath done this."
IV. We turn to history — how the Devil has used wie
press to pervert and falsify history. And here we shall
do little more than refer to the well-known if not con-
ceded fact, that the Devil has, from the beginning, had
much, very much to do in the matter of the world's his-
tory.
We have alluded to the fact that the Devil has largely
monopolized the office of writing the world's history.
Sceptical men, if not acknowledged infidels, have too
often been our historians. This has given to history
a one-sided phase. The mere secular aspect is made to
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rIiow out. Tlio divitio iviul provHloiitial view lin.s l)oon
kont in tin* backjjjroiunl. (lod in liiHtoiy, tlioy loft, out.
Hnt \V(» tnu'o tlio 0)ots((»|)H of onr Fo(* rather in Iii.s nn-
(liioionH }ittiMn|)tH to falsify history wlionovor it suits liis
i>ur[)oso. Wo ba\o bad lioni^st, foarloss Inst.orians, wlio
Iiavo " jijivon the Devil liis dniv" And soeptioal liis-
torians, too, have left on reoord many trntljs V(M-y nn|»a-
latahlo to the i:fod of this world an<l liard of dijj^(\stion.
H(Mioo the |y(\sont daring onslaiii^lit on history, attempt-
ing to blot out those disL:;nstinir records of jx^rseoutions,
tortm'os, massacres, bnt('h(»rios more barbarous tlian (!Vor
<1isgraooitl tlio veriest heathen, l)ut whieh stand written
on the faithful pajre of tlie Instory of a liierareby ("laini-
ing to be the Holy Catholic Apostolie (Inu'eh.
V. TIkmv is yet anoth<»r mighty elennMit of power
whieh the l)(»vil has p(»rhaps niore e()mj)letely menopo-
liz(^d than any other. It is tlie ])ower of speech — lan-
ijuage — TALK. This is more nenrlv et>inieeted with tlu^
funetions of the ]>ress than at first may seiMu. The press
is tlie more formal and ]>ernianent expr(\ssion of thought,
fact, feeling, desire. Speech is the more eonnnon, uni-
versab intbiential mode of (Expressing the same. 'J'hore
is no power like that of Utlk. Js a gootl to bo advocated
or an evil to be de})rocatod, a truth to be inculcated or
an error to bo exposed, a right to bo defended or a wrong
to be made odious, talk ; talk up the on(\ talk down the
other. Let talk have its perfect work, and the end is
accomplished. Make it, if need bo, a ])ublic talk — om-
])loy gossip — engage in tlu? advocacy of your particular
theme, .young men and maidens, old men and children.
Talk of it in tlu^ " chief place of concourse, in the ojien-
ings of the gates," at home and abroad, and the object is
accomplished, the desired end gained.
Could wo control the common talk of men, and make
it the expression or advocacy only of the good and the
right, we should have but little further trouble to con-
vert the world fron\ sin to righteousness. Every man,
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woman and cliild would at onco hncomo a dofondor and
a coniniendor of tW, truth, whirli niakcs free from tlio
hondago and (Mirruption of numil doatli.
Whilo, on tlio otiior hand, talk in tho miglitloHt powc^r
for evil that sin afid Satan twor oni])loy(Ml, tho tongue,
the " little niend)e)-," is the"littl(; fire" that kindleth a
g»'(nit matter. It in a ^Ire — a world of ini(]uity. It de-
fileth the whole ht)dy, and .settcith on lire the eourac; of
nature, and it is .set on lire of hell. It is an untarnablo
" beast." "The tongues no man can tame." It is an un-
ruly (jvil, full of deadly poison. And it is this unruly
mendxM', this untamabh^, this poisonous evil, whieh the
Devil makes the chii^f engim^ of liis power to insinuate,
beguile, deceive and beleaguer — to assail truth with argu-
ment or elo(pience, with sneer or ridicule — by which he
advocates falsehood and error, and casts over them the
air of truth.
Ih character to bo aHsailefl, slander to be proy)agated,
good influence to be neutralized, good impressions which
have been made by truth to be effaced, resoluti(ms to
reform to be resisted, temptations to evil to l)e plied, it
needs but a drop from the deadly poison of the tongue
and the work is d(me. An insinuation or inuendo, a
doubt expressed, a sneer uttered, a crafty argument used,
nil ap])eal made to selfishness, is ()fteTi (piite sufficient to
turn the whole current of thought, and to change the
whole course of life. As a word fitly spoken may be
the starting point of an influence for good which shall
vibrate to all time, yea, be felt to all eternity, so may
a word insidiously, falsely, perniciously uttered change
the destiny of a man in this life and in the life to come.
Well is it said, " If a man offend not in ward, the samo
is a })eifect man." If Satan decoy him not through the
tongue — if he e8ca[)es its most insidious, perilous tempt-
ation, it may bo hoped he^will es(!ay)e all others. Hence
the foiling of Satan's devices in this line is recognized
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the Divine Master. " For, by thy words thou shalt be
justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."
So true a test of Christian character is the right use of
the tongue, that an apostle says, " If any man among you
seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue, this
man's religion is vain."
VI. We may not here overlook the province of music
and the power of song. We may mistake in saying the
Devil is more especially than elsewhere in the tongue —
that here is the hiding of his power. He may revel yet
more voluptuously in music and song.
We readily concede the power of song for good — how
it soothes the disturbed passions, cheers the desponding
spirit, and lifts the soul to heaven — how it brings heaven
down to earth, and makes the song of mortals seem to
harmonize with the song of angels. As armies meet in
mortal combat, how often has the inspiration of the na-
tional song nerved them for the fight and gained the
victory. The Marseillaise, the Star-spangled Banner,
God save the Queen, — if they have not been more-
mighty than cannon, they have given power to cannon
{ind done much to secure the triumph.
But what a tale may be told when we turn to the
perversion of song. When our Arch-Foe puts his slimy
fingers to the organ or the harp, or his vile lips counter-
feit the sweet notes of seraphic melody to captivate the
human heart, only the more effectually to lead it captive
to his own will, then he seems to enter the inner sanctu-
ary of human influence and to send out a latent but
mighty power for evil. Irreligious and infidel songs —
impure and bawdy ballads — nothing short of the history
of the vilest places and the vilest persons, can gauge the
dimensions of their power to corrupt.
But we fear the Devil is feeling his way, and preparing
for a descent more stealthy, yet more daring and diisa;--
trous. We seem to see him, with well-feigned grace,
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essaying to take a position in the sanctuary on the holy
day — first in the choir, there in holy mockery to lift up
his voice in pretended praise to God. Not content with
his unquestioned rule in the theatre, the opera and the
place of unrestrained licence, he fain would control the
choir of the church. Hence, with fair words and gra-
cious concessions to the sons and daughters of fashion,
pride, position, who are not unwilling to visit the sanctu-
ary once on the Sabbath, provided they may be sure to
be entertained, if not cwmsed, he brings his music and
songs together with his performers and tells them to sing
these as the songs of Zion.
What else does it mean when, we hear of opera singers
and opera music in the house of God, and performers
detailed from the shrine of the " Black Crook," called in
to guide the holy aspirations of the worshipping assem-
bly in their addresses of praise to God ? And what else
does it mean that some of onr fashionable churches seem
to be rivalling the opera in supplying opera performances
gratuitously on Sundays, which in their befitting place
must be paid for on a week day ?
The young lady unwittingly told the story when, be-
ing invited on Monday to go to the opera, she replied, " Oh,
no ; I went twice yesterday." " Why, you forget," said
the gentleman, "yesterday was Sunday." "Yes, I know,"
she answered, " but I went to the Holy Opera."
When the Church shall become fully initiated in the
idea of introducing and paying at a rcund price opera
singers to jplease men, instead of lifting up the voice in the
sacred song themselves to please God, the author of this
innovation and sacrilegious perversicm may see the way
prepared to advance another step. It may be that fash-
ionable heroes — shall I say fashionable church members ?
— may in time fancy that it would be more in accordance
with the times and present tastes to substitute for the
present old-fashioned prayers, uttered in solemn tone as
if God were looking on, and as if they were the com-
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munings of the soul with the Omniscient One, written
prayei's, got up the better to suit the times, and read by
some Dickens, or Fanny Kemble, or Henry Nicholls, who
should be called in and paid for the purpose. This would
relieve many a hearer from a disagreable tedium, and aid
the opera singers in making the church cUtractive, and
thus draw in the Slite — men and women of fashion, wealth
and position — who would pay well and give character to
the church, and soon birds of the same brilliant feather
would flock together, and with some other like improve-
ments, which would very naturally follow, the church
would then soon become almost as good as the theatre.
But what is the remedy ? How shall the Enemy here
be met ? The answer is simple. It is by a return to
the good old-fashioned, scriptural custom of congrega-
tional singing — to the practice of the Apostolic Church —
to the practice of the Christian Church for the first three
centuries, and the usage of the Hebrew Church. Sacred
song is the highest form of divine service. Prayer is con-
fession and petition — imploring God's favour. Preaching
is the presentation, illustration and enforcement of di-
vine truth. Sacred song is the lifting up of the soul,
through the voice, to God in thanksgiving and praise.
It is heavenly. They that " stand on the sea of glass,
having the harps of God, sing the song of Moses and the
Lamb."
But on tvhom does the duty or rather the privilege of
song here devolve ? Certainly on the whole worshipping
assembly — upon every indi^ 'dual worshipper. " Let all
the people praise thee, O God ; yea, let all the people praise
thee." So did the early Christians. When " filled with
the spirit, they spake to themselves in psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in their
hearts to the Lord." " How is it, brethren, when ve come
together every one of you hath a psalm ? "
And so it was until the Church lapsed into a conformi-
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and becoming assimilated to the taste and usages of
worldly men. Then, in like manner as the people of false
religions serve their god by proxy through the priest, so,
in the decadence of a live Christianity, do the people yield
to a hired quartette the service of sacred song.
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SATAN IN FALSE RELIGIONS.
THE ORIGIN, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF FALSE RELI-
GIONS — THEIR RELATION TO THE ONE TRUE RELIGION
— THE REVELATION FROM HEAVEN.
The author not long since prepared a treatise on the
origin, history, and philosophy of false religions, but espe-
cially on their historic relations to the one Divine religion,
the revelation from heaven. It was designed for a sepa-
rate volume, but as it will serve as an extended illustra-
tion of our present theme we subsidize it to our purpose
here. Every people will have a religion ; and whatever
that religion may be, it is sure to have a controlling in-
fluence. Give the Devil this control and he asks no more.
This means the control of mind, money, social influence
and governmental power — a control of the whole man. If
a pure, true religion be the richest inheritance a mortal
can be heir to, a talse, corrupt religion is the veriest curse,
and consequently the stronghold of the adversary. On
nothing is he so intently fixed as to corrupt and divest
of all spiritual strength the true religion, and to nurture
and give power to a false religion.
In his perversion of wealth, learning, fashion, habit, he
monopolizes in each a mighty power for evil, and hinders
an immense amount of good. But in the perversion of
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religion the monopoly is wholesale. For in this mono-
poly not only are wealth, learning, political power, fashion,
and habit thrown into the arms of the world's god and
adversary, but the yet mightier elements of priestly in-
fluence, man's religious instincts and a pretended Divine
sanction are made to play a yet more fearful part in the
grelit drama of sin and ruin which the Arch-Foe is acting
in our world.
Religion is confessedly one of the mightiest elements of
power that work among nen. All religions have their
martyrs. No sacrifices have been too expensive, no suf-
ferings, no inflictions too severe, that men will not endure
for their religion's sake. They will make pilgrimages,
they will afflict their bodies, and pour out their treasures
if you can but persuade them that these are effective reli-
gious acts, that will advance their eternal interests. Man's
religious instinct is, the world over, exceedingly strong
and controlling. Well knowing this, our subtle Foe has
left no device untried that he might monopolize and turn
to his own account this all-pervading element of power.
And in nothing has he shown more adroitness, or secured
more universal control over the human mind. The
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brief survey we shall be able to take of false religions
will but too obviously indicate how successfully he has
turned the religious instincts of men to his own account.
A favourite and very successful scheme of the Devil is,
first to falsify religion, and then to make the falsified re-
ligion exclusive. He thus holds the keys of heaven, and
would shut out all who will not conform to his dictation.
Exclusiveness — intolerance — is a very sure sign of a spu-
rious religion.
In the survey we propose to take of false religions in
order to detect in them the footsteps of the Foe, we shall
consider their origin and history — their philosophy and
general character — their practical tendencies, results and
influence on the social and domestic condition, on litera-
ture, civilization, government, and human character in
general. We shall have occasion to canvass the practical
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bearings of religious intolerance, and the powers for evil
which have been exercised by religious fraternities or
great religious orders. The great prevailing systems of
false religions, as Romanism, Islamism, and various sys-
tems of idolatry, will come under review.
The ORIGIN and history of false religions will su^ce
for the present chapter. Nor shall we, from the nature
of the subject, be able to do more than to generalize where
we have but uncertain historical records.
It has ever been the policy of Satan to forestall the
purposes of God and to set up a counterfeit of what the
Lord hath declared he will do. There is perhaps no
such thing as an absolutely and originally false reli-
gion.
What we call false religions, and what have practically
error and falsehood enough in them to make them almost
altogether bad, are really but the counterfeits of a true re-
ligion. God probably inaugurates no system which Satan
does not mimic. What he cannot counteract and destroy,
he will counterfeit.
We shall assume at the outset that the true idea of re-
ligion is a matter of Divine revelation. That man should
love, serve and honour his God, was in the beginning a
lesson taught by God Himself. This does not, however,
preclude the idea that nature uttered a voice responsive to
man's innate religious instinct, and urged home upon him
the same lessons of duty and reverence. "The heavens
declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth
forth the works of his hands." The succession of day
and night proclaim the goodness of God. " There is no
speech nor language where their voice is not heard."
Divided as the inhabitants of the earth originally were
according to speech, the import of the passage is that there
is no nation, or people, or tribe where nature's volume is
not open, and all who will may there trace the foot-
steps of a God. God has stamped his image on all his
works. Every created thing shadows forth an all-per-
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Truths of the mightiest import, and in awe
Bow down in humble heart, an unseen power adore,"
Though sin has effaced this image — ^has done what it
could to blot out every vestige of a Deity from the earth,
yet the idea of one presiding and supreme Divinity is
deeply engraven on the very frontlets of nature's works.
The evidence may be obscured, and a knowledge of Him
be perverted, but man, though without the written reve-
lation, will be for ever inexcusable if he do not discern
and revere this God. Were conscience allowed her supre-
macy, and reason not contravened, there could be no such
thing as a denial of God.
But God has not left man to grope his way by this
lesser light. He has given him the clearer light of reve-
lation. And this has been a light increasing in its bril-
liancy, through every dispensation of grace, from the first
announcement of the promise to Adam to the full efful-
gence of the heavenly light as it shines from the uplifted
cross, and so onward till it shall appear in the millennial
glory and be consummated in the perfect light of the
new Jerusalem.
In order that we may trace the progress and the better
estimate the mischief which the Enemy hath done,
through his counterfeits or perversions of religion, known
as false religions, we shall need to take a brief view at
least of the different phases or dispensations in which the
true religion has appeared and advanced in our world.
It will serve our present purpose to consider it under the
three general aspects : the Patriarchal, the Abrahamiic,
the Mosaic, and the Christian. As these are but succes-
sive steps of advancement from a less to a more perfect
condition, God revealing himself more and more, and at
each step]ibringing life and immortality more clearly to
light, so the Enemy adjusts his malignant schemes for
counteracting the successful execution of the benevolent
purposes of Heaven. In nothing has the hand of the
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ly counterwork ings to thwart, if possible, the purposes
and workings of Heaven.
In respect to the orUjiii of all false religions we arc
concerned chietiy with the times of the Patriarchal and
Abrahannc dispensations ; while in the subsequent modi-
fications of these same systems we shall have occasion
often to refer to the Mosaic and the Christian dispensa-
tions. With the gradations of these systems from a less
to a more perfect state we shall see how, in his counter-
plotting and counterworking, the Devil had occasion to
modify, change, add to or take from an old system so as
to lit it to a change of the times. A system of idolatry that
would be etfe(;tivc to his ))urpose in a dark, gross age of
the world, would be otfensive and altogether inoperative
in a different age. Hence his change of strategy and
tactics to suit the times and the conditions of the world.
In the brief survey we shall have occasion to take of
the Patriarchal religion and of corresponding false reli-
gions, we need not go back beyond the Deluge. Yet no
doubt if we had the data we should find a no less strik-
ing illustration of our subject in those earlier centuries.
The general corruption that then prevailed (for God de-
clares that call flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth)
— the universal degeneracy which so soon covered the
earth, of course involved a most melancholy perversion
of the true religion, and of consequence corresponding in-
ventions of false religions. God had revealed himself to
Adam and the true worship had been established, and a
knowledge of salvation through a Mediator was made
known and for a long time preserved. This religion was
some centuries after Adam revived in the days of Enos,
and still centuries later it stands on record that Enoch
walked with God, and was not, for God took him. How
the great Enemy of man and of God was allowed to plunge
the early generations of men into sin and guilt — to insti-
gate them to swei've from the true faith, and to change
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the truth of Ood, whom thoy knew, into a lie, anrl to wor-
ship and serve the creature ratliertlian tlie Creator, we do
not, in its details, know. The fijc^neral (ioiTuption that
prevailed is hut the too sure voucher that he did so. Such
a state of degeneracy could scarcely have heen, except as
a result of a grievous ])erversion of all true religion and
as the legitimate point of a false system. But we have
no need to go heyond the Flood.
The religion of Noah was the ti'ue Patriarchal religion. .
It was the same as Adam .and Seth and Enos and Enoch
had professed and practised, and the same which after-
wards warmed tl^e hearts and guided the lives of Ahraham
and David and Isaiah. It was the acknowledgment of
the one only living and true God, the supreme governor
and creator of all things, and of one mediator between
God and man. Wo meet with the Church here in its
merest pupilage, from which, through different dispensa-
tions, it goes up from one school to another — in the Mosaic,
under the ministration of angels — till it reaches the Chris-
tian dispensation, when it is under the dispensation of the
Son. As some one has said, *•' The whole of the Old Tes-
tament may be taken as one gi-eat and comprehensive
system of outlines — and the New, as one perpetual system
of admirable correspondences in the form of finished pic-
tures."
We may then expect to find in the religion of the Pa-
triarchs only the rudest outlines of that great and glorious
system of revelation and religion which is found matured
in Christianity, and perfected in the final and universal
reign of Christ upon the earth.
Let us then direct our inquiries for a few moments to
the question, What was the religion of the Patriarchs ?
This inquiry is the more pertinent to our present subject,
inasmuch as it is generally believed that no period was
more likely to have been the period of the general apos-
tasy which occurred some time in the Patriarchal age
than the period just preceding the call of Abraham. And
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consequently it follows that the ancient systems of idola-
try which sprung up, corrupt and corrupting, were the
offspring — rather the perversions — of that first rude form
of the true religion which was transmitted through Noah
to his posterity.
For a knowledge of the religion of the generations that
lived during the first 2,000 years of the world we may
have recourse to the book of Job as the only document
extant to which we may with confidence refer. From
this source we learn that the leading features of the
religion of these ancient saints were that God is one,
supreme, all-wise and glorious, the creator and ruler of
aU things ; that the universe and all things that appear
therein were not the works of chance, but were created
by this one God — that He is a moral governor, dispensing
rewards and punishments according to his character. The
existence of angels and superior orders of intelligenccB was
recognized, and the doctrine of evil spirits was received,
and the existence of an arch-fiend called Satan, who was
allowed great control in the affairs of men. Again, the
ancients fully admitted the fact of man's fall and apostasy
from all moral purity, and his propenseness to all evil, and
equally did they concede the necessity of a scheme of
reconciliation with God through a substitute. The peni-
tent they believed would find favour. But on the subject
of the future life, if we take Job fas I suppose we may)
as a fair exponent of belief of the Patriarchal age, of the
immortality of thei soul and a state of rewards and pun-
ishments after death, we shall find but little light. Their
notions here were exceedingly vague and confused. " K
a man die, shall he live again ? " " Man dieth and wasteth
away, yea he giveth up the ghost, and where is he V The
future was to them
•' The land of darkness and the shadow of death—
The land of darkness, like the blackness of the shadow of death,
Where there is no order, and where its shining is like blackness."
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Another prominent feature in this ancient religion was
that God should be worshipped through sacrifices and
burnt ofiferings. And what is exceedingly interesting, and
seems happily in advance of the general character of their
religion, these ancients set a high value on the fruits of
personal piety. The necessity of holiness of life, trust in
God, truth, integrity, charity, hospitality, sincerity, were
everywhere commended and insisted on.
Here I might introduce a very singular and interesting
character as an illustration of the religion of these very
times. I refer to Melchizedec, King of Salem, king of
peace, priest of the Most High God, to whom Abraham
paid tithes. He was probably a Canaanitish prince of
the olden, the longer-lived generation, who maintained the
knowledge and worship of God, which did not seem up to
this time so generally lost in Canaan as in the land from
which Abraham came. Here we are able to trace a con-
necting link between the religion of Abraham and that
of Noah and Enoch, i.e., to trace the true religion through
that dark period which intervened between the primitive
religion of the world and the reformation under Abraham
— through the " dark ages " of the old world.
We have, as seen in this brief compendium of the an-
cient faith, not only the outlines of the revealed religion,
both in its present expanded and yet expanding condi-
tion, but we have before us the system of faith and prac-
tice which, by the perversion of sin and the devices of
Satan, gave rise to all the corrupt schemes of idolatry
which cursed the ancient world, and which, with modi-
fications to suit the times, have cursed the world to the
present day. The device of the Devil has been not to
suppress or in any way to discourage man's religious
instinct, but rather to cherish it. He would have all men
very religious, and fain would he have them fancy they
are practising the religion prescribed by God, while at
the same time, by a wicked perversion, he would make
religion the sorriest counterfeit of what God requires,
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The leading false religions which have from time im-
memorial held the greater portion of the inhabitants of
the earth in social and civil, as well as in moral and
spiritual bondage, are Sabianism, Magianism, Brahminism,
Buddhism, Mohammedanism and the Papacy. It will not
be necessary that we attempt to trace in order each one
of these impure streams up to the particular fountain of
which it is the corrupt issue. It is enough that we mark
the perversion and duly note the stupendous mischief
which the great Adversary of man and God has perpe-
trated by the wholesale monopoly of religion to his vile
purposes. In all his monopolies of wealth, learning, influ-
ence, custom, habit, fashion, amusements, he only entered
the outer courts of humanity, controlling man's happiness
and destiny through his secular interests, resources and
prerogatives. But here he intrudes into the inner sanc-
tuary of his soul, and confronts him in his most sacred
interests with his God. . As man, in his consecrated mo-
ments, draws near his heavenly Father and asks bread,
the hand of the Foe gives him a stone. If he asks a fish,
he gives him a serpent, and a scorpion for an egg.
One of the most ancient forms of idolatry of which we
know, was Sabianism. This was the religion of the Assy-
rians, from which Abraham separated himself when he
came out from Ur of the Chaldees. In a remote period
of antiquity this religion was " diffused over Asia by the
science of the Chaldeans and the arms of the Assyrians."
From Asia it passed into Egypt, and from thence to the
Grecians, *' who propagated it to all the western nations
of the world." We can form no estimate of the millions,
the hundreds of millions of the human race who for many
and long centuries have been held in the bondage of
corruption by this system of religion. Practically, it
was a moral miasma, breathing spiritual pestilence and
death over all those vast regions of the East. It was the
parent of despotism, religious and civil. It was the
cancer- worm that blighted the social and domestic rela-
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rela-
tions over which it extended^ and polluted the whole foun-
tain of the human heart. Its superstitions and mummer-
ies, and burdensome exactions and debasing influences
through all the varied avenues of life, made it a huge
agency — an all-pervading and influential agency by which
to control fthe vast multitudes over which it exercised
dominion.
He that can control the religious instincts of a people
— direct their rites, superstitions, worship and belief,
wants very little of a supreme control over such a people.
When man's Arch-Foe then becomes the high priest at
the altar, he finds himself at the helm of human affairs,
and he may guide them as he will. From no other point
may he exercise so supreme a control. In order the
more effectually to secure such a control, our Enemy's
policy is to make a false religion, not only as nearly like
the true religion as possible, but he is careful to have it
founded on the same great original truths. Hence we
find the religion of Babel — of Babylon — of the great Baby-
lonish Empire — founded on the great truths of revelation.
Sabius, after whom the system is supposed to be named,
was the son of Seth. They were wont to appeal for
authority to the sacred books of Adam, Seth and Enoch.
The truth doubtless is, the compilers of that ancient
religious code had before them the great truths of revela-
tion, as they had been made known to Adam, Seth, Enoch,
and the holy men who lived before the Flood, and trans-
mitted through Noah to succeeding generations. The
acknowledgment of the one supreme God, Creator of the
heavens and the earth, the Preserver, the Benefactor and
the Controller of all things ; the concession that man is a
sinner, and can never, without the interposition of another,
restore himself to the favour of an offended God, were,
theoretically, items of belief. Hence the prayers, the
worship and the offerings which they made to God. Yet
while they were matters of creed, not one of these truths
was left unperverted, and hence they became null and void.
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So effectually perverted were they for all practical pur-
[»oses, as to become the sheerest falsehoods. Though they
knew God, they worshipped him not as God, but became
vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was
darkened. Professing themselves to be wise — foi they
had all the boasted wisdom of the Chaldeans to guide them
— they became fools, and changed the glory of the incor-
ruptible God into an image. The whole is expressed in a
word, " They changed the truth of God into a lie."
First they worshipped the heavenly bodies, the sun,
moon, and stars, as the most obvious representatives of
the one supreme God, and as the supposed tabernacles of
the divine intelligence, ^ut as these heavenly bodies, by
their rising and setting, were half the time removed from
their sight, they had recourse to images which they might
worship in the absence of the planets, and to these images
they gave the names of the planets which they repre-
sented. This being, as is supposed, the origin of image-
worship, as the adoration of the heavenly bodies was the
origin of all the idolatry that has prevailed in the world,
we should expect to meet, as we actually do meet, in all
ancient mythologies and in all modern systems of Pagan-
ism, such deities as Saturn, Jupiter, Apollo, Mercury,
Venus and Diana. And as this primitive system of ido-
latry extended itself from itf centre in the Chaldean Em-
pire, " diffused over Asia by the science of the Chaldeans
and the arms of the Assyrians," passing into Egypt and
thence into Greece, may we not receive this system as
constituting substantially the national religions of Greece
and Rome ? We allow for modifications and changes
which the progress of civilization, philosophy and revela-
tion had in the meantime produced — an important mo-
dification of which was the introduction of hero-worship,
or the deification and worship of departed men who had
greatly distinguished themselves in life.
The singular agreement which this system has with the
religion of the Jews, either with that revealed to Abra-
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ham, or that more advanced system committed to Moses
■^Vthough Sabianism may be earlier in existence thun either),
.\ accounted for from the fact that both are derived from
I tiN» same general source. All they had in common was a
maHer of divine revelation. It had been revealed to the
Patnarchs. And what would seem to vindicate their
lineage from tbe true religion as revealed to the earlier
Patriarchs and renewed and enlarged in the Abrahamic
dispensation, is the fact alluded to by Gibbon, that " a
slight infusion of the gospel transfcTmed the last remnant
of these polytheists into the Christians of St. John."
Even Christianity in its best estate is but a return to, and
a new and a vastly enlarged and perfected edition of, the
religion vouchsafed to the Patriarchs.
But in taking the above view of the origin of this first
great system of idolatry — for the religion of the ancient
Babylonians deserves no other name — we would not be
understood as holding that the hjaven-inspired religion
of Noah and Abraham is responsible for this and all the
false religions that have since cursed the world. "An
enemy hath done this." Did not the great husbandman
sow good seed in his field ? Whence then the tares ? A
pure religion is the grand agency by which God controls
the mind of man. The Enemy here steps in, and by a
gross perversion of this same religion makes it the might-
iest agency by which to corrupt and hold in spiritual
bondage the willing dupes of error.
Gladly would we know more of this ancient religion —
how men in those remote ages of antiquity, who, like the
men in every succeeding generation, loved not to retain
God in their thoughts, gradually swerved from the sim-
plicity of the truth, perverting one truth after another,
till they changed the truth of God into a lie. Countless
millions were for ages its ignorant votaries. " Professing
themselves ^to be wise," in this most essential concern
" became fools." In its sad perversion, what was once a
true religion became but a corrupt and a corrupting
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superstition, and in practice but the sheerest idolatry.
But for its error we might admire its antiquity. It was
the oldest of a series of false religions which have held in
mental and social, as well as in civil and religious bondage,
the greater part of the human race, from that remote anti-
quity to the present moment.
It was the religion of ancient Nineveh — the religion of
great Babylon. Its shrines were enriched by the wealth
of the kings of Assyria, and its temples were the resort
of the ancient sages and philosophers of that first great
empire. Fancy can scarcely retrace the steps of time
back to the period when those temples teemed not with
.willing worshippers, and those altars smoked not with
victims. While Rome was yet in her infancy and Greece
was not known, the glory of Nineveh and Babylon had
departed. Before Abraham left the plains of Mamre, or
Jonah had preached repentance in the great and wicked
city, before Israel had a king or Jerusalem a temple, this
great superstition held its empire over the teeming millions
of the great East. And the records of all time can never
tell the amount of ignorance and corruption, of fraud and
despotism, of cruelty and degradation which the great
Enemy of man was able to inflict on our race through this
one system of false religion. No form of false religion has
ever held in bondage so many millions of immortal beings.
None ever spread desolation and spiritual death over re-
gions so extensive, or for so long a period of time. For
we must bear in mind that this Sabianism is the mother
of idolatry — the original of a system of idol worship which,
as remodelled from time to time, and always moulded to
suit the times, is that great spiritual agency for evil by
which the Devil has never failed to exercise an all-
controlling power over the human mind ever since the
apostasy.
An early modification of this original system appears in
the next great system of idolatry, known as Magianism.
This we may regard as a reformation of Sabianism, and
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perhaps bore the same relation to the Abrahamic dispensa-
tion that Sabianism did to the Patriarchal. It was a spe-
cious advance in error to correspond with the advance of
truth — the second grand device of Satan to deceive the
nations — to monopolize the religious sentiment — to con-
trol men through their religious instincts. When they
ask an egg, again he gives them a scorpion.
Magianism is remarkable among false religions for, the
amount of truth it embodied. It was a close approxima-
tion to the religion of the Jews. This, however, is especi-
ally true only as we find it reformed by the celebrated
Zoroaster. Indeed, this famous priest and philosopher and
reformer is believed to have been a Jew. He is said to
have been, in early life, in the service of one of the pro-
phets (Daniel, as is generally supposed), where he became
thoroughly conversant with the Jewish Scriptures, and
acquainted with the faith and worship, the liturgy and
ceremonial of that people. Hence the large accessions
received from. that source.
But let us see, first, what we can find of the original
system as it existed from Abraham to Moses, and thence
onward to its reformation near the close of the captivity
of Israel in Babylon. We have scant material for such
researches — little but the few allusions in the Old Testa-
ment — a few glimpses of light amidst the darkness of the
tombs, yet enough to warrant the belief that this form of
false religion was the exact counterfeit of the religion of
the long period indicated. The progress of revelation and
of civilization had cast so much light over the nations of
Western Asia, where flourished the first great empires, and
over which had prevailed the first great system of idol-
atry, that this ancient idolatry had become too gross
longer to hold the mind of the people in bondage. And
hence the modification which was now invented. It must
have been the counterfeit, not, as before, of Job and the
older Patriarchs, but of Abraham and his descendants.
The caU of Abraham and the co/enant made with that
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Patriarch, and the new revelations of the divine character
now made, placed the true religion on a higher level than
ever before, and presented the character of God in a light
never before known. The unity and spirituality of God
were now especially vindicated in opposition to the poly-
theism and materiality of God which had characterized
the religions of preceding ages. Consequently wo find
the new vamped form of idolatry acknowledging one
supreme God, eternal, self-existent, the Creator and
Governor of all things. And they admitted the resur-
rection of the body, a future judgment, and future re-
wards and punishment. And they held in great abhor-
rence the worship of images. The doctrine of the fall of
man and the apostasy of angels, and the Scripture origin
of sin, they, at least in theory, admitted. Yet though
they knew God, they worshipped him not as God, and
were, in the practical bearings of their religion, scarcely
less vain in their imaginations than the idolatrous nations
whose religion they professed to reform. They worshipped
not God as a spirit, nor as a pure and holy being, but paid
divine honours to fire, the light, and the sun, fancying, as
they did, that these were the best representatives of the
Deity, and hence the most suitable objects of worship.
This was the religion of the ancient Me 'es and Persians,
which prevailed for centuries among the people of those
extensive regions, and which still exists, under the name
of Fire Worship, among a respectable remnant in Persia
and India to this day.*
The great characteristic of this religion was the cele-
brated " two principles," for a belief of which the fire-
worshippers are so well known. They beKev'ed that from
eternity there existed two beings, Ormuzd and Ahriman,
* A fragment of the Zoroastrian oracles declares of God that "he the
first is indestructible, eternal, unbegotten, indivisible, dissimilar; the
dispenser of all good, incorruptible, the best of the good, the wisest of
the wise ; he is the father of equity and justice, self-taught, physical,,
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which they denominated principles of the universe. Or-
muzd is pure, eternal light, the original source of all
perfection. Ahriman, too, they say, was originally of the
light, but because he envied the light of Ormuzd, ho
obscured his own, became the enemy of Ormuzd and the ■
father of evil, and of all wicked beings who are confede-
rate with him in a constant warfare with the good. To
Ormuzd they attributed the creation of all good beings,
find to Ahriman the creation of evil beings. The one
class are the servants of the wicked god, and the other of
the good god. One is the author of all evil, the other of
all good. The good dwell with Ormuzd in light, the other
with Ahriman in darkness: And so after death the good
go to dwell for ever in a world of light with Ormuzd, and
the wicked are consigned over to Ahriman to dwell for
ever with him in a world of darkness. Who does not
here discern the true idea of God and the Devil ? The
pride and envy of the evil god and the perpetual war-
fare kept up between the two, and the final victory
which they believed the good should achieve over the
evil, leave no doubt whence they derived their idea of the
two principles which held so prominent a place in their
religion.
But there seems to have been at least a sect among
them, even before the reformation by the great Zoroaster,
who came yet nearer to the truth. They held that the
good god only was eternal, and that the other was created.
But they, however, agree that there will be a continual
conflict between the two till the end of the world, when
the good god shall overcome the evil god, and henceforth
each shall have his own appropriate world : the good god
his world of light, with all good men and good beings of
whatever grade ; and the evil god have his w^orld of
darkness, with all wicked beings. And light being
the truest symbol of good, and darkness of evil, they
worshipped the good god through the fire as being the
cause of light, and especially did they worship the sun
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as being in their opinion the most perfect, and causing
the most perfect light. And the evil god they always
associated with darkness, as the fittest emblem of wicked-
ness.
The Magians erected neither statues nor temples nor
altars to their gods, but ofiered their sacrifices and paid
their adorations in the open air, and generally on the tops
of hills or in high places. Turning their faces to the
East, they worshipped the rising sun. An undoubted re-
ference is made to this ancient worship, this species of
idolatry, in Ezek. viii. 16. Among the "abominations'*
shown to the Prophet which the children of Israel com-
mitted in the holy temple, was the one to which we
refer :
"He brought me to the inner court of the Lord's house,
and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, be-
tween the porch and the altar, were about five-and-twenty
men with their backs toward the temple of the Lord,
and their faces toward the East, and they worshipped
the sun toward the East." That is, they had turned
their backs on the true worship of God and had gone
over to that of the Magians, the religion of the people
about them. The holy of holies, in which was the She-
kinah of the divine presence, being on the west end of
the temple, all that came to worship God turned their
faces to the west, or toward the holy place. These twenty-
five men, by turning their faces towards the rising sun,
turned their backs upon the altar of God, showing they
worshipped, not the God of Israel, but the God of the
Magians. And not unlikely the "horses that the kings of
Judah had given to the sun," but which Josiah, when he
cleaned the temple of abominations, took away, and the
"chariots of the sun which he burnt with fire," belonged
to the same species of worship. And possibly another
feature of the same idolatrous worship was alluded to
when the Prophet saw ag^in what the " ancients of the
house of Israel did in the dark." He saw seventy men
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standing in a secluded part of the temple, every man
holding in his hand a censer, and a thick cloud of incense
went up.
From the investigations of Hammer, who is good au-
thority on a subject of this kind, it would appear that Ma-
gianism, or tiie pure fire-worship, was even prior to Sa-
bianism, which we have supposed to be the earliest
])erversion of religion or form of idolatry. Re speaks of
the "pure fire-worshi]) as the oldest religion of the Bactro-
Medean race," and that from this the worship of the
heavenly bodies, or Sabianism, sprung. On this supposi-
tion, Sabianism was the corruption of tlie ancient and the
less degenerate form of idolatry, and the Magianism of
the Modes and Persians of a later date was a reform in re-
lation to K-Jabianism, though but a return to the primitive
form and doctrines of Ancient Magianism.
The period we have assigned to this form of idolatry is
a long one. Through this period we may trace a very
signal advance of the true religion. It extended from
Abraham to Moses, and onward through the reforms in
the days of Samuel and David, Josiah and Hezekiah, em-
bracing the glowing visions of Messiah's coming reign
which Isaiah saw, and yet onward to the no less evangel-
ical teachings of Daniel and Malachi. During this period
of more than fifteen hundred years, religion had ad-
vanced from the confused and fragmentary state in which
Abraham found it into the organized and advanced con-
dition into which Moses brought it, and into the yet
more perfect state in which David and Daniel left it. The
rude tabernacle had grown into the gloriouB temple. The
few detached and traditionary truths of the Patriarchs
had given place to tho historical books, to the Psalms of
David, to the teachings and predictions of the Prophets —
indeed, to the entire Old Testament. A Church had been
organized with a code of laws, public worship had been
instituted, and a regular prieathood had been appointed.
At the close of this period religion was, as compared with
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the noanty growth and dovelopnuMit nt tlio l)o^iiini*ng of
the period, like a " woinaiv olotliod with tho aun, and tlie
moon under her feet, andiiponlierhead a orown of twelve
HtnrH."
If our th.'M)ry be true, we are nov/ a^rain to look for a
new eounterfeit,wliiel\ sliallbeso far an.'idvaneeon thelawt
of the KneniyH devieoy tliat it sliall oorrespond with tho
])rogres8 made in the true religion. This eoiiVH|)onding
advance in the coiuiterfeit became needful not only on a.c-
ctmntof the elearer views and the more evangelieal teach-
ings of Isaiah, Daniel aiul the later I'rophets, but on ac-
co\mt»>f the impressive lesson which had been taught tho
]>rofessed Israel of God by the captivity in J^abylon. That
calamity, by means not altogether obvious, v\i« an eifec-
tual cure of Israel's great moral disease, his inveterate
proneness to idolatry. Kvenin the wilderness,sosoonafter
those wtmderful manifestations of Cod in their deliverance,
Aaron set up the golden calf, tlie Apis of the Egyptians,
and the peojilo worshi]>pcd it. And through all their
s\ibsequent history they were ]uone to go after the gods
of tiie heathen. But tlie captivity wrought an eftectual
cure. Henceforth auidid in Israel wa,s nothing.
Such a thorough cc^wiction of the sin of iilohitry, and
so pron\pt and decivled an abstinence from it on the ])art
o( Israel, imperatively demanded a corresponding change
in the antagonistic system. If reform be the order of tho
dav in the Church, Satan is s\ire to turn reformer.
Hence the change which now came over the spirit, or
rather over the form, of the prevailing system of idolatry.
And hence the reformatory n^^asures of the great Zoroas-
ter. He was to Maa:ianism what Moses was to the true
religion. Tho reformation now called forwjus to meet tho
marked advance of religion, as row illustrated in Judaism,
inaugurated by Moses, and matured by a long succession
of lioly men and prophets down to the ca})tivity. j
Magianism, as reformed by Zoroaster, met this demani
and furnished another striking example how errorists arol
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earning, but ni'vor able to conic to a knowl(Mjf/o of
-li." 'J Ik? wiHiloni of tlio w(»rl(l in its bon'o ty[)0,
pliiloaophy in its jnof'onncb'Ht rnHoan^lies, does but apnrox-
iinato — (lo(»s but f(M>l nft(;r tbo truth, aw rovoa led in (lliriHt.
It niay aim nt, ftut vni\ nevor reach the mark or H(M;uro
the prize. MagianiHin, as reformed by Zoroawter, \h per-
linpH t}»e iieareHt npprc^ximation ever made by any fal.se
religion to the truth. Yet it is no nearer to the truth
than a close counterfeit in to a genuine coin. •
A brief examination of thia Hpecjioua couiit<^rfeit, in its
reformed costume, will justify Huch an oj)inion.
The celebrnted ZorouHter, as 1 have said, is believ^'d to
have been contemporaiy witli Daniel during Ins sojourn
in Babylon, an<l conversMnt with tlie prophets and reli-
gious teachers of that period. And it is Msserted tliat ho
\v>'^ for sonu; years nearly nssociated with one oF tlie pro-
pliets — probably Daniel, ileiu^o he had ample oppor-
tunities to become acquainted with the Jewish Scriptures
and the Jewish religion. And hero no doubt be conceived
the idea of remo(k;lling the religion of the Persians so a.s
to adaj)t it l)etter to the increased light which the revela-
tion had shed on the world through the people who wor-
shipped the God of Zion. Imleiul, he drew so largely on
th(5 Sacrcni Scriptures, and conformed his system so nearly
to Judaism, that the engrossed elements of truth some-
times seem to predominate over the original elements of
the old system whi(di he pretended to reform.
The chief and most important reformation which ho
made was In respect to its first principle, that God is one
and supreme an<l eternal, self-existent and independent,
who created both light and darkness, out of which he
made all other things ; that these are in a state of conflict
which will continue to the end of the world ; that then
there shall bo a resurrection and a general judgment, and
that just retribution shall be rendered unto m«n according
to their works ; the angel of darkness with his followers
shall be consigned to a place of everlasting darkness and
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punishmont, and the angel of light, with his disciples,
introduced into a state of everlasting light and happiness,
after which light and darkness shall no more interfere with
each other.
The remodelling and reforming the th^n existing system
of idolatry under Zoroaster, was a policy urged upon
our great adversary by the remarkable events of the time.
Zoroaster is believed to have lived in the eventful times
of* Daniel, and to have known of his holy living, and sin-
gular wisdom and convincing testimony to the truth, of
Nebuchadnezzar and his visions and dreams, and the inter-
pretations thereof, of Dori.el s three friends and the over-
whelming conviction the fiery trial of their faith must
have produced, and of Cyrus and the conspicuous part ho
acted in the great passing drama as the chosen instrument
in the hands of the great King. *
The slightest allusion to the events of those times would '
seem enough to produce the profoundest conviction that
the hand of God — yea, the spirit of God — was at work
mightily among the hundred and twenty-seven provinces
of Babylon, as also in Medea and Persia, and in all the
principal nations of Asia. The design of the extraordinary
providential movements, God informs us, was twofold —
1st, the deliverance of Israel ; and 2nd, the making known
his supreme power and Godhead among all the nations of
the earth : " For the sake of Jacob my servant, and Israel
mine el.ct. And that they may know fi'om the rising of
the sun, and from the west,ihsit there is none beside me."
Of the widespread and profound impressions produced
on those ^)ecple and nations wo may receive as a satis-
factory iiidex the public confessions and declarations of
the proud and idolatrous Nebuchadnezzar and of King
Darius : " Of a truth it is that vour God is the God of
gods and a Lord of kinga, and a revealer of secrets."
And King Darius wrote unto all people, nations and
languages, that in every dominion of my kingdom "men
tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the
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living God, and his kingdom that which shall not bo do-
Btroyod."
It was under tho pressure of such a state of things
that he who now saw his craft in serious danger set him-
self to remodel and reform tho prevailing system of idol-
atry and suit it to the times. Hence Zoroaster and the
Zendavesta. Never perhaps did man's Arch-Enemy make
larger concessions to the true and the right, and draw more
liberally from the great fountain of all truth. Such hom-
age was he constrained* to pay to the onward march of
truth and righteousness.
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HISTOEIO RELIGION — PROGRESSIVE REVELATION — GOD RE-
VEALS HIMSELF AS THE WORLD CAN BEAR IT — TRACES
OF THE TRUE RELIGION IN ALL FALSE SYSTEMS — OSIRIS
— CHRISTIANITY A RELIGIOF FOR MAN — UNRESTRICTED.
There is much of interest in the origir,the history and
philosophy of False Eeligions. Constituting as they do
the most subtle combination of all the engines of mischief
which the great adversary wields, there is much in them,
when contemplated as perversions and counterfeits of the
true, both to admire and lament. We meet in them not
so much absolute falsehood, as truth perverted and coun-
terfeited to the peril of man's ' ^terests in this life, and his
eternal undoing in the life to come.
False religions have, as we have shown, a common ori-
gin ; and they have more in common than is generally
supposed. Based on practical atheism, it is not easy to
determine which recognizes the least of God. Neither
Paganism, Popery, or Mohammedanism questions the ab-
stract being of God. Such a monstrosity falls only mthin
the dark domains of Atheism. Reason and conscience
never said, " There is no God." This is the language only
of the perverted heart. God has stamped his image on all
his vorks. The heavens declare the being and agency of
God. The succession of day and night proclaims it —
everything shadows forth an all-pervading deity.
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False religions have formed a crafty compromise be-
tween the conflicting elements of man. They yield to
Reason who knows there is a God, and to Conscience who
feels it, the abstract fact of the divine existence, but grant
to the heart, which has no complacency in the character
of the God of reason and conscience, the prerogative of
clothing this being with attributes congenial with its own
corrupt nature. Hence the invention of other gods and
the imputing to the true God a fictitious character. And
hence the fabrication of corresponding systems of religion.
Yet, in the compromise, the heart, de facto, has the advan-
tage. For while it theoretically acknowledges the being
of one supreme God by adding at the same time a multi-
tude of lesser deities to which it pays its supreme homage,
it practically loses sight of both the being and authority
of the true God.
Here is the dark triumph of sin. It has placed a black
and impenetrable cloud between the elfulgence of the
eternal throne and this lower world. It has covered the
earth with darkness — done its utmost to shut out God
from the world, and to usurp his dominion over this part
of his empire. It has changed the incorruptible God into
an ijnage made like to corruptible man, and to birds and
four-footed beasts and creeping things.
In order to take a just view of the great systems of
false religions which have obtained in the world it will *
be necessary to premise the following things :
I. God reveals himself to the world as the world can
hear it, or is prepared to receive it. And we must of con-
sequence look for something corresponding to this in the
various systems of religion which have prevailed in dif-
ferent ages of the world and in different countries. And
we may add that the same revelation becomes a source of
more or less light according to the condition of the people
it enlightens. In a given amount of sunshine the half-
blind man sees but little compared with the man of clear
and open vision ; and they who are enveloped in fog, little
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compared with them who bask in the noonday sun. Every
new acquisition of knowledge, every well-directed mental
improvement, every advancement in society, casts new
light upon, or rather educes new light from, the sacred
page. And so we may say of the cultivation of every
Christian virtue and the cherishing of every right affec-
tion. The same truth as contemplated from different
points, for different purposes, with different feelings and
affections, with a clearer vision and at a greater or less
distance, appears in new beauties and relations, and
assumes new importance.
It will, therefore, correct our views and moderate our
censures when contemplating what are denominated false
religions, if we take good heed, as we pass to our chrono-
logy, to our geography, physical, political, and moral, and
to the entire condition of the people as to knowledge,
mental improvement and civilization. A religion which
is essentially false in one age or condition of the world,
might have been essentially true in another age or condi-
tion. For an illustration of this we need go no further
back than Judaism.
II. Another point to be borne in mind is the mental
and moral improvement of our race. The condition of
the human race is progressive. Partial and local retro-
gressions have at times, and for considerable portions of
time, occurred ; yet these should be regarded rather as
the temporary results of the ebullitions, the confusions
and apparent dissolutions which usually precede the in-
troduction and establishment of a new and better order
of things, than as real retrogressions. It is the " shaking "
of those things which shall be " removed." To us, who
reckon time by months arid years, centuries appear a long
preparatory season. But He who inhabitr eternity, and
plans for infinite duration, feels no such res Taints. With
Him a thousand years are as one day.
The true religion, like Christian civilization, ig progres-
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through all its continuous channels — Ethiopian, Egyptian,
Phoenician, Babylonian and Indian — to the Greek and
Roman, and onward to the present highly-civilized na-
tions, and we discover that Providence has used each of
these nations, as far as in tlieir times and circumstances
they could be used, to advance the great work of man's
moral renovation, (which is the objoc: of the true religion,)
and then transferred it to their successors with all the
accumulated advantages of their respective predecessors.
Could we stand in the council chamber of heaven, and
with the eye of Omniscience survey in the field of our
vision the whole of the divine procedure towards our
world, we should see a steady, onward, irresistible march
of Providence, executing the divine purposes, and at every
step approaching the goal of a final and glorious consum-
mation. But standing as we do at an infinite remove
from the Imperial centre, . and amidst all the darkness,
disorders and perversion of sin, where so much is to be
undone before God's peculiar work on earth can be done
— where there must be so much pulling down of both
superstructure and foundation before the true Temple
can be reared and completed, preparatory work often ap-
pears to us not the work of progress, but of retrogression.
The correct view we believe is, that the energies of
Providence are engaged to erect a perfect building — to
elaborate and complete a perfect system. But as he will
do this through the medium of human sagacity and toil,
all possible systems, we had almost said, are permitted
to exist while the great building — the true system — is in
progress, that an endless variety of foxits may be elicited,
experiments tried and results arrived at, from which, as
from a profuse mass and medley, human wisdom may
choose the good and eschew the bad, and, under the eye
of the great Architect, produce the perfect temple. Hence
the many strange systems, developments and fantasies
which have been permitted, not only in religion, but in
politics, ethics, etc. They are the materials from which
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to select Tho middle n^oH wore peculiarly prolific in
these, and as peculiarly preparatory to the advanced state
of the world which followed This advanced state wa» a
result — a coinj)ound — a fabrication from preexisting ma-
terials, all thrown into the crucible together, fused — the
dross being removed — and run in a new mould.
III. It comports with tho divine plan that sin should
have its perfect worh. Earth is a usurped ])rovinco —
Satan is the " god of this world." And the history of his
reign is written with a })en of iron, and shall be read in
heavenly places, an indelible lesson throughout the inter-
minable duration of eternity, presenting an awfully edify-
ing contra.st of the misery of sin and the beauty of holi-
ness.
The world is a vast machine, in every ])art made riglit,
and if miinaged right cotdd produce nothing but holiness
and happiness. Yet under the administration of his Sa-
tanic Majesty, so completely perverted is everything that
the world is as notorious for violence and corruption as,
under a right regimen, it would be for peace ancf purity.
In allowing Satan to dabble, as he is always disposed to,
in the religious affairs of the world, in politics, in tho
social and domestic economy of men, in their science and
literature, and in yielding him the vast resources of tho
world, God has furnished all his intelligent creatures a
durable and melancholy specimen of what sort of use sin
makes of things and creatures originally and intrinsically
good. And when this miserable experiment shall have
been sufficiently tried, and its results made sufficiently
manifest, the great King, tho rightful Sovereign, shall
put down the Usurper and exhibit on the same tield the
diametrically opposite, the infinite, beneficent and glorious
results of His reign.
The extravagances, superstitions and cruelties of false
religions — or, as Carlyle would have it, " their bewildering,
inextricable jungle of delusions, conclusions, falsehoods
and absurdities," stand before us as so many perversions
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of the tnitli — tlio " ninny inventions " of .sin — not original
errors, but rorruptions and perversions.
We shall now iinchirtake to contirm what we have hcforo
RBserted, that n^ligion, ])]iil()Sophi(rally regarded, in one
grand, consecutive, progressive syatein, from its gc^rm ii»
the family of tlie first Adam to its glorious conHummation
in the family of the secon<l Adam. And that correspond-
ing with thia there has run a parallel series of counter-
feits, indtating the genuine in foil n and l('Mcrin<j, yet in-
trinsically possessing little or nothing in common.
Satan is a hold and accurate imitator, not (from policy
only) an uiuenfor, in the things of religion. He too well
knows the force of man's religious instinct, and too well
understands that there is a spirit in n..in which " witness- *
es with the spirit of God, approving as heaven-born the
religion of God's revealing, whether it be shadowed forth
but obscurely, or revealed ^jlearly, to expect to palm on
the world a sheer fabrication of his own. He pays to
divine wisdom the forced homage of clothing his falsehoods
in the costume of truth — in the panoply of heaven.
In taking a'brief survey of the successive and progressive
developments of true religion, we shall be able to trace
a series of corresponding counterfeits by which the Devil
has contrived to blind the eyes and delude the souls of the
tribes and kindreds of the earth in the different ages of
the world. Throughout the whole he has not failed to
keep pace with the march of providential development,
changing and modifying, adding and subtracting as the
world advanced, and has, one after another, opened the
successive scenes in the great drama of redemption.
We date the history of the true r ligion in the family
of Adam. Immediately on the I'ail, a remedy for the
gi'eat moral disease of man was revealed and the Church
of God instituted, and from this point radiates the first
rays of light.over a dark world. This light increased and
spread through a succession of holy men composing the
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inittcd the blcsHing throuf]rh many generations, and doubt-
less among many tribes of the newly-peopled earth. In
the (lays of Enos there was a remarkable extension of the
Church, and Enoch was a city set on a hill which could
not be hid. There must have been at least a very general
knowledge of the true God and of the way in which he
ought to be worshipped among the nations who lived be-
fore the Flood. Nor is it certain that men had fallen into
idolatry, or that any great systems of religious error had
yet been consolidated. Wickedness tliere was, and violence
and coiTuption, which cried to heaven for vengeance, yet
perhaps not yet organized into system. Noah trans-
])lanted the germ of antediluvian piety into the new world,
where it took root and early spread over the newly-peopled
e.arth.
Then followed the clearer manifestation of the truth to
Abraham, which continued from the calling of the father
of the faithful till the giving of the law at Sinai. Then
came the gorgeous ceremonial of the tabernacle in the
wilderness, shadowing forth new truths and elucidating
old ones, and all looking forward with a clearer distinct-
ness to Christ, the great reality. Then followed the
spiritual kingdom of Christ, or the setting up of the true
tabernacle.
In Judaism, which was the growth of a thousand years,
and of which modern Judaism is the Popery, we meet the
first great rescue and concentration of whatever was true
in former systems of religion. In Christianity we have
the first true Church. This is the suTnmation of the whole.
But we are at present interested rather to trace the cor-
responding counterfeits, that we may see how men swerved
from the simple truth as taught in nature's book, worship-
ping the work rather than the great Worker, the creature
than the Creator, yet in the perversion there still remain
the indubitable traces of the original and the true.
As an example of this, we may refer to the well-known
Incarnations of Vishnu of Hindoo mythology, in which we
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can scarcely fail to discover the true idea of the Incarna-
tion of the true Deity. But wo are furnished in ancient
mythology with a yet more striking illustration in the
case of Osiris, the celebrated hero-god of the Egyptians.
This Deity, about whom clustered all their hopes of im-
mortality, was fabled to have slept in death and to have
risen triumphant over the powers of evil. He was ac-
knowledged -as th e god to be worshipped throughout the
great valley of the Nile.
There is something singular in the history of this In-
carnation. Osiris is the Messiah of the old Egyptian re-
ligion. And it is remarkable how many of the attributes
of the true Messiah are made to appear in him. He was
the Judge of the living and the dead. The oath taken in
his name was the most solemn and inviolable of all oaths.
Goodness was his primary attribute, and that goodness
was displayed in his leaving the abodes of Paradise, taking
a human form, going about doing good, and then sinking
into death, in a conflict with evil, that he might rise
again to spread blessings over the world, and be rewarded
with the office of Judge of the living and the dead.
Osiris is called the " Grace Manifester," " Truth Revealer,"
" Opener of Good." The ancient records speak of him, too,
as " full of grace and truth." He was the supreme God in
Egypt, and the only one whose name was never pro-
nounced.
In all these points there is certainly a very singular
similarity of attributes — life, death and resurrection — with
that of the Christian's Messiah. But whence this assimi-
lation ? Perchance it may be replied that Abraham had
clear conceptions of Him who was to come, and that he
communicated this knowledge to the Egpytians on his
first visit to their country. But before Abraham was, this
singular ritual of Osiris was known and celebrated.
" Tombs as old as the Pyramids declare all this." Others
trace this knowledge through a channel further back,
making these the indelible traces of the preaching of Noah
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on the mind of ^he world. Noah was a preacher of
righteousness. His immediate posterity, acquainted, no
doubt, with the revelations already extant concerning the
Messiah, settled in Egypt — became the founders of an
Empire there, the compilers of their sacred books and the
originators of their religious syst(^ra.
Regarding all false religions as merely perversions of
the one true religion, we may assume that the religion of
ancient Egypt was made up of such religious notions as
were extant at the time ; consequently it is not strange
that so prominent an element or idea as that of an in-
carnation of the Deity should have been drawn from the
true religion and incorporated in this ancient system of
idolatry.
But all this was scarcely more than physical religion —
at most but intellectual, involving little or nothing of the
moral element. ^ It worshipped a natural divinity, a god
of power, valour, prowess, the grand architect and gar-
nisher of the heavens.
Not till a much later period do we find the moral ele-
ment introduced into religious beliefs. That the divine
power which they worshipped had a moral basis — that
God is a moral governor, and men subjects of a moral gov-
ernment, they did not discover. The introduction ol this
element was an advanced step in the history of religion —
the result of a special revelation. How much of the
moral was introduced into these early sj'^^tems from reve-
lations made to the Patriarchs and early prophets, we
cannot determine. True it is that the darkness of human
depravity soon overshadowed the fairest of these forms
of belief- The light in them became darkness. And we
now can only discover the true by its counterfeit Seeing
the spurious coin, we judg»^ of the genuine.
In the progress of religious belief, I said, came Judaism
— not a new religion, but a new dispensation of the ancient
faith, clothed in new light, and the moral element more
distinctly marked. Moses was not an originator, but a
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compiler. The beggarly elements of the world were now
clothed in a celestial dress. The physical yielded to the
moral. God revealed himself as the moral governor. The
scattered rays of light which had hitherto done little more
among the nations than to make the surrounding darkness
visible, seem now concentrated on Sinai, burst forth from
the terrible cloud with all the vividness of a new revela-
tion and all the terribleness of the divine majesty chal-
lenging the homage and love of a rebellious race. These
collected rays were woven into a beam, which we call the
divine law. What of God had been but indistinctly
shadowed forth in nature or imperfectly revealed to the
Patriarchs was now clearly made known. His moral
character was made to stand out in bold relief of which
his law was made the t^-anscript. Doctrines, duties, pre-
cepts were of consequence marked with equal clearness.
It was a new and vastly improved edition of any previous
system of faith. It was truth developed, defined, emanci-
pated, as coming from the hands of the Patriarchs to whom
God had entrusted the clearest r^elations of himself — or
truth rescued from the abuse, corruption and darkness into
which it had fallen in the hands of surrounding Pagan
nations.
An imposing ceremonial — new only in its form— was
now adopted. Here again Moses was not the originator.
Most of the rites and ceremonies of the Levitical law
were already in vogue. Moses collected the scattered
fragments and wrote them in a book ; reduced a distract-
ed ceremonial to order; defined the number, circumstances
and uses of such rites as God a* i roved; instituted an or-
der oi men who should take charge of the sacerdotal de-
partment ; designated the persons who should hold office,
and made the whole more clearly significant. It now be-
came a system with an officiating priesthood and a law,
all setting forth a Messiah who should come,.
We have noted, as we have passed through the dark
generations of idolatry, vestiges of light and truth — light-
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hoiiNoa guiding wrockod mariTiors in tho w.'iy of lifV>. A
voiy rotJiarkablo instajicc of tliis wo moot in tlio follow-
ing hymn of Oloantlios, dating hiick into a remote anti-
quity, and justly regarded as a remarkable teHtimony to
the truth — a light sliining through long ages of darkness.
It wjvs road hy 8t. Paul — ipioted on Mars Hill. It sets
forth Ood as tlie Creator of all things, tlie Benefactor,
supreme Iving and Judge, exposes the folly of idolatry,
and inculcates a pure mor/ility :
•'Groat Jovo, most glorious of the iiiunortal gods,
Wide known by many names, Almighty One,
King of all nature, ruling all by law,
Wo mortals thoe adore, a« duty calls ;
For thou our Father art, auil wo thy sons,
On wh<»ui tho gift of speeeh thou hast bestowed
Alone of all that live and movo on earth.
Theo, therefore, will I praise ; and eeaselesh i;hov/
To .•\ll thy glory and thy mighty [)ower.
This beauteous system circling round (ho earth
Obeys thy will, and, wheresxHj'or thou leadest,
Kreely submits itself to thy control.
Such is, in thine uucon(]uerablo hands,
The two-edged, iiery, deathless thunderbolt ;
Thy minister of power, bef«)ro whose stroke
All nature quails, and trembling standi aghast :
\\y which the connu(Ui reason thou dost guide,
Pervading all things, tilling radiant worhls,
The sun, the nuum, and all the hostof^tars,
So great art thou, tho universal King.
Without thee naught is doue on earth, O God I
Nor in the heavens above, nor in the sea ;
Naught save the deeds unwise of sinful men.
Yet Till rmony from discord thou dost bring :
That which is hateful, thou dost render fair ;
Evil antl good dost so co-ordinato,
That evei'lastijig reason shall bear sway ;
Which sinful men, blinded, forsake and shun,
Deceived and hapless, seeking fancied good.
The law of God they Avill not see nor hoar ;
Which if they wcnild obey, "'ould lead to life.
But they unhappy rush, ec m in his way.
For ghiry some in eager conflict strive :
Others are lost inglorious, seeking gain ;
To pleasure others turn and sensual joys,
Hasting to ruin, whilst thtiy seek for life.
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Hut thou, () Jovo ! tho j^ivor (tf all good,
Darting tliu lightning from thy homo of clotidH,
I'ormit not man to (mriRh darkling thuR :
Krom folly savo thom : hring them to tho light:
(Sivo thom to know tho ovorlastitig law
My whioh in rightooiiHnosH thou rijlost all ;
That wo, thus lionourod, may rottirn to thoo
Moot honcuir, and with hymuH doc'laro thy doodn,
And though wo dio, hand down tliy dtfathioBS praiBO.
Sinco nor to mon nor gods in highor m<!od.
Than ovor to extol with rightooiin praiso
Tho gloriouB, univorsal King Divino."
I have said there was originally /n/7/t in the old HyHtenia
of Pagjininin — they wore originally fonnded in truth —
much of reality in them — a wornhip of God (ts t/w/i/ hncio
him, saw him, or through the Hources by whielk he re-
vealed hiniflelf to them. Hut times ehange. What was
true in its time, became false. Further revolat'ons gave
men hUjlmr viCAm of Qod on the one hand, and further
developments of human de))ravity led men to h)se sight
of God in the objects they worship|)ed as tnie emblems
of the divinity, and to worship these objects theniselves.
The old systems existe<l for a purpose — answered that
purpose — histodor will last till the good and true is trans-
fused in the new system and then will die, having done
the work of their generation.
The design of Judaism (as of Christianity) therefore in
her indignant denunciations of PaganisTn, is not the con-
demnation of the truth which was then revealed, but it
is to bring religion hack to that truth — and not that truth
only, but to that truth as ex})oundedand cleared from tho
dross of error and its boundaries enlarged by the rich
accessions of all subsequent revelations. New mines
were opened, richer and more abundant, and yet all the
pure gold of tho old ones was carefully preserved and
worked into tho now tabernacle.
But tho general views here taken, supply, in this
connection, anotLar thought. It is that we discover
herein reasons for one common and universal religion
If
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'V\\\''. rooT IMtlNTrt orr RATAN.
I
I'lo^o in ifM l>voM(l CoM \\\o i'Mlin» r!nuil\ «»r intin
All nf\<\iro nroi'lMiiUM Murh n rouMitnuntH inn Inr mdii.
MVil in iMp);\l tl«Mi itji'hu'MM proclinniM ( 'In iMiiunil \' li> l>(>
Htwn M n'lijvion li i^, mm no oj^cr n^Iini'-n. Mim|»lt>(| (d
tnnn'M WMnJM, jo \\'\h proorowM nnd lo Ium fnll <lr\ ('lo|Mni>nl
Nvhojl^ov i< l>o in ll\is lij'o or lh(» lil'o io i-onHV II Im nndm
ll\o .'Wispii'OM ol" ll\is \ov\\\ oj" lolijvion lluH mind iM (|nii'k
ouo\l ;n\<l nv'H\n(Ml. wwA n>nilo <o m\»1i4(M\ o I ho ^ri'nl. |»Mi'
poso'^ ol' luin\nn mi1\ Mnoon<oiH lluH Innnnn j^oninM iw hi«I.
oi\ <hoMl»Mt ol" in\«M<lion Mn«l iliMci'VtMV (hnl ll»o powcMM
o<'n,'\<\n>^ Mi'o ON ol\ od, npplitMl MndMpnropriMloil lo innnVi nMo
'A\\\\ l^\^v^M^v'-^^ 1< is (Ins I'oi n\ \^( roliL!,ion winch mldroMMiVM
i<Koir <o <1h }h'<i)-f, Mud (Mill ivMloM Iho ntoinl loolinjivM nnd
oNolvos ;\\bl .M|>plioM j ho n^ovid powovM ol' nmn. Il nd
divssos i<soll lo <lu^ >\ l\olo n\Mn. dovolopM nil Ihm powoiH,
:n\d fi<« l\in\ for \\'\h \\\]\ nnd lin:d doMJiny.
It is ;\ sovvioo, Mdotnlion Mnd pv;\iMO pMid lo {}\o (lod of
UM<\\iv, \{ i« i\ s\»pnMno v»>nornlion of ll»o power Ihnl.
'.\>;hio <]\o Wv^vld :\\\\\ KiM^ps ovorv slnr in iln ooinM«\ nnd
\nnnM<L;'»'"< 'ho 5X\>\'\< nnd indviMMnl tunchino mm ho pliMiHOM.
1< is iho s\ip\xMno Mdtnir.Mlion ol' (ln» windoni whioh do
visos. ;\dj\is<s. pn^soiAos nnd ndnplM nil Ihinj^s ko mm lo
s«vmv iho \vhol«^ ;\^;ni<s( :\ sin^i^hH'Mihno, j^nd !*» hrin^ onl
ol' tlu^ \\ liolo <ho s;n\'\l ;\nd l>ono\\>lonl (M\«I di^si^nod II
is (lio " tvnnsoondoni w ondoi " ol' iho lov(> nnd l>on»»vol(MM'(<
oi" C\^\\ \\\ so tornnnii*. oou( \ollinsr Mud iidjuslin^Mli lhini;M
rtx** <o bring i>\v>d o\i< v^l' <ho whoUv No pois(>n is M(» V(>non»
ons ihixi it is not n\.'\do <o yiold m nwmm^I, no olond mo
dnvk. nv> tonipost s»> dovnsl.Mtino-. no providonlinl dispiMi
s;\tion so dis;\sln>\is tbMt il yii^hlM no(. in Iho o\u\ Htuiio
}wn^nnont nnd snUstnnlinl i;-o»>d.
In tlio liiol^i^st possiMo sonso, ihon, iho n^lii^ion ol"
(''livist i;5 a nntmnl roliiiion. Oid \V(* nood lurlhor pr«»ol'
of tins >vo s]io\dd tind it in its poonlinr ndnptntions U) iho
,«(V?<>/ nnd rivil progross of man. It is this form of n^li-
givm whioh, oithor in it* nioiv innnodiato bonrings, or in
riMIIMriANII'V I'Mll MAN
:\2r,
ill ii.H it'iiinlrr nnl^niii^H, Im irvniiil idiii/in^ IIm' vvdild It,
luri iiimic (ln» t'Miili in «liN)Lr(»i^«« ilit mihcrnl wi'mIiIi, mfmI
liMH inntililt'd il ililn i>\riy ((Hirci vn Mr ill.MiHil, l<ir»l in
limrllillP I IkiI ('MM lOllllilillll' ((• llllMlMll (ifO^U'HM. Il, llMH
ill Mh> loiiii (i( iiinilt'iii ((immrirc. I iM vi'iHi'*! «>v«'iy wen,
mi.ilr miiiniif; iipii^liltMiMM, iii('i(>>iM('<| l(('V«'ii'l nil |»H'r«"|('h(,
llu' aciihli ol' (.Ii(> wmld. r|i(«t'|<«'ri'(| i>v«'iv Iniid 'villi rnii
♦.MH H iiihI l('l(>;4inj'liM. mihI r(iii\(\M| nl;i«»n«l llio riM iM(>ri
.r II
}r(MM i)\ lllO rlMSM nilH MII|i|tll<M llM' IIM'MIIM /IIMl M | ( j il 01 f l('f>H
lui lli<» iiniNPiHiil tliHiiMiitii (iT Mii> ^fOMjicI II, Idih l.rniiH
IiiIimI IIm' Hiltlo iiili» mIiimihI, ivcry Imii"!^!! l,oii{^nM', nrid
jrivcii n |M»M'pr Mild iilii(|iiily l.o lln> jiksm «(uii«« iml< nowfi
ill IIh' nni Id Irlniiv II, in IImmiiiMioi oT nil llio rr'cdorri
ill ilio world IIm' IniiiidM ol' nil rfMiMliliiliomil j^ovMfi
iiiriil, niitl ili liMH iM'ivndt'd llic vvoihl mI, Imiimi wiIIi m,
liiill
i(«r drj'rt'c nl' iiil,('Hiir(>iir(', niid llic diHimiori oT |,|i«'
1,1
*'MH(',M l,M«* WOf
l<i.
Iii}^li«»r l'.V|"* ol ("ivili/nlinii wliirli ikiw I»I*
And wluii Iml, Mm i»K|»niiHiv(\ loiiMiii^';. miI.ci |»r iKiri;^ M(»if(l,
iiiliiMrd Ity ( 'liriMl,i(iiiil,y Iuim mo Hl.iirMil)il«>d \.\\i\ innirnlorn
iliHli)n'{H ol' iiH'ii nl. Ilir |ii<\s('iil, dii y i 'riicsf- nrc ifidi'M,
livp <>r Mh» iin diHiniil, ndvMii((>M wlii'li nvv/iil, oiir hkc,
jiriMMiiHivt' (tT llio Iticnk iiijr ii|Mir I Im> old MicliiMive }i/i.f(il,s
(»r (,li(»H|MM'i('H, iiiid iiitiodiirloi y ol'n, HyHtcm liy wliif^li dif-
IcnMll, lnniidlirH ol' Mio liniinii liiiriily \ {('.<:< tt fic IicI-Mt
lvii(»\vii lo iMM'li ollin, niid liy nii inlMcliiiri^^*' (>\' Hi'ui,\tf\f.ttl
Mild Mioiij^Jil.M, JIM W(dl iiH <»r l,lio (M)fi(rii(»«lil,ifH oF ♦•orn
iii<»n'(\ lJi(\y nmliilnil,!' l,o/i, riiiil,inil mid iiid<'liriil,<', u.(\viij\<;i',-
niiMil,.
(*lii'iHl,iiiiiil,y, JiH iin iiiomI, oltvioiiM irripn^RM indiraicM arid
il,H iikihI MpoiilniMMHiH woikin^rs iwfii y wlHrc voiiffi, wan
'imxh', J\n' iniin- lor iiinii in lii,H cxp/ifiKion irit,o Ji, fiill rriun
lidod- lor wlioiii, IIH Mm |>ro|»ii<^l,or nrid rr,fif,rolJ*;r of'jilj
Mh> povviMM mid r('Moiii('(!H ol' n<il/iir<' m.m |>|ji,<,<',d ui liin din-
poM.'il lor liiM ndvmiroiiK'tif,, wIm-Mm r pliyMical, rnr.nt'j.l, or
ri>lii;iriiH, mid lor MnMoili/nl-iori of jilj lio i.s |»ro»niHod, or
nil lin JH nipnlilr of, Immc, (»r \\i:V('S\ili'.v.
Nl) uMicr r<'li<rioii liaH(}V«!r iixcrci.sr.d in ilic, world hij(;}i
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THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
transforming power, no other contains in itself the ele-
ments of such transformations. False religions are local
in their character — temporary in duration, and mercenary
in their application, and ^degrading and oppressive in
proportion as their spirit pervades the hearts and minds
of their votaries. They are most obviously made for the
priest, the king, and the Devil and not for the people — not
for the expansion of the human mind — not for the culti-
vation of the human heart — not to elevate society, cherish
freedom, define and protect human rights, or bless the
race.
There are two features of our religion which, contem-
plated in the present connection, commend it as a religion
especially for man. They are its social character , and its
teaching ministry. In these two features it differs essen-
tially from all false religions, and challenges its claims to
universal regard and adoption by the whole family of man.
In proportion as a religion is spurious it substitutes a rit-
ual for a sermon, a ceremonial and a solitary worship for
the social and public worship of the sanctuary — penance
for repentance, and the dogmas of priests for the simple
teachings of the word of God.
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XVI.
MODERN SPURIOUS RELIGIONS.
THEIR PRACTICAL TENDENCIES-;;-RESULTS — INFLUENCE ON
SOCIETY — ON GOVERNMENTS, AND ON CHARACTER IN
GENERAL — ROME PAPAL AND ROME PAGAN — POINTS OF
AGREEMENT.
,:!:
We curn next to the handiwork of our great adversary,
as seen in his schemes for deluding and then monopolizing
the human mind, and the powers and resources of man,
through more modern forms of false religions. As times
change, and the world advances, the prince of darkness
changes his tactics and the mode of his attack. Hence
the different phases of idolatry, while the nature and spirit
remain the same.
Modern false religions have usually been divided into
three general classes : Paganism, Mohammedanism and
Romanism. These have a common origin, and they have
in their deleterious results on the condition of man more
in con^mon than is generally supposed. Based as they all
are on a practical atheism, it is sometimes difficult to de-
termine which of them recognizes the least of the true
God. In theory they all acknowledge one supreme
God. But in practice they as uniformly deny him.
Neither call in question the abstract being of God.
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<>\tMMHl\»^ \*onlli«'<ino ('Innonis oj" »)\^n Wcuson /t>;(>/rH
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olMon\inioi\ o\ov\iH. ImH Oic honri tlonicM Mini iovoHm t|,
iistl.nns <o .i»>Kno\\ 1<m1oi» miu miicIi Mullioiil
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IMV.H'IOI t>f MlU'li Jl ImmI, i( MMMlM
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It* invontiotiof oduM jvoiIm innl of I'oncHpomlin^
systi^n^s of n>lioion.
To tluMliMnMn^ls of ixsMson Mnd ronsriiMUM^ llwii (Jod Im>
nvoiini70«l. iho honvi so \]\v \ ioMs. in llw inslMnt'c of
ImIso ivliiiions. ;vh <o ^V'.\\\i {]w nUsivMci fnor of h ({«mI;
lni< vosovvos <o itsoU" <ho proro^onjivo of clojlnnjir Hum
l^tMUii \vi<li nUvil>n<«\s ooni^oniMl \\'\{]\ ifs own roirnpl
t\t\m\ Ov it onl\ <boo\'otioMllv noUnowlodm^H flio I
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of ono snpnMno (io«i. t1\on .nlils oMum- Iossim' «l(Mfit>M (o
wlion\ it pays M^oiMtions Mn«l pvMisos, wlnlo prin't.icnily
i< lixsos sif>l\t o( ho{\\ {\w boing nn<l authority of Qh) frno
Wh.-^i. thon. lias sin «lono? It 1\mh cnst m
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impoiuin^blo olonil Ix^twoon tlio (^ti'nl^onoo of tho jtitmI,
wlutv tbrono ninl tliis Iowim- wovlil. It l^n
M CO
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the iwvih \\\ih JnrUnoss juul its inhnhilantu with m
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It has o\orris(xl iho nttiMinoii. of tl
10
]><nvor tliat has boon grantod it, io shwi out (lod fio
tho world and to \is\n'p liis don\inioi\ o\or (lu.s pari of Iii.s
ompiro.
Hvnv this is dono ap]>oars in tlio oiuMory survey we
havo t.qkon of iho i^rinoiivil talso roligiouH that havo
st11iot<\i tnir wv^rUi and oovoroci its inliabitantH with
>voo]Miig\ laniout^^tion and wxv ahnost from tho finio tliat
Ood fy^id, "thr (lnyin which yc cat iheirof ye shaU die''
"'^■■■■■Hianis
IhnlAlhV A HMIN n|< I'AI.HI', llll.lniON.
imf
nnns «M
lifolittrji liiiH I II lli(- |iH'Vfiiliri^ «liniM«'l»'fiHM«' of »v«ry
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iiimI iiIomI ml ioii In iilnln, lull. Mil nllriM|il In (Iclrncl, Irnrri
I lie iiiohI t'vit'ili'iil «lini)M'|.('i nl' < 1(1(1, |(» lliiiil< (iT liirii nri<l
|(> IH'I. MH il lie W'Oli' Hlll'll M (UK' MM ( ill I H»'l VI'H, 'if |,(» HIiIihIJ
(nl(« HiniM'l liiii^ ill lii'i jiliM'c. 'I'lic |inil iciilMi Jnnn lloil,
idiilnliy liMM MMMiiiiicd in (lill(>t«>iir cdiirili icM mikI in fliflcr
»>mI. (I^cm (iI Mil' \V(ii Id, Idim, mm U'c Iijivc hccii, (|(>|i(>n(|(>(| nu
l.lMM'irciiiiiNlniicc'i iiiidei wliidi il Iimh »'KiMl,«'(|. Tlic M|iiril,
luiH Im'i'ii I'Huciilinlly lli(» Mnnic. Inilr l.lio »'Kl,cni)tl hIimj
i((
liiiM vniicd vvilli llic inlcllcdiiMl ('iill,iii(» din. uni'inu
W(
II.
Ilit'ii iiKiinl cdiidil inn, willi IIm> d«'m«M» (iC I,Im> I< n<»wlr<l^('
llicy niiiy linv«> nllniiMMl, mid lu n«» iiMdiiMidcf mMc ♦•xlcnl,
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ill Mic vvdild III. Inr^nv All Mh'ho iJiinjfM, Mm»ii(/|i Mn-y
•Il
hnvc iKtl. I'HHciil iiilly ('liMii|jft>(| i,iM» niHriiM^ or i^Hwuct'i in
idttlniry, liiivi' ni<»dill(M| iln itjtju'urniiri'R, and nol, iirdrf!-
<|Mi'iiMy cliiin^iiMl il,H niiiiMi. Wlionwor, l»y H^.tuw^ns nidr/il
ol)li(|nil.y, n. (;()in|)Mi'Miivoly |i(iliMli(>(| and IcnrrM'd yi\(t^}U\
liMVo l»(M»n iddliiiciH, Mii'y linvc i«>lin(<d «in I lio ^roMHncKM of
Mi(» jj^nirnil HyHl.piii Mil l,li(>y Imvc Kli(»iri/|it (»l ruMiiy of its
iiKUo ^hirin^ diddiniiMcH, jih vvidl mh (iT KorrMi ol i(,m rriorn
moHH iMH»niiiM(»H, nnd I.Iiiim Hiiil/iid il, in Mm^ n^t' i\.ui\ c'w-
cmnHlniiiM'H in wliirli il, wmr (,(» oxinl, ; wliih*, [on Mic oMi^r
hniid, in l.lio dnihcr <i^(<h oI' ilio world, or Mirion^ n, rrif/r';
i|/norn?il, nnd diduiHCMl ju^oplo, it Iimh prcH^inUid n ^roKwr
loriii ntid IxMtn (>x(>ni|ilirKMl in TnonM;rindMi'M n,nd ahorrii
imMiuiH. W<» Miny |M^ Mh» inoni H)io(il<»id wiMi \\u'> \u\iA\r,
wliilo W(^ inoio Mioron^lily JiMior Mm5 /i^^ni,v/i.t<;d i^uilt of
ilu^ lornior.
So itiHidioUHly W(>r(^ tnon jil, \]\v,i ln'^uilcfl into idolatry,
ilwit wo do not ^rrcntly wondiM- Jit Mm*- kmcccmh (t\' \]\h
toniptor. No ono cnri look upon t)io }>roa<l f;xr»anMf5 (^
IicM.vcin, H(»t witli t(^ti tlioiiH{i.nd brillijifit ^frriH, in trio rnid.nt
of wliicli tli(5 iinpcrial hiiii Iijih plncful lii.s tM.bfsrna^'if; uh an
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noi^^Vovh^s-? sffn*« th:U IxxinKlo in 0>o \iflon\>o«i votiio ol'
M>ntH>. tt'* Iv so i\>rtnv sMiv«« \\w ooniti'j of so immiu fivmIomim
ilio ov<^''1]oi>o,\ . rt>>i^ fh«' in;\io>iii,, oi Hiv>^ u ho ^)pi^l<o ihcin
nifo f\^Moi>«^^ h> ♦l^o \vx->i\^ <^( his ^^o^^^»v To («no m ho»h<l
iioi \nov, <ho (h'^>MH\»h\on« oi r^iu i' n\i^))\i H'>iMn l-n( f^ lillio
i^«^pnii\n\^ A-on> i\w \\\w ww^hij^ lo \\\\\ ho\»ou-s ((« iho
hosi?; oHhi"* <iniV'ii>\v^nf .-vs ')vy>'?v.<v'M/»»/??v'.f of iioil Vo\ in
tiolhing IS <ho^\^ sh?vi>xxx^«^ forth n\oiii^ of (ho inlini<o .)oht»
v.-^h ,lnst.. .MH. M rt lMto\ ]>ovioil in iho 1\i'Hov> of itlolnirx .
M sHVttits^ hn< t\ ^^l^}^h^ .io]^!n(no^^ f^^^n^ iho svov^hip y\\ {\w
into 0-«>»^ *o \voiNihi}"> U'jn xviOi i\w hi Ip of ^>?V/?hv.'j rviwl
'7'»^/T/T'A'J - !^>v1 toovi (hn^M^]> tho n\o<h\nn oi' ffiifnf.t \\\u\
on;yf?s. h^\^i in thv"* on«l it pn>\o<l to ho hnt Mn ontoriojr
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(^otorjti tho iiix]fltrv x^( thoir ivliiiion 'I'ho ono »hlV«MH \u^\\\
<"h, othor. ni htOo olsv th;vn in n;\n\o i\\u\ in sonn^ ol i\w
mv\^<\^ of ivrforniirvii thoir woi'ship. Vlio ono is tho i«lol
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.>v Holli
MiMll'l
MnliMtmiii'tlfHii'ifn. Ilw m| Ii(>i |)t itM'ipftl r<iffri <i( Iflnlfihy,
I'lMUfi iM'fH l\ I l(i> MUfiM' f I'ltil I'tii (»( |V»^(ifil'!»ri f liftf llofn/iriiMfri
iliu'Fi In ( 'III i<<( iMtiil V. il» Hii'i if<'iiti>«>l, IIhiI il j'l f( rriorliMfn,
lion nl iilnijiliv '<«iil«M| In I In- rliirMil". Iifdiil'i. rrir«(ihil ''ill
hiiiMiiul iiimhiI |)im|»>m nl lliimn «>vl«'ri'iiv»> 0» irnlfd i\nltntm
♦ lull liful luMnlnloin l(n»<ii rn^iiii II wfi<i iiffirly ''"fil"»o
pitifiiv iti il't(iti;riii \\illi tlriinfifiifitri. Mfi't Im tm [mwii lift r I y
HUIIim] In Hie li<{Mn||fj nl cnMiilf y nv»«» wlli''fl il. WflM f I^Ml.irl^<l
In MpH'tlll. Il'l llnlMMlliMfll JM |(l JIfl |«>'!|i«>«| j vo l)««l<l
lll>l«» il Im ^vnilliy n| f»>lnfMl( lllftl. I Im> ifil I'kIimI i/rfi f»fi/|
jtininiiliMiUnii nT I 'III i'lliiMiil y ill niii wni Id |iMir|ii/'(w| fi vfi y
liiinltt'd cliinii*!' ill nil lli«» ««k iftl iiifj; fiyMlr>in'! nl' idnl/ilry A
MOW li(dil limho ill iijinii llio world, nrid idohdry li/id now
In lii» oMMiMil ifdiy iiindillod mo >im In Milil. I.lio now Mffifo jrdo
wliirlillio wnild WMH liiMii^lil. Ity llio inlf ndiM'linn of ( ,'lirifl
lifiiiily. Ill MoMio lOMpooln il iiiiimI, Iio inndo moro Midrllo,
ill nlll«>l llllll(.rM loHH (^lOMM. llofO II. fllllHl. HUflV"! Hfi flfr»|.l|
ImI on nl" ««yi'ri>M«'riioi»H or of diwnyod (mrlM, llioro jl, rniiMf,
itM'oivp fill fiddilinii Monio MyMl.oniM woro I.Iimm rnoflif)r/| rrr
ii<iiind(>lliMl wlioio olln iM woio oorn|iol|od l.o ^ivo |(ln<<> l/»
!lll(t}rol llnl (I lli<VV nidol ol' lliinifM
Ojllin rninini ni«> Ml MliiiiiniMfn ol' Irolin, nrid F'liddldMrn
nl' Indin find ( 'liiiiM Mild l.lio ItlnMloin (lorljon-; nt AMrn, nnrl
ol |Ih> Ifillcr wo iiuiy iiiMlnnr»> l.lio old MyMl.orri« of idolnf.ry
I.IimI. woro Hitrofid ovor I'oiMin., Ainl»i»i, nnd nil l,lir» woMf^rn
iMnlinii ol' AmIji iiiid I. Iio ndjoiniii^ lo^ioriM <»r Knro|»<v 'f'Iro
liiHi wor«> nindillnrl n« lo hoiiio of l.lioir ol»joof,M «,nd tfifxlcM
nl wniHliip Mild Mio idoM «d* Mio in<'n.rrifil.ion of Klifi lic'tty
Mild ol' vioMiioiiH Ml.onninonl, woro inl,rodiir<>d^ IlKMif/fi in
MO onrinpl.od n. roiin mh to mnko l,horn Morvf^ nono <»f hhfi
jniMil piiriMiHOH of inoMinnlion nrid nlonornord, l»y .fo,«im
('liiiMi ; wliilo l.lio ot.lioi MyHl.oriiH l.lin.l, I lin.vo rin,rn^<l g/ivn
pJMiM* In MoliMinimMlMiiiHiii, wliioli proMorvo,<l t,lio Hpirih of
l.lio old ^yMl.oinH nmlcM' m. now ooKhirno to .miit t,lio- npirit of
tlio tiiiu^H.
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332
11 IK I'OOT riMNTS OK SATAN.
\V1)M<. <luM\, 1w\\M» WO Itcforo us JIN (1m' l('|,nl iinnl(» nJlM|»riii^
of sin Mud (lu> |)«>svor .miuI vv.xW oI' Sntnii / Nnlliin^ Ions
i\\s\\\ <lio monsfiM- MnlMtrv in ils iIiiimMoM (Icrnrmijv (»!'
P.Monnisin, I'npncv im«l MohMiniiUMliiniMm.^
Wouhl >vo luMT (VstiiuMlo iho mni^niliulo «>l' (lie evil in
t)i('<(Ml on our \vorl«l, >V(> must conMntMict' n c'llculnt ion
whii'h <lu» jiritlnu»>li«' iA' ciiM'nnl w^vh can only linisli ; wo
must os(in>.M((» nil {\\o j'vils of idolnlrv sinci* tlio lirsl, do-
pMituro iVoni {\o'\ ; wr n»us(. siu'voy nil Iho nn'u(i(/ i\vHi)\n
iions i( has |uotluo(Ml; wi^ niusl, hriuj^ inlo tlic osliniiii(» nil
iho mont/ wasltvs thai luivo IoIIowimI ils awful niarcli.
N«>( a ^tM'ui ol nioral urowlli ran tlivirv — nor scaircly oxist
<>n (ho soil ot' i«l«>lalrv. l^lviMv ironi'ious all'* "(ion of (ho
lu\ir( is |iaraly/iMl, ovt>ry aspirijjj;- and nohio -'xoroiso of
(ho nnnd sniothoitMl. Mind is in hondaiii^ (ho wlw)lo man
is a slav(^ whtM'(^ wood and s(on(\ or any or(>a((Ml (hin^
roooivos (ho honoins (ha( ar«» alono «luo (o (Jod. Who can
os(,inia(o (ho n\istM'y, (ho d(\i;rada(ion, (lu* ii^noianoi^ (hat
aro ontailod on an idoladous |u»oplo ? Who oan count up
(1^0 Mor(h of (ho social atVootions it has Mii^ddiMl, and i\\v
siH'ial hap|>inoss i( has il(\s(i'oyt»d { Who oan oah^dati* (ho
tloniostio tios it has sovorod, and tho wrotohodmvss it has
produood in tho (ondoiwst rolations in lifo ?
Or if wo advort hu( for a nioiniMit to tho yot more
hliiihtinij; iidiuonoo. if possible, i( oxoroisos on man's oivil
rolatiiMis— on laws and ^'ovornmonts, wo yot moro sadly
lamont tho dire misohiofs of sin and tho wilos of our Koo.
It is tho fathor of despotism, of oj)pr(\ssio]i and war, but
novor of truo liberty, o\^ national prosi)ority and^ thrift.
But all ealeulations fail when wo attoinpt to estimate
thiiijijs of sueh a nature. It is not in anv one thinjjf, nor
in all we liave named or can name, that ai! the evils of
idolatry aj^pear. Its dismal dct-Jiils aro met everywhere.
It hardens the heart, dries up tlie natuial aiieetions, saps
the foundations oi virtue, eorrupts the fountain of moral
}nineiples, and blasts all that is lovely and dignified in
man.
llH|iiiii^
tiiily of
'vil ill
iilnlioii
sli ; \\v
(l('s«»ln-
i.'itc mII
niMirli.
\y v\'\hI
(»r (lie
v'\H{3 of
)K^ mail
i tiling
'liocnii
•i^ 1.1 imI
nib up
11(1 th(^
.'li(» tlio
it liius
■j more
s civil
sjully
ir Koo.
r, but
ift.
timatc
ir, nor
si is of
vvlioro.
s, HJipS
moral
iod ill
TIIK WoliST OK IIHU.ATIIV.
x\n
'I'Im' worst of lM>ntlir?iiMm is not hjtm in m few widow
Itmiiiii^'H or ill tlin Miiniinl rxpoKiiro of n. lew tlioiiMjiiMl
inlniitH — or in \,\\(\ «>\|»omii?o of mm nmny sirk, infiini mimI
n^oi\ (»ti tlio Itniiks ot" tln> Hjirml rivrr or in tlio lon/^ mihI
H(>vor<» |»il;^Minm^rM tlint nro pcrfornKMl, nn<i tli(^ criM-l nnri
ltln«)«ly. pciinin'cM tlint Mn'SMirrrnd. 'I'lirm* nwiy nttnict tlio
Mttcntion Mild sliock tin* hcmihj^h of tlm trM,v«ill«ir or tlio
HUjiorliriMJ oltHcrvi'i*, Miid tliiiH MppcMr the. worst of Viijfuw-
isiii. |{ut yon imiHt look JMrtlicr to h(M5 tlio fh'Hohdinn. of*
its MlntiiiiiiMtions. Tliis cnn only In* s<'<'n in tlio witlK^rin;^
iiifliioiic<> it liMs in mII tlio ordiiiMry n'kiiions of lil'o. It
(Mitors into cvcrytliin^^ Miid loM,V(^s tlio niMiks of its clcsriln,-
tioii ovory wlicifi. A porsoiiMl M<'(|iiMintM,n(o only cmii con-
V(>y Ui {\u) mind wlwit sin luitlidono in tlio ostMlilislim«nt
Mild siijiport of idohitry. Iloro it Iimh Mcliiovfirl its sMcldcst
triiimpli. Il, liMs ontliiMllod tlu^ mind of inon; tlwiri tliroo-
foiirtlis of tlio liimiMn fjiniily. It Iimm ioIiIxmI tli(!m of tlioir
liMpfiinoss — diHnjlMMl IJiom of tlmir iniKX'onco nrid shut
tliom out from tlio sinilos of lioM.V(!n,
Would vv(^ li(M*(^ ^v.t moro M,d('(|UM.to M,nd of)rr(!(;t id(!M,s of
tlio mMcliinations i\\\(\ miscliiofs of niMn's ^n-Jit Ko<!, wo
must look M,WM.y to wlion^ " SjttMTi's s(3Mt" is, MJid oorittjin-
platc^ sill in its l(\ss coidi'oW'd spliorc^. Wo must s(!0, wliM.t
it liMS <l(»no in onslMvin;^ iwitions, and poisoning tlio
strcsaiiiH of lifo aiiKnif^f oon^'ro^'at(;d millions. Wo must
lot tlio oyo lor a moment pass over tlie dark domains
of idolatry.
Having classed Rcmianism among systems of idolatry,
the reader may ask proofs, if tlnn-e he any, to justify suoh
a classitieation. Is the Papacy Christianity, or is it })ut
a, new edition, under another title, of old Pagan Rome ?
a new, improved, and more mischievously ruinous engine
in the Iiands of our adversary by which to enslave the
nati(ms and (iecoy to death. That Romanism is a stu-
pendous power in the world is but. too obvious. But is it
a power for good or for evil, for Christ or for the Devil ?
I)o we find it engaged in the interests of freedom, of hu-
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334
TFE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
roanity, of a Christian civilization, of light, knowledge
and a pure religion, or in the service of despotism, o^jpres-
sion, persecution, ignorance and all kinds of immorality
and impurity ?
The following points of resemblance will speak for
themselves. In origin and subsequent development it
would seem nearly allied to Paganism.
It is a system of idolatry whose basis is infidelity, yet
it>s idolatry r's in form and pretence Christianized and its
infidelity the practical unbelief of the Christian doctrines
it professes. It is the grand counterfeit of Christianity,
its material the same as that which made up the religion
of Pagan Rome, its form and lettering stolen from the
image and superscription of the religion of Calvary.
We may represent her as a woman, whose form and
whose features, though awry, and marred and disfigured
by meretricious ornaments and fragments from Pagan
shrines, are essentially Christian, yet whose spirit and
power is that of the Pagan Beast whose bulls and ana-
themas are thunderbolts borrowed from Jupiter, whose
costume is stolen from the temples of different heathen
deities, or from the wardrobe of Judaism. From the
Persian priest she received her tiara, from the Roman
augur her staff, from the Jewish rabbin her embroidered
mantle, and her scarlet attire from the great red dragon.
From the undying flame on Apollo's shrine she bor-
rowed the idea of the ever-lighted candles which illumine
her altars, and from the vestal virgins that once found
sanctuary in her temples, reappeared in the temples of
Christian Rome the obsequious handmaids of our Lady,
who sitteth on the seven hills, changed somewhat, but not
in spirit, and equally subserving the purposes of a corrupt
Church and a licentious priesthood.
Let Rome, if she will, christen this unfortunate appen-
dage to her sanctuaries by the name of nuTis, or by the
more taking appellation of " Sisters of Charity," (and
some of these we honour for their works of mercy,) they
lowledge
1, o^pres-
imorality
peak for
pment it
Jlity, yet
i and its
doctrines
istianity,
3 religion
from the
Lry.
form and
lisfigured
m Pagan
3irit and
and ana-
er, whose
heathen
rrom the
Roman
iroidered
i dragon.
she bor-
illumine
ce found
mples of
ur Lady,
;, but not
a corrupt
e appen-
r by the
y," (and
;y,) they
ROME PAGAN: ROME PAPAL.
335
are but the vestals of Paganism, reintroduced on the stage
from behind the curtain whither they had retired on the
approach of the sun that arose amidst the hills of Judea,
and made to act a part not dissimilar in its nature, yet
amidst halls hung with other drapery, and to cater to the
passions of an audience whose tastes were less gross, yet
whose corrupt soul demanded in substance the same ali-
ment. Paganism revived in the form of Christianity.
Saints took the place of gods and heroes — pictures and
images the place of idols.
Were we here to go into detail we could verify all we
have intimated touching the identity of Romish and
Pagan idolatry, showing that Rome has done little more
than to recast old material, to remould without destroy-
ing its nature, and reconstruct a new image — which, in-
deed, is not new, it being in its moral image but a fac-
simile of the old. It has, indeed, affixed on it a new
superscription — ^given it a new name and sealed it with
a new mark, and made its hand point towards the cross,
while it is full of abominations as foul as ever polluted the
shrines of Babylon or Sodom.
The following comparison between the religions of
Rome and Brahma will exhibit at least some of the
grounds we have for the opinion that the Papacy is but a
counterfeit of Christianity, and but a republication of a
volume in the form of false religions, which has been un-
1 oiling itself with the revolutions of time, the same in
spirit and matter, though varying in type and form, to
accommodate itself to man's religious instinct as modi-
fied in different stages of development in society and in
human improvement.
The intelligent reader will supply the counterfeit of
Popery while we refer to several points of agreement
as exhibited on the part of Brahminism. The Hindoos
in theory acknowledge one supreme God, yet worship
him only through some medium, hence the multiplicity of
their gods. The Brahmins, in defence of idolatry, affirm
r. .
t
1 i
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1^
4
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THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
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that their images and visible representationR arc but
helps to devotion, not necessary for the learned and holy,
but indispensable for the ignorant and unstable, who can-
not contemplate divine essences and indulge in holy
abstractions, but must have some visible object before
them in order to fix he mind. Speakei;h not Rome the
same thing? The Hiadoos have their ^(/ooroos, mediators
and intercessors between them and their gods — their
mendicantsi, as gosav-nees, varagees — their hermits, monks
and devotees — their Bhuts, answering to "Romish Friars
— their vashia«, ^vive8 of the gods, or m(MS. Pilgrimages,
penances, bodily inflictions, are the rank luxuriance of a
heathen soil transplanted to Roman ground. The Hin-
doos believe righteousness onay be accumulated by good
works, penances, etc., and be tvansferred to others —
which may be bought and sold. They perform the Shaadhu
for their dead relations, i.e., feast them through the
mouths of the Bndimins, and give money to the priests to
get their souls out of Purgatory. They use the Rosary —
perform Jupu Tupu (repetition of prayers, names of
deities, and various penances) — practise numerous fast-
ings and observe endless feasts and holy-days — have the
holy water, which is of two kinds : the first, one of the
five natural products of the cow ; the other, the water in
which the priest has dipped his toe. They divide sin into
inward and outward — venal and mortal — make the igno-
rance of the people and their servility to the priest prime
articles of their faith — carefully keep from them the
Shastas or sacred books, locked up in an unknown tongue
— make religion the especial and almost exclusive business
of the priest — cany out their gods in solemn procession
— use bells in their worship — and keep lights burning
continually, especially at the tombs of deceased relatives.
Indeed the Romanists of India are scarcely in a single
particular behind their Hindoo neighbours in the obser-
vance of heathen rites and superstitions. Their priests
exercise over their minds the same unlimited control, work
tt
ROMISH AND HINDOO IDOLATRY.
337
re but
I holy,
110 can-
1 holy
before
me the
diators
— their
monks
Friars
images,
36 of a
e Hin-
y good
jhers —
madhu
rrh the
iesfcs to
)sary —
aies of
IS fast-
^ve the
of the
ater in
in into
e igno-
prime
;m the
tongue
usiness
cession
irning
atives.
single
obser-
3riests
1, work
on their fears and superstitions in the same way, practise
pious frauds and worship their images, apparently with
the same spirit and in nearly the same form as the Hin-
doos. We libel the Hindoo if we call him a worse idola-
ter than the Romanist.
Compare the gorgeous mummery of the fete in honour
of St. Rosalia at Palermo, in the island of Sicil3'', called
" Corso Trionfale," with the festival of Juggernaut in
Hindostan, and tell me, if you can, which has in it the
most of heathenism. Read, who can, a description of
Rosalia's car, of its decorations and gorgeous trapi)ings —
of the shouts and adorations of a tumultuous throng of
superstitious, ignorant votaries, and not believe himself in
the land of Orissa. Substitute Juggernaut for the name
of the Sicilian goddess, change a few other names, and
give the whole a Brahminian costume and scenery, and
wherein has the heathenism of Sicily the preeminence
over that of Orissa ? It is a difference in name but not
in spirit — in pretension and arrogance and hypocrisy,
without the remotest resemblance to the religion of the
meek and lowly One.
No one can read the history of the early corruption of
the Church, from the third to the seventh centur^'^, and
remain ignorant of the source from which this corruption
mainly originated. The assimilation of the Christian
Church, in many of its rites, usages and modes of wor-
ship, with those of the heathen, is wofully striking. The
great and good Constantino himself contributed much to
deck the Church with the meretricious ornaments of
Paganism.
The denial to the people of the Bible is a feature of the
Papacy borrowed from Paganism. As in the one case, so
in the other, the sacred books are only for the Priesthood.
Romanism, like Pagan religions, is a religion of sense,
its emotions produced by sensible objects, as images, pic-
tures, and things material. The idea of sin dwelling in
the animal system is stolen from heathen philosophy.
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THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
I
So, of consequence, physical mortifications, in which the
Papal religion abounds, appear in discreditable rivalry of
their heathen original.
Again, perseciition, which has l^een so distinguishing a
feature of the religion of Rome, is of Pagan origin. The
conquest of a country was the conquest of its gods.
There was not often much ostensible resistance to the new
divinities of the conquerors; and no visible persecution.
Pagans and Papists walk together because agreed in all
essential points. They live in harmony, as in India at
the present day, and see no occasion for persecution.
Masses for the dead are none other than the practice of
the Shradh among the Hindoos, in a poor apology of a
Christian dress. The near relatives of the deceased as-
fientjble generally on the bank of some river, or about a
tank where they perform numerous ceremonies called
Shradh, in honour of and for the supposed benefit of the
dead. It is usual to perform a monthly Shradh for the
first year of tLe death of a parent, and once or more in
every year is Shradh performed for all their ancestors.
These rites are believed to be very meritorious, as well as
to give pleasu.'e to the departed, and greatly to inure to
their benefit. Hence great importance is attached to
them, and no pains or money spared in sending succour
to their departed ones. And who does not here see the
origin of Romish masses for the dead as a most prominent
rite of the Romish Church ?
In the garb of Pope as universal bishop, the Pontifex
Maximus of Rome Pagan has once more appeared ; its
priesthood, its pompous rites and gorgeous dresses, its
sacrifices, incense and altars are all borrowed, partly from
Pagan Rome, partly from Judaism. Its holy days, fasts,
feasts, saints* days, are purely of heathen pedigree.
Heathen idols have in modern Rome received a new no-
menclature. Jupiter is now St. Peter. Apollo is St.
John. Venus is the Madonna. " The second Beast gives
power to the image of the first Beast." (Rev. xiii. 15.)
''i— ««ii--
i
ch the
edry of
hing a
. The
; gods,
he new
icution.
I in aU
adia at
n.
ctice of
yy of a
sea as-
ibout a
\ called
i of the
for the
nore in
cestors.
well as
ure to
;hed to
mccour
jee the
Eminent
fontifex
[ed; its
Ises, its
jy from
|s, fasts,
idigree.
^ew no-
is St.
jt gives
lii. 15.)
ROAtE PAPiVL: ROME PAGAN.
339
Rome Papal is Rome Pagan perpetuated, modified and
adjusted to the spirit and progress of the times. The
image of St. Mary usurps the place, -in the Pantheon at
Rome, once occupied by the colosscl statue of Jupiter
Ultor. The superb bronze statue of Jupiter, nirety feet
in height, which rises above the high altar of St. Peter's,
was pillaged from the old Roman Pantheon. And the
beautiful porphyry urn which adorned its portico now
embellishes the gi,rgeous chapel of St. John Later^n.
The house of AU Saints at Rome Papal was once the
house of All Gods (the Pantheon) of Rome Pagan.
The " Holy Chair," which used to be brought out and
exhibited to the gaze of the admiring multitude on the
day of its festival (Jan. 28th), was on one of those occa-
sions (in 1G62) discovered to be covered with heathenish
and obscene carvings, representing the doings of Hercules.
And not thinking this exactly complimentary to the taste
of St. Peter in the selection of his chair, the parties con-
cerned have since suffered it to repose quietly in the
chancel. So much for the pagan origin of this famous
relic.
But this famous chair, it seems, has been allowed to tell
another tale of the common brotherhood of false religions.
We are not only able to trace so near a connection be-
tween Rome Papal and Rome Pagan that we feel no dif-
licult}/ in taking the one as the legitimate successor of
the other, but we discover to our further surprise (if Lady
Morgan's account of St. Peter's chair be relied on) that
Rome and Mecca have a nearer relation than had \^eu
sup|)osed. From our lady's account (in her book on
Italy) it would seem that an old carving was found on it
when subjected to a sacrilegious examination in the days
of Napoleon — an inscription to this effect, " There is
BUT ONE God, and Mohammed is his Prophet." The
very creed of the Mussulman, and a very befitting one to
appear on the chief seat of the Papal Boast.
If our position be correct that Popery is the summt
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tion and concentration of all past systems of error and
religious delusion, modified and suited to the times — the
ynn-.cerpiece of the Devil, then tliis symbolical connection
with Islam and the old P'ig;?n worship is as we should
expect. Believing as we do that the true Temple is built
of materials collected from all bygone systems and experi-
ences — from all the right and the good of the past, going
in to make up the one true Temple, and to vindicate the
immortality of the good and the right, so. we believe we
are to look for a corresponding summation and concentia-
tion of the ways, means, materials and modes of working
em|)loyed by our great adversary in the stupendous work
of false religions. His systems, too, are progressive — ac-
cumulative — all past systems represented in the present,
and his last, his climax, his consummation.
Indeed, the traveller in Rome is at once struck with the
resemblance of the present worship of the Romans with
the old Pagan mythology of ancient Rome. Popery is
little more than old Roman Paganism in a new dress.
Yet we concede that the errors of Romanism are not
" absolute falsehood, but corrupted truths," Or rather
" the principal delusions which have at different times ex-
ercised a pernicious influence over humanity were founded,
not on absolute falsehood, but on misconceived and per-
verted truths," and therefore are deserving of commisera-
tion as well as blame.
Again, Egyptian mytliology is made to contribute its
quota to adorn the Pantheon of Papal Rome p*:a to make
up the number of its gods. The moon, we know, was
the principal emblem of the mother god of Egypt. Hence
we meet the Papal goddess (the Virgin) painted on the
windows of Romish cathcdi^als, standing on the r)%oon.
The tapers, too, burnt before Romish altars, had, from the
earliest times, been used to light up the splendour of
Egyptian altars in the darkness of their temples. From
the same source, too, was derived the custom of shaving
the crown of the head, which the Egyptian priests prac-
tised centuries before the religion of Rome was known.
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ROMAN ISM — DEISM — PAGANISM.
341
Bosman, a Dutch writer, speaking of Romish missions
among the very degraded Pagans of Guinea, suppoi^ea
"the Romanists must be the most successful missionaries
among them on account of the near re semblance of RomMi-
ism to the religion of the people of Guinea. They agree
with them in several p, rticulars, especially in their ridicu-
lous ceremonies, in their abstinence from certain kinds of
food at certain times, and in their reliance on antiquity
and the like." The Negroes, however, seemed to take a
more common-sense view of the matter, judging that " so
small a change was not worth the making."
Or we may say Romanism assimilates to Deism in its
avowed denial of the supreme authority of revelation ; to
Mohammedanism, in its resort to force to propagate itself
and extend its dogmas ; and to Paganism, in its idolatry
and the gorgeousness of its worship.
Again, the corruptions of JwcZa/'-m. have contributed no
inconsiderable share to the Papacy. Like the Papists,
the Jews do not approve of a man's reading much of the
Bible, because it may lead him to speculate. They say
the Rabbinical commentaries are as much as it is proper
for the people to know. Who does not discern the proto-
type of the Papacy here '( and the foot-prints of the great
deceiver in both ? J esuitical casuistry is as much a
feature of modern Judaism as of Popery. Both systems
are pervaded by a spirit of craft, selfishness and spiritual
tyranny.
Popery is Gentile Rabbinism — makes traditions at least
of equal authority with the Bible, and makes the Church
the expounder of both. Absolution is a doctrine of per-
verted Judaism. All obligations were solved on the great
day of atonement. Improving on this, the Romish priest
can, for money, absolve from all sins past and grant indul-
gence for all sins in the futui'e.
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FALSK Ki-;naio>fa- (('..»//»„.■./.)
uoMK HAS rTn-siKvn> \i r nuvi<:uri-,i> -rAUANisMtoN
T^rr Nvo t\nist not ov(>rlooU or \)\'\\ \o rrotlil Honn^ \vif1»
ivrt,'\in cvtv^t VM»1io.*\l <nulis Mt\»l imm Inin oss»»u<inl lonlmiv'Aor
A inu-> ivligiotK wlnt^l^ in spilo ol' mH IiiM- sm*! nnd inorlnl
|Vi voTsi»n^s, ;nu1 M*^ pM\is nnion^ mu inoh irvnMo lu'Mp of
rubbish, sbo )ims ro(;n!io«i <ho Ibi im !\n<l nol (ho Hpiril.
And >v]im( is ^\m{o \v»>\<ln- of nv^tiv'o. Konio Iimm imiv^imvoiI
stoniotrntbs in c^vMtor \bs(in\'<iu\^s ibnn ]'r*>losJnn(isni \\i\A,
ihc forn\ :uu\ iho snporv-^otiptiiMi of i\\o oo\jn<orlbi< is
niotin\cs f*nin«i(o bo nunv [hMt\Hi. than iluvso oftlu^ \v',\\
iriot.'^b
It \vi]l not bo .-nniss boro <o otumiornlo sonio «>r llii^
pavtio\i]rti-s in winoli Homo bns prosorvt^i oiMiain ^I'oni
trutl^s i\\\d o\itbnosof dnistinnity \\\\h groal. dislinotnosa,
yot ?!0 oario.-Uui\\i ;\nd porvortod Ibon^ ms (o nioro (h.-ni
iiontr.-^lizo (boir powor- (o mjiUo tln^n (ln^biMini? of l»or
poNvor for ovil mvMO i\\^\n jiistifvini;- tbo nppolb-Wion wo
iiAvo appliod to l\or as tlio groat Oountkui'KIT o( Oliristi-
anitv.
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Nor TifOii TTO conlino o\ir romarkv«* to Romo. Othor
false rolii^ious exhibit uuniistAkablo traces of rcvcaUHi
as
5*V
I
riUrirW ^^W TIIW rilltK, f?»rf,l(||(iM
Mifl
Irndi, tvliii'l). lil<p •lininondii in liii^»» lM>np«i nf niMimli, lir*
iloiiMniit. mill piiu'i'i If'MM, liiil. mImimI mm h'> iiiMriy li^lil«i Mliiri
('('»
I
n rcpriio nui
I I.I
iiriiMli
ili^ (lli*Mi|^li iliinlv ) i>i )I(mI< ;iIm
mill ii'Hi'l ill lii«< (liM(l«>m of ImlJi lluvm* fr)i^iiM«nl.Mrv ^*>ni»
JM flin WMil< of nil nil HMiMvnl.iii|.r ( !|if JMliMnily Tim work
of IliM iniMMJoiini V. |tliiluMM|(|iinilly HjM'r.kiiij/. i*^ iiof,R(» »riiirli
lo iiiiriiilniM* >>r'»/' jiIpmm Inln Mm» tfiifnl of f,lif« li(>nllM>ri n.s f,o
ipvivo mill ntiUM't nlil niM'M id fniriovo f.lio niMii'ili liy
\v
liit'li
I Mill iiiMl ij^Moniricf' liiivp IhmmmI jrmu Hi^/hf, t.h^ "fi
fl fr
rill, til
l«»fii \h Iniijl, -♦,(» I
onr
^iiinl InilliM nil uliirli (lio ^ivoii »yH
nwny llip liny, woimI niiil rI iil»l»l«\ iiimI r«|»f f»»lii«o f |io Milv^r,
^ulil n tl |iiiM'i(tim hImih>m of |»riM|.iin« If iif.lt Tlify kin
[
itW
(lod, yi>(, MiM vo liiiii iMtlfiM (loM. 'I'lioy linvo lli«'if hm viour«^
niiMHMM, hiiIimI iliilr?^ iiMMlinf.orq niiifiy. Tim I«|i>m of Hnri
fli'o nn*l (itoiHMiioiif, i,q lili* nmoi^r flii'iii, lnif, nil /fcnxTi' f.
Tlioy Iti'liovo ill f.lin iiiifivr ilfprn vify of riinri f,lio rifv,f»fl
sil y ormiol Iiim'm i i^lif immimiiohh f,o I»m nn!. to iJif^ir nfV'.oiinl in
mhIhIo of fill, mo n>wni(l ninl |iiiiiiHlirii''nf, ifi nil f,lio i mi -
ilnmonlnl inillifl of* our r«>li^nofi. Ynt, (>rnc,f,irnlly Mioy
ifjrmun jJio wlioln. TliifMigli t,lin nxcfmMJvo l»liri(lii»i«s of
ilioir iniiiilM Miny lilivn f.ofnily |»f«rvf'rf,e(l t-lio wnyM <»f t,}io
lioril.
'I'lio iilon. of Rnnif'M'ofl nml ImiiiiI, ofrorifi^fl -nof.irc of
a
nnivoiHnI drlii^n l,lin nM-.o^nif/iofi l»y I'n^nris, MosU-rfiS,
nml OliriHtiniiR of oviMy iiniiH>, of AKrnliarn ns \,))^^ ^rffit
mnn ol tlm wlioln ndigloiiM world, and f,lif? iiriiv^'.isal honour
ilint lins hroii a('<'or'lf«d f,o Mcjsph and Mi»^ prrjplints, ar«
fooi-priiitH in l,lio doRorf, fJiat no nictral siroccos liavc ovf.r
boon H.lilo to oMitnrnf.o. And ynt, nioro remark >i,l)lo ih fho
gonnral ndoption of tlm diviMoih of limr, iiiio y)r4',kn. From
the Christinn nations in lOurofio trj Uhi (/hirif-'^o Sfia, inclu-
ding KgyptianFi, (Inndca, Oliincac and Romans, wc trace at
loMRt a trnditionni coihum tion with fJic truo religion.
In India tho division of time into weeks has all along
been observcMl. The nomenclature of tlie days is derived
from tho names of the sun, moon and planets, exactly as
in Europe. Tho remombranco, however, of the fteventh
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as a SnMiatli, or sacn^d day of rest, lias boen completoly
lost. Yet cnonn^li iiMuains to indicate its orij/iv, yet
stripjied of all wlilili sin and Sat.m would have expunged.
iVrhaps there Im no religion wliieli lias not truth mixed
with whatever ingredients constitute it. " Paganism,"
says Carlyle, " is a veracious expression of the earnest,
awestruck feelings of man towards the universe." — Pa-
ganism embleni(Ml (Oiielly the ojierations of nature, the
" etlorts, vicissitude, cond)inations and destinies of things
and men in the worUl;" while " (^hristianism" emblems
tlie laws of human duty, the moral law of man. The one
for the sensuous nature, the other for the moral. Indeed
we shall discover traces of the true religion running
through all the turhitl streams of idolatry. The institu-
tion of sacrifice for sin, for exam))le, as practised first in
Eden, and thence down through all after generations,
j)refiguring the great reality, was doubtless a positive in-
stitution, and not a dictate, as many sup[)ose, of natural
reliixion.
But it is more especially to Romanism tJiat we would
look for our illustrations. Let us first trace some of the
great truths incorpoiated in this colossal system of error
and delusion, and then see how they are perverted and
abused.
I. The Papists are right in the honour they give to the
Head of the Church. He is worthy of all honour, of su-
',n'eme reverence, and untiring service. He is infallible.
But they grievously mistake in putting a man in the
place of God, and of honouring and serving the creature
and not the Creator. Too much importance cannot be
attached to the idea of headship in the Church. And
having put the crown upon the right head, we cannot bow
at his feet too submissively or ascribe to him too ecstalic
praise. And here we discover the true foundation for the
infallibility of the head of the Church. No Church holds
this doctrine more firmly than the Romish, yet wickedly
ascribes to a fallible man what belongs only to the infal-
INFAI.LiniMTY OK TIIK CIKnuMl.
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pletoly
11, ypt
mixed
ni.sin,"
ariu\st,
"—Pa-
re, the
things
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'ho one
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would
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bed and
to the
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fallible.
in the
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mot be
And
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Bcstalic
for the
1 holds
Ickedly
infal-
lible Ood. (^hristlius been constitut^Ml tn(i head over all,
supreme, infallil)le; fiod's Vicegerent, Lawgiver, King
and Judge. How Hkilfully and adioitly has Ik; Ikm-u
eounterfeited, whether it be Pope, (hand Lama, or the
Pro] diet of Meeea.
J I. The 'hifallihUUu of f,h, Church, and Ahsofvfioii. by
the [)rieHt, are not ho much errors as perverted trutlis, re-
tained moi-(; distinctly by the Romisli ( -hurcli tlum by the
Protestant. Truth is infallible. 11ie tnn^ (/hnrVii is
rooted and grounded on the; tinth, and just so farassh(5 is
a living demonstration of tlu^ truth, she i.i infallibli!. 'J'he
error lies in predicating of a coriupt or j)ai'tially sancti-
fied Church, what is true oidy of a perfect (/lunch. And
of the nuich-abused dogma of ahsolufion it is a delightful
ti'uth that the ])riest or the niinister of (Jhrist ma}^ declare
sins forgiven to all who truly repent and b(:lieve. And no
doubt it is the privilege of Christ's ministers to attain to
that skilfulness in divine things, that discrimination in
" discerning 8i)irits" that he may declare, not in his own
name, but in that of his Master, that the sins of this or
that man are forgiven. Apostolic faith shall bring back
apostolic gifts and graces.
III. The Romish communion has retained the only ap-
propriate appellation of the Christian Church : the Holy,
Catholic, Apostolic^ Church. She claims what (he true
Church of Christ has a right to, catholicity, apostolicity,
sanctity, unity, unchangeableness. As the body shall be-
come like its infallible head it shall show forth these cha-
racteristics, beautiful as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem and
terrible as an army with banners. What Rome claivis to
be, the true Church of Jesus Christ shall be.
IV. Another interesting feature of the true religion
which Rome has retained even more perfectly than Pro-
testantism, is the idea of one great local Cknthe. This
seems a dictate of natural religion — (or perhaps matter of
very early revelation) — which has met a very ready re-
sponse in the economy of nearly all forms of religion.
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346
THE FOOT-rniNTS OF SATAII.
Different systems of Pnganism have their centres. The
idolatrous Arabs, before tlie reform of Mohammed, had
their Kaaba and the Black Stone, the Mohammedans their
Mecca, Biahminism its Benares. The Magians liad their
great Fire Temple, and the worshippers of the Grand
Lama made the place of his throne the great rallying
point for half tlie population of the globe. And more con-
spicuously than all, Rome is the grand centre of the
Papacy. The Pope, St. Peter's, the Vatican, relics, saints,
the Holy Virgin, severally and jointly make up the great
rallying-point of Romanism.
Mecca, the present centre of Islamism, was a great reli-
gious centre generations before the world had ever heard
of Mohammed. Perchance the Sabians worshipped there.
There was the ffimous Black Stone and the well Zemzem,
about which for centu lies bowed the congregated tribes
of Arabia, and over which in time arose the celebrated
Kaaba, the oldest fragment of the misty ]){ist. The same
time-honoured and temple-consecrated spot remained a
great religious centre, remodelled and reconsecrated by
Mohammed, towards which 180,()()0,00() of souls, stretching
over tw^o continents, from the Chinese Sea to the Atlantic,
bowed their faces. Here, from the remotest regions of
Islamism, multitudes annually congregate as to the great
centre.
Jerusalem was the centre of Judaism. Mount Zion, the
Temi)le, the visible Shekinah, was the grand centre of the
Jews' dispensation. All faces were turned towards the
Holy City. Every Jew must go up to Jerusalem to
woi'ship. The fact is significant that the great Lawgiver
should give so decided an importance to Jerusalem as a
local centre of a dispensation which in an important sense
he made a model dispensation. It would seem to indicate
that the religious instincts which led all ancient systeins
of religion to such a choice were innate and right, and
worthy to be imitated. And we have here more than an
intimation that that higher, holier, more expansive andmore
THE NEW JERUSALEM.
347
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trrcrit
to
diffusive dispensation of grace for which we look, and which
we believe hastens on apace, shall have its grand centre in
kind like the Joruaalein and Mount Zion and the Holy
Temple of its illustrious ])rototype, but in degree vastly
more splendid and worthy of the highly exalted and glo-
rious disp(;nsation it shall represent.
The grand centre towards which all true religion tends,
and about which it must finally revolve, is the Cross — the
great centre of attraction ; vsome tending thither by
affinity, some by repulsion — repelling from themselves all
which will not in its nature be attracted towards the
great centre; the attractive power of divine love; the
centre Christ, love personified. All that is true in reli-
gion is susceptible of attraction. The true gold of piety
— the gems of the moral firmament — are the sparkling
stars, shedding their borrowed yet brilliant light, and re-
volving about the Sun. T(>ward3 it all hearts look —
about it the whole spiritual universe revolves — system
about system — the less about the greater, but all about
the Grand Centre.
But we mean more than this. We mean that Chris-
tianity, when it shall have taken possession of the earth
in its millenninl glory, and our glorious King shall reign,
shall have its visible centre; that Jerusalem shall become
the gra.id Metropolis of the new Kingdom ; that the Jews
shall repossess the land which was given them for an ever-
lasting inheritance ; that the Holy City shall be rebuilt
in proportions and grandeur before unknown, and the
Temple shall arise on Mount Zion in splendour such as
Solomon never saw. What Jerusalem was to the Jews,
this new Jerusalem diall be to the whole body of the
faithful of every nation and tongue and kindred. Thither
shall go up, at least by their representatives, all tribes and
nations to Jerusalem to worship. We believe the simple
announcement of Zechariah, that "all the families of the
earth shall come up unto Jerusalem, even from year to
year, to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep
the feast of Tabernacles."
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And we believe Ezekiel's glowing descriptions of the
Holy City j^et to arise, and of the magnificent Temple
that shall be the glory thereof, and of the glory of the
worship to be performed there, and the beauty of holi-
ness that shall dwell there, shall all be realised in this
great WQrld's centre and exposition of the ways and
works, the honours and spoils, the virtues and graces of
Christianity in the glory of its highest earthly perfec-
tion. We may form some conception of what Jerusalem
shall be in the earlier generations of that indefinitely long
period called the Millennium, when the riches of the Gen-
tiles shall flow into it and kings shall bring their gold and
incense. Who can conceive the beauty and grandeur of
the city of the Great King after the adornments of but a
single generation ? But add to this a thousand years —
perchance myriads of years — and look again upon the
Holy City, after that the silver and the gold, and the labour
and the skill of a renovated world are laid at the feet of
the Great King, and the possessors thereof vie with each
other for the honour of adoring the place where his pre-
sence and glory more especially dwell.
But we may not stop here. Not only shall the conse-
crated nations and tribes, in the highly exalted condition
of the millennial state of the Church, have their great
centre of holy influences and more exalted privileges,
where Immanuel more especially dwells, which we have
called New Jerusalem, the city of the Great King, but
there shall follow, vitev a short and most eventful era,
(the last death-struggle of the Foe,) the future, final and
everlasting reign of the saints upon the earth. '' Such as
be blessed of him shall inherit the earth." "The righteous
shall inherit the land and dwell therein for ever." "The
meek shall inherit the earth."
And when the King shall appear in his consummated
glory ; when in the midst of ten thousand times ten
thousand angels, and of the countless multitudes of the
redeemed from Adam vo the last soul converted, he shall
IS of the
■j Temple
:y of the
' of holi-
d in this
^ays and
graces of
y perfec-
rerusalem
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andeur of
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Such as
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PILGRIMAGE A TRUE IDEA.
349
appear and take the Mediatorial throne, where shall be
his footstool ? where his abode ? where the place of his
throne ? Be it tnat his glorious presence blesses every
soul, in the remotest regions of his wide domains, yet is
there not a grand and glorious centre from which emanate,
as rays from the sun, all light, all love, all beneticence ?
Is there not a place of his throne — a place of his abode ?
And as this Mediatorial kingdom is an earthly kingdom,
has it not an earthly metropolis ? In harmony with this
idea John saw the new Jerusalem come from heaven. It
was the heavenly state come down to earth. It was the
earthly Jerusalem made heavenly — a fit abode for angels
— for the s})irits of just men made perfect — a fit abode for
the Great King. Then most emphatically shall Jerusalem
be the glory of the whole earth.
V. It may be inferred, from what has been said of
centres, that 'pilgrimage is a true idea, the dictate of a
high order of piety, most sadly perverted and made the
source of untold evils by nearly all false religions, yet an
idea preserved by them more correctly than by the true
religion. The devout Jew turned his face towards Jeru-
salem, the city of his God, and longed to set his foot on
the sacred soil where, amidst all the symbols of his re-
ligion, he might bow ih the holy Temple. With a like
yearning the deluded Moslem sets his face towards Mecca,
and feels that a pilgrimage thither is worth the toil of a
lifetime. The Hindoo looks to Benares or Juggernaut as
the great point of attraction and centre and radiating
point of all his superstitious fancies. In the practice itself
there is couched an interesting truth, but when perverted
in the service of superstition it is the source of un-
mitigated evil. There is scarcely a practice among the
heathen that brings with it more sutferinof, demoraliza-
tion and death ; while, on the other hand, some of
the higliest, purest aspirations of the Christian soul
might dictate a visit to the great central temple of tlie
God he worships. As Jerusalem shall again become the
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THE FOOT-PTlTNTa OF SATAN.
grent centro nnd aietn^polis of (lie true roligimi — an "tlie
law sliall go out ot Ziou nnd tlio word of God from
.lonisaloni," all who honour Ciod and lovo th(» wmvh of
'/Aou, will long to how down in th(' (Jreat 'l\Mnj)le witli
thoir kindrod in Chriist from tho roniotost rogioiiH of (he
oarth, and to oHer tho Hacritico of praise upon the common
altar.
W. Again we find huried beneath the grossest super-
stitions and idolatrous regard, another truth—we mean
a profi)Ui\d vcucndio}) for the (Vntrcli and the priesthood.
With Romanists tlie Church is every t lung and the priest
supreme. There is no saerilice so l)uriiei\some — no sin
so ]iein«)us that the Papist will not commit, if satislied
that the Church rccpiirc^s it or the priest cotnmands it.
He would sooner violate (>very command in. th(> Decalogue
than to eat meat on Kridny. The " traciitions ot men"
are everything ; the commandments of God, if in conilict
with these, are nothing.
Is'ow the error does not lie in too gn\it an honour paid
to the Church ai\d the priesthood. If the ('hurch were
what she shvuild be, and what she shall he, a facsimil<\ —
a veritable demonstrati«>n of the truth as it is in .lesus;
if the [)riesthood — the (lospel ministry, weie perfect pat-
terns of the One Ci'cat High Priest and I5ish<»p of our
souls, such homage, su( h vcniM'ation would be altogether
suitable and right. And in pro'/iortion as the Church and
hci- priesthood approximate their destined and apjiroaching
perfection, they shall be worthy the honour supjxised.
The error lies in according such honour to a Church
notoriously corrupt and idohitrous, and to a priesthood
which, when not restrained by extraneous ]iowers, has
been characterizeil bv an avarice, ambition, licentiousness
and cruelty, which has nuide then\ a r(»[>roaeh and a by-
word the world over. The Church, when she shall have
gathered within herself all the good in tho world (which
is really her ow-n), and repelled all the bad (for which she
can have no possible aitinity) — wlieu she shall be con-
THE DAILY SF-UVICK REVIVED.
351
formetl in Christ, and Christ fin'iDod in licr, tlio hofx; of
glor}'— when who shall {)iit un her hridal attire and appear
as the Lanih's wife, she then shall stand forth all glorious
and woithy of all honour.
Vll. Another feature which th(5 Papists have prttsei'ved
better tlrni I'rotestaid.s is the Daily Skmvick in the
church. While the former have letained the form (wo
cannot say the spiiit), the latter have scarcely retained it
in anywise.
Jewish Hynn<(ogues, Heathen temples, and Mah(>m-
niedaii mos<(ues, are daily (»pen fur worshijK This is, as
it shoidd he, a dictate of natural reli;^ion — an instinct of
the [)ious he.'irt. While the [)ractiee in the spurious re-
ligions ri^ferred to, (h)es litth^ hut t(> keep uj) the form and
to bind closer the bonds of superstition ; among the (h;-
vout worshippers of the one true and holy Ood it would
be a daily recogiution of obligations for mcsrc^ies past and
present,, a time for daily thaMksgiving, j)rayer and |:)rais(!,
a demonstration to the world that our reli'don is not
casual, not o(!casional, not a mere form or profession, or
the business menily of a Sunday, but that it is a practical,
personal, (^very-day matter — the day Ix^gun with God
— God pul)licly recognized as our Helpcir in all tliat
day's affairs, our Guide and Shield, our Benefactor and
Saviour.
TliO Daily Service was a marked feature of the Apos-
tolic and early Christian (yhurch. They assem})led daily
not only for prayer atid |)raise and reading the wonl of
God, but for " the breaking of bread." And as the (/liris-
tian Church shall return to her |)rinutive simplicity and
practice — to the form and spirit of the Apostolic (Jhurch,
the Daily Service will no doubt bo revive<l. This is the
monition of every revival of religion, the dictate of .ivery
pious soul. We see an incipiency of this practice in tlie
case of the " Protracted Meetings," and yet more distinctly
in the Daily Prayer Meeting. For fifteen years that
" upper chaiisber " in New York haw held out the token
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of n r(^t\ini \o iho hsm^h^m nf llu^ ]>riiniliv(^ ("lunvli. Atid
tlic fVw olluM- nuM^iiuos of ji liko v'harMcifM" \hi\i li'^ve ox-
istonrr in oIIhm' cilic's ol'iuir ImiuI do l>n< choriHlj (ho idea
that (lio limo is ikW. «lis(;m( wIhmi \\\o clnMrcMi •)!' onr
oomnHMi Kn(l\»»r shall assiMuhlo <luMns(>Iv«vs <(>}T('(1um' to
S(M^k dav l»v day IIumt daily Incad in (1h» placo of prnyiM.
\111. 'Vho Papal ronununion has with nmch (rnth
Inv^n »'all(Ml a rhnii'lj of i))<))nn/. (\Mlain if is iliat, no
vnudinloradon lias so sntMVsslully drawn onf <ho rcsonrcivM
of its monibovs, or so adroitly ajipliod ihcin fo Ihm' own
«^\(onsi(Mi and aoorandi/iMncnf. MoniM', nvo kno\y, is a
fronuMidous powiM-, wIuMIkm' for /jfood «>r for cyil. And no
Cluiri'h lias r(\'diz(Mi (his powor lik(» [\w |{«>nnsh. Sho
lias soonn^l in hov nuMnhorslnp. and nsml with a y(Mi^(»anoo,
wliat (h(» rro<(^s(an( (luin^h has failod toso(Mn>\and whaf
she sadly snlf(Ms for fho lack o\\ yiz., a si/'^tcnKtfie, loii-
•jv r.sMf/ ?)r??^?'()/f'»(V'. Wo sh(>nld not \a the oaso of llonu-
oail it lHMun-olono(\ Wo nu^in tho///?';??^, and t]u'al\yu3H
iXiyin^r. of (ho whoh* nKMnhorship to snppori fho Clmnh.
Tho rii'li aro niad(^ fo giy(» o( fhoir ahundnnoo and the
]>0(M' as surt^ly giyo <>f th(Mi jUMUiry. 'I'ho pooivst sorvnrd
girHnonthly, if not wotdvly. diyidos hov s<'anty )>uyuirto,e
\yilh tlio C""!!!!!'*'!!. 'I'hc soorot of H mo'a onornions powor
lies \ (MT ni\u'h in tlio ]H'onniary ir.v snivvs tliat have lunni
}>iit at h(M' disposal. Hnt for nioncv h.-t ; in.nny woidd
have boon harndoss. With ii. she tv;unj)l( a kinu;s nnc'cr
f(^<^t and spoih^d kingdoms, and rioted in blood, and
tvrannizod (>yor nations, and biH^mK^ t,h(^ niotlicr of harlots
and all abominations. Most signall .• has the Dovil hero
sbiuvn what mont\\' oan di'* to giyo ox])ansion and p( wim*
and aggraiidizonuMit t(> a gr(\\t syst(Mi\ o( despotism, o\)-
prossion and 0(>rrupti«)n. Tho ^vorld\s history doivs not
atiord another v'^nob instanee o\' the perversion of money.
Yit \vhat might Homo not liave done tor good, had her
iineiv.iiiN^ i nillions been devoted, not to the snuport and
nggran(ii:inr.en\ of a great and eorrupt system of tyranny.
foin)i^''i .'V, i^jioranee. bnt * > the extension of that kintr-
—vmw^mmv^m"
MONKV AND TMK, ClUriicn.
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Honi of* lovo nnd ligbt nnd lihrrly nnd ))OMro aT>d pnrifv,
wliich <!)(» l)l(\qs»nd InunMnnol canu^ ♦(M>Mtnl)liMli. It would
trnnslnto ilio liiiiln into ovniy Inn^nni^n on tJio Tiro ol'tlio
onrtli, scMid a niissionniy into «'V<ny <'ity, vill)i|(onn(| Imtn-
let, Riipply a p.cliool lor pvcry yontli, a lilnMiy lor every
town, Mnd a hospital lor nil tlio sick and inlirni. It
wonid, nnd(M" (Jod, nstaldish th(i nrign of p(*a(;o and rjglit-
eonsnn.sR on onrth.
VVhfit Koino hna fnilod to do through tlio ^rosfl prrvnr-
Rion ol'hrr nicnns, tho l*rol('st/nd, ( Jlnnch is hon?id to dn.
Shft nnist thon call ont her rosonrces and npply thnin lor
^ood. It is, i!) I ho nspect wo nro now considorin^ tlio
work, a niattf^' of 7/M>//r'// ol" ('onRocfatod wonltli. A rid
horo W(^ Rcarcoly nood n»oro than lo horrow Iron) an on(>niy
his syaloni of hrin^inf/ tho silvoi' and tho j/old ird.o tho
tronanry of iho Ijord. Wo nnist in tho higln^r and iiolior
senso ot tho torni ho a (church, of rwonry — of con.sociatcxi
wealth. Not til! nion shall hny and si^ll and ^ot gain lor
tho Lord — not till men shall eonseera.to all th<'y liav(^ to
their Divine Master, will tho ^roat and good work of rais-
ing tho lovv^ly, of enlightening tho ignorant, of" leclairning
tho wandering ami ii^storing to lil'o them who an; dead in
trespasses and sins, Ix* done. Never was a time when tho
cansoofonr Divine Master- so mu(d) needed moiri^y.
Having stated some ol" tho features whic^h have been
preserved more <listinetly in tho eountoTl'eit than in thr
true Church — j)rcserved in form, though sadly ])ervert«"
in fact — we now turn to certain other rosemhlanees an .
connectiorrs hetween tho true and tho false, which wdl
further illusti'ato how largely fa'so religions have dravvri
from tho one true, revealed rcdigion.
Original revelation deelar(Ml tho one true God. Pagan-
ism appeared as its corruption, snhstituting gr)dH many
and lor'ds many. The second groat period of rovf^lation,
announcing Immannel, God with us, declares tho one me-
diator hetween God and man, tho oire advocate and inter-
cessor before tho eternal Throne. Home, in common with
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Ihiiili'il In III'' |tM\v('i III ('Im' 'I I en fffi'l I'l l.r )' .'I tf'.n 'fh'-r'^
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TUF, FOOT-rUlNTS OF SATAN.
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deofl, IbcMV iH in\i('h in <li( «»\i(MTiMl of KoiriMTiisin wliicli
woiiM .s(MMii to l>oloiiir(n M)(» ( ^hnich in Ihm- njoriMKlvniicod
condition. 'I'lic s])irii,. (Ik* son) is .^o!i(>, y(>(, hcantirnl
forms nnd a spl«Midi<l ritn.Ml — tlic jidornmtMit of tlic d(>ad
— tlu.s cxtiM'Jial hcanlv, nndcr ha|>|)i(>r anspicivs, may Jh»-
como tlio tyi)(i of ihnt awl'nl and ('(dcstial hcauly wliioli
|HM-tains to tW \mvo in Iicart, and dwells in its jm^ftM'tion
only in tlio mind of ( Jod. 'I'Ikmi* ( ^hnrcli (Mlifictvs " pos-
sess a. wondtMl'ul charm lor iho'w lino proportions and an-
tique air." Nor nnist wi* forii^iM. that amidst tln^ corinp-
tions ol Homo wo may r<u'oi;ni/(» sonn*, of tlio ^rca.t and
all-ti"anst\>rminij^ oliMucnts of (Mnisiianity — liko stars
min^ltMl >vitli (don<ls and j^loom, y(»t. stars still.
huhH'd. wo nnuM, in om* of tlio most offonsiv(» and dan-
gerous f(*at\n'('s of this rtdij^ion, a (Irrohuliicss to t,ho
CMnnvh, a solf-d<Miial — solf-al>nei;ation — a, oonsocration of
life, mon(\v, talent, overythin!;- — a on(Mi(\ss of idea and
])\irpose, which in itself is .altoij^etluM' worthy the imita-
tion of every member of the Christian Church. Wo re-
fer to the order of the Jesuits. They have the ri^j^ht i(h\a,
as an abstract princi|)le, of M-liat the discMpIo of Jesus
sliouhi he. Kvery disciple of Ijoyola, stands pledged, un-
der sanction of the most solemn oatli, that he will obey
tlie behests of In:'. Church,— that he Avill favour her inter-
est, defend her lionour. contribute to her aggrandizement
by a full and unwavering consecration of life to her ser-
vice. Were it a service done for Christ and his Church
witli a ])ure heart and a good conscience, instead of a de-
votion to Mary, Petei* and an apostate Church — were the
design of such consecration of life to enlighten the ignor-
ant, reclaim the vicious, preach the gosjiel tind save the
souls of the perishing— tlie devotion of the Jesuit would
be worthy oi all ]iraise, and of the imitation of every one
callinix himself after tlie name of Christ.
The Church of Rome has been greatly indebted for her
extension and aggrandizement to the crafty and unscru-
pulous, untiring devotion of this famous fraternity. It
iiif*'
DRVOTION OF .IKSTTTT3.
3r,7
is t.ho lack of such devotion — ^tlio uIisctk'o oTm. l>i[,di jitkI
holy (M»ns(!('ralJon U) lier Divini^ Mjtstcr, timt Iwis doiu;
more ilinii imylliiji^ clso to liiiKlcr tin* ( 'luisiiun (^Imri'h
in Iht onwiird niaicli lo llu; cofKiurst of tlio woild. 'I'liat
lii^di order of (Mtnsecr.Mt ion wliieli ncived lor Iier tnission
(Jio Aj)o,stoli(' ( 'linreli, and {^^JU'e liei* n jtowiu" vvldcli eiuilihid
lier to ciirry tlie ^ood tidin^^^s of tlu; ^osjicl to tlit; wliolo
known world in nitout tliirty yeM.iw, Jind most eonviruMn^-
ly to vindiejito to (lie world her eluiins to he the Ono
Holy, ('atholic, A|()stolie (■hnrch, sidwided, and the
(^hureh declined, and her |»ovver Iw.m heen paralyzed.
Sh(i had essayed to {^o nj) to th(^ j^'rcsat hattle. for the
world's ('on(|Mest, and (ailed heeatise shorn of her great
stren<j^th.
While on th(^ otlier hand the Devil, hy a, most skilful
monopoly, has seeui<Ml for a. had eanse ■what we have
failed to se(!Ui(5 for a. <j^ood (!ans(!. Had the truc^ Chureli
heen as devoted, as thoroughly eonseeratcul, as indc^fa.ti-
gahly active^ iov tiuth and righteousness — for the exten-
sion of the ('hureh, the salvation of souls and the eon-
version of the! woild, as tin? niisnanxMl Older of Jtisus has
heen to hind men in the eliains oC a galling desj)otism,
and dehase them hy rites and HU|)('.iHtitionH stolen from
Paganism, this apostate world would long since have
heen reclaimed from the dominion of sin, and all trihes
and nations been given to ('hrist for an everlasting king-
dom.
Hut wo will not (piestion tlie divine )>lan. Ah (iod lias
been })l(^ased to suri-endcsr for a. time (;0 the god of the
world the powers and resources and elements for progress
of this material world, that it may })een s(!en what a
wretched business he can make of it all, so in everything
that relates to t\w y/>irifv(U interests of man, he is for a
time allowed a ])redominating control. False religions
are his strongholds. Frctm this vantage ground he wields
the mightiest weapons of his power. Ancient Pagaidsm
served his purpose in the darker ])eriods of the world. A
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christianized Paganism is made to arise, to serve the same
purpose in an enlightened age of the world. This we
think all history warrants us in assuming to be "the mas-
terpiece of all the contrivances of the Devil against the
kingdom of Christ — the Anti-Christ" — " a summation of
religious error" — a compound or result of all previous
systems. As Paganism was the counterfeit or the Popery
of the old Patriarchal religion, and Mohammedanism the
Popery or counterfeit of Judaism, Romanism is the Popery
or counterfeit of Christianity — perhaps the perfection
and climax of that " mysteiy of iniquity" which the Arch-
Fiend ?s allowed to practise among the sons of men ;
though we have our apprehensions that as light and
true piety increase, and the Church of Christ rises and ex-
pands and takes a higher level, his Satanic Majesty may feel
the necessity of perpetrating upon the world his iinal grand
counterfeit, which shall serve his purpose in the advanced
and rapidly advancing condition of the world.
Having now shown how largely false religions are in-
debted to the one true revealed religion for many pre-
cious truths which have existed as gems amidst huge heaps
of rubbish, we shall in the next chapter show how largely
the Papacy, the now prevailing counterfeit, has drawn
from Paganism. In other words, present the Papal sys-
tem as a baptized and christianized Paganism — a new
edition of the old book, got up to suit the times.
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ROSARY — CHARMS — IDOLATRY — P URGATORY — NO BIBL E
— PERSECUTION — ALL FEATURES DERIVED FROM PAGAN-
ISM.
In order to a full revelation of God's gracious purposes
towards our world, it is needful, as hinted in our last
chapter, that there should be a full revelation of sin. Sin
being the malady and grace the remedy, the full efficacy
of the latter can be revealed only in the complete re^ ela-
tion of the former. The Apostle cautioned the Thessalon-
ians against an error they had somehow fallen into res-
pecting the coming of Christ and the completion of the
woj'k of human redemption. They supposed the end of
all things was at hand. Paul says no ; before the wind-
ing up of the great drama of human salvation, scenes of
heretofore unparalleled interest are yet to transpire.
Before the Lord Jesus Christ shall come and gather in his
elect and finish the mediatorial work, sin must do its per-
fect work — must act itself out — show itself — exhibit its
strength, its maturity, its malignity, its bitter fruits —
must firstshow what -i^can do in all the varied circumstances
and relations of life — how evil and bitter a thing it is —
and how sure it is to meet the frown and curse of Heaven.
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Sin must be revealed, and must'show itself the son of
perdition — the great destroyer, and sure to be destroyed.
It is befitting in the great scheme — it is needful that
sin should have its perfect development. For this purpose
sin was admitted into the world, and its chief author and
agent, the Devil, is allowed to become, by usurpation, the
god of this world. This world should jrst become the
servant of sin, that it might be seen what a wretched world
sin could make it. And then should it become the servant
of God and of righteousness that it might appear how
beautiful a world it shall be when its rightful owner shall
restore it to his favour. Sin shall first have its day. Sin
shall reign. But sin shall come to an end, and righteous-
ness shall enjoy an everlasting dominion.
We propose to continue our notices of the usurpations
of sin, and of him that has the power of sin, by adducing
a few instances in which the Papacy is largely indebted
to Paganism. And this to an extent that makes its sys-
tem decidedly more Pagan than Christian. In doing this
we hope again to make it appear what a cunningly devised
scheme this system is, and what a tremendous power for
evil.
It might seem to suffice to speak only of the general
analogies of the Papacy and Paganism. We may take
Hindooism as a specimen. The Christian resident in India
is the daily witness of rites, superstitions and ceremonies
practised by Hindoos which are known to have been
theirs from time immemorial, yet which differ only in name
from the religious observances in Rome. A writer who
from personal observation knew well what he affirms,
sa3^s, " I need not stop to point out to the intelligent
reader the analogy which here appears, (he is speaking
of services for the dead,) and the many striking analo-
gies which will be seen between Hindooism and ropery.
The Heathenism oi the Papacy is a subject which deserves
vastly more attention in the controversy with Romanists
than it has heretofore received. In India we see not only
the i
fest,
rites
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the idolatry of Popery itself, which is everywhere mani-
fest, but we see its heathenism, in its conformity to Hindoo
rites, usages and superstitions."
Along the whole line of existence and history of Rome
Papal we meet the unmistakable foot-prints of Rome
Pagan. Modern Romanism is strangely grafted on Pagan
Romanism. We meet the pillar of Trajan surmounted by
an image of St. Peter — that of Antoninus Pius by a statue
of St. Paul — a fit whim of old Rome and new — new wine
in old bottles. Many a hoary ruin of an old heathen^'
temple is transferred into a Christian church. Jupiter
Capitolinus — the old statue of this heathen god, has been
lustrated by the Popes and consecrated into a statue of
St Peter. The Pope is none other than the Pontifex
Maximus of the old Roman mythology. Old Roman
temples are modern Christian churches — nuns were once
Testal virgins — the sprinkling of holy water but a perpe-
tuation of the lustration of the old Roman priests. The
Pantheon, the place of all gods, becomes in tiie new order
of Romanism the place of all saints. And St. Peter, as
he towers aloft in the dizzy height assigned to him,
becomes the Jupiter of the Capitol. The worship of
gods and heroes has simpl}'^ given place to the worship of
angels and saints, and the goddess of the old Romans
has yielded to the virgin, or the goddess of the modern
Romans. ^
A traveller in Italy visits the Church of St Paul Major
in Naples, and says of it : " This is really the old temple
of Castor and Pollux transformed into a church. There
stand the old pillars of the heathen temple. Before the
door is the statue of a heathen god converted into a statue
of St Paul. On either side of the great door and over it
are left remaining the pictures of the heathen priests
oflfering sacrifices, and rll over the interior of the building
are the representations of heathen mythology, mixed and
mingled up with the representations of tlje myths and
superstitions of Popery. Priests in their robes were
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mumbling mass at its altars, and to a person at all ac-
quainted witli heathen mythology, with Homan anti-
quities, and with the way and manner of the worship of the
old Italians, the concej)tion oa entering this church would
be neither violent nor unnatural that he was in a heathen
temple, whose altars were surrounded by heathen priests,
upon which they were oflfering their unmeaning sacri-
lices."*
Were an old worshipper of Castor and Pollux to rise
^from the Catacombs and enter the Church of St. Paul
Major at Naples, he would feel thai although great revo-
lutions had taken place in other things, his old temple and
its worship were yet mainly the same. There at least
were the holy water, the burning candles and the smoking
incense, just as he had left them. These last are among
the things " received," as Bishop England concedes,
**from the East," and adapted and baptized into the
Romish succession. The grave bishop probably conceded
more than he really intended, when he said, " As our re-
ligion is received from the East, most of our ancient cus-
toms are of Eastern origin."
Romish festivals and holy days are the natural born
offspring of the old heathen festivals. The character and
the place occupied by the one is almost entirely identical
with the other. Tlie name only is changed. This identity
in essence and character will appear the more obvious if
we advert for a moment to the manner in which these
modern, nominally Christian festivals are observed. Their
heathen birth-right will at once be betrayed. These festi-
vals have no religious character — nothing that addresses
itself to the heart and conscience, and makes the votary
feel he has a God to serve and a soul to save. At the
Festival of the Resurrection, (which we may take as a
single illustration,) preachers are wont to entertain their
hearers with anything which might excite laughter. One
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relates the grossest indecencies; another recounts the
tricks of St. Peter ; others, how adroitly, at an inn, ho
cheated the host and avoided paying his bill.
A Romish festival, everybody too well knows, is but a
lioly day — a gala day. No matter how serious bo the
occasion which is nominally celebrated, it is a day of
mirth and gay festivities. It may be in commemoration
of the birth, death or resurrection of Christ, or descent of
the Holy Spirit, or of any other great and deeply interest-
ing event in the history of the Church — it is all the same ;
the holy day and its festival stirs up no pious emotions,
no grateful aspirations, no sense of true worship. All is
form if not frivolity. Were I to relate to a company of
ignorant Papists, the frivolous stories retailed by Hindoo
priests and mendicants concerning their holy days and
their deities — the amours of their gods and the silly tricks
of Vishnu among the cowherds — how he proved his divi-
nity by making himself invisible that he might steal their
milk unperceived, and other naughty tricks which he
played with the young maidens of the field as they inro-
cently tended their fathers' flocks — should I relate these
things with the assurance that the parties were Ro-
mish priests and Romanists, mj'^ hearers would have no
scruple to pass it all as good Romanism.
Christmas is evidently a festival borrowed from the old
Roman Saturnalia. And the mode of its observance in a
real Papal country is as void of all religious seriousness or
of thoughts or observances appropriate to the day that it
professedly commemorates (the glorious advent into our
world of our Blessed Saviour), as is the grossly festive
observance of the old Pagan festival whose legitimate suc-
cessor it is.
But we have a yet more melancholy perversion in rela-
tion to the Sabbath. Here our enemy has achieved one
of his saddest victories. The Sabbath is one of the strong-^
holds of our religion. Demolish this, and the enemy may
come in and prowl at will. Rome has made the Sabbath
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the veriest holiday in the calendar. Little [is left to
entitle it to the epithet of sacred. The record of a single
traveller in France furnishes a befitting commentary
on this sad perversion. Writing from Paris, where he
was an eye-witness of the things whereof he affirms,
he says :
" On the Sabbath day, as in the ancient Pagan festival,
the devotee of superstition desires to .show forth his glad-
ness of heart. How does he do it ? Just as in the Satur-
nalia or Lupercalia. Hence the Sabbath day is the fete
day of the week. Nearly all the public places of exhibi-
tion are closed on one day of the week, and that day is
Monday. A cause is that the porters, etc., have been
entirely exhausted by the exertions and labours of the
Sabbath, when tens of thousands at times visit them.
One or two hundred thousand, on a Sabbath of Septem-
ber last, stood within the park of Versailles to witness the
great dragons of the Fountain pour forth their streams of
water. All the arrangements of the week point to that
as the grand holiday. Have the theatres nny particular
star to introduce to the public ? a Sabbath night is
selected. Have the restaurants or coffee-houses any new
discovery in the science of cookery to make known ? the
Sabbath is selected. Have the artizans need of a day of
rest in the seven ? Monday is selected, since the Lord's
day was required for their exhausting dissipation. Sa-
turday is invariably, among the lower classes, selected as
their marriage dfay, since they may have unrestrained liberty
to feast and frolic on the Lord's day. Balls are, for the
same reason, given on Saturday night, that the Sabbath
may be employed in carrying out their plans and
pleasures.
" Are the National Guards to be reviewed, 100,000 of
whom a,re stationed this hour in and around Paris, to en-
*>able the rulers to rule well this happy country ? the said
Sabbath is selected. Are railways to be opened, public
works to be commenced, horse-races to come ofl* ? the day
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of the Lord is chosen. At least a dozen times the me-
chanic and shopman have offered to send home thin«»s on
the Lord's day. If a mass is attended in the morning, tlie
rest of the day is clear gain, and can be spent as the de-
votee desires."
Monks, nuns, and religious orders trace back their ori-
gin to the stagnant pool. They are of heathen parentage.
In reading the accounts of Pagan monkery and asceti-
cism in Hindostan — how at some periods whole armies of
sturdy becfc/ars, amounting sometimes to ten or twelve
thousand, would lay under contribution whole villages —
we scarcely know whether we are on Pagan or Papal
ground. "When this army of robust saints direct their
march to any temple, men of the province through which
their road lies, very often fly before them, notwithstand-
ing the sanctified character of the Fakeers. But the wo-
men are in general more resolute, and not only remain in
their dwellings, but apply frequently for the prayers of
these holy persons, which are found to be most eifectual
in case of sterility. When a Fakeer is at prayers with
the lady of the house he leaves either his slipper or his
staff at the door, which, if seen by the husband, effect-
ually prevents him from disturbing their devotion. Should
he be so unfortunate as not to mind these signals, a
sound drubbing is the inevitable consequence of his
intrusion."
Is the reader here reminded of anything in the religion
of Rome like this ? If not, let us revert to another fea-
ture of Hindooism and see if we can discover the likeness.
Every principal temple in India has attached to it not
only as large a number of priests, monks and mendicants
as its revenue will support, but a corresponding corps of
young women known in religious parlance as wives of the
gods, but in common parlance as dancing girls or prosti-
tutes. In a single temple (that of Jejury, 24 miles south
of Ahmednugger) there were at one period 250 of these
wives of the gods. Mothers devote theii* daughters to the
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Ufod \'\'om llioir inlMnry. nml wlion H»o ^jiIfi nnivo nt, n
insin jmj^omMo Mp^ ll\oy two >voiI«I«mI <(> llic doily, nml nflrr-
wmiiIh tosido nt. (ho (rniph* iin«l livo for Uh* ^oiI, mikI may
not inMnv :i iMt»rlnI.
\VhMl HMV yo\i, volMiicvs of Homo b.MN'o noMluv^c* nnciont
V.'itjMns !\i\li«'inM<0(l \y)\\ in <1h» iiloji of inmmMioM nml ooii-
vonts ^ Noi liMvo v«>«i in your oIImm' ndiiriium or<l(M'M nml
rrnlonnlioM Aouo u\o\v \hs\\\ \o vo\\\\\ yvr\M^\\\i\U\ modiCy
nnd nroommodnlo (<» linuvM nnd plnoos. n\u\ i)n|ttiz(» M'illi
(Muis<i.'\n nami^s kimliiMl ord(MH »>f llomo'H Pn^m |»roj/(M>i
tors. Pilmimnijos. ixMiMUOos. luxlily inlliotioiiM jiro Iml. tlm
loiri(im;H«> olVsprimr of thoir I'm^mh protolypoM.
Wovo I m.'iy tpioto HoruiiM", Ih.-ni wliom low writiMR on
ln«li;\ Mrt^ moro wnviliy of iMiMlil. His doH»M'ipli«tn of Yo-
gtM^s is nnu'li to iho lifo. nml ])ossoss«»s tlio nuMit of oxin-
hi! in-: tl\o manncMs o( this olnss o( poopio as MH\y AV(»n>
two iMMd\nios aijo, and as tlioy now are. Ho mot asooti-
oism in ln»lia in vory nmoh thosamofonn in whioli it, has
so luxnriantly tlonrisliod on Papal gronml. Not only was
tho oonntvv o\ns(Ml witli innnmorahlo bands of lazy, worlli-
l<^ss mondioants and ttovotoos of ovorv oast and kind, hnt
institutions oxistod not nnliko oonvoiits and nnnnorios.
Wo savs. " Anh>ni; tho intinitv and irroat divorsity of
dovt>toos in India, tlioro aro mnnhors who iidiahit a kind
of oonyont, in whioh thoro aro snporiors, and whoro
thoy mako yows of ohastity. poyorty and oliodionoo, and
who liyo so strani^^o a lifo that 1 know not whothor yon
will holioyoit. Thoso arooommonly (iistin^^niahod hy tho
appollation o( Yi\i;oos, a i>Toat nnn\l)or of whom aro to ho
soon paradini^.'^hont, or sitting nlmo.stnakod, or lying down
ni^ht and day on ashes, and gonorally nndor tlio branches
ot large trees."
The nse of bends, iho rosary, nnuiletvS nnd oliarms,
«iato tluMr origin nn(i use back to a j)eriod centuries nnd
oouturies nnteri(>r to tlioir adoption by the Papacy. Be-
fore Rome was known — either Pagnn or 1 apal — the old
idolatei-s of Asia sat counting their beads, wearing theii*
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(•(•NVKNTM, MKADH, IKWAIIY.
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ainiilflw nml plying tlnMr rlmrtnH Tlw lliiulofm, IIim
('l)itiPNP, llio w«»rHlii|)|MMH of* Mu' (Irniwl LniriM i\u^\ (lin
foIIowiMR <»r i\w fnlN<» l'ni|iln»t., nil nK«> Mn'm' lokriis of
HllpoiHtilion. 'I'lio 'I'liilirlififm uro IhmmIh, wrni tlu' iiiilfo,
uso {\u} lioly vvnl.or, oHii'r pniyriH, mIimh mtmI KncrifMi-s for
tli(! «lrn»l, luivo llicir ronvcnlH, fiuiiH, prirHlM m?mI tno?ikH,
So cninplrto JH Mio r(>H«Miil»lniMM' ♦Iml., vvlirn ono of I he firHt
Koinisli iniHHionnrirH pnirlrnlrd Tliiln't., lin rniru' in l.lin
C(m('lnHi(m_(Minl voiy corn'clly, wo lliiiik j tlmt. tlto f)ovil
]m<l R««(. up ih«Mo im imilnMon »»f tlio rifoH (»!' ilic^ ('ntliolin
('Inircli, in onlor tlin iiioto rircctimlly to doMlroy tlio moiiIs
of iiHMi. Tlin coii<'liiMioTi hImmiM niiluT l»o tli«t lli»^ prirst
hcro^liHrovoHMl Dw foot,-prlntH of tlio I)(»vil in Himilnr iit(;H
and nppondagoH of Imr owfi ( 'liinrli.
" Tno llindoofl uho tho ro.snry in U)o Rn.mo way nn tlio
MnhoTnniodHnFi and r«piHU do. Tim cn.stojn is dr)nl>tl«!.ss
brought from tlio Ktint. Nnnrly ovvry dcvotco tlu-nj cnr-
ries a string of l)oadfl. Thry nro »iot only cnrrifd in tlio
hand antl used as a roHnry, Init am worn on tin; nnnw, tlio
neck, and tlio Imdy as anndrts. I ljav«! Hccn d(;votocs
nearly covered with RtringH of IxmdR. The Ilindoo rosary
consiRts of a liundnuj and eight l)cadR, tho Mahoinniedan
of a hundred and ono." ^
" Repeating tljo niiine of Rome one of the gr)dR m a very
common mo<lo of worship. To aRsist in this exercise a
string of beads, pcnrls or berri^R in used. The worKhi[)per,
by removing ono of thcRe every time lie rejxatR the name,
ia enabled enRily to reckon Iuh praycTR and know when
ho haa repeated tho intended number of ref)etitionR.
Some people spend hours in this practice;." This is the
very common ceremony among the HindooH called Jupu,
by which they fancy they may ol)taiii whatever they
desire.
And how like the devotees of Paganism are the Papists
in their use of charms and amulets. "Amulets," con-
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tinues the writer, " nro almost univei-sally worn by the
Hindoos for the preventing or the curing of diseases, or
the driving off of evil spirits. They are made of different
materials, and are worn about the arm, the neck or the
body. Some consist of a single thread, others are made
of leather and set with small shells." Does not the
Romish priest in India, too, discover that the Devil has
set up another imitation of the rites (rights) of his
Church ?
Romanism in India, diffused cs it extensively is over
the whole country, does not offer the slightest rebuke to
the grossest superstitions of the country. Though modi-
lied in some of its forms, and names changed to suit the
Christian nomenclature, it is in spirit and practice as
superstitious and idolatrous as the religions of the land.
The image of the Virgin, as also the images of saints, is
borne through the streets, gorgeously apparelled and
seated beneath a glittering canopy, followed by an army
of priests and of the people, just as we see a proces-
sion of Hindoo priests and people parading through
the streets their goddess. And so we may say of their
charms, incantations, and all their catalogue of supersti-
tions.
We alluded to holy water, incense and burning candles
as among the things wherein Rome may claim a heredi-
tary identity with oriental Paganism. Lights were kept
perpetually burning on the Pagan altars in Rome by the
vestal virgins. And in more ancient heathen temples,
lamps antl candles were ever burning on the altars and
before the statues of their deities. Incense, too, waa
always offered to the gods from Pagan altars, and, as
appears from the sculpture and pictures extant, verj'
much in the manner in which it is now offered in Romish
churches — by a boy in a white robe with a censer in hia
hand.
And the use of holy water is purely a heathen custom,
transferred from heathenism into the Romish Ohiirch for
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the purpose of facilitating the passing over of the heathen
from Paganism to Papacy. What at first was a matter
of policy became soon a matter of faith, and now a font of
holy water is of far more importance to the complete finish
of a Romish church than a Bible.
As an example of tliis we may refer to tho wonder-
working charm called the Muntru. This is a mystic verse
or incantation, the repetition of which is declared to be
attended with the most wonderful effects. The super-
stitions and consequent ceremonies connected with tho
Muntru are prominent features in Hindoo mythology.
None but Brahmins and the highest order of the people
are allowed to repeat it. Here lies the power of the priest.
All things are subject to the Muntru. The gods cannot
resist it. It is the essence of the Vedas, the united power
of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. It confers all sanctity,
pardons all sin, secures all good, temporal and spiritual,
and procures everlasting blessedness in the world to come.
It possesses the wonderful charm of interchanging good
for evil, truth for falsehood, light for darkness, and of
confirming such perversions by the most holy sanction.
Indeed there is nothing so difficult, so silly, so absurd,
that it may not be achieved by this extraordinary
Muntru.
But have we not all this, in spirit and essence, repre-
sented in the magid word of the Romish priest ? to say
nothing of the scarcely less magic power of Ave Marias
and Paternosters. A word from the priest absolves from
sin, makes wrong right, darkness light, falsehood truth.
We find the whole reproduced, modernized, Romanized,
but not attenuated or essentially changed, in modern
Romanism.
The worship of canonized Saints and of Angels is again
but obviously a relic of the old idolatry. " Honours paid
to rotten hones" says Virgilantius, "and the dust of saints
and martyrs, by adoring, kissing and wrapping them up
in silk and vessels of gold, and lighting up waxen candles
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before them after the manner of the heathen, were the en-
signs of idolatry." Tlie chief deity among the Romans of
the present day is undoubtedly the Madonna or Virgin
Mary ; no more or less than a canonized saint. Indeed,
so prominent a place does the worsliip of this, their god-
dess, command in the pantheon of the modem Romans,
that we shall be doing no injustice to the whole system if
we give it the title of Madonnaism. Read the legends of
the Virgin, (which indeed have more authority with the
Papists than the Gospels,) or go into their galleries of art,
or into the churches of Italy, and you find the Madonna,
exalted and glorified, by the so-called Cliurch, above all
the lords and gods there worshipped. " It is not surpris-
ing, then," as a traveller in Italy well says, "that the
Madonna, this factitious Virgin Mary, a divinity, a god-
dess, an object of worship, and, according to Protestant
ideas, of idolatrous worship, inasmuch as adoration only
belongs to God — should be the trump card of the Catholic
Church." "The image of the Eternal- Father/' says an
acute traveller in Italy, "indeed, is the less common in
Italian churches, only because, I apprehend, he is less the
object of worship. The Virgin is, beyond all comparison,
the most adored. Particular saints, in particular places,
may indeed divide with her the general homage, but they
enjoy at best only a local and sometimes a transient popu-
larity ; whereas the worship of the Virgin is universal in
all places and by all people, not only, as I fancied before
I entered Italy, by females, who might think her, on ac-
count of her sex, their most appropriate and zealous inter-
cessor, but equally by men, and by priests as well as
laymen. After the Virgin, some of the saints seem to be
the most worshipped, then our Saviour, and lastly, God.
Shocking as this may appear, it is too true. I am sure I
do not exaggerate when I say that throughout Italy,
Spain, Portugal, and in every country where the Catholic
is the exclusive religion of the people, for one knee bent
to God, thousands are bowed before the shrines of the
Virgin and the saints."
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The worjiViip of Brahmn in India is called Brahminism,
and that of the Grand Lama in Thibet, Lamaism ; so we
may, with the same propriety, denominate the worship
of the Virgin Madonnaiam. But the Virgin, though the
chief deity, is but one of a thousand of the hero-gods of
Rome.
Another mark of the Beast which claims paternity in
the old heathen mythologies, is the doctrine of Purgatory.
The true origin of this doctrine is unquestionably from
the rites of heathenism. For, that the ancient heathen
believed in such, and performed rites for the dead, " to
facilitate their progi-ess after death to the fair El3\sian
lields," is undeniable. Virgil describes the rites of the
funereal pile as necessary to the repose of the departed
spirit. He introduces the ghost of Palinurus as com-
plaining of the neglect of his friends in this regard.
Plato divided the condition of departed spirits into three
states, viz., those who had purified themselves with philo-
sophy and excelled in morality of life ; those exceedingly
wicked and incapable of cure ; and a middle sort, who,
though they had sinned, had yet repented, and seemed to
be in a curable condition. The first would enjoy eternal
felicity in the islands of the blessed. The second were at
death thrown headlong into hell, to be tormented for ever.
The third class went down likewise to hell, to be purified
and absolved by their torments, but through the interpo-
sition of their friends would be delivered, and attain to
honour and happiness.
The Papists, in close imitation of this, make/o?xr states
or conditions of the dead The first or lowest is Hell, the
place of the damned. The second is Purgatory. The
third, the residence of infants who died without baptism.
The fourth is Limbo, the abode of the pious who departed
this life before the birth of Christ. As among the ancient
Pagans, so among the Papists, there was no end of the
offerings and labours, the rites and sacrifices for the repose
of the dead, and their final restoration to the abodes of
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the blessed. After the manner of the heathen, the priests
diligently inculcate the idea that sufferers in Purgatory
may receive essential relief from their friends on earth —
that the duration of their pains may be shortened by the
masses, prayers, alms and other works of piety, called the
suffrages of the faithful. But above all, by masses offered
by the priest. No pains are spared by the priest to keep
this subject before the people. It is to the Romish, as it
is to the Pagan priests, a very profitable subject. Im-
mense sums are extort<ed from the people for prayers and
masses for the dead. •
But we need not resort to antiquity. Existing systems
of Paganism are full of purgatorial purifications. The fam-
ous Shradh of the Hindoos is but a fair prototype of what
we meet this day in Eome. If this ceremony be performed
for a, rich man, all the priests and people of caste for many
miles around are invited, prayers are offered for the de-
ceased, expensive offerings made, rich presents to the
Bra?imins, a. most magnificent display of equipage, cloth-
ing and all sorts of paraphernalia, and offerings of flowers
and food for the dead, and the most luxurious feasting for
the living. Gunga-Govindu Singhu, a person of the writer
caste and head-servant to Warren Hastings, is said to have
expended, at his mother's shradh, twelve lacs of rupees.
A lac is a hundred thousand rupees, and a rupee about
half a dollar. And near the same time a native Rajah ex-
pended ten lacs for the benefit of his deceased mother.
Much of this is expended in rich offerings, drosses, illumi-
nations and feasts. Many persons reduce themselves to
beggary for life to secure the name of making a great
shradh. It is not unusual for a man to sell his house,
stock, and all he has, to defray the expense of this cere-
mony. Many borrow large sums which they can never
pay, and afterwards go to jail. If a man is inclined to
neglect the shradh, he is sure to encounter the vehement
admonition of his priest, who feels a deep interest that
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The services and ceremonies connected with the shradh,
like the prayers, masses and offerings for the deliverance
of the souls of the departed by the Romish priesthood, are
rich fields on which priestly avarice riots most luxuriantly.
The unceasing cry is money, money for the benefit of your
dead relations. And who, when appealed to amidst asso-
ciations so tender, could withhold his generous aid ? Who
would not open wide his hands and liberally pour out his
treasures to soothe the anguish of a father or mother or
some dear relative who is suffering purgatorial fires ?
Whether the Romans have really improved on the old
Asiatic idea of Purgatory is quite questionable. They
have modified it and chanored names and called it Chris-
tian, but have abated none of its heathenism.
XIX.
ui8EML\mm-K0Mmm -(Continued.)
HOW FURTHER INDEBTED TO, OR RESEMBLING PAGANISM —
A NON-TEACHING PRIESTHOOD— NO BIBLE — A PERSECUT-
ING CHURCH — IDOLATRIES — ALL HAVE A COMMON PATER-
NITY IN PAGANISM — IS THE PAPACY THE FINAL FORM OF
THE GREAT APOSTASY, OR LOOK WE FOR ANOTHER ?
We shall present some further illustrations of the rela-
tionship with Rome Papal and Rome Pagan, and how
largely the Papacy is indebted to other systems of an-
cient Paganism.
Romanism resembles Paganism in not having a teach-
ing priesthood. Here we meet a good line of demarca-
tion between a true and false religion. In proportion as
a religion is sensuous and corrupt, it rejects instruction,
and satisfies itself with ritual observances, penances, and
bodily exercises. Forms of Christianity may be judged
of by this rule. Departures from the purity and simpli-
city of the gospel may first be detected in a diminished
demand and relish for pure spiritual teaching on the
one hand, and on the other an increased dependence on
forms and rites. Such a Church naturally seeks a clergy
who will magnify the altar at the expense of the pulpit.
Th eir teachings become less abundant and less direct in
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proportion as the life of godliness evaporates in mere
forms.
Sheer Paganism has no vitality. It is all form, and
consequently we find it without any teaching priesthood.
It is no part of the priest's duty to teach the people.
His official duties all pertain to the ritual. And if we
allow the eye but a cursory survey of all religions, from
the negation of Paganism up to the simplest, purest form
of Christianity, we shall find just so much of a teaching
clergy as we find truth and godliness as a basis of reli-
gion.
What by this standard are we then to judge of Roman-
ism ? Does sTie, in the duties she imposes on her clergy,
more resemble Christianity or Paganism ? Is she a Pa-
gan or a Christian Church ? Does she translate, circu-
late and teach the Bible like a Christian Church ? Does
she encourage intelligence among her people ? If she
has a teaching priesthood, what mean those prayers and
services in an unknown tongue ? Give Rome an open
Bible and a teaching ministry and she would be Rome
no more. Hence,
We offer as another point of resemblance and family
affinity Rome's 'prohibition of the Bible to the mass of her
people. In this she has followed in the footsteps of all
spurious religions whose Sacred Books are essentially
proscribed to the people.
It is claimed that the Bible is not prohibited to the
laity. This may be partially true in theory, but essen-
tially untrue in fact. We are concerned only with the
fact. Does Rome or does she not by every possible
means discourage the circulation of the Bible and practi-
cally secure its prohibition ? We need not go beyond
the present for a reply.
An important feature in the struggle now going on in
Italy, and especially in Rome, is the bitter and determin -
ed hostility of the Pope to the Bible. There is no enemy
so much to be dreaded as the Bible. The Pope and the
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ranlinMls, it w«)\iM simmu, rniinol. f'(»ol wnfo nor wlrcp a^hihI
so long MR tlio \V\h\o ia nllowod to rcMnnin in RcMTof plnxM^s.
Tho Topo a sliorl iiino situ'o, in n oiirnlar to tlio arrh-
liisbops and bishops of Italy, nianitoHtoii his hatred to-
wanls th(» «Mrculation of the l^ibU* in thosi^ tonns :
" Ho oaroful to prosiMvo tho pcoplo not only from the?
reading o( the ])np(M's, hnt from rending the Hihlo, whi<^h
the enemies of the (liiireh and human society, availing
themselves oC the nid of I^ihle Societies, are not asluimed
to eirenlate, and (Mijoin upon the faithful to shun with
horn^r the rending of sueh deadly poison — inspiring them
nt the same time with veneration for the holy see of St.
Peter."
• Kvery pope for the In.st twenty years ("to go no further
bnek) ha,s not failed to reiterate Rome's aohorrence of the
Bible and pronoimee her annthemms on its circulation.
Pope Pius the Ninth proclaims to the world that Bible
Societies are insidious and pernicious institutions, (jlre-
gory XVT., ids predecessor, denotinced it in tenuH yet
more severe. Rome both feai*s and hates the Bible.
Po}>e Pius VIT., in the year 1816, says of the British
:ind Fon^ign Bible Society, "It is a crafty device by
which the very foundations of religion (i.e. Popery) are
undermined. A pestilence and detilemont of the faith
most dangerous to souls." Leo XII., in 1824, speaking
of the institution, vsays: "Tt steals with effrontery through
the world, condemning the traditions of the holy fathers,
and, contrary to the well-known Council of Trent, labours
with all its might, ant^ by ever}" means, to translate, or
rather to pervert, the Holy Bible into the vulgar lan-
guages of the nations."
In 1 553, a number of bishoiis convened at Bologna, in
Spain, to give Pope Julius III. counsel as to the best
means of sustaining the Roman Church against the Re-
formation. Tho following is their language respecting
the Scriptures : " Finally, it is necessary that you watch
and labour, by all means in your power, that as small a
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portion JiH poHsiMo of {]w goRpol (n.))ovn nil, in l\w vulvar
iongwo) ho n«R<l in tlic (;onntri»>R Hu)»jo<'.t, io our rule. It
is tnin hook, nftcr nil, that, nioro than any othor, Im^
raisod a^rnitmt uh thoHo trouhloH and thcRo tonipoHtH (iv,-
forring to tlu^ oxcitninont of thn Hoforination), which
hnvo hroiight uh to th«^ hrink of ruin."
Tin; (/ouTicil of Trent, two years aft(»rthiH, promulgated
her faniouH o.- rather infamous ruloH against j>rohil»ited
Vxioks, aimed ehiefly at the Hihie. The truth is tJiey
are nfraid to put the HihIe in a,ny shape into tin? hands
of tlu^ ])eople, lest it should disclose se(!r(5t ahominations.
Hence they hedge its circulation ahout with so many
ditliculties that i\\{\ Rceirn'm) a|>|)rohation whicli they some-
times' give when policy compels, amounts jmictically to
nothing.
The following f)aragrat)hs, taken from an article in the
Christian World, entitled " Hostility of the Romish
Church to I'rotestant versions of the Hihle, a mere f)rc-
tence," are so ap])osite to our suhject, we shall do the
reader a favour by transferring tliem to our pages:
"There are some who think that the o[)position of the
Church of Home to the l^ihle is not owing to any ol)je(;
tion on their part to the })ook itself, but to the Protes-
tant versions of it. But the fact is, the hatred of this fal-
len Church goes further and lies deeper. Believing a lie,
she hates the })ook which exposes her falsehoods and over-
throws her claims. Hence the conflict between the Pa-
pacy and the Bible — hence all the oblofjuy heaped cm the
holy volume — hence all the BiVjlo-buniings and cruel
in)prisrmment and slaughter of those who have bad the
courage to read tlie Book of, God. The objection to the
Protestant version is a mere pretence, made use of in
Protestant countries to blind the people, and hide from
view the real issue. Rome hates the Bible in any and
every form. She taught the people of Ireland to call the
Protestant Bible the JJcviVfi Book, and she has often burn-
ed versions and editions [published with the authority of
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the Pope. The Biblep burned at Bogota a few months
ago were Roman Cal^holic versions. There is enough in
the Douay, or any other Roman translation of the Bible,
to open the eyes of the people, and overthrow the whole
system of the Papacy. All the editions ever published
contain these words : ' For there is one God, and ONE
mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,'
(1 Timothy, ii. 5,) and this text is sufficient to destroy
the worship of the Virgin Mary, and to do away with
the mediation of saints and angels.
"The Reformation, which owes its origin to the Bible,
and the spread of Protestantism, which is due to God's
blessing on the word of life, have aroused the hostility of
Rome to the HoL'" Scriptures, and led to divers decrees,
anathemas and bulls against their circulation. Before
the time of Luther many valuable editions of the Bible
were published under the auspices of the Roman Church,
but since the IGth century very little has been done by
popes or prelates to publish and illustrate the Word of
God.
" Romanists have often acknowledged that the Bible
was against them, and that their Church could find no
support from Holy Scripture.
"At the Diet of Augsburg, (A.D. 1530,) as the Bishop
of Mente was looking over the Bible, one of his council-
lors said to him : * What does your Electoral Grace make
of this book V to which he replied : * I know not what to
make ot it, save that all that I find in it is against us.*
At the same Diet, Duke William of Bavaria, who was
strongly opposed to the Reformers, asked Dr. Eck : ' Can-
not we refute these opinions by the Holy Scriptures ?'
* No,' said he, ' but by the Fathers.' The Bishop of
Mentz then said : * The Lutherans show us their belief in
Scripture, and we ours out of Scripture.' An Augustin
monk, when he saw Luther reading the Bible, said to
him : ' Ah, brother Martin, what is there in the Bible ?
Jt is better to read the ancient doctors, who have sucked
the hon
trouhlet
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and noi
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prescril
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also pel
restrict;
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tho honey of the truth. The Bible is the cause of all our
troubles' *
" The Church of Rome well knows that no person of
common candour and understanding can read the Bible,
and not discover a strange discre[)ancy between its teach-
ings and the doctrines uf tlie Papacy. She has, therefore,
(lone all in her power to hinder tho study of the Word of
God, in direct opposition to the command of our Lord to
'search the Scriptures.'
" While tho Council of Trent ueclared the Latin Vulgate
to be authentic in all public discussions, and did not ab-
solutely forbid translations into the vernacular tongue, it
prescribed such conditions and regulations as were calcu-
lated to limit and prevent the use of them. This Council
also permitted the reading of the Bible ; but with such
restrictions that the grant amounts to a virtual prohibi-
tion.
" The fourth rule concerning prohibited books, which
was approved by Pope Pius I v ., begins in these words :
' Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience, that if the
Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indis-
criminately allowed to every one, the temerity of men
will cause more evil than good to arise from it ; it is on
this point referred to the judgment of the bishops or in-
quisrtors, who may, by the advice of the priest or confes-
sor, permit the reading of the Bible, translated into the
vulgar tongue by Catholic authors, to those persons whose
faith and piety they apprehend will be augmented, and
not injured by it ; and this permission they must have
in writing.'
" The design of this rule was not to encourage, but ra-
ther to discourage and prevent the reading of the sacred
volume. In harmony with this intention, Popish writers
have given such representations of the Bible as were
adapted to repress all desires and attempts to become ac-
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THE FOOT-PIUNTS OF HATAN.
qnaintcd with its saving truths. They have alleged that
the Scrii)tureH are very obscure ; and indeed so unintelli-
gible that they cannot be understood without the inter-
pretation of the (yhurch. They have affirmed that the
Bible has no authority in itself ; and were it not for the au-
iliority of the Church it would not be more credible than
jEsops Fables ; that it cannot make men wise unto salva-
tion, and is calculated rather to lead them astray, and to
be the cause of all manner of errors and heresies.
" When we consider that the Church of Rome claims
to have a religion based on divine revelati(m, her efforts
and arguments to prevent the reading and circulation of
the Bible are so absurd, that they would never have been
thought of, if there had not been some sinister ends
to accomplish. * No man is displeased that others
should enjoy the light of the sun, unless he is engaged
in some design which it is his interest that others
should not see ; and in this case he would wish the
gloom of midnight to sit down upon the earth, that
he might practise his nefarious deeds with impunity.
It is an interest contrary to the Scriptures which has im-
pelled the Church of Rome to exert her power to hinder
the circulation.' "
This well confirms the conclusion of a grave Romish
writer, who says, "It is manifest by experience that if the
use of the Bible be permitted in the vulgar tongue, more
evil than profit will result. It is for this reason the Bible
is prohibited with all its parts whether printed or written,
in whatsoever vulgar language — also all summaries and
abridgments."
The following incident is believed to be no more than
a fair example of the hatred of the Romish priest to the
Bible, and of the demonstration of his aversion when cir-
cumstances will allow. A priest was called to perform
extreme unction for a man in Ceylon, who was near his
end. On entering the house he saw a book on the shelf,
and inquired what it was. When told it was a New Tes-
tament
it und(
As I
afrfiid
the |)e(
tions."
but th(
As i
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of the
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Pagan
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Icged that
unintelli-
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for the au-
lible than
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ay, and to
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her efforts
mlation of
have been
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at others
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lat others
wish the
arth, that
impunity.
ch has im-
to hinder
'^e Romish
that if the
igue, more
L the Bible
Dr written,
naries and
more than
iest to the
when cir-
;0 perform
Eis near his
I the shelf,
. New Tes-
tament, he took it down, tore it in pieces, and trampled
it under his feet.
As a shrewd writer on Papacy well says, " They are
afraid to put the Bilde, in,any shape, into the hands of
the peo[)le, lest it should disclose their secret abomina-
tions." It is not the Protestant translation that is feared,
but the Bible.
As touching the Bible and its general use, we commend
our Roman Catholic friends to the opinion and practice
of the great St. Patrick of Ireland. The record says,
" He was a great reader and lover of the Bible. He left
only two short compositions, but in them he makes forty-
three distinct quotations from the Holy Scriptures, and
throughout .his writings his phraseology is scriptural,
showing that the Bible was his daily companion for
perusal and meditation.
The Papacy has again identified herself with systems of
Paganism, in the fact that she is a 'persecuting Church.
Pagan Rome put men to death by myriads, simply be-
cause they were Christians. Papal Rome has put millions
of Ghristians to death because they were not Pagans. In
nothing, perhaps, is Rome more distinctly characterized
than in that of being a persecuting Church. No history
has recorded the number of her victims. Intolerance has
not only stood out as an ugly excrescence, but it has from
the first been the animating spirit of that huge body.
From the very nature of the case, full statistics of num-
bers are not to be found. Thousands upon thousands, of
whom the world was not worthy, disappeared — were im-
mured in prisons, starved, tortured, and either left to die,
or secretly murdered, and no record remains.
According to the calculations of some, about 200,000
Christian Protestants suffered death, in seven years, un-
der Pope Julian ; no less than 100,000 were massacred by
the French in the space of three months ; Waldenses who
perished amounted to 1,000,000 ; within thirty years the
Jesuits destroyed 900,000 ; under the Duke of Alva,
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TTTR rnoT-rniNTS OP ratan.
Irisil) niMHMM(M'(\ l>oHi(l(»n tlu» vmhI nnillilndo nl' wlumi tlm
world ronltl iu'v«M' 1m» pnitirnlMily if\r(»iiiHM|, wIk* wno
UromM'ihrd, stnrvotl. hmni, HHMnsMinnliMl. rluiifird in llio
IfnllcyH lor lilo. iiumurod wilJiin Mir wnlh \\\' Ihc MjiHlilp.
or oduM's of tlMMrclmrrh nnd wlntr priHotiH. At'roidiii^ to
somo, (lio wliolo inmilxM' of ihm'bohh inwMNnrrod hIikm* llip
risi^oi' l*M)mov, including i.Iu» HpRcc of 1,100 vcmvih, jnmuinls
io i:>.ooo.ooo.
I^nn«> liMs n(»v«M" fMilcd, \vlion nho hnd (lw» ]M>W(>r. lo
n\al\0 ^oiH\ luM' i'lnini to \ho uroplicl ir title allixiMl to licr,
a "Woman niU'NKKN with tiif, mlood ok tiik saints.
AXI> WITH HI.OOI) OK THK MAHTYHS i)V .IkmI's!" Illtolci
mwo is luM- V(M*v lilV nnd soid. Wy liro nixl h\ Rword sli(»
h.'VH M(nigl\t io (»x<ir|>Mio iVoMJ tlw^ (>.irth all who dnnd rMisc
tlio bivunor oi fVcMMJoin. or nvsist Ikm* NpiritnnI dcHHotisni.
" Tho valloys of l^icdniont Miid Swit/,(M*lnn<l, tlu* Hunny
])l;\ins of I^Vnnco nnd Uollnnd, tlio IiIIIh of Scotlniid nnd
tlio meadows o Kngland, \\n\o hoou nmdo fat with tlio
blood of coiintlosH niartyra, wljo liav«» Ihmmi Hacvilio(>d l»y
the ambition of Papal powor." And KomiMiovor rlianpvs.
In^iood. wo may in all tnitli snv tlio Devil is nowluMc
so oomplotel}- at liome, so congonially acting ont liis in-
iion\u>st soul, as in the work of religious persiM'ution. Hut
for the burning fact that st^'inds as an indelible* blot on
the page o( history, we could not believe that vicn could
ever booomo so completely divoHted of every fiviture of a
decent manhood — could so assume the nature and garb
of the Arch Demon — though clad in ])riestly robes, " the
livery of heaven " — aa to instigate and stand by and wit-
ness tortures intiicted on their kindred according to the
liesh, more cruel, more barbarous than the veriest savages
ever thought of. And all this for no otlier crime than
that of reading the Bible and worshipping God according
to the dictates of their own consciences. Men, as men,
never surrendered themselves np to a work so completely
devnlish. This whole work of religious persecution is the
foulest incarnation of the Pit.
K) l.y llio
k'lioin t))o
vim \V(Mo
nd 111 Hn»
(» l^nnlilr,
\, Minoiints
]M>W(^r, It)
m\ io Iwr.
IIK SAINTS.
lnlol<M'
HVVOld m1i(>
Inrt <l iniNc
il«'M|u)(isni.
tlu' Hunny
)tlnml MMil
, \\\i\\ l.lu>
;vili<'.«Ml l>y
H iiowluTc*
)ui. Inn in-
Intion. Hut
ll(> blot on
)ivn oould
at\iro of n
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,^ niul wii-
iiig to the
bst savni]i;es
rime than
according
n, as men,
ompletoly
tion is the
F.AHY OIlANfJK. FIloM TAflANISM Tn ROMANISM. ^HZ
It wonhl now nrrw alinuMt nnnocrssniy to Bny that tbo
Pnjtnc'v rrsriiiblpH l\\r old rn^rnii HyMtrirm in tin* nracticn
i)\' hlofnfrj/. Wo have Hpokrii of tlio worHliip of Hnintsand
an^oh — tbo drilication, aflcf tlio nianiKM' of tbo lu'atbfn,
(»f brroofl tlio worHliip of tlio Virgin in liko manner as
tbo brntbon woiHbip lliclr ^oddrRM. Wo moot at ovory
turn and <M»rnof in l*a|»al oonntrioH, pioturoM, inia^os, rolicH,
tlio oroHM, an«l all norts of oinblornH of idcjlatry. In jnd^-
in^ of tbo idolatroUH <'bnia('tm" of llofno I'apal, wo nniHt
bav(» loganl to tbo HMrn»nn<lin^H. In a, oonnlTy liko ouim,
lionianinin is ono (Jiin^r. |t appoais hIioiii of niiicb of Wh
<b^forniity— oHpooiaily of its^idH.sor idolatry. llonioHtandH
forth simply as ono of tbo dilloront formR of tbo iirovalont
i<lolatry of tlu» land. Tbo HupprosMion for a. tirno, in a
Christian land, of bor roal obaractor, Ih sitnply atomporary
niid temporizing polioy. Whon? Homo (^xistH in hoathon
rou!itrioH, hIio practisoH no Huoh roHorvos and doocptions.
Shoappoars and urif^ out borsolf. In ilinfltration f»f this, and
n.s Hhowin^ up Romanism ifi its rual charactor, wo maycito
a few instanoos:
Tbo roason jj^ivon by tbo historian, wliy th(^ barbarianu
(tbo ('oncpHMors of Roitu^) ro oaflily Rubmittod to tbo ro-
lififion of tbo ooTajuorod, is that tbo (vstablisbod form of
tbo Romish roli<i;ion approximatod so olosoly to thoir owji
Rnporatition and idolatry. Tbo Christian or Romish priests
did not differ so much from the heathen [)riests but tliat
tliey might bo still roeoived and honoured by the barba-
rians. And this is a testimony that lias boon borne in
all heathen countries where Jlomanism has been intro-
duced. No wonder tlie Paf>ists are so successful in mak-
ing converts. Only make it for his interest to become a
Papist, and tbo idolater has no diificulty in changing his
religion, arising from any radical difference between the
two religions in their character and essence. Being al-
ready an idolater, be is none the less so after his conver-
sion. He substitutes onc^ set of forms for another — ono
set of idols for another. But bo has perhaps been taught no
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new truth — has no more correct views of God or of his
law and ordinances, of duty and obligation, and of the
pardon of sin through the atoning blood of the crucified
One, than he had while bowing down to his Pagan idols.
As has been most extensively illustrated in British India,
the conversion to Komanism is no more a conversion to
Christianity than the passing from the worship of one
heathen god to that of another (as the Hindoos often do) is a
conversion to the true God j so it is in all countries where
Rome has made her inroads. In point of intelligence,
morality, civilization, a purer worship, or in any of the
characteristics of a pure Christianity, the great Papal
population of India has no pre-eminence over the native
idolaters.
Of this we have the united testimony of travellers.
Speaking of Italy, one says, " If a Pagan from ancient
Naples should suddenly arise from his grave, he would
feel perfectly at home in the practice of this false Christi-
anity. Names have been changed, but the creed and the
worship are about the same. Still he meets the household
gods, the virgin goddess — images, pictures — gods many,
and lords many. At the corner of every street, a niche
contains the image of the patron saint of the place. When
the street is long there are several niches with different
saints. On entering the humblest or most splendid shop,
you see, opposite the door, the statue of the Virgin or a
saint, decked with flowers, and in the evening this image
is lighted with candles.
The Eomish priest, as he wakes up in a heathen land,
and in " the chambers of her imagery," is astonished to
meet objects, and to witness rites and observances
which have been to him from his youth as familiar as
household words. The heathen man, on the other
hand, comes to Rome, and not the less wonders that these
modern idolaters have so faithfuUy preserved the image
and superscription — yea, the life and spirit of the old
idolatry.
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)f bis
f the
Lcified
idols.
India,
ion to
of one
do) is a
3 where
ligence,
of the
t Papal
5 native
avellers.
ancient
le would
J Christi-
L and the
lousehold
ds many,
), a niche
3e. When
different
did shop,
rgin or a
his image
ihen land,
jnished to
pservances
familiar as
[the other
that these
the image
lof the old
The folio wiug testimony of a Chinese missionary more
than confirms aU we have said. We transcribe a para-
graph : " When I was compelled," says Kev. Mr. Smith,
** to observe the details of these idolatrous ceremonies, I
could not fail to be impressed with the striking similarity of
the rites of Buddha with those of Popery. No unsophis-
ticated mind, no mere ordinary observer, could mingle in
the scenes which T witnessed in those temples, no one
could be transferred from this country to be an eye-witness
of those Buddhist ceremonies and superstitions, without
being for the moment impressed with the idea, that what
he saw was nothing else than Eoman Catholicism in China.
Would that those who show an unhappy zeal iu the main-
tenance of the ceremonies of the Chui'ch of Rome could
be transferred to this heathen land, and there see how
closely Paganism assimilates with Romanism, and how
intimately Romanism assimilates wdth Paganism ! There
are the same institutions, the same ceremonies, the same
rites in the one as in the other. There is the monastery,
celibacy, the dress and caps of the priests, the incense, the
bells, the rosary of beads, the lighted candles at the altar,
the same intonation in the services, the same idea of pur-
gatory, the praying in an unknown tongue, the offerings
to departed spirits in the temple, the same in the Budd-
hist temples of China as in the Roman Catholic churches
of Europe. And what is still more remarkable, and at
the same time shows a melancholy resemblance between
the two religions, the principle female god of the Chinese,
the Goddess of Mercy, has also the title of Shing Moo,
meaning holy mother, and Teen How, which means queen
of heaven, and, what is still more remarkable, she is
always represented by the image of a woman bearing a
male child in her arms ! In fact, the whole system of
Buddhist worship, as carried on in China, presents such a
strong resemblance to that of the Church of Rome, that
an early Jesuit missionary, who visited China, declared
that Buddhism must have been the invention of Satan
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himself, to retard the progress of Christianity by showing
its striking similarity with the Romish worship.
" Which is the original and which the imitation — Ro-
manism or Buddhism ?" asks Bishop Kingsley in his record
of late travels in the East. Read the following paragraph,
and possibly your decision will be in favour of Buddhism
as the original :
" On this mountain, which is ascended by thousands of
stone steps, is a Buddhist monastery and temples, with all
the appliances for this form of idolatrous worship. Here
is a great number of Buddhist priests, who live in a state
of celibacy, and look, and act, and worship so much like
Roman Catholic priests, the one might be very easily mis-
taken for the other. Whether the Romanists learned the
mummeries from the Buddhists, or the Buddhists from the
Romanists, it is morally certain from the great many
points of resemblance, that they had a common origin.
Long wax candles were burning before them, and one of
them was burning incense. These priests live an austere
life, refrain from animal food, believe in purgatory, pray
for the dead, and live a life of mendicancy. Adjoining
this great temple is the Temple of the Goddess of
Mercy. One of the idols in this has thirty-six hands,
eighteen on each side. Directly in front of this is an
image of a Chinese woman, and on either side a great
number of smaller idols."
In the mirror we have been holding up we have seen
the image of the old Paganism reflected in all its essential
features, yet so modified and changed in name.— so adap-
ted to the change of times and the progress of the world,
and more especially to the progress of the new religion,
as to exhibit it as a consummate scheme of diabolism to
counteract the benevolent purposes of God for the salva-
tion of men, and to establish the empire of Satan over this
apostate world. Whether this shall prove the final great
counterfeit — the summation on earth of the infernal ma-
chinations of his Satanic Majesty to subvert the divine
ANOTHER GREAT RELIGION TO ARISE.
387
lowing
Q — Ro-
5 record
•agraph,
ddhism
sands of
with all
). Here
u a state
luch like
tsily mis-
irned the
i from the
jat many
)n origin,
id one of
m austere
,ory, pray
[Adjoining
oddess of
ix hands,
,his is an
e a great
have seen
Its essential
-so adap-
the world,
[w religion,
tabolism to
the salva-
in over this
final great
ifernal ma-
the divine
scheme for the restoration of man, and to achieve the ruin
of our race, or whether we shall look for another revela-
tion of the " mystery of iniquity" — of the " deceivableness
of unrighteousness," a scheme yet more subtle, seductive
and dangerous because assuming yet more of the guise
of the true religion, we affirm not. Yet it would seem
but analogous with the past to suppose that there yet re-
mains to be revealed another phase of the man of sin — or
the man of sin, the final manifestation, in rel ttion to which
all the preceding dispensations of the Devil were but pre-
paratory to the dreadful consummation.
There is some ground to satisfy such a surmise. Ro-
manism is effete. Its idolatry is too gross for tJie age.
Its rites and superstitions belong to a darker age. The
world has advanced, knowledge has increased, civilization
has made decided progress, and liberty has given unmis-
takable tokens that ere long she will unfurl her banners
over every nation on the face of the earth. And more
than all, the religion of the New Testament has made not-
able advance. As the Oriental nations have outgrown
the Paganism of bygone ages, so have the W estern na-
tions become too enlightened and free much longer to tole-
rate the semi-Paganism of Rome. Hence our Arch-Foe
seems shut up to a corresponding change of tactics, and
of his mode of warfare. Rome is still strong — mighty in
her munitions and strongholds to carry on the warfare
under the old regime, but no more suited to the state of
the world than old Imperial Rome would be, were she
to attempt to cope with modern France or England.
She would have the power, but not the adaptedness — the
appliances.
Rome must change her tactics — put on the modern
armour. And the same is yet more true of the religion of
Mecca and of the Pagan nations of Asia. They lack the
same adaptedness to the times.
Hence we infer that the Devil will change his tactics
and his whole mode of warfare — that another great anti-
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Christian power shall arise, (emanating out of the mouth
of the Dragon, and of the Beast, and the false Prophet)
more formidable because more subtle — more like Chris-
tianity in form and pretence, yet more unlike in ppirit and
essence — a baptized form of modern scepticism and infi-
delity, bearing the name of Christ, and professing to bo
especially a Church for the timies, yet more essentially
Antichrist than the present Romish apostasy. The
Beast without his horns — the Dragon with all his fierce-
ness and malignity and eagerness to devour, yet clad in
the guise of a lamb, and the false Prophet robed in the
vestments of the High Priest of Christianity, yet with all
tiie iutolurance of the Arch-Turk.
th
Tl(
nouth
jphet)
Chris-
4t and
d inii-
to bo
sntially
The
\ fierce-
clad in
in i\w
mi\\ all
XX.
FALSE RELIGIONS-JESUITISM.
THE JESUITS — CHARACTER OF THE FRATERNITY — THE
MISSION OF MADURA — POLICY OF THE MISSIONARIES —
^ CHARACTER OF CONVERTS — JESUITS IN AMERICA — THEIR
SPIRIT AND POLICY UNCHANGED.
" The prince of this world cometh and hath nothing
in me " — " Whose coming is after the working of Satan,
with all power and signs and wonders, and with all
deceivahleness of unrighteousness." — John xiv. 30 ; 2
TpES. ii. 9, 10.
Since the apostasy Satan has been the god of this
world. His empire has pervaded the entire territory of
humanity. His aim has been to make a complete mon-
opoly of all which belongs to man. By sin he has marred
the beauty of this lower world, alienated man from his
Maker, and as far as possible perverted everything from
its original design. He has prevailed to throw all into
disorder and darkness and perversion. Christ came to
destroy the works of the Devil — to restore the ruins of
the Fall, to disarm the Destroyer, and to reinstate man
and this earth in their original condition.
Our motto presents Christ approaching the crisis of
the conflict with the Devil. In Gethsemane should be
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tlio ^roat agonizing struj^gUv Wo iiiUHt. hero yuHj)en<l fur-
tlior oomiuinncsvtion with liis disciploH. Ho ooiild not
talk imu'li iiUM*»» witli i\\o\\\ luM'auso tho piiti<M» of tluH
world -tho /)()?rf'r ()/'</(irA*/;<'.v«- approaclunl, a!ul Ik; inunt
now grapplo \\'\ih (lu» Arcli-Koo. I'lio doath-lilow to tlio
priin'(» slionld now l>o givon and luMicofortli Ins kingdom
shoidd wano an«l th(* princt* luniHolf Ho l)oun(i in ovimImhI ing
diains, and tlio kingdom an<l d«)ininion and tlio gns'itjioHs
oftho kingdom in the whole earth be given to tlie .saints
of the Most High.
1'ho\iLrh for ever done awav, and not a ve.stiiJe of the vtxHi
and melaneholy insnrreetion wliieh lia.s no long and .so
miserably eonfnsed our world, shall remain to disturb the;
l\arm»>ny and love and et(M'nal bhvssi^dness of the righteous,
yet the hL^ftory of this mehuveholy ins\irreetion .shall nevtM-
lose its ii\terest — how sin entered the world — why it wifN
pennitted: — what ends are to be aeeompli.shed by it — by
what ageneies and instrumentalities it is ma<le to develop
itself and to aeeomplisl* i; ; ends — what plans, .schemo.s,
systems, th(^ prince ol this world devi.ses to enthrall man
in bondage and to (M>mpai>b his ruin — what institutions he
perverts — what monopolies he secures — what agencies he
em[>loy8.
We have alread}" named War, [ntemperancc, tlie per-
verted use of property, and false Reli<jions as great atid
territie agencies by which the god of this world retains
liis usurped power, tills the world with woe and hell with
victims. We shall now speak of j'uother species of organ-
ized action, w^hich he extensively employs for the same
pur}H>se, such as appears in fraternities, institutions, re-
ligious orders and the like.
It w41I sutttce for our present purpose to speak of the
Society of Jesus, or the institute of Ignatius Loyola, com-
monly called Jesuitism.
We have not selected this subject as a mere abstract or
historical question, but as a subject of great practical im-
portance in its bearing both on our nation and on tlie
JKHUITrSM TIJK MASTKUI'FKCK.
3!)1
iu\ i'ur-
ild not
of tllJH
immt
to tho
3 Htiints
ibo VM«t
aiul MO
L\iH) tlio
ill tiover
y it wj|M
r itr— by
solu^mos,
all luaii
itions bo
ucieH be
tbe per-
rcat and
retains
lell witb
L)f (ugan-
le same
ions, re-
\
of tbe
ohv, coni-
)6tract or
itical ini-
1 on tbe
One (/bureb, ami, })y eonMriincnce, on tbe cnnse of lib(«rty
and religion tlirongbout tbn world. Kor no otlnw |»(M)j)I«
luivo more? need to boeome ae(|naint(M| witb tbe (^baraeter,
natnre and ext(^nt, dc^sign and power of tbis institution,
tbe means of its a<lvan(;(»nient and its aim. It is probable
tb(^ activities of tbis HO(;iety are at tbis moment more
busily and more etfb<itively em|)loyed in this eour»try than
in ajiy otber, and poHsibly witb greater liope of sufv^ss.
Jesuitism bas a V(;ry singular bistory, and tlie more wo
study this Inntory the more sliall we y)eeom(3 conviiK^ed
that tliis \H tlie master))ie(^e of tbe s])irit tliat workctli in
tbe ebildren of disobcdienee. It is a (consummate system
of du])lieity, eunning, and power for the maintc^naiiee of
a eontrol over human mind. I do not know that tben^
exists in our world at the present time anotlier system so
fnauglit witb evil, so potential in tlie su])port of error, and
HO dangerous to tbe eaiise of liberty and all true religion.
We may thereibre regard Jesuitism as Satan's cboieest,
most adroit and most potent engine for tbe inaintenanee
of bis em])ire on tlie earth.
Tbe foun(Un' of tbis soeiety was Ignatius Loyola, bom
in 1491. A Spanish soldier till 1521, when reeeiving a
severe wound, in the siege of Pampcluna, wbicb disabled
bim from further military serviee, be gave up the })rofeH-
sion of a soldier for tbat of a saint, and soon conceived
tbe idea of forming a new religious order, to b*^ called tbe
Society of Jesus. After tbirteen years of study, journey-
ings, self-mortification and penance, tbis " knigbt errant
of our Blessed Lady," as be sbould be called, established
bis order (1534) witb seven members. Six years after
(1540) it was sanctioned and owned by the Pope, Paul
III., who granted to its members tbe most ample privi-
leges, and appointed Ignatius tbe first general of tbe Order,
witb almost despotic power over its members.
We thus find Jesuitism and the Romish Church early
in alliance. We are not, however, to regard this alliance
as a necessary one. Romanism and tlu; institution of
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Loyola are two distinct things, met usually in concert,
because they are so nearly allied in spirit, and of conse-
quence they mutually aid each other. Jesuitism is an in-
dependent institution, living by its own life and acting
for or against the Church as its own policy dictates.
Though it lent the most efficient aid to the cause of Rome,
and is generally found in alliiince with her, yet the insti-
tution has its own ends to compass, which her members
will not be diverted from, whether they can be gained
with or without, or in spite of the Romish Church.
The Pope, in accepting the services of the disciples of
Loyola, thought to get instruments for his work. He re-
ceived, not servants but a master. Loyola got the toolsj
The Papal Church is but the instrument, the tool of the
Jesuits — the Beast on which they ride to power and con-
quest. And in recalling them after so long a banishment,
and again making these "vigorous and experienced rowers,"
helmsmen of the ship, Rome did but confess her weakness
and inability to cope with the increasing light, and the
progi'ess of liberty and religion in the nineteenth century.
The world has probably never seen a "more powerful
corrupt, untiring, unscrupulous, invincible organization
in any department of human labour, or in any period of
human history." " Their moral code," says another, " is
one of hypocrisy, falsehood and filth." They are enemies
to all human advancement — would ttim back the dial of
human progress, and plunge the world again into the
darkness of the dark ages. Christianity encourages learn-
ing, intelligence and mental improvement among the peo-
ple — it makes disciples. Jesuitism suppresses the human
mind — makes instruments — tools with which to compass
its own ends. It takes " the living man and makes a
corpse of him — an automaton — despoils him first of all
his free agency, and makes him a mere tool of the craft."
The Jesuit is bound by no oath — he may violate every
command of the Decalogue, repudiate every precept of
Holy Writ, provided it be for the advantage of the Society.
TI[E SUBTLETY OF JESUITISM.
893
concert,
conse-
s an in-
acting
iictateH.
r Rome,
e insti-
lembers
gained
I.
iples of
He re-
le toolsj
I of the
,nd con-
shment,
rowers,"
weakness
and the
century^
owerful
oization
eriod of
tier, "is
enemies
dial of
nto the
s learn-
le peo-
human
ompass
aakes a
of all
craft."
every
cept of
Jociety.
The Pope must be obeyed, the interests of the Church se-
cured, whatever despite may be done to God and his
truth.
And that he may consummate his ends the Jesuit may
do anything, may he anything. He may play saint or sin-
ner — traitor or patriot — angel or devil, just as may seem
best to subscT-ve the purpose in hand. The Jesuits are al-
lowed, by their ** Constitutions," to assume any disguise,
to put on any character — adopt any means — use truth or
falsehood — right or wrong, just as they seem conducive to
the interests of the Church. Indeed, they may become
members of any Church they please — Baptist, Methodist,
Presbyterian — may become preachers — anything to sub
serve the purpose desired.
In contemplating, as we propose, Jesuitism as the most
subtle device of the Devil to pervert and monopolize
man's religious instinct- -to make the Romish apostacy
the most specious complete counterfeit of Christianity,
the most formidable and dangerous antagonist of a pure
religion, we can scarcely select a feature more character*
istic and more dangerously delusive than the unreserved
devotion of the members of this Order to the Romish
Church ; a devotion in a good cause worthy only of im-
itation and praise, but in the cause of delusion and false-
hood the most fearfully potent.
Well may Rome boast of the remarkable consecration
to her interests of the disciples of Loyola. They have
done more to extend her borders, and especially to carry
out the real animus of her institutions, than all other
orders combined. They furnish the most complete speci-
mens of i^nreserved devotion — self-denial, abnegation of
self. They brave eveiy climate, encounter every hard-
ship, submit to every privation — take their lives in their
hands and go to the ends of the earth. They spare no
pains to subsidize, in order to thb carrying out of their
one great aim, talent, time, money, position — all things to
the cause they have espoused. No sect claiming the
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TIIK FOOT-lMllNTS OF SATAN.
Clirisfiaii luimo litis ov«r furnished an oxjiinplo of «ucl) de-
votion — an (ixanipln ho noarly \i|) to i\w Now Tc^Htanusnt
mark. In a good cause it is worthy of all imitation.
Ha«l it hoon imitated, no territory on earth would have
remained unvisitod by the miHsionary, no district without
the church and the scliool, and no family without the
Bible.
*' With them pei'sonal and individual interests, the claims
of ease or of sellishness, are all merged in their absorbing
ilevotion to the honour and interests of the Church. It is
a joy to them to forsake the endearments of early associa-
tions, to cross oceans, to penetrate remote c^limi^s, to .sacri-
fice all the nobler tios of human existem^e, to labour, and
eventually die, as solitary exiles in tlie most dismal re-
cesses of human abod? — all for the aggrandizement of the
hierarchy."
Most emphatically, yet in the worst sense, they become
" all things to all men," if by any means, right or wrong,
tliey nmy gain some. They accommodate themselves to
{»11 classes of men, to all conditions of life, to all circum-
stances, wait with all patience, though it may be through
years of apparently unsuccessful toil. They have but
one idea, one aim, which they pursue with an unswerv-
ing perseverance. While we cannot too earnestly de-
})recate the means and ^\\q end sought by such devotion,
we cannot but admire the devotion itself sBa worthy the
imitation of all who bear the name of Jesus.
Again, they are right in the choice of a navie, Jesuits —
the devotees, the disciples, the followers of Jesus. No-
thing coidd more appropriately indicate what they should
he, and nothing under the circumst.inces is a more shock-
ing burlesque on the most sacred name. Jesuitism fur-
nishes one of the most notable examples of what devotion
to a bad cause can do. It is perhaps in all its features and
bearings the most plausible, dangerous and successful feat
of Satanic craft. It is the great counterfeit and the great
antagonist of a pui*e Christianity.
in t
liar
itse
terfe
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THK ANIMl'S OF JKSUITISM.
396
tatioii.
A have
without
)\it the
oclaiina
li. It is
aHSocia-
to sacri-
our, aiul
aiuJil re-
it of the
' become
ir wronj^,
Helves to
ll circuni-
through
\ave but
answerv-
estly de-
devotion,
or
thy the
Jesuits —
us. No-
ey should
)Y0 shock-
itism fur-
devotion
tures and
ssful feat
the great
Hut it is ?iot HO iiiueli our deHign to give a /</«/or// of
.Ic^suiti.siii as it is to present MoiiH't.hing of its ti\u*. aniinUH
— what it really is wlien allowed to tnke root in »i g(inial
soil, and spring up and hear its finit, unstintiMl, niioh-
structed ]>y external inllucnceH. This it did at. (j!ie period
on th(^ west(M'!i <'oastof Africra. It then' s)iow<'(l itself the
most uninitignted friend of ignoranrc, cnielty and dcspot-
isn), i]\{) unhlushingjihcittoi'of tlu! sI.mv(^ tnide, uid)InH]iingly
dislionouring ( 'liristianity )>y a most unsec^ndy (;on»-
proniise with the rites and HUp(;rstitions of African idola-
try. It was, in sojnc! respticts, a (!}iang(j in forms, rites,
woi'ship and o))jeet of worship, hut in scarcely any a
nearer approximation to the trutli. Here .Jesuitism liad
a fair field, nothing to inipinle its full and natural devcloj)-
nii^nt. Yet such was the ignoraiKie and degradation of
Africa. — such tiie hivk of literatures s('i(;nce and learning
in gcmerai, that slie ati()r<h;d a field for tlie display only of
the grosser characteristics of the Order,
We propose therefore to take our portraiture; of Jesuit-
ism in a yet more congenial fi(dd, wlieve it had its perfect
work. That fieid was India. Here Jesuitical crraft and
cunning, avarice and ambition, had full |)lay, and brought
forth their legitimate fruits. " We caimot try the Jesuits
more favourably tfian on ground selected by themselves —
in their most successful mission, where all that was pecu-
liar in their policy and principles had full room to develoj)
itself unchecked by rivalry,. untrammelled by external in-
terference, and remote from jealous or hostile observatio;i."
In India the Jesuits found an ancient, organized and
all-powerful religion, and comparatively an intelligent and
cultivated priesthood. The latter held unlimited control
over the people, and indeed over the government. They
had therefore only to ensconce themselves in this strong-*
hold of social, civil, and religious influence, in order to
work out the schemes of their craft to perfection. How
they did this, will best appear from a brief narrative of
their famous mission in Southern India, more generally
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known R« ihi" Mission of Mndura. Tlio ^hjry of iho .Tc-
Huits is tlioir missionary spirit, niici tho ^'lory of tluMr
missions is t,lu» Mission of Mndurn. Thoir writers sponk
in tho most ji;lo\vin^ terms of the f(»rvour anil s(>lf-(li'nial of
t.]>o missionaries, and of tlu»ir purest z<'al for the <'onver-
sion of tlu» hentlien, of tIunmparaII<»l<Mi sueeess of the ni's-
a'um in ^atluM'injj; in eonv(»rts \)y tli(» tens of tJionsnnds,
and of tho vet mon* extraordinary <']iara(^ter of theso eon-
verts. " Mira(Mes wen- mnnerous — rivalry and strife un-
known ; hundnMJs of thousands were adch'd to tlie (^htnrh,
and the convert^s lived and died in all tlie fervour of tlieir
first love, and with tlie purity of the angels of heaven.
Never was the Christian Thureh so hiessed, never so sue-
cessful ; for even the primitive Cliristians and the apostles
of C^hrist were inferior in self-dcMiial, in lieavenlincvss of
spirit, and in suceessful propajj^ation of tlie gospel." 'I'iio
mission numbered 150,000 converts. "'I'he least eacli
missionary baptized was a thousand a year." Father
Houohet M'rites that he had )>aptized two thousnnd the?
last year. " After tliey oneo became Cliristians they M'ore
like the anj^els, and the (^liureh of Madura seems a truo
image of the primitive Church."
We do not question their zeal and devotion and suc-
cess in making converts, such as tL ^ were. Their untir-
ing ]>erseverancc and devotion is worthy of all praise and
imitation. '* They were energetic and laborious mission-
aries, persevering for centuries in the pursuit of their ob-
ject, .ind for that object enduring privations, persecu-
tions, even death itself, with a courage and constancy
beyond all praise. But, alas ! for the perversion of these
noble qualities, until they became a curse instead of a
blessing.
But who were these missionaries ? What were their
principles — their line of policy ? What the amount and
character of their success ? And what the real character
of their converts ? Were they converts to Christianity,
or only converts from one class of idols to another — from
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yi)7
of iln' .!«'-
f of Uu'ir
orH Hponk
-•Icnial <»r
10 convor-
f tli(» in'H-
liousamls,
strifo uii-
ir of til oil'
)f luMVOII.
Trl* HO HUC-
10 n])()stloH
Milinoss of
)ol." Th«
loast onch
iiisnixl tlio
they wero
n\m a true
aiul suc-
eir untir-
iraise and
■; niissioTi-
their ob-
persecu-
constancy
of these
tead of a
ere their
ount and
character
istianity,
per — from
one net of rites an<l .snpei*Mtiti(»iiH toaiiother not Iohh puerilo
or impure ?
Who were the.so miftsionarieH ? It will cpiito .snfTioo to
Hay thoy were Jesuits, governed \ty their own piw^uliar
poli(ry, HolliHh, crnfty, unscnipnlonH. And nov<!r hnd thoy
« fairer iield, iind nevi^r di<l thoy address them.selvo.s to
thinr work with moie adroitne.ss and sin^lenJvsH of aim,
and with more untiring persevenmce. Nowhere else per-
haps did they ho eomphitidy per.sonat(^ tlu^niHolves and
iliustrat(5 the principles of the fraternity. It is n;adily
conceded that these were men of ahility, well horn and
hi^ddy educated, men of undaunted courage, for "during
a century and a half thoy fought against all things, Hacrod
and profane, models for ndssionaries in zeal, in devotion
to their work, in aelf-sacritice, in accpiaintance with lan-
guages, manners an<l habits of the people, and therefore
it is imp(»HHible not to lament and abhor the accursed
policy of which they were the willing victinis, and which
will render their names and their history, to all suo
ceeding ages, beacons of iiiin and disgrace." But we are
principally concemod to consider what were the govem-
mg principles — what the line of policy pursued by theno
Indian missionaries ? In reply we need quote but a s;nglo
paragraph from the Jesuit Juvency's history of tlie Order.
The reader will at onco discover the e8j)rit (ie corps of this
extraordinary mission, and at the same time read its his-
tory in its very origin :
" Father Robert de Nobilibus, the founder of the mis-
sion, perceiving the strong prejudices of the natives
against Europeans, and believing it to be invincible, de-
termined to conceal his real origin, and to enter among
them as one of themselves. For the purpose, he applied
himself diligently to the study of the native language,
manners and customs ; and having gained over a Brahmin
to assist him, he made himself master of the usages and
customs of the sect, even to the most minute details.
Thus prepared for his undertaking, and fortified besides
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l\\)H
TUi; FOOT I'UINIS OF HATAN.
l>v luM oonip.M!\ion. ho (M\i(M('(l Mfulurn. tint mr m < *Iii iMlinii
lui-^sionnrv. ImH. MH M Hviihwh) of n MU)H'rior nt«lo>-, wlm
1\M(I <M»iM»» junon^- tluMn lo iTMtoro (Ito inoHJ. nncicul Iniin
of llu^ir roli/i;ion, IHm muccomm l»(i\V(»vor. wmh nnl ni llifll.
ooiuplotv ; nnd Hmm'IuoI' of <,Iu» HrMlnninH. in n Inr;:/!' mm-
MiMnlOv oommmmmI lor 1Ih» purpoNp. ncfUHnl liiin |ttii)li('l\
«Nv <i)) 9i))jhKtfor irh(> S(>u<ifif ii} ih'i'circ flh' iwdji/f hi/ /irf^,
nM»r</r'r /«> iittriuhd'c ii \nnv /r/A/Zo;; /h/o iJio roiiiHrif;
upon \vl\i('li Nol>ilil>HM produopd n m rillon Nnoll. mikI in
{]\o ]>roM(M\0(» oI'mII pro(«\sl,P(l. nnd MADK oath llml lio ImhI
xovilv sjMMinfj iVom \\\o yod Hr.\lnnM. 'riuco I'lfdiniinH,
ov(Mpo\V(M"(Mi l»v Rnol\ slrong ovid(M»«M\ llicn iomo mid per
siiMdi^i tluMV l>nMl\r(Mi not, (o pciMoonlo ji iiwiii wIjo cMilcd
himsolfM Hr;\lnnin. .'ind proviMl 'no w.'im no Ity vviilion ovi
dorUV JHul SoliMUn OMlllH. MH \v«dl MR l>v M ootd'oiPiil V to
thoir niMunors. oondmM nnd droHM." llMvijijT pjiMHod Mum
ord«\'\l so ii i\nn]>han<ly, ho lu^xt j^avo InniMoll' o\ii, to lu*
a S\n\ynso(\ nnd for fho iiMnniiidcM' i^\' his lifo kopl, up
ilio oh(\'\t suooivwsfidly.* His oxninph^ w.mh followod l>v
all liisr siuvossovH in iho mission, nnd (ho disoovory ol'
{\\o fnlso]u>»Hi, or (l\o n\on^ knowhMljjo Mini (iH^y wvw
K\iropo;\ns. thoy ovor Mftorwnrds lonn^d ns Mio sim(> sijir-
nnl o( {how «iisoouiiitin'(\ Tims wms laid ihv fonnda
tion and ohiof oornor sloiu^ o( (ho far faniod Mission
o( Madura ? Komidod in an nnhhishino- li(» and i)(>rinrv,
it hronghl forth tVnits wortliy o( its ijrnohN* oritjin.
It Noonis \o havo Wvu no part of llio lahonrs of fhi^sc
sclf-n\ado l^rahn\ins from Mn-opo to hrinsi; tlH>s(> idolaters
* Tho J<\mj"a800 i^ tho fourth .uul nicst. ju'vlVcf iiiBtitntc of llu' Wrnh-
luins. Thov wonv tho ov.-uigonoloiinMl i\vvnn f;»5»( olton, vnX ih'HImt
rtesh, tish. oggs uor v'ooUnt vrgolahh'M. liiith(> throo tinicH a-day, ficcp
*M\ tho tigvr's skin ^thioh »lnring tlio day Hioy uoar on flirir Rlumltl
oi-?» ; lot thoir hoards grow, n\l> Iho fon>hoad and hroaHt witl\ Mio
aahos of oow'ct-duug, A>r /Af •/»<>(;/ iif' /hia Mcrcd auiuial clcannrn Jhm
.*i». Thoy aiv niondioants ol tho xuo^i anstoro and saorotl oidor.
suhmitting to a«8t*'ritio8. and porfonninc; ooronionioH inniunorablo and
sovoro.
i^.
"t^fmrfmrmmmmimm
or, wIh»
Mil I'nrni
nit I'MHi
Inrj/t' HH
)iii)tli(*ly
r- /•// //f'N,
'tunilt'if ;
I, nix) ill
I l»o litui
IniliiiiiiiM,
Mild |»«M*
ho «'!lll<><l
ilicii rvi
MPiHy i"
)MH(m1 t.lUM
n\l<, In i>o
» kr|)t lip
IowmmI ity
•ovory "1
snif* Hi^
> loinuln
Mission
1 nrrjury,
in.
s <>!' Mn*s(*
i«lolMl(M-s
1)1' I]m> Hnili
t-nt ikmIIht
!i-(lay, h1(H'i>
llu'ir wluuilti
Hi with Mio
umonvblo HHil
MIMHIHN OK MAIMUIA.
'Mm
of ArIh >//) to ( 'III is! innily. I'til. Ili«'y oK(t»'Hfl«'<| xjl Ili»>ir
Hkill ami powrr In lnin|/ ( 'liriHlijiriil.y (Imini In fclinrn.
Tlioy tnn«lo Mioni iml, (Uio vvliil Ipsh «(i(»nrMl,if,ioim or i'lol
Ml,rons. 'I'ln^y MiiliHl.iliil«Ml lln* Virgin for Mio IlifMloo^ofj
«loHH llio vvorHliip nC Hn.intH nrifl mii^mIm lor UkiI, of Mio
lonJH niHMy, nrui I,Im» ^o«Ih of IIm^ ItPMlliffi. Thorn wnn
noMiin^ ill iJio ofif» mhm** Ihnri in IIm-' oMicr of rofornMil,ion
ol' lilo, pnrily nj' hrnrt, <»r rrvoroncc* lor Uod, his Horvicn,
his word or his d»iy. 'I'ho ( 'hi istiimil-y of l,h»>Hn I'funnri
SunyMsroH nH'ordt'd no moro ♦.«'hI. <>\' rhnrncUir /irid was
foilowfMl l>y IK) rrlorninUon ol" iiiannnrH, and prMMonl,<>(l l,o
l.h(^ world no ovidrnco Mml. I.ho now roli^if»n poHRPssod
nfiy nionil Hiipcrinril.y ovrr Mm^ lon^ vonnrjilcd n-lij/irniN of
iJio cfMiniry. ThiR will appear IJm' nion^ (thvioiis as wo
iiKpiiro iHjxtr—
Wli/it wns IJm' nntonrd., nnd wlinl. Ilio nnl rjinrnrl.fr of
tlio nnrr<'f^R (d Ihiw Indin iniHwion 'i No doidd. t\]('y nnrn
ImmmmI a lni|.^r nmlliliido of conviilM, and ^ninrd (^H'fii
power, nnd fHTiinnilatrd iinnn'iiH*' wj-nltl). M. MartJn,
(lovrrnor of Pondirlicrry, JiMKj'rls thai, Mk^ .Icsnit.K cnrriod
on an inniK^nfln (MniinKircf Knthrr Tacfiard h/id, at, oiio
fciino, iirronnt, witli fh<> Firnch Conipnny to tiMr amount
of noo^OOOlivniH, and tlui.t thn ( lonipnny's vfHKclH trans-
portod Inrgidy for thr Ji'snits. Yot they Tuadc, a largo
nunilHM- of convorts, and wioldi-d n, tn-rncndonH [jowcr in
India for ji, tmndrcd find fifty ycnrs — (.'onvortH, as I havn
Naid, not to (*hristiMnity, l»iit to a modified and n(>iriiruiHy
clian^dd Hystoni of idolatry.
Our narrntivo of tlio Mndnra MiRMif)n fnrnislKiH ainplf!
iJlimtrations of thr (•luiiMctcr of tlio ( 'Jiristianity thfTO in-
trorluc(>d. 'I'nko lor rxninpio, a (h'scription of a (Jh/riM-
fdii proccHHion on n ^ni
?id festival flay in honour of tlif
irjifin Mniy. Ft is ns coinjjUdcly heathen, jih any one
who lias witnessed these |)ro<'esHion.^ in India very well
know.s, as any proeesHi(»n in lionour of the Hindr^o goddess.
It iHtlins descrilHul, reminding one of tlic famous Jugger-
naut :
m
Ill
mmm mif^ w **
li
U
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TlIM nnvV IMIINIH OK HAIAN.
inf)S M1>«1 gMU«lilv iIiM'UimI will) flnWrlH II i« «llM^r|^riM|
Hlo\>ly on i(« m»MUin>r wIwm'Im l»v n InnnilhnniM rro\v<l, nml
<]\o TivMUrtMln. i\ vlMjr ilnonfvli JuM hi^mc. nml romni lioi
no«'K n HMi'io«l nnpiiMl rollin On fUtl* Mitl«> n! Ihm in<> iih'M
>\ \{\\ jvummoIm in < hoiv IwindM. i\\\\\ i»n«> Itnldw n nn|tkin, wil l»
\vl\h>h 1 o »':U(»r\»llv ilvivoM MWMV < l»o n»oM(HiiiiM>M Tin* nil
i,H jm-^m'OiIimI I>v tlMiifoiM. IimM iifiKiMl, tiinl mIkmiKimI willi
H;in«iMl \\o\m\ i\\\\\ viMinilion Wild mIioiiIm rin}.i Uiroii^li
{\w rnr. Mn«l I ho onr Im HinnnotI willi m oonriimMl ilin ol"
horns. ivmnpol.H, ioni (onm, KoHio ilinniH inul oIIum iiiHliii
n\onl\s ol* nni^io. li \» ni^lil. ImiI (^hpMid-M n uimikI illiiini
niHion t\\h\ iho Mr^'^o of innnnnMnhlo lorclioM) lurKoln,
uluM^ls, Konuvn OiindloH. ini»l oilier liroworUs. in llio run
slrnoluM^ y'^i >\ lnol\ llio llin<li>oH o\ool. mIiooI up in ovory
»li\\vlion Tho on>>v<l is o\' ll\o umiimI niollov <loM(>ii|»lion
>}in»l :ill \\\{\\ ohrtrMoliMiMlio niMrlvM ol iMolnlry 'I'lio onr
IK iho ^\\\ o( :\ ho.'ilhon jMinoo. Ilio ^InnoiMM iimi niiiny of
thvM\nis'ioi:n\N :iro horro>vo«l iVoni llio noiiiVRl piijrodji. Ilio
siMVt<\<ors ;nx^ iiiolMlors. Iml iln' ^rouhtit vt'fffrsriif» flic
\ nuj\N M \\n ' \\u\ Iho noiors in (Iuh HOMmlaKiuH Hoono
niv iho (7M'jV/?\n>>^ ol' MM^Inr.-v !'"*
U»nv n\'» iilv tl\o rinislinnN .'unl lionilion n«HO(MMlo«l on
snv^h \>*vnsions. KmIIum- Mnrlin IoUm n» : "'riuM-liiol* man
vtf i\w plnoo with his Inniily, s\\u\ ll\o olhor lionlhon wlio
wow pwsont in il\o piM»VNNi«>n. prosii'ftiriUhfUist'hu's lliroo
tin\i\'< Ivtoiv Iho ininp^ o( (lu» (InisliMn go«MoHH, iin<l
:uioi\H^ it in :\ n\;vnnor >vl\i\'h liMppily MoimUmI (Jioin wiMi
iho n\os( 1orvo\U i / (l\o iMuistiMnn. ' AntI wlint \\t\H Mk*
ivsult shall \vo SHV what >v;us Iho ))}(*riil inllinMU'o ol'
Mioh svvntv* ? 0\i\" hivstorian prooootlw : " InnncMliaioIy lol
lo\v<\i. av'i usual, a givai nmnhor of hap(i,s})\fi ! hnhMMJ.
pnwssions an*l dauvvs \vt>n> favoiu'ito n\otho<ls of oonv«M'
sun\ with tho .losiiitKS. "
I
" A Wanuug fi\mi the Vm&U' l>y tlu< Utw. \V. S. Mmikuy.
j'liuifn MNirv rAHANi/.rih
401
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n. \vii'«
.1 will*
«liM ol'
illunn
ho roll
t» rvory
'IM«o nvr
mnny ol*
<*'»>/« //"'
'inlv«l on
i^r nwvn
\VJ\H t^»''
Uiom'o ot
a
(i^ly lol
M* (M)uvov
Im
ikfty
Af) \\o llM\P Mi«i>|l, III)' llcfillM'M i'lifi ill |||i> M|(ircMMi((ii rd"
llit> MmiIimm ( 'III JMliMiiM, niitl t-i>M|ii)tMl ifi II, loiiil iniM>r> l,(i I,)im
I ill'M ttl' llu'il \VMtMllJ|l, MO. MM VVI* IrllffI ♦,<• M VMif.IlM" j»n»-
IMHHioll III' illnlMlt'lM. \V»» IIMM«|. I III* H>!HM> Mll'ltlfM < ^ll f I'tlill f |M
"U'llll l'>'mllMl'4 Mini I » 1IIII|M>(,M. VViMl l<«'l,M«w|| IMriM Mfl'l
liMiiiM, liiiiili'fil, ill hi'vil wuiHlii|i" Tliom* "Mii{';<Jir' MICH,
wlio iMfrly (iniiiiiil, n v<«ninl niii. mimI, IV'ifn l,li<>ir lifuror
III' idiilfilrv. Hriii|ilt> lo |iMHn liy m, licnMicfi I,(>mi(»|c/' mow
jrildltM Mtiillllil llli> llCI'l lli'll i«|(ll, " MM I'ltl'l MImI lilMy IIM MiO
iiiiimI. '/i'mIoiih III' il,M \VMrMlii)i|i('rM "
Nnf WMM lliiM nil. HfiyM niir miiiMl.iviv 'l'li»^ f|iMfifi<( iorm
III' i'MhIi' wore i ifrormiMly "Iimci vcd i\\u<iu^ Mm ( Ilir iMf,i/ifiM.
'' lio l*nri>ihn I^Mil Mi'imrnio ('IiimcIimh, fontM, <'onf'<>HHlo»i»»lH
iit;:| «Muimiimiiih I,iiIiI(>m, miirrin^ow wi'r»w!«>|»>l(f7il,«<(| \k)\,w<s(\h
cliililion Movoii yiMiiM nlil. ni.l willi ncnrly Mim wlioN^ i'lol-
(lirmlM riMiMiiimifil ul' llio licnllicn ( !|iri«l/i/iriH )i.ri<l li«nMicfi
worn (iho r/iiim' IiiKimim hI iilMlniry, (iIimimvvI nqHcfifjuJIy Mio
Mfiiiio iii(>H, jM'iloiiiirtl (,Im> mhiim' »i,l»li»l.ioii«, fiotli imirif^/ Mio
very ''miiip pinyi^iM vvliil(> liMJliiiif^, (idfln'HHCij to Uu' i^loln
ol' llio Ik^hMmmi Wliirli WMM l,lio KoiiiMfi Siiriyn.M>'M mikI
Nvliicli MiM I'n^riih wliicli Mm Mivliirn, (IliriMMafi jiri'l
wli! Ii Mic iliixloo iilohilicr Mm^ tinpr/M'l.iHM'J cv'-' 'oiiKJ
iinl. (liHroni
hill, wlinl. WMH Mm loHiill, ^ hi'l nnl ^ !lirif;f,inriif,y rrinko
liny |»ro^M(«HH Mmro V l>icl iJio mium-I, lioirinr/ Mi<» f./oo<)
tidiii^jH, IIihI iJicrn nny ni,'iliii|^ [ilnro Tor Mm hoIc of fi<;r
lool, ^ Of vvjiw il. Mim|»ly m, <U!moriHt,n'Mofi of .|«vmiiM^rri, »,
i^;iMil.i(i nli(>m|il, lo coiinf.nrrcil, ( HiiiHMnriity, t<» i'< trc^UiW
iJin riHJiij^^ mi'iMioiKiry Hjiiril. ol' IJim mw«',iit«',»fit,fi r;(;riM<ry,
(UkI to iiiono|»oli/,(i Mm* ^m<'/i,I, miMHionnry li< Ul ';\' Mic, Ka«f,,
wliicli WMM now IiihI, iiMKMif,^ into IJkj linrKls of >i, ifrcut
l'i(»l.<»Hl,Mril. iiMiioii i VV<ill riiM.y it l»<; mmjiJ, SntMn's ^(•.nl in
lli(M'(>. Nowlioin (>lw«' liMH Im MiJc.li VMHt fnu Iti tudcH of i»n-
tiiortMl Mollis IiowikI liM.nd nrid foot in tiir; r.liairiH of ;i,ri
Miicimt, loiijL^-viHK^i'Mtnd, mII rontioilifi^ Hy.Htofri of fajno
ivli^ioii. ( HiriMtiMiiity, now n',nov/i,t(;d Mrifl onor^izod hy
tiiii itoloiinatioii, wan about Lo take wind's for her flif/ht
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THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
over the nations. It was to forestall tho approacliing
invasions of the religion of Calvary — sacrilegiously to
ba})tize the followers of Brahma in tho nanio of Christ,
yet preserve unimpaired the spirit of tho Arch -Foe — that
the JcHuits were inspired to make this bohl and des])erate
attempt to anticipate and foil the labours of tho coming
ambassadors of the Cross.
And for a time they seemed to prosper. J3ut tho day of
inquisition came. The strong man armed kept his goods
till a stronger than he caino and took away tho armour
wherein ho trusted, a he Jesuits lost their power. Tho
Order was suppressed. Then what became of Madura
Christians and of the bold experiment in Lidia ? Only
twenty years had elapsed and these native Christians are
described by the Romish writer Fra Bartolomeo as "being
in the lowest state of superstition and ignorance." The
account he gives of their morals, especially of the catecliists
and native clergy, is literally too gross for transcri|)tion.
The evidence of the Abbd Dubois (another Romish author-
ity) is not a whit more favourable. In his celebrated
letters are to be found instances of superstitions and
ignorance scarcely exceeded even in the reign of the
Jesuits, and he makes the rightful admission that, "during
a period of twenty years that he had familiarly conversed
with them, lived with them as their religious teacher and
piritual guide," he would "hardly dare affirm that ho
had anywhere met one sincere and undisguised Christian."
While Jesuitism failed to scatter in that benighted land
the seeds of a pure Christianity, or to make disciples of
Jisus, it worked out a |)urpose in Providence which we
would not overlook. It showed up the real animus of
Je&uitisn\ more distinctly than ever had been before. Its
power, its unscrupulous policy, its disregard of the most
solemn oaths, and of all moral obligations where the in-
terests of their Society or of the Church demand it ; its
avarice, its ambition and intolerance, all found the most
unrestrained development in this propitious field. Wo
THE JESUITS UNCIIANOINO.
403
Lching
ily to
Christ,
— tliat
porato
oniing
day of
I goods
irinour
Tho
Madura
Only
ans aro
"being
." Tho
,teclii8ts
iription.
author-
lebrated
ms and
of the
" during
n versed
her and
that ho
ristian."
ted land
iples of
hich we
imus of
re. Its
,he most
the in-
it ; its
,he most
Id. Wo
may acce)>t this as tlic niMHterpiecre of that wisdom which
worketh among the (children of disoh('die!>c«;.
And tini ilhistnition is not tlie h3Hs striking of tho sin-
gular dfrofcihiCNs and sfUM-lfico and self (l(;tnal and un-
faltering porsovoranco of these (h'votoes of Loyohi. How
much more ought the true disciple of J(;sns, who has Ixmju
bought at an infinite price — sav(Ml by blot^d divine to
make a full and nnrcserved consecration to his divine
Lord and Master ! Go anywlienj, do anything, niake any
sacrifice.
We have re|)roduced the above brief sketch of Jesuit-
ism as an example, though an incomplete one, of what
this Order really is. But has not Jesuitism changed with
the progress of civilization and tho advancfimcnt of
Christianity ? We have not the slightest ground for such
a suspicion. Lik(; the Paj)acy, it changes not. In the re-
instatement of the Jesuits in 1814 we hear of no modifi-
cations of their " Constitutions," no change of their
principles, aims, or policy. Never, we believe, had these
wily, ever-aggroHsive janissaries of Rome a more open
field, or were they more on the alert of activity, than at
tho present moment in America. Never more than now
was the Jesuit "going about seeking whom ho may
devour." Never has his power been less limited or un-
restrained than in our own free country. Like the frogs
of Egypt, the Jesuits arc in oxir houses, in our bed-
chambers, in our kitchens and kneading-troughs — in our
schools and colleges — in our churches and legislatures.
They have not lost one iota of their cunning, adroitness
or exhaustless activity. They will go anywhere — will do
anything — submit to any sacrifice — he anything, which
may seem best to subserve their own interests. And
what are these interests ? Just wha+ they always were
— to gain power ; to control the destinies of the nation ; to
bring all men into abject subjection to the despotism of
Rome ; to monopolize talent, money, position ; to enslave
the people, and exalt the hierarchy. It is to turn back
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Mai
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404
ruv. rooT-PTiiNTs nr satan.
tho tli.Ml of liiuo M (hous.Mud y»^'>l•N («» nnoHt (1h> prn^roNH
of oivilizntion mmiI o\' «'i\ il mtkI rolij^inus lil»«Mty, ami lu
roN(ov»» rho worM <o Koin(»H millrnninl ^lory in (,ho <lnik-
osl 4a} 8 oi' tho tlark iigoH.
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TIIK DKVIh IN MAN.
MOW At,T, IWH AITK/nTICS, ASI'llfATfONR, r'Af'A I'.IfJTf KK, ANf)
HIISCKI'TIIIII.I'IIKS AIM*; I'KM VKMTKh MAN W\UV. KffUfT,
IMIT l»V TIIK F.NKMY I, AID IN IMflN.M — MOIlK OK TIIK F^OOT-
I'lllNTH OK TIIK DKVII, — 'Vl'.V. WINNKU A SF'ILK-DKSTKOYKK.
Wk, jhmmI fu»t/ ^<) nhrojul into iho wi<lo world for our
ilhiHtrntioiiH. 'V\\() littld world calh-d uian will rctvc, our
|mr|)(»M(> ((uit/C HH well. Wo liuvo Hpon by wliat u, wltole-
HJiU^ in<)tio|»oly Snini) Iimh Bulionlinntod to Ii'im vile- piir-
|)oH(iR ilic "^(khI tliin^H" of tli(5 world. All tliiii^.'<, uk
tlioy rniru; from iho liniid (A' ^\<)(\, wore by [nfiniU! Wis
(loin proiioniHUijI "Oood." TlM-y were, in all tlioir })oar-
iiigH, workin^^H and rosnlfcH, exactly ada[)tf!d to Hccurc, tlif.
lia|)]»ineMH and the lii^dicHt good of inan. Tli(5 lawR of na-
ture in all tlieir nfitural work ing.s, arid 'tlio roHourccH of na-
ture in all tlie'r varied UHe.y, coritrihute nio.st dinjctly
and effectually to tlii-s end. All natural evil (no callf;d)
m but a |>ervorHion and af)UHe of natural goofi. And
thin pervcfHion in Holcly the handiwork of our Enemy.
We have mv.n vlu't desolationH he hath made in the
earth — wliat corroding evils, opprc.s.sion.s, frauds — what
wars, faininea, j)eKstilences — what untold calamities, so-
cial, civil, domestic, are inflicted by his unrelenting hand.
How wealth, tfilent, the press, religion — all the world's
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V,
powers, though in thouiHclvos fitted to ])r(Kl»co good, aro
prostituted to evil. How cornmeree, trade, biiHiucHH are
sadly devoted to the service of mammon and not unto
(^od. In narrowing tlie field of observation down to the
little worhl we linve called man, we meet illustrations
not the less striking. And not the less shall we here
find the "god of this world reigning unto death."
What is man '{ What constitutes the living, moving,
speaking, thinking being called man ? We fiixl him
maiie up of body and soul — of diverse functions of mind
and of body, of affections, desires, appetites, suscej)tibili-
ties, and of aspirations after something infinitely aV)ovo
anything he can reach or realize in the present state of
his being. He lias, too, a conscience.
At different stages of the creation of the niaterial
world — of the atmosphere, of light, and of all living
thingvM — God pronounced all to be " good." But after
man had been created in the imago of God, and been as-
signed his place as lord of this lower creation, God now,
with an emphatic " Behold I" declares all to bo " very
good." Hence we may safely .assume that man is the
noblest work of God. If everything pertaining to the
material world — its laws, resources and capabilities,
would have worked good and only good if left unperver-
ted by sin, much more would everything pertaining to
man.
But if everything in man was mcAe right, was condu-
cive to human hapi>iness, and to the honour of God,
whence the derangement, the evil, the misery ? Here we
shall again det(!ct the foot-prints of the Foe, the work of
our Enemy.
Let us look for a few moments it the natural consti_
tution of man as he was originally ^"^rmed by the divine
»;■(
hand. But what is this normal cv,xidition ? What it
nature, constitution and laws ? And what the natura
and necessary results of obedience, and what the inevi
table penalty of disobedience ? An answer to these qut
1
nrAHOLICAL PEUVKUSIONS.
407
l8
rios will further (lisclose wlmt desolations otir onomy
hath made in thin, the noblest workmaiKship of God. If
it shall ap|)oar, from nian'H original conformation — from
man, oontcm[)latod aM the handiwork of (lod, that lio in
so formed tliat obedience to the laws of his nature secures
lia|)j)iness, and violation certain misery, then we must
conclude that tlie divine law and the laws of the humnii
constitution harmonize. Obedience in either case equal-
ly tends to prosperity, ha])pinesa, honour and life tem-
poral and eternal, and violation ending inevitably in dis-
honour, misery and death.
The moral law, a.s summarily contained in the Deca-
logue, " has its foundation in the nature and relations of in-
telligent beings." That is, it is based on the nature of man
and on the character of God, involving the relations in
which we stand to God, and to one another. And if so,
then the duties imposed and enforced by the divine law
are essentially the same as the duties which result from
our relations to our fellow-men and to the material world.
Consequently a violation of the law of our natures is a
violation of the moral law.
Whether, then, we examine the structure of the body,
or the nicer workmanship of the soul, wo are brought to
the same conclusion. As health, happiness and success
in life are suspended on obedience to the laws of our phy-
sical constitution, so all moral good is suspended on obe-
dience to the laws of our moral constitution.
A brief analysis of some of the constituent parts of
man will furnish ample illustration of the devastation of
the Destroyer. In the example adduced, the diabolical
pei'versions whereby the enemy makes the field on which
the Master has sown the good seed, to bring forth tares,
the reader will but too surely detecu the foot-prints of the
Adversary.
The Jive senses, for example, are so formed by the great
Architect as to be so many inlets of happiness to the in-
ner man — channels of communication with the outer
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408
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SA-MN.
world — not merely of knowledge which gives happiness,
but of liappiness direct. And, what is not a little to he
admired as a further evidence that God, in the formation
of men, designed him for happiness, is that external nature
should be so admirably adapted to the physical and moral
constitution of man as to make all his intercourse with
the external world a source of unmixed happiness. The
reason it is not so, is not from any defect in the original
an-angement, but from a perversion of it.
The sense of seeing is given, not simply that we may,
by the exercise of vision, form an acquaintance with ex-
ternal nature and facilitate our intercourse with our fellow-
men, and through such knowledge and intercourse indi-
rectly realize much substantial hap])iness, but it is given
as a source of luxury, that we might thereby enjoy the
beauties of nature about us. And so with the sense of
hearing. It is not merely a source of utility but of pleas-
ure. It is the channel that conveys sweet sounds to the
soul. It is a charmer. The evil spirit of Saul was tamed
by music. There is a charm in the soft notes of harmony
which melts the most ferocious soul. The serpent tribe
are not insensible to the enchanting sounds of music.
They are charmed by them.
And so we may say of the sense of smelling. It is not
simply a feeler by which to detect what from without is
disagreeable, or what would be hurtful to the stomach, or
injurious to the lungs, but it is another channel by
which to convey to the immortal tenant within, the sweet
odours of nature's most delicate works. And so likewise
with the senses of taste and feeling. They serve the double
purposes of protection and "pleasure, indicating the bene-
volent design of the Divine Author, and proving beyond
controversy that God intends man should be happy. —
Else why do we find him the author of such an arrange-
ment ? Why in the external world so much beauty, and
the eye capable of beholding and appreciating it, and con-
veying an* agreeable sensation to the soul ? Why so
II'
SUPREMACY OF CONSCIENCE.
409
pmosfl,
B to 1)0
mation
nature
[ moral
c with
. The
)rigiiial
e may,
ith cx-
fcllow-
HG incli-
s given
ijoy the
sense of
)f pleas-
s to the
s tamed
armony
nt tribe
music.
is not
thout is
Qach, or
mel by
e sweet
ikewise
double
le bene-
beyond
appy.—
irrange-
ty, and
nd con-
^^hy so
many sweets — and the taste so exactly suited to extract
them for the luxury of the inner man ? Why so many
pleasant odours, and the organs of fimell so completely
adapted to inhale them for the regaling the inhabitant
within ? And why so many agreeable objects of contact,
and the touch so admir.ably fitted to carry pleasant im-
pressions to the soul ?
God has, again, established a connection between ha/p-
piness and bodily exercise. He has nerved the arm with
strength, and then made the exercise of this strength con-
ducive to happiness. Not only is bodily exercise the
procuring cause of our sustenance, and the means by
which to gather about us the comforts and luxuries of
life, but the direct means of health, physical and moral —
and consequently of haf)piness.
But we shall find examples equally abundant, and more
in point, if we look for a moment into man's moral consti-
tution.
Our first example we will take from the existence of con-
science. Man has a conscience, nor is this an accidental pro-
perty of the soul, but a constituent part of the system.
It is the suoi in that system. Its office is to enlighten and
rule. Enthroned amidst the lesser faculties of the mind,
as a supreme lawgiver and judge, she promulges laws, en-
forces duties and executes penalties. The will, the pas-
sions, the affections, and the whole mental train are placed
at her feet. She commands, approves, rebukes, rewards,
and punishes according to the unerring integrity of her
nature. And it is a matter of fact to which all who have
attended to the operations of tlieir own conscience will
accede, that all her decisions are on the side of virtue.
And virtue, by which we mean our whole duty, both to-
wards God and man, is the only sure way to happiness
and moral purity.
We may now ask, what but consenting to and adopt-
ing this divine arrangement — what but obeying the law
of our nature as developed in this part of our moral coa-,-
f
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THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
stitution — what, in a word, but acknowledging the supre-
macy of conscience, need a man do in order to secure' hap-
piness in this world, and to lay an immovable foundation
tor infinite felicity in the world to come ? Let us ex-
amine a few of her sanctions.
One of the first laws of conscience is that the will, the
affections, and the mental faculties, shall yield obedience
to her authority. What can more directly conduce to
happiness than this, and what more destructive of it than
the violation of this law ? The usurpation of the heart
over the conscience, and the alienation of the affections,
and the consequent perversion of the mental powers, is
the very root and matter of sin.
Conscience proclaims the great fact that there is a God,
and demands that every creature render unto Him un-
feigned love and gratitude, untiring obedience and ser-
vice. She recognizes, too, the relation of man to man,
and the consequent duties of justice, mercy and mutual
love. Against all these a perverted heart rebels. Rea-
son, too, throws the weight of her influence into the scale
of conscience. We then have conscience, with her auxi-
liary, reason, arrayed in fierce conflict with the heart,
backed by a long and vociferous train of rebellious pas-
sions, of wayward affections, and by a mental corps of
truant faculties. Both parties are stoutly contending for
happiness. There can be no doubt whose will be the
final victory. God is on the side of conscience. All but
conscience and her ally, reason, are tisurpers, and will be
defeated. Whoever, therefore, yields obedience to the
laws of his conscience, meets the approbation of his God.
Whoever violates these laws forfeits the divine favour.
And (what is not less to our purpose) not only are the
duties imposed by conscience good in themselves — produc-
tive of peace, good order and happiness, but the per/or-
Tnance of them is always attended with pleasurable emo-
tions to the performer. Whereas the course dictated by
the heart is neither good in itself, nor its pursuit attended
with any continued or substantial happiness.
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LAWS OF NATURE CONTRAVENED.
411
As another part of our moral constitution we ma}'- re-
fer to the benevolent affections. God has inserted in the
very framework of our l^eing the feelings of com2)as8io7i,
sympathy, kindness and benevolence. He has made the
exercise of these productive of happiness, while the vio-
lation of their laws is the direct road to discomfort and
iriiscry.
Take compassion : a wretched object is presented, the
sight of whose wretchedness instantly elicits the feelings
of compassion, a feeling natural to man, or composing a
part of his original constitution. This may exist more or
less vividly, owing, perhaps, to a want of due exercise.
It may be more or less quick in its operation. But the
sight of wretchedness draws it out. This is a law of our
nature. Yet it may be nipped in the bud by avarice or
some other chilling prodn t of selfishness, and thus this
benevolent law of our nature be overruled. But sup-
pose this law to be obeyed, and we shall see a. result full
of happiness.
The sight of wretchedness, I said, excites compassion.
By the side of compassion lies sympathy, who, awakened
by the moving of her sister compassion, arises, and makes
common cause with the suffering object, bathes him in
her tears, feels his wounds and his wants, enlists the aid
of kindness and calls up benevolence. Now if we analyze
these different processes, we shall find happiness to be
the result of them all. First, we have the influence pro-
duced in the bosom of the giver — the one who affords the
relief, a thing entirely separate from the influence on the
receiver. The exercise of compassion, the kindly inter-
position of sympathy, the lovely reachings forth of bene-
volence, are all pleasurable emotions, springing up in the
breast of the giver, and diffusing sweetness and serenity
though the whole man. These are fragrant flowers, which
urst bless the soil where they grow, then delight the eye
of the beholder, then send forth their sweet odours.
And, in addition to this, there is the no less beautifying
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412
THE FOOT'PKINTS OF SATAN.
aud be
covetoi
influence on the receiver. His temporal wants are sup-
plied — his wretchedness removed or mitigated, and a por-
tion of happiness is thus secured. But this is only a small I "^^ ^'^
part. A string is touched in his heart which beats in unison I P^^'^''^^^<^
with that of the giv('r. His grateful heart biirsts forth in I pJi^f'SS
spontaneous effusions of goodwill, and is responded to in
the kindly affecti(ms of his benefactor. Thus an influence, I '^^''^*'^' ^
like a cloud of sweet and hallowed incense, distilling inl. ^^^
its course the dewdrops of celestial happiness, is diffused I ^'^ them
around on every side — diffused from two points, first from I ^'^^^ ^^
the giver, then frum the receiver. I l^hen,
This is i^cting in obedience to the laws of our nature. I^ogethei
This is as things would be but for the derangements of sin, I .^'^J^ ^
What an evil then is sin ! How productive o. misery .'l^^'^^"if^^
And what a happy world this would be, and what never-I^^^T> J^'
failing and eternal happiness man had secured, had be infr^^^*^?/^ ^
all things obeyed the laws of his constitution ! Were everv Pumults,
object of wretchedness allowed to exert its legitimate in"^*^^!^ ^^
fluence on the spectator, in eliciting his^compassion, accom-
panieo by sympathy and followed up by the benevolent
act, and were every act of benevolence met with a corres-
ponding gratitude and goodwill on the part of the recei-
ver, how soon would the universal dominion of benevolence
commence in this world — how soon the hearts of all h
bound together in the . golden chains of love — how soon
heaven be begun on earth j
But suppose — what, alas! is too generally the fact-
that the opposite be true — that conscience be dethroned
her dictates unheeded, her laws trampled under foot, her
ways, which are ways of pleasantness, be spurned — sup-
pose the benevolent affections, as they attempt to tlo\r
forth in their silver currents, dispensing fertility and joy
on either side, be arrested by a seditious, disorganizing:
train of selfish passions, what then are we to expect as tlie
natural and necessary result ?
Suppose wretchedness fail to excite compassion, ana
sympathy, hushed to sleep by selfishness, refuse to awake,
re not h
Inlik(
f great
ery mui
cation o
nd he
etite or
h'mg is
f he can
uigence
am, he is
But lo(
ou will
luch as a-
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cissions,
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ot say tl
ow appe
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d, and a por-
only a small
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HABITS AND DAD PASSIONS.
413
and benevolence, chained hand and foot by the demon
covetousness, come not to the aid of the suffering, wliat
now will follow ? Instead of that divine serenity which
pervaded the mind before — instead of that celestial hap-
piness that sent up its sweet incense through all the
inner man, there would be, on the one hand, obduracy of
ankifluence I ^^^^'^> want of pity, a sense of meanness, self-degradation
'distilling in I ''^'^^^ ^®^^^^^^^' ^^^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^^ selfish passions, tormenting
^s is diifused I ^^ themselves, and putting into the hands of conscience so
its first from I ^'^^^ scourges by which to inflict her scorpion lashes.
' Then, instead of the golden chain of love that bound
together giver and receiver, we find the object of wretch-
edness cut off from the sympathies he thinks his due, now
writhing afresh under the tormenting passions of hatred,
envy, jealousy or malignity. Were the laws of our nature
our nature,
ementsofsin.
e o. misery!
what never
Bd had he iiit^^^^^2/^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^® contravened, what heartburning, what
Were everv
ejzitimate
in-
ission, accoin-
le benevolent I
vith a corres-
of the recei-
f benevolence I
irts of all be
ve — ^how soor.|
y the fact- 1
DC dethroned
der foot, herl
)urned — sup-
empt to tlo\f|
ility and j
disorganizing
expect as the
1
ipassion
an<i
tumults, what natural hatred would fill our world ! How
^ould the fires of the Pit be kindled on earth ! Discern
^'e not here the foot prints of the Foe ?
In like manner we might speak of hahit as an element
}f great power either for good or for evil. A man's habits
rery much control him. He has only to aUow the grati-
ication of any appetite, desire or passion to become a habit,
md he has in the same degree become a slave to that ap-
petite or passion. The Devil is no novice here. In no-
[hing is he more on the alert to turn all to his advantage.
If he can entice his dupe into a repetition of a hurtful in-
iuigence till the adamantine chain of habit binds his vic-
ira, he is sure of his p' 7.
But look again into the moral structure of man, and
jou will see there certain seditious, clamorous, passions,
luch as ambition, avarice, covetousness, pride and vanity,
ivy and jealousy. These are properly denominated had
^asmns, and it will be asked how the exercise of these
m be productive of good and result in happiness. I do
kot say they can. In the form and dress in which they
use
to awake B^^ appear, they are not component parts of our moral
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THE rOOT-PRTNTS OF SATAN.
constitution, when regarded aa the workiiianshi|) of p
divine hand. I called them i^c< I Itioiis, chwiorouspassionH.
They are usurpen — derangements of our nature, pro-
duced by that great moral connnotion wliicli broke iij)
the fountains of the great dee]). Far worse and more tor^
rific floods have swe])t over the moral creation than that
mighty deluge of waters which once drowned the natural
world, removing rocks from their places, overturning;
moimtains, turning the sea upon the dry land, and casting
the earth into the sea. Great as that natural commotion
was — so great that the earth lias not yet recovered from
thoshock — and terrific as was the conscquentderangemeiit,
the moral creation has sustained a more disastrous, a more
deranging shock, in the moral deluge vN'hich swept over it
when the fiery floods of sin burst foi tii from the Pit ami
rolled their dreadful waves over this once lovely world,
Where once in the natural world were fertile meadows
and smiling hills, are now sandy deserts and barren rocks
Where once fruit and flowers, now are thorns and briai\
Where once beauty, now is deformity. J^o we find it tool
in the world of mind. Often we can scarcely distinguisli
between the original formation and the sad derange-
ment. The noxious weed has so overgrown and burioi
from sight the true jilant that we almost search for itin|
vain.
A brief examination into the originals of these spurious I
growths will bring us to the same conclusion as in tli^
other cases, viz., that man is so constituted as to niakd
obedience to the laws of his nature his happiness, and .i|
violation of them his misery.
Take AMinTiON — in the common acceptation of the teniil
it is a desire of pre-eminence, but without due regard to
the means of obtaining it, or the purpose for which itsliiil
be used. 21iis is the usurper. Now, the original or gen nine |
passion — for which we have no name, unless we call it
laudable ambition — the genuine passion, as ])laced in tliel
system by the hand of the great Architect, is a desire toexci]
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A LAUDABLE AMmTION.
415
by all proper means, and for a good purpose. The original
desire may and ought to be pursued. The passion is
right. It is of divine origin. God has set us a high
mark, and is urging us uti to the highest point of excel-
lence of whi(;h our natures are ca])able. With a riglit
motive and by all lawful means we ought to strive for the
highest possible pre-eminence. This is our duty. It is our
happiness.
But how different the result of the exercise of the coun-
terfeit ])assion, Wlicre it predominates every bitter root
and poisonous pbmt grows and hixuriates, every evil bird
prowls about and preys on all that is lovely and desirable.
What hatred and animosities, what heartburnings, what
contentions, if not open conflicts, originate in societies
from this passion. And if we extend our illustration to
nations, what wars — murders — bloodshed — how many
tears How — how many are clad in the habiliments of
mourning — how many widows find orphans — how many
wretched suflerers are made to writhe under the dire
calamities inflicted by the demon of ambition. And all
this the fruit of the violation of one of the laws of our
nature.
And if such be the consequences of violating a law of
our constitution in this probationary state, where the
strong arm of God is employed to keep back the sinner
from a thousand hurtful violations, what a complete hell
would instantly he formed, should God withdraw this
restraining influence and allow every violation to produce
the bitter fruits of death. Add to this endless duration,
and you have the fire that is never quenched, and the
worm that never dies.
Take as further illustrations of the perverted passions,
avarice and covetousness. These are kindred. They are
unruly desires — usurpers — counterfeits — rebels in the
mental s stem, continually at war with the laws of our
moral constitution, and striving to supplant every right-
ful possessor of the soil.
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An inordinate desire is one which yields not to the
prescribed rules of integrity. It has neither a worthy
object nor does it pursue that object by worthy means.
It cannot, therefore, be an original part of our moral con-
stitution, for this, formed as it was by a divine hand,
cannot be otherwise than good in itself and good in its
operations.
Would we know what the genuine passions, of which
these are the counterfeits, are, we must look into our own
breasts, and we shall instantly discover, among our mental
furniture, strong and unconquerable desires for acquisi-
tion and 'possession. These are the original, or genuine
passions — the constitutional desires of the soul, right in
themselves and productive only of good, and consequently
of happiness.
For proof of this we must trace the operations both of
the usurper and the original passion.
It is a matter of experience that the usurper, the inor-
dinat(i desire, is so strong, so unruly, that it is constantly
attempting to overstep the rules of moderation, or to
violate the laws of integrity, and so craving that it will
not — cannot be satisfied with any a: ount it may acquire
here. There is a disparity in the nature of the object, and
of the desire which precludes satisfaction. But the desire
is rankling, swelling, burning— and the more impetuously
as it has been partially gratified. And, unless some strong
arm of restraint arrest its progress, gratified it will be by
whatever means, lawful or otherwise. Nor will it stop
within the precincts of lionesty. Avarice will here cast
his wanton eye into a neighbour's house, or raise his law-
less hand over a neighbour's field — and then what envy-
ings and jealousies, what crimination and conflicts, what
a world of evil feeling and outrageous action.
Suppose all restraint removed — the restraint of civil
law, of public opinion, of conscience, and suppose this
state of things to be extended from man to man, from
community to community and nation to nation, and
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LAUDABLE DESIRES.
417
.ot to tho
a worthy
hy means,
noral con-
'^ine hand,
rood in its
5, of which
,0 our own
our mental
?r acquisi-
or genuine
ill, right in
msequently
ons both of
)r, the inor-
, constantly
ition, or to
hat it will
aay acquire
5 object, and
it the desire
mpetuously
some strong
b will be by
will it stop
1 here cast
,ise his law-
what envy-
iflicts, what
int of civil
uppose this
man, from
nation, and
what a world this would be! Eow would unmixed,
unabated misery everywhere stare us in the face ! And
all this but the legitimate result of violating one of
nature's laws.
But the time is at hand when all arresting restraints
shall be removed — when probation sh ill cease, and then
every violation of constitutional laws shall invariably bo
followed by its legitimate and awful consequence. What
eternal misery must then ensue !
On the other hand, let us trace the operation of the
genuine passion, the laudable desire of acquisition and
possession, which, by a hand divine, is planted in every
human breast. It chooses an adequate and worthy object,
and presses on to its accomplishment by the help of ade-
quate and worthy means. Above all, it fixes on the
durable riches — on unfading honours — on substantial and
never-failing pleasures. It regards temporary wealth,
honour or pleasure, as temporary, and only auxiliary to
the attainment of the great end.
The heart set on objects so grand, so infinite, has no
place for the ranklings of jealousy. There can be no fear
of exhaustion in the objects. These are ample for the
full and satisfactoiy supply of every applicant. As there
can be no ground of jealousy, lest others seize on too muchy
so there can be no temptation to trespass on the rights of
others. Each may pursue his object as intently and adopt
means as vigorously as he please, without the least inter-
ference with the rights of others. The more vigorously
each pursues his onward course and secures the priceless
pearl, the more the good of the whole is advanced. As
the mind becomes more absorbed in the puisuit of the
imperishable riches, it has neither time nor occasion for
jarrings and bickeiings about the things that perish with
the using;
The result of such a state of things cannot be mistaken.
It would remove the occasion of one-half of the woe
humanity is heir to. And, besides, a dij0ferent diiection
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would be given to the energies of mind, presenting objects
before it so much more absorbing and satisfactory, that
the ten thousand wicked devices of lawless passions, which
now keep the world in strife, would be annihilated. All
eyes would then be directed towards, and all hearts be
fixed upon distant, infinite and eternal objects. And the
happy consequence would be peace, goodwill among men,
and, ultimately, "glory to God in the highest." Such
would be the legitimate and precious fruits of yielding
obedience to the laws of our nature. Remove all counter-
acting causes, such as arise from the general depravity of
our race, and from the fascinations of the world, and add
eternal duration to such a state of things, and we have
heaven on earth begun.
Another illustration of a kindred character may be de-
rived from pride and vanity. These are again usurpers
perversion of constitutional faculties which in them-
selves are really good. Pride is an inordinate self-
esteem, manifesting itself in a low estimate or contempt
of others. Vanity is an inordinate self-esteem, showing
itself in a high and unwarrantable estimate of one's self.
They are kindred spirits, and equally the perversions of
their originals, which are self-respect and a desire to he
esteemed by others.
Self-esteem or pride is a desire of self-aggrandizement,
irrespecti/e of the meai^s by which it is obtained, and
generally irrespective of the possession or the desire to
possess merit. It is the inflation of vanity — the wish to
appear to be something, whether onie be anything or not.
The practical tendency of this is altogether towards evil.
On the one hand, it fosters insolence and contempt ; pnd
on the other, hatred, envy, jealousy, or a ba»se and a cring-
ing spirit, or bitterness and disgust. It looses the tongue
of slander, and makes men bite and devour one another.
It poisons the fountains of benevolence, and dries up the
streams of mutual love. It severs society into the most
unnatural divisions, in which the most worthless may
MAN AS HE WAS MADE.
419
Lg objects
Qry, that
ns, which
ted. All
liearts be
And the
long men, i
t." Such
[ yielding
1 counter-
pravity of
, and add
d we have
lay be de-
ft usurpers
, in them-
inate self-
: contempt
B, showing
one's self,
ersions of
>sire to he
Indizement,
gained, and
desire to
Lhe wish to
ling or not.
bwards evil.
lempt ; ?nd
Ind a cring-
jthe tongue
le another,
ries up the
ho the most
[thless may
trample on the most meritorious. Such distortions must
produce a bitter fruit. Unfounded and insolent claims on
the one side, and an indignant resistance on the other,
are the very elements of human strife.
It was pride tliat first raised rebellion in heaven, and
cast the rebel angels down to hell.
Could pride stalk abroad, unchecked by certain in-
fluences which now set bounds to its usurpations, what
oppression and overweening insolence should we see on
the one hand, and what outbreakings of violence and
rancour and malignity on the other. We should soon have
a pandemonium on earth — and, duration added, a pan-
demonium for eternity.
But let us turn for a moment to the genuine plant,
upon which this germ of evil growth has been gi-afted,
and over which it has so spread its luxuriant branches
that we can scarcely discover a relic of the original
stock.
Man, under the lawful influence and the salutary guid-
ance of self-respect, would regard himself as the creature
of Gody possessed of a body and a soul — a body of wond-
rous conformation, and a soul of yet more exquisite work-
manship. He scarcely need open his Bible to learn that
he was created but little lower than the angels. He has
a feeling within, as well as overwhelming evidence from
without, which assures him that he was made for im-
mortality. He opens the book of revelation and reads
yet more clearly the high destinies of his immortal spirit.
Yea more, he there reads a lesson of immortality for his
once suflering and dying body : this corruptible shall put
on incorrwption, and this mortal shall put on immor-
tality. He views himself as a child of immortality.
The offspring of a divine original, endowed with such
noble faculties — the being of so exalted a destiny — man
cannot, when he rightly estimates himself, but entertain
a high self-respect And in proportion as he respects him-
self — as he esteems himself to be the offspring of God—
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420
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
formed in tlio iinnjn^o of his (liviiio ori<j;iTml, bound to a
speedy return to Him wlu) matlo liim, and oapahio of
boini!; aHSoeiatod for over with an<j;els and j-artakiii^,' witli
them in the lal)ours and Iblieities of lieavi^ii, in the saiiK^
pro[)ortion will be his efforts so to live as to answi^r the
great ends of his beinij;. The son of a kin<^ will not de-
mean himself by doing a base action, because lu; /w the
son of a king. Ho nuist sustain a character worthy of
royal descent. He nnist rcspn'i hirnsclf i\h the heir nppa-
■ jnt to the throne. But how nuich more will the man
♦vho bears in his mind his more than royal descent, and
his more exalted destiny than that of mounting an earthly
throne or wearing a fading diadem, so sha[)e his earthly
career as to walk wi^thy his Idgh original. He will |)ur-
Hi.e aeourse that sliall honour hiDiself as a creature of (}od,
and honour Ciod his creator. If the son of a king would be
deemed unworthy of Ids high birth if engaged in a mean
action, or unworthy of his station if detected in a rebel-
lious action, how nuich more is man, the off8])ring of the
King of kings, the expectant of an eternal kingdom, de-
graded when he stoops to connnit a mean or a rebellious
act. But 8171 is both a mean and a rebellious act, degrad-
ing to man, dishonouring to Cod. It is wholly inconsis-
tent with self-rcf(2)ect or se/f-love. The sinner does not
respect hincself.
Were all men to place a just estimate on themselves,
and so to employ the powers of their bodies and the fa-
culties of their souls as to sustain their noble birthright
and to fulfil their high destinies, how it would at once
change the aspect of our wretched world. It would make
it a happy world. Man, a child of God, would strive with
the utmost stretch of his faculties to carry himself worthy
so honourable an origin.
Again, self-love is made our standard hy which to gra-
duate our love to others. Man must, on the principle of
self-respect, (or self-love,) regard himself as the creature,
the child, the subject of God, and the recipient of every
MAN CANNOT RFSTORK HIMSKJ.P.
421
^()(h1 Uiiiii^and the ex]M»(;tant oi'a ctowii and a kingdom,
and niust vwah^u'vai) t]u\ dutuvs that roHult tVoiii huc.Ii liij^li
and lioly relations, and oxcrcisci all tliosc fV'<!linj^s, affoc-
tiofis, and liojxvs which tho consciouHiujHH of so riohlc a
birth, ol' Hucli hononra,l)lo rohiiions and snch Mxall«Ml (jx-
j)cctations arc .suited to inspiiH!. And tluiii, thw in ike.
stiimldnl hy whi(!h lio is to cstiniat*; Ins fellow-nian — hy
which he is to n^i^Mdatc Ids condiKJt toward him. We are
to rc^'ai'd Inin a.s' (dloijethev surh, <v oiic as 0'i(/rn(dveH — as
a })eini^^ of kindred nature, of kindred wants, lioj)es and
destini(?s.
( 'an you iniai^ine a state of tliinj^'s more conducive to
the most exalted happiness? It only waits for the close
of this prohationaiy or mixed state of existeiu^e, and to
he clothed with eternity, and it wouhl bo infinite hap-
piness.
Were we to analyze other kindn^d passions we should
discern in their perversions, the lianctiwork of the same
malicious Foe.
We had designed to educe an argument in support of
our j)roposition from the infmite desircH and the noble,
capacif/ies of the soul — but must say in a word, if man
wouhi live as he is made to live, if he would use his body
as it was made to be used, and use his soul as it was
made to be used — if he would respect /tim-s^Z/ according to
his real dignity — if he would obey the laws of his own
nature, he should not fail to be happy here and happy
eternally.
And here I would distinctly recognize the necessity of
the Holy SjHvit — the necessity of the powerful arm of God
to arrest the sinner in the course of his wicked violations,
and to bring him back to obedience of the law of his
nature and his God. Man cannot recover himnelf. He
is sunk too low — his heart is fully set in hira to do evil.
He will not come that he may have life. Hence the in-
dispensable necessity of divine influences.
Is not the Devil then at work in man by agencies the
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422
THE FOOT-PRTNTS OF SATAN.
most effective, by wiles the most malicious ? Is he not
here achieving his most dirui'ul triumphs ? Tt is sad
enough that he has laid the physical world in ruins, per-
verting everytliing and changing Eden into a desert. It
is sadder that ho should achifivt the mental and moral
ruin of man.
In closing this chaptei wo deduce from the general
thouijfht illustrated certain areat moral lessons :
I. What an infinite evil is sin ! How it degrades man
in its commission ! How dishonouring to God — how bitter
its fruits ! It violates all law, mars all dignity, defaces
all beauty, destroys all good, and is the procuring cause
of all evil.
II. How reasonable a thing is religion ! It is obedience
to the laws of our nature. It is the recognition of God
in his own proper character, and the using of our bodies
and our souls accoruing to their original intent. It is the
recognition of thr;sQ great natural relations which exist
between us and ou.' hea' only Father, and between us and
our fello'v-meU; and the discharge of consequent duties.
It is the emancipation of our physical, mental and moral
faculties from tlie bondage into which they have been
brought by sin, and their restoration to the noble pur-
poses for which they were designed. It is a rescue of the
soul from the chains and manacles of an outlawry band
of passions, and its restoration to the bosom of faith, hope
and charity. What more desirable, what more reason-
able ?
III. The certainty of the future punishment of the
wickect. Misery is the natural consequence of sin. And
but for the gracious interposition of divine mercy in secur-
ing a probation, it would meet its speedy recompense.
Sin in none of ics changes can produce holiness. Let
things take their course — leave the sinner as, by sin un-
repented of, he leaves himself, to pursue a course of dis-
obedience to his constitution and to his God, and he must
perish. He must eat the legitimate fruit of his own doings.
THK 5?TNNKU A ftELF -DESTROYER.
4fi3
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He h.as forfeited the favour of Ills God, which alone is life.
He must suffer the eternal absence of God — of all rnorcy
and goodness, which is the second death.
IV. God cannot be charged with injustice or cruelty
when he punishes. The sinner is a sclf-clesiroyer. Uo
reaps jast what he sowed. He feeds his own flames.
He nurtures in his own bosom the never-dying wonn.
He daily carries about with him the elements of his own
destruction. Ev^ery sin contains in itself thcs seed of
death and endless misery. And why this seed does not
at once germinate and mature into the poisonous fruits
of the second death, is because it is restrained by the kind
Hand till the day of probjition be passed. Every trans-
gression contains in itaelf an element of unquenchable
fire, and why it does not at once burst forth and burn
with all the fury of the Pit is because ii is smothered by
the hand of Grace divine until the day of recompense
come. The moment God shall withdraw that hand, the
transgressor is lost for ever. And then — ah! that keenest
pang, that he has knowingly, wilfully and eternally de-
stroyed himself. He has been allowed seed time and har-
vest, summer and winter, sunshine and rain, and will he
call God a hard master because he leaves him to reap the
fruit of his own doings ?
Come, then, self-destroying sinner, stop — look before
you — reflect. — and turn away from the blackness and
darkness that await you. Be sure your sin will find you
out. You cannot escape the all-searching eye of God.
Flee while the door of hope is open. For when once the
Master is risen up and shut to the door, and you standing
without shall knock, saying, " Open to us," he shall say,
*' I know you not whence ye are I " But now " the Spirit
and the Bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say,
Come. And whosoever will, let him take of the water of
life freely."
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SATAN IN TIIK MAIJKIAilK KKLATION.
THMSANrrrrY or mahimA(1K- niV'.;««'K ani> nivoucK i.avvh
— TUK VAMn.Y-— nOMK ITS VITAl, HKI.ATinN TO HoriKTV,
TO TUK. STATK, TO TUK OHl'Ul'H — KASY l>IV(»HOr, KATAI,
TOTMKM Al,l,- "(nUl.SOKTHM PKHIOD" AND It'ASTVOUNO
MK'S OK.vn, nowukuk k.i.sk stuikks a moiik dkadi.y
lU.OW.
\Vk sliouM «)\ii<o fjiil to givo \ho Di^vil Ihm i\\u\ nud
shoulvl overlook a V(M'V (^ssiMiiinl Held of Ium doinjTM Minmi^r
n\on. {^i\\u\ \voimM\.) if >V(^ did noi Mdvcrf for n f(»\v mo-
in(M\t.s Mi loMst io llio siihjoft. «^f l>lvoHOK., and iis lu>n.r-
iui^^^ on iW \n;\rri;\!^» violations, and oonM(M|n(M»(ly ifn vi-
<,'il oounootiiMi with all tho groat into rosts of tlio family,
vsooioty, <lu\ vSt.'ito and (ho riunvh.
Wo havo alroady to sonio oxtiMif i^xnosod <.1)o doviocvs
of tl\o fatlior o( lios in rosixn't to roligiotr liow ho Iihh
stolon away t]\o soul, tho lit;\ and h^ft the L,Hld(Ml oor[»s(».
and said, " Thoso bo thv ixoiis, O hsraol." And thus has
ho boonilod otMintloss nnlliousof tlio rao(\ and nvaiU^ tJuMU
w*M>ilup iX'>ds tliat bo no i:^(Hli^. No dovioo lias bo(Ui
sparod to wrost from ovory forui of tho (ruo roligion its
divino vitality, to noutralizo its powor i>voi* the h(»art, its
intbionoo to ]>urify and niako goiiliko, and, liko tlu» liglit
and tho ho^'\t, to warm and enlighten all within its inllu-
onoo.
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425
til
llnl ill lln»lnll«'r diiyH llio vil«>(M(rni|»t<»i Iimm, iC |»(»mil»l«',
IikhIi' n yrl. iiinir Ht.niK liy nrmi'l ll(>liim rnnl ilin poiHoii
iiiln (.Ih» v«'Iv Mpiiii^M (if nil iMoinl, Mocinl mimI donn'Mtic in
lliioiD'PM -|inlliii iiii^r (.||«> rniiiitMin immI Mhim vil.inl.iii|.r nil Mio
sinMiiiiM. Minnlil V, roli^imi, «ill IniiriiMi j»r«i(^r»'HH nii<l pro
H|M«iity r»M'l IIh' wmhihI. It. \h mii hhhhiiIi nn Ihr mnnlilif
of niiirrlihfr Ami tJio HoiircpH of l.liiM iiMM'nMitij/ ovil wo
rniiiutl Inil In tliMC'ovrr, rMpt'ciMlly in trioiloiri SociMliMrii,
Koiin ioriMiM. I''ii>(' Lnvo, MninifiniHrii, nn«l in n ^I'lu'inl uimI
yrt iiiipmin.iit/ hpiiho, ill ( *oniiiiiiiiiMiii nnti l.lin |lntorrwi
tionnl.
Iliii II pH'limiiiMry iiKpiiiy licio, /irHJ ono (d" vilnl \u\\ti>rl,
rclnicH l.o iiiMtiin^n> \\,h inlriiiMid iinportniH-*', its rolntivo
pitHil.ioiMmd vnliin, nri'' "k' plnr«> if, ImjMh mh m. miiMorvn,-
t,ivo iitiil iiilliit'iilinl nlonn'id, in Mm^ ^ivni niMcliinory of
Iniiiiiiii nli'nii'H.
I'lil, wlini is inMifin|r«> V Wli«,t, isllioro in Miiw rolnt/ion
llifil; iiinkcM it iJio colli, ndlin^r (>|(>ni(>iir lino rilniirMMl V It,
Im tJin iinioii tlio nnil'yin^^ of onn man n.nd ono woirwi.n,
in nil tJio nOnl/ioiH, inlwioMt.K, t,(»ilH, liopoH, joyH nrid Hor-
icwH (»r lilo Mild lor lilo. 'rii<\y »iro fif» nioro t,w>i.iri l»iit,
Olio IIohIi, joinod l»y (iod, Jind nin.y not l»«5 Hiindon'd l»y
iiiMti. Kn.(^li pn.rty Iim« \{,h own poouliar (',npjd»ilil,io,H, pr()-
cliviiioH, fliiHr(^pt,il»ilit,i(^H niid virl.iioH, nrid oaoJi, wo may
iWHUiiio, (Mpndly immmII'iiI t/O tlio {/(iiionil woJI-hoirij/ of t/lio,
wliolo. Iiiit, t.lio (jUioioncy of oitJior Ik Hoourod only \ty
ilio (•o-oporat,ion or ooji.Iohooihio of Uio two. It iw " not
j^'ood" lor linimvn pro^roHH or liappinoHH tlwit mnri ('or wo-
man) .slioiild Ito al<»m5. ll(:no() tli<5 divino ordinanoo, of
(I )
iiiarna^M;^ tlio union arid narmoiiy ol lonus rn,(ii(;<'i,Jiy un-
liko, yot osHOJiti.'d t,o tlio ^roato.st /^^>od of tJM; wFiolo,
and d<ml»ly pow(^rful wlioii united. Wo may narno tlio
following aH Hoimi of tli«^ onde Hocurcd, and only Hocurod
by trii(5 (/liriHtian inarria^o,.
And, ilrst oi' all, marriage, nrid inarriag(; only, makes
HoMK. A man, be lie (iver ho good, kind, affeotionat/;,
cannot make a liome. Woman, however amia})le, lovely
r ♦
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426
TTIE FOOT-PRTNTS OF SATAN,
and untiring in her devotions, cannot make a home, entire
and wanting nothing. Home is the union and blending
together of the two, Would we know tiie full import of
the term " Home, sweet home," wo need only contrast the
homeless, comfortless stopping-place of a heathen family
(if family we may call it) with the true Christian homo.
In the first wo meet with neither intelligence, education,
conjugal affections, efjuality or co-operation, and least of
all, with the kind, persuasive, all-powerful influence of the
liiother ; while in the true Christian family we meet the
loving relations of husband and wife, parent ond child,
brother and sister, each personalty interested to minister
to the happiness, the culture, the respectability and use-
fulness of the other, and to render his quota of service and
affection to the well-being of the whole. And such an
experience and training alone fit the members of a well-
ordered family to become useful members of society and
almoners of good to the world. Indeed, marriage is really
the only foundation of all these highly important relations.
In concubinage, and in all the dark and disgusting re-
gions of profligacy, there is neither husband nor wife, parent
nor child, brother nor sister. There is neither confidence
nor love, mental culture nor co-operation.
Industry, economy, education, morality, are but the
natural concomitants of marriage and the family, but
never the growth of profligacy. None but parents, or
those who by affection or some tie of consanguinity place
themselves in the family relation as parents, ever think
to educate children and train them in the way they
should go. And here enters esi^ecially the maternal
element of a Christian education. This is altogether un-
known in a heathen family. Properly to appreciate the
value of this kind of education we must go back to the
period of the first teachings and guidance of the infant
mind by the mother. And here, as Bishop Bay ley very
justly says :
'' The peculiar character and conduct of every one depend
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MARRIAGE MAKES HOME.
427
chiefly upon the influences which surround them in early
life. * As the twig is bent the tree's inclined.' The edu-
cation of a child, in the full and proper sense of the word,
may be said to commence from the moment it o[)ens its
eyes and ears to the sights and sounds (if the world about
it, and of these sights and sounds the words and example
of parents are the most inn)ressiv3 and the most enduring.
Of all lessons, those learned at the knees.of a good mother
sink the deepest into the mind and heart, and last the
longest. Many of the noblest and best men that ever lived
and adorned and benefited the world, have declared that,
under God, they owed everything that was good and use-
ful in their lives to the love of virtue and truthfulness and
piety and the fear of God instilled into their hearts by the
lips of a pious mother."
The mother is the " angel spirit" of the home. Her love
never cools. She never tires. Hers is the mission of love.
Nothing can atone for the loss of a mother — unless it be a
mother in a mother's place. But tnere are no mothers —
no children in the endearing sense of the term — no sweet
and hallowed, all-pervading, all-influential love, save with-
in the sacred enclosures of wedlock.
Nor is the State less dependent on the family for good
citizens. The family is peculiarly the nursery of the
State — the source of all good government, of order, peace
and safety. And more especially yet is the family the
foundation and source of all true religious culture. Our
blessed religion, pure and unde filed, deigns not to tread
on a soil polluted by the footsteps of profligacy. She
must first purify the Augean stable before she can enter
and dwell there. Never may v/e look for religious culture
and the growth of the Christian graces in the ranks of the
profligate.
Or we might with equal truth affirm that but for mar-
riage and its faithful constituent, the family, the institu-
tions referred to would have no existence, and that for the
good reason that there very soon would be a fatal lack of
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iii(livi»liiiil ••njiiiro. (il, Jj'Mfil. willioiil, Ihh rnoiil'lin^/ <»/' th<s
jili'Mi'iil. Ill wit 'tl" inrm iii^M'. |irnjiMly nnfl ri\]^]'if\" ( lt\ t\t(>
niii'Hlinii 111 niMi I iiiji;!. Mio MnciMliMlic A lli/ifi' ^ nf, 0^rl^vf>, iri
IMIIM, jnivc MiiH ijiwri'o W«* 'Immmii'I " Mi'* tt\th)'iti(,t, of*
iii(min(«i», fill 1(11 Mfi il, i'l m, jinlilioiil, f <'li^/;(onM, jii'li'i/il, or
I'ivil IiimI il III ion '
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iiikI I lio Onoidii. < 'onimnnil.y 'Wih <'H'i'<\ fS Mi«^ lnM^r ik
niilDrii'nIlv IV«'<^ '>ii(| ofiMV " l'<v<'fy frififi l»*rofn<M Mi'- fur',
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no molo- only >ih runny >im you Inwfiilly fof^rry, or <,(>
oiilJi jiiinniHO l,o l.nk^ lor l)iM,<r or for v/hrno, fri Ori^idrt,
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nijiinlly I'no ninl [>rivil(|^<nl in UiO *-,x<;rci^v''. <;f all h^vr
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i\)mm\\u\HU\ and I ho Iidcn'tintionals wo may oIhhh in
iinioli t]i(^ .snnio oatot(«)rv. Tlio first is HlrioMy t\ polilionl
tn()V(nnoii(, niiuinjLj t,'> oviTthrow (^xi.stin^ tonns <»t'^<)voni-
iiiciit, t-lio oihi'V i\i{v\\\\)iH to rovolutionizo tho rohiiioii ol'
oMiMtnl i\\u\ \-.\\)o\\\'. W'i Ihov two juhmmmI <() join lio.'irt, .mikI
h.uui w'lih llioir sistiM* StUMnlisin in Ihm at.(«Mnj»(M io Hiih-
vori ilio prosont fonns of Hooial niul doinostio lifo. Tliov
afHliaio in lluMr asHaults on niarriago, rolijrion and pro-
piM'ty. In Kranoo, tlio Intonuitionals aro the viglit arm
o( tho C\>ninuni(\
Tlio most notahh^ ioaturo of tho ln((M'national to-day is
tliat it stands roady to ally itsolf with any rovoliitionary
olomont that may lu^lp it to seonro its onds. In liSdl) itro-
coivod, to form a oonstitm nt ]>art of itsolf, tho Socialist
Allianoo. whioh doolarod ajpunst vi<iri'iif(f(\ r<'li(fioi> aud
ivheriiiiuce. Whon Franoo foil holploss froni tho taioiis
of Prussia, tho ordor was issuod from fiondon by iho'w
Socrotarv for tho Intornationals tostrikoa Mow in Vaiis.
aiivi this sooioty booanio tho rodriirht hand of tho (V)nnnun(\
Honoo tho roporto<l atliliation of tht^ Sooioty with tin*
Ultraniontano }>.'irty in dormany against tho Liborals,
that, holpiug to dostroy all ordor, thoy may gathor from
tho niin tho matorial for thoir own anvbitious sohomos.
We may woll watoh tho movomonts of tho Sooioty in
this oomitrv.
And in syn\pathy again with Socialism and Free Love
is modern S]>iritnalism. It.s a<lvooate8 " proaoh a deadly
antipathy to the Christian theory of tho relation of tlio
sexes." Where else Ao donnnoiations of the servitude oi
marriage iind so eongenial a home as in Spiritualistic
libraries ? Whore else suoli loose tlieories of divorot> \
\V hero else vso nuioh nonsense about "aihnities," "spirit-
ual unions." " twin spirits," and tho like ?
We named Woman's llighta as really, rather than eon-
fessedly, ccnitributing to weaken the nuptial tie, and, to
the same extent, to invade tho saorod ]>reeinct8 of tlio
family. With muoli in " Woman's Rightw " that wo\ilii
VKTOIMA WOODIIIJI.I,.
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li^lii woirwm'M wrong's, wo Jiro const rairuvno ])nliovo t-li(5rn
\h, U) IhixmlffiitH oflliJH iii(>V(;iiuMit, M.nd in UHMlcmlitf'iil
iittomii('(»M of lojuliiij/ mcinlxu's, iiincli wliicli r(3Mlly tdiulH,
not so niucli torif^Mit wonuinn wfon^H, t\H to wron^ wornan
ol' li(»r ri^htH. IT vvoninn W(r<il(l r'(>tnin her poHitron at
tlio liolni of <lotn<'stio nnd MociMi ir»tlnon('(>H mikI ^uido tli«5
.sliip, hIm^ nni.st Iton. 'iiu>niati,i\n(\ fiot n. u\ni\.
Woninn lias nn cnvMildi* |MiHition njid rcJativo iinport-
jinco in lorniing and riiHliionin^ tli(> wliolo nincliinory of
linnian nUnirH. On tlic! tliroiu; of i\n' (juiut liomo tlic;
(^IniHtian wif'i^ nnd niotlicM- .sitH (|n(M'!i, chcriHliin,'' n,nd dif-
fiining an uillncncc! wliicli docs nioro to nurtnn; doniL'.stic,
Hocinl and ( 'liiiHtijin viitnos, and fit Ium* cliildicn to f)(3
good, ClirlHtijin and nsfifui citi/i'iiH, tljM.n all otlior influ-
cnccH comUincd. Would you d<itlirono her — displaces bor
from ]i(»r prond nnd cnviMhlo ixhsition a« u trno woman,
Jit tlio fonninin of f1u» sweet, l)earn)^% f<'rtili/,in^^ all-effi-
cient streninH (lu'tsilently eonise tlieir way overflies })]eak
de.serts of ]inninr,ity, and [)re('ipitate lier into the- storms,
tlie t(>nipests, tlie tornadoes, (hi" eatoracts oi' the turbid
Htrenin of nian's rou^dior d(\stiny V
Tl\(^ most siispiei(Mii>s feature of the movement in (jues-
tion is tlu* insidious, if not the open, invasion of the mar-
riage relation. ljeadingmeml)ers (it may not he th(; gen-
eral memhershi|>) giv(5 no doiditful utterances here. We
Timy quote the wordsof a prominentadvoeate of Woman's
Rights (Mrs. WoodhuU) in a lecture ree(!ntly d(!livcr(!d in
New York and elsewhere. Ultra- as thc^se views may af)-
pear, it is to he feared tliey do l)ut too truly rO[»resent a
growing sentiment in the ranks of the initiated. Mrs.
Woodhnll says:
" If it he piimarily the riglitof men and women to take
on tlie marriage i(>lation of t.h(Mr own fn^ewill and accord,
so, too, does it remain tlieir right ta determine liow lon^
it shall continue and when it shall cease. Suppose a
separation is desired hecause one of the two loves aud is
loved elsewluin'. If the union i)e maintained hy force, at
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THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
least two of them, probably all three, are unhappy. But
if they separate — if the greatest gDod of the greatest
number is allowed to rule, separatioi is legitimate and
desirable.
" It is asked, " '^.Vhat is the legitimate sequence of social
freedom ? I reply unhesitatingly, ' free love, or freedom
of the affections.' * Are you then a free lover ? ' I am,
and can honestly, in the fulness of my soul, raise my
voice to my Maker and thank him that I am. A.nd, to
those who denounce me for this, I reply, Yes, I am a free
lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural
right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short
a period as I can, and to change that love every day if I
please."
Whence such talk ? It is not from the Bible, the
Christian Church or a Christian civilization. Nowhere are
the teachings of Christianity more direct, clear and sacred
than when the marriage relation is the theme. Next to
the Church, and the most sure nursery of the Church,
stands the family. Annihilate the sanctity of the
family, as the doctrine of free lovt effectually does, and
home, sweet home, has lost its charm and power, and
the Church its nursery and stronghold. Hence the ma-
chinations of the Devil to disturb and impair the influ-
ence of, and if possible destroy, our family institutions.
And in no way does he so successfully compass this ne-
farious end as by his invasion of the sanctuary of
marriage.
And never was this sanctuary more ruthlessly assailed
than at the present day. We can scarcely take up a paper
whose columns do not teU disgusting tales of Free Love,
Spiritualism, Elopements and Divorce.
Let good old staid Connecticut tell the passing tale. It
is the record of a single year.
The State Librarian, Charles J. Hoadly, has presented I
to the Legislature his annual report, giving interestirg
facts and statistics concerning births, marriages and deatl]s,|
during the year 1871, as follows:
DIVORCES.
433
In 1871 there were 409 divorces granted, exceed! nf:^ the
number granted in 1870 but by 1. The pro})ortion of di-
vorces to the number of marriages during the year was
the same as in 1870, namely 1 to UOi).
The following table shows how many we-'O procured
in each county, and how many upon tlie petition of tiie
husband and wife respectively :
Divorces Hushavd Wife
Counties, Granted. Petitioner. Petitioner,
Hartford 77 29 48
New Haven 109 30 79
New London 41 10 * 31
Fairfield 74 23 61
Windham... 47 14 33
Litchfield 34 17 17
Middlesex 17 5 1'2
ToUand 10 3 7
Total ..409 131 278
But we have as yet scarcely more than entered the
vestibule of the'great Moloch, We have spoken rather
of skirmishing parties than of the main enemy. Easy
Divorce is the giant foe to the permanency, the happi-
ness and the moral efficiency of the marriage state.
Our beneficent Father ordained the union of one man
and one woman — the twain shall become one flesh — their
interests, aims, joys and sorrows, one. Neither party may
annul this union except for a single cause, and that cause
one which in itself vitiates and annuls the contract of
marriage, and nullifies all the beneficent infiuences of the
union. That cause is adultery. This strikes the death-
blow to all that is sacred and essential in marriage, and so
demoralizes all the domestic relations as to make them
nothing worth.
But how is it that the practice of divorce is, in these
latter days, so increased, and its evils so multiplied ? We
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THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
have alluded to some of the causes, the chief of which is
comprehended in the general term Free Love. This in-
corporates, as its significant cognomen doth imply, the
controlling elements of all the others named.
Free Love, under some of its Protean forms, is the
serpent in the Eden of matrimony that beguiles its
myriads and drives them from Paradise to wallow in
the filth of moral degradation. Free Love, under what-
ever gar] the "' le seducer appears, is the most fruitful
source of di vor .is, as well as the most deadly foe to public
morals. ,
There are .^abo. ''nate courses of the prevailing lax
notions of the marriage relation and of consequent
divorce which deserve serious considvjration. They are
growing evils, and influential of untold mischief Some
of these are : The low tone of public sentiment in reltition
to the sanctity of the marriage relation, the emulation of
the poorer classes to imitate the richer, especially in the
matter of female dress. The young man's dear wife often
becomes too dear. Domestic complications follow, and it
may be final rupture. Then the fictitious literature of the
day contributes largely to false notions of marriage. High
notions of living — temptations to live above one's means,
not unfrequently disturb the equilibrium of the married
state, and work out a disastrous result. Inconsiderate
marriages — too much freedom of choice — too much young
America — has borne its bitter fruit. How many divorces
might have been saved by a timely heed to a little
judicious advice. And here we would not overlook
"ante-natal infanticide" as a modern device of the
Devil. The vile offices of the abortionist hold out a
lure to the ruin of the virtue and happiness of many a
victim.
Indeed, in proportion as marriage is discouraged, or, hy
the state of society or the extravagances of the times,
made impracticable, licentiousness is encouraged and the
sacredness of the marriage tie impaired, and consequently
divorce favoured.
fc in relcition
ILLEGITIMACY AND DIVORCE.
435
And here we match from a paragraph, headed "Roman-
sm and Crime," a choice bit by way of comparison of
murders and illegitimate births in Catholic and Protestant
countries. We are only concerned with the latter. Rome
scores the highest proportion of illegitimate children, the
ratio of births of this class being nearly sixty-one times
greater in Rome than even in London. In London, for
every hundred legitimate births there are four illegitimate;
in Leipzig, twenty; in Paris, forty -eight; in Munich,
ninety-one; in Vienna, one hundred and eighteen ; and
in Rome, two hundred and forty-three. And murders in
yet greater disproportion : In Rome, one in e^ery seven
hundred and fifty of her inhabitants; in Engi. ac me for
one hundred and seventy-eight thousand ; in Hoi ''.d,one
for one hundred and sixty -three thousand ; >■ i mssia, one
for one hundred thousand.
Lax laws of divorce are a fruitful source of the evil in
question. If one party of the alliance io i -satisfied, or
has a grievance, or has an affinity for another mate, and
the divorce law in his own State is not sufficiently free
and easy, he may go to Chicago or Indiana and find a
law to accommodate all customers. Some one has called
Indiana " the Paradise of Free Love," and largely made
so by the liberal notions of Robert D. Owen.
" In one County Court," says the writer just quoted,
" eleven divorces were granted one morning before dinner,
and that not a fair morning either. In one case, a pro-
minent citizen of another State came to Indiana — went
through the usual routine the next morning, obtained his
divorce about dinner-time — in the evening was married
to his new inamorata, who had accompanied him for the
purpose and was staying at the same hotel. Soon they
started for home, having no further use for the State of
Indiana. He introduced his new wife to her astonished
predecessor, whom he notified to pack up and go, as there
was no room for her in the house. And she went." A
divorce may there be obtained for " miy cause for which
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thn Court ahall <l(Mnii it |»ro|K!i- t(» ^^-aiit it." A Imsbaiid
may put away a. faithful \\'\{\' in ntiy (^as(^ in wliich slni
booomos jiorsonally (lisn<^ro('ahl(» to liim, or in her (h^port-
niont :0)noxiou.s to liiin, and lio is tlio hoN; juduji; whetli(^r
she find favour in liis cy(\s.
But tlui «Misy Icnrisliition of Indiana is not alto;:^othor un-
appreciated by lenrislators of otluM* States. And tliis, in
turn, to ijjiv(^ woman licr rights in the mattt^r of easy
divorcee. The State of N(»w York is invited, by a sa.ge
legislator, to come to Ikm' rescue. •
"State Senator James Wood can take the premium for
bis ]>lan of making divorce easy — for wives. There i.s no
wife in this State who could not, if she set about it, ob-
tain a sej>aration, with alimony, under the amendment
proposed by Mr. Wood, 'at the instance (it is said) of
judges of the Supreme Court.' (?) This is the amendment,
including as a cause of limited divorce, such conduct on
the part of the husband towards the wife as shall, without
just cause, (ie})rive her of the society of her relative!^, or
friends, or of attendance upon public worship, or shall
designedly render ber life unhappy or uncomfortable.'
* Relatives,' it will be remarked, is a somewhat comj)re-
bensive word, applying uot merely to mothers-in-law, but
to the never-ending procession of cousins (in the legal
sense, but not [)bysically) far removed. A brute of a
husband bas, therefore, but to shut out some one of his
wife's relatives who wants to make a free boarding-bouse
of bis residence, and tbere at once is a cause of divorce.
But if, for a wonder, the wife's relatives did not afford
tbat practical opening for a way out of wedlock, and for
tbe coveted alimony, tben it is only necessary for the Avife
to prove tbat she W{is rendered 'uncomfortable.' Nothing
could be easier than tbis. The want of a carriage, or a
box at tbe opera, or a set of diamonds, or furs, might, in
tbe absence of more serious grounds of discomfort, cause a
<iecidedly * uncomfortable ' sensation with some wives,
^nd, backed by a few tears and an able lawyer, sufHciently
WOMAN IN KDKN.
437
If
nriKwcr nn a plea for divorce. Sinco it is oltvioiiH that no
w'li'ii wlio wishes to cut h)(».s(! from licr lmsli;in«l find Kiill
hjivc a liold on his |)urs(!-strin;4s, could f'jiil to prot^ure a
divo)r(^ under su<.'li a law, Mr. Wood nii<^dit as well ni(*vo
at once that the connuhial relation ishall he (on tlie wife's
HuU') di.ssolvahle at pleasure."
If there; be one feature in hix divoice laws njore to be
deprecat(!d than any otlier, it is tlie allowing of the crim-
inal attachment of married persons to result in new niar-
riaf^es between the ^niilty parties, imderniinin^ family
virtue, and holdiiijjj out the lure of a divorce to persons
who would otherwise have lived in jieacc and content-
ment.
We would that we ini^dit here pronounce woman, dear
woman, guiltless as touching the great points in question.
In Eden oui* angelic mother listened to the siren voice of
the I'empter. (Jod made lier a woman ; endowed her
with beauty arul every grace, and all the controlling vir-
tues that should make her a (jiiecn. Her sphere was to
sit at the springs of all human inthiences and to guide
the little streams that go to make up the great fountain
of human power and to control the destinies of man.
The apostasy has shorn her of much of her primeval
power. She jias sought out many inventions ; the last of
which is christened by the delusive title of Woman's
Rights. We now refer rather to the ojf'.shoots of an or-
ganization which is not lacking in good aims for woman's
higher dignity and usefulness. Yet all about it that
cherishes Free Love and the unsexing of woman is worthy
only of reprobation and disgust.
And yet another class deserve a passing notice here.
We mean " girls of the period," and their counterpart,
"fast young men." The bearing of these two classes on
the subject of marriage is anything hut favourable.
Neither has the first qualification for a happy, or even a
comfortable married life. Indeed, he must he a brave
man, or a fool, that would marry a modern exquisite, yclept
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Tiir, ro«»T rniNm or hatan.
" H girl of <lto p«Mi«M| " \\u\ nol \\\o Iohh lirnvo, or lutilisli.
M\o viMjnj;^ Imly >v]»o >vimiI»1 uwm v m 1"mm< yo\iug \\u\\\. \Vi(h
<luM»- jMVsont l\{>l»i(N ni" lilo niul noliouM of inMiiingi^, miicIi
MM nllumro wouM !»(» m immIcm'! inron^rnil y mihI iniHiKimrr
Tlio «li\in(' inslihifion «>(' mMrriMj/(», its Imwh. r(<lM<ion'^. mihI
ol»lij;Mtions. l\i\s 1»(mm» nssMiliMl Ity ovorv lioslilo ItiHIciy.
iVoiM dios*' ol" (l\o )M>lyp\in«MiM ^^MnlonM to <I»«>m(> of lli(»
Krot> li«t\ <MM. whosprlncT ,»n\itH \ soimiim lo Itc In M(MMn'(» IIh»
sniuMion ot' l.nv in Tmn oin- of iVoo tlivorci* (or Iho nwiniiMl
i\u«i of" ((Mnpor.uy inniriM^Mor (!>(» unmnniiMl Ht^lwrtMi
{\\ono v\{\v\\\os o( •,\\h\\\\'\\\:\{'u\\\h, i\\rw is n mor(Mlnngri(Mm
foo (o l>(^ nu*( in (ho vimt oonnnon r«>ln«'lMn«M» to woiMimI
lilo wlnoli \\i\^ j^rown up on( ol (lnMli^nrnvMlion ol'nnxlnn
sooioty. liUNury, I'nslnon. Mtui ('xlf.MVMf^inuM^ hnvc linin«»
their l>it((»r Iruits. 'V\\o »'I\i1>m Iimv«» ImIvimi \At\cv ol" (lu>
lMn\ily, for (l\»>\is{\n»ls of vonng n\(M» wl»o,s(» N|MMulllniri
l\aM(s pMUMjilly ond in (lioir ruin, hody iuitl soul. Of
oourstMhv>siM<f (lnM><l\(M' SOX, with v\\\\i\\ dovolion (o nil
i\w show MUil lu';\r(Kvssi\oss of <1\«* s!\n\o kind of lilo. n.-ilur
rtlly lin<l tluMr oomUtMpnrl (o (ho ^mv Mud us(^Iosm omiumms
t>f tho hnoliolors ol'lho oluh-houso. Mvon in Iohn Oisiiion-
ahlo oiivlos tl\is inl'ootion is spn^ndin^ willi ImImI oll'ools.
Tho lirsl nnvl only ossonlinl of nunriMgi*. with ninny young
pool
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And (o (liis n»onn(\st ol' nl
tho gvHls tlml nion nink(* (o tl»onisolv(»s, MM»y snorilioo nil
that is donrost. swootost. host o( doniostio lilo.
" Mnirin^os grow to bo nioro n nmttor of stocks. I'urni-
turo. and dross, with ovorv ooniMntion. Tho ohildron
born of nuiol\ luxury nnd littlo lov(^ (if born nf nil) bo-
oonu^ nioro fooblo in nund nutl luuly. nnd shortcr-livod.
until t'oroignoi*s w]u> judgo us tVtun our oitios nmy W(»ll
question whothor Auiorioans in tho noxt contury will iu-
horit Anu rioa."
Tho provalonoo of a |uiro. living Chrisfianily among a
pooplo is tho only suro safeguard for right ideas of tho
marriaire relation, and the only euro of tlio prevailing ton-
deueies to divoree ; while protiigaoy, on the other hand,
TUIC CUUHK OK I'UoriimACY.
a:\[)
JM l.li«» lunio <»r ImiMi. Ah iimn i/iir»i nilliviilPK, ho prdfli^ncy
lihiMli
r
hKiMiH (>V(M V iiininl |)riiiri|iln mikI |iiiih(i|im rvrry viiliio.
'I'lio \vlin|(» rhiMH nl |tri»lli^fMlrM, iiimIo niid rfiKilr, i«ro a
Mi'iiiir^o Mini n cnrMo ii. IniitJiHoino lilol, on Mm I'Mir f'lx-o of
HocicI y. I'li'W «nM iioMiinir lo Hm viil.iin (»f ?no?nlil,y, ilM
iii'InMlry oi' iTMiMM-rnliility. H'I.Ih'V riiHillt'<l t.lio ronmion
iiiiMMJon of iinliiii* to |ir(t|Mi^Mlo llicir own h|mm'm'h, w«« ini^'lit.
nwnul Mhmii sonio cicdil,. Yrl, Itrt (or iJint Mn> rnr«< w«to
OXlilM't, lIlMII llllll, Mn>if H|HM'i(>H W«MO I MTIH't IlM l,«'r|. hl-
|,«'in|»«'intn'(» niid InsI, u«|»|ptiiHli Mirir nmkH; dcnMi. mm t\.
uwHHvu^ov of mciry, cuIh hIioiI, iJniir dn.yH, iitifl i idn tlio
(Mii'tli of nil uniiiil.igiitcd iiuiM<iii('(\
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now nv n\s » omk \>.>\\\ i\ cinvvr win i ii lui Arsir: nti:
T\\tM\s HI' n \'; 1M V \ sii<nrr IimI'', shimm ni;' ihm
M>>UK KMm I \ 1 n«>l\<!S IHK SIPOV MI'IINV rilK, HI,A\I
noin;h\s" la-nM 1 ION rni- <oi\nirNK iNsi'innrnoN in
V,M^Ms VWV, l>V\n IN M W VoJiK \\\\ UWW HF iMli.'l
- Mwv ov ^\■]\ r^rn. 1S7I rm' ivmmany niN(!
ru vM>s
MIK-OKU;
Vn«MM lOM
risril KNCTM
KAinih,^' \M'^ riKis
MoniHN iMiDM.nv. now in
sn>io\ s wn PANi^^auH'H vnv. MA.iKsrv ov \,\\\ saim v
Tm: ]\\\] in <)h^so Insf »i;\>
.If
M IS /inMiMMi tiHUi nnwontcMi
cv:\i\ nn«] .-htivity As (lo.l IumsIous liis junpuMOM {ind
no.srs <1i<^ ^v<\'U :\Uy\ lin;il r(^ns\in\in.*\(ion. <1\(» ^nvt\\ nnin
.C'^'ii^ti*' p»^M<M- is ro\iso,] <o ils 1ms( «lomMMn<(\ dviiiir
vs
lijiiit ;u\.i ]ihci<y. is r;\)>it]Iy ovIiMhlin^ mm. I Ijilvin^ poss(
sion of (]io i\n<i\ AhvaJy (ho HiUlo Im (iMnsInlod inio
ovory jM'ir.oipnl l.sn^HMgvv jnul is l>oooiniiu; a. hook Known
«nd pMii of nil nion ThvisdMn oivilizMlion is «>\(«M\(nnf';
C^hris(ian lilorndiro is n\nl(iplyino-. 'VUo \\\'\^\\{\ nown
of ih
iMxv^s :s
laro^l
V oni>niiv«l in (ho inl(M(>slM of ovmu
^Ct'^lionl rolipoiv ('im1 nn*! r(^hi>io\m lihor(y is ninUinfriin
woutv\l strulos. iXiul c\cv\\\\wvo un|>orilling tho .strong-
m
nit'Ai'sir: in;'
so Ml'', III' ihm
inii; RiAvi
'MIMirridN IN
iinr n|i' I Ml ill
IMMANY IIIMJ
HTIIKNCKH
IV. !ln\V IN
I" \ \\\ MAPI \
nn nn\V(inl«nl
^kmH nnlii
•mmIo, «l\inir
««I imriiy. of
hsImIcmI itUo
Ih'oIv Kn(»\vn
•I o\(iMulin}^
ijjldy |M>\V('V
^(m of 0\l\\\
HfrMlM'^HAIF, ri-RKllM or llfK for
Uf
ImiMm n( fl«><,<|M)l i'Mti. Mfi'l h'lwlir'r" ''.It 'ifriitio((t;ly »". in ffif»
rM)i!il .Mhil«'M n\ l'',imi|i(> 'Clio iiMfi (|('H|iof |^Ffl f»f' Mi" I'm
|i!ir\- jy liiM|<i«fl. u'«« nifiv li'tjic I'lr »v»'f ; III" rni^lif i'-'jf, »irrfi
nl I'-MllfMlic jHi\V<'t (imI' i''l 'III" " < »M Mdfl," fll'ill^}) fstill
nii^ f. " \ <"l . I'V oM'Min of ji^r»< firi'l nl fli'> trinfiy Mftff'W'l
Imimln'M III' liMM nii'l willi iri di^ v"nn(/"f «Imv"^. Ii"'^ tmiwti
^!ii rui7V Mini 'ilill ifi lii'i j'lifiJM (li/il, Im> rjiri 'I'l iilfl" morr*
(liMH Mil, in lii'-t riivc'H fiiMiilli ^firinin^/ mI, |iil^fifriM mm Hify
I'M li\-, IMI'I liilih^ lii'l fri'Hilll li<r!|l|t;" ||»> 'Mfifi'if. ''iffr'' fi f,
llinii Nd Infi^iM' i-riri ln". ii no ,'it f m ifM'l. [m ii(> foi'l 'Uiwn
in (Iii> I'Mflli, f;»'(>|<in(f wli'int Im> rnJiy ilovnwi li'rv'vM.f fi«»
nuiy Mcpin '^(ill In SMy, " Vmi will n<'V«'r rn'-fi'l I, til rnnr^ nf*
ynn (MM Ihm nl '
Nn wnniU'f IiIm Sjilnni'' MnjoMly i'l mI.'m fn'''l Anoffifr
Ivin^'lnm Im liMiii^ \vl irii li" vvll kri'iWM Im 'l^^^iflf'f^ f<i
Rnpnlnnl. Ii'im, mimI l(tl<" |in«m'HHinn nl" f,l'.> wlinl" porUi
!!<> IdiMNVH lio i,M Mm nHn»|i«'f, nnd lluif, Mio ri'^liMnl itiuifd
\<A rnnilnj.'. Mild. Iiy nn nniniMhil<nltl" pmi^rf mm, Im ulioiif, tn
l;il<f' |»(ms«'KHinn nl lii^ nvvfi. Afi'l why mIi'ikI'I \to. riot, ((tffiCi
(|i»wn (11 hiM woi
Ml why .MlmnM li<> nnf, fjilly nil Iom
luiri'M, I'lnplMy oil lii^ 0'^nno•'H. ui\(\ rrnik" on<' liruil, fU-R-
nt ((ih» niiKrl, i III- l< riowH li" I DIM hilt, i\ .Mhnr f, Mrn'-.
'I'IiIm in pOTiMi'ly wIdiI, hn ]h Hnin^ Suf h nri orm't, i.m
Iif> iii(il< iii^r. KiVrnlH nl'Mi" hml h w y»'(irM /iff'.ol nnfloiihf.ful
ilhmi rnliniiM nf miicIi nn mm.ko? I,infi, i\u<t no yfurM rnno^ sfrik-
iiij.r lliMM llinm» nl* Min l»i,qt, (h'r<nh' 'Ih'i K^pny rnuMny,
Mil' Sin volinMi'iM* i('h«>llinn, nii'l Mi<' hit" rnrnrnnruil ifisnr-
KM'l.inii in I HUM nin nppnilirit/ f'xnrrifd'^ or nn inf-rnn
ngi'iiry an wnr
'I
K^ nt,ro'iM"M (
>r M
K ^♦^ wnrM, ^'MUfCih
I ho pnprl.inMnn nl' hnrh(uil,i"« on (iriKon^ra hofor".
whi^.h
Ihr Mliglilf'Hl. liM'lin^^ nl' hnriinfiit.y rfcnil,^ in n hln^fi f,r' un
iiHornliln Klinni", Klntn iih in Mim hi'-M hh nl* Miirij/-< not
hnninii. 'I'hry ni" I'tniri hononMi. 'I hoy nro, nl'thf, [)o,vil.
lininniiily mny In? Mnhnrrif'l nri'l i/ni'lo to do t,ho- hiddiri^
nl'lhc hovil. yd, Mm net, dfirm is norif.', t,lm, Io^h df;vilish.
And wv wniihl yivo tim l)ovil hi.H duo. No ono, wdl fol-
low Iho binndy TnotstopH ol' tlio iii.murection in Par i.^, and
ii
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TIIK F(V)T-riUNTM iW HATAN.
noto ifsi n^ipnlHiifT Mtvociiios, aiul yot doiiM wlio wna tlio
insli^;\(.(>r jnul (lu» moving ng(Mi(..
Hill, wo nmy nd pMss iliis nn'olling drnnuv ho <Mn'M(»rily.
" ]{y\\o or Itniii." ms in (1\(* 1mI(- uprising of m )m>(»|>1(> in (lio
inlcrivsls of mIjivim'V, is ngnin wrilicn in ll.'nning cnpilnlM
"on i]\o voslnro sind on (h«» llni>li" of <ho inrnnMl kinr.
Nov(M" WMN lliis ni(M(^ M]>p;\lli>»gly illnsilrMJod (Itnninllio
\i\io c'wW war in Krjnu'(\ N(»v«m- Ix^loic did M»o (^miMi
witness ,M nioiH* ronipK^to jinndoiuoninnK 'Vho incMrnnlo
(lonion of war hnd, \v(^ slioidd (liiniv, alrondy glnllcil Ids
insntiaM*^ maw in ilu^ Mood of llu* lunuliods (d" tlion-
sands slain in iho war just (>Ios(mI — a, war rn(ld«\ssly
waLVod l>v (1)0 " riirlif arm of {]]o Tapaov ' in llio intorosls
t>f tlu^ Soarlot H<\as<.. I^nt still inlcMil on Moodshod and
slaugldiM' and all (ho hornns of Iho l'i(, (lu» most, nnpar-
•iIU'KhI l>arl>ari(ios \V(M(^ porpt^ratod in I'aris. No(r only
i\mrd<M' and hl(>(>dsl\(Ml. iho most, r«d(M»(loNs and Itiiital,
woro but, tlu> oon\mon pas(imos o\' (ho iVon/iod and do-
n\oniao mob, but thoro was iho nmsi wan(,on d(^s(, motion
of proporty — contlagratrU^ns (ho vandal hand ruthlo.ssly
laiil on tho m(>st prooioiis works of art -palaoos biu'nt —
olnirohos dosooratod and dostroycd — InitoluMios tho niost
brutal — and « roign of torror a.s if (ho! foulost tionds of
tho Pit woro lo(>sod- and tho whoh* oharao(,(M'izod as (ho
in(>s(, ruthloss roboUion against all law, divino or human,
and pursiiod with a wan(onnoss and oruoKy unparallolod,
and (orminatod in tiro and blood, which will loavo its
marks on tho ]y>\f!;o o( his(ory, noviM' io \)(\ o(rac(Hl. It is
but tho natural oulminadon, tl\o U\gi(ima((» fruit. of long-
ohorishod intidolity juul tho sooial and moral oorruption of
France. Tho horrors o( 17^5) -IK^ woro oxctHvlod by (he
don\oniac fronzy of 1S71. Tho histi>ry of tho world af-
fords no parallel. Not only Ava.s (hero tho most liondi^h
destruction of pro]ierty, of life and of everything that
aggrandizes and blesses life, but th(^ religious desecra-
tion of the hour yet more repulsively betrayed the foot-
prints of the lieast that asccuideth out of the bottomless
J)IH(inHTIN(< WCKNKH IN l'AH!M.
44n
who wns tlio
Pit Olio writing ainiilHfc theHo diHgusting Hcunos of hor-
ror, HMy.s :
" Nnl, nhmo »!(> I.h(» rhnrrhcH rloMod, Uio |inhli(r (inicns
of religion loriiiddcn, 11m> miniMt.ctH of" irligiofi iiiipriHonrd
hiM'niiHo <,hf»y luo Um< ininisil,(>tM of irligjon, nnd Mpimront-
Iv tnr no olhfT cniiMo, iho chuicln'H H|i()il(>d, (,h<» vchsc^Ih
(lodiinlfMl i,n(j(»d (iiiricd ('ilJicf into ptivni.ci l)0(»ty (»r th(^
inrMTiM (tf jtnlilic prolligMcy, {,]](\ ImildiiigM thrniK»dv('B
(iiinod i?il,(t chdiH \vhrrf» i\uy most opi'ii l»liisph«irriy is cn-
(linKitisticfdiy Mpphindcd ; nut, ofdy is mII this true, hut/
tli(» nsc! ol" the ont.wnrd rinhlciris of religion, snch ns tJu^
cross its(dt', is nltsolnt.ely lorhidden, on the ph^a tlinti it i.s
im ollence t,o \\\() lih(>rt,y of ('oMS('ien(M^ I'eyond thin
ti(>ilher wiekefhiess noi' lolly enii Jiny I'lirUKir go. The
very signs of icdigion mi)^ proserihed 'I'lui pride of tho
grefit. anei(;id, inoHfirehieH of JwMitliendoin, tow(;ririg an it
(lid up to lienven, till, henenlh IJh; avenging hand, it waH
Iirought down to li(>ll, jin'oids no pMndlel to this state, of
tilings. l*'oi- that Wf.s in the times of ignoninee ; this in
the nineteenth eetdnry ol" (JhiistijiTi civilization : that
WMS done in nations who had (»idy tlie light of naturo ;
this in a. nominally ('hristian eity, in tlie heart of a
nominally Chiistian naiion. All doccney, humanity,
religion were wantonly outraged."
As wo desee?Kl to det,ails the picture is not tho Iohh ro-
vMlting. What, matlujinatieian can coinputo tlje agoniea
inili(!t,ed upon the women arid eldldren of Kranee, and
(lermany )>y the late war? Think of tho agony «;x[)cri-
en(!e(l hy one ehild that dies of ntajvation. Then ntand
aghast as you read that I2,()()() children urnh'T four years
of ag(5 di(!d of starvat/ion in tho Hiogcj of Paris. The
thought of war's terrihhi injustice to h(;lpleHs women and
childi'cn is (Miougli to tiro any man that has a hoait, with
a holy entliusiasni in tlio causo of peace.
Hut wo pro|)oso to coiiK^ nearer homo and nearer to
uur own times for our illustration. Wo need not go
heyond Now York City. Never were the foot-pririta oi
lu
^
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to \\i!\ih^!> «;^ '.\\\x\ i\\o qnnu' tn.l w M') f^iMiiMl tH A'l in tin.
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power, is not the only beastly power that assumes to rule
and riot in our great metropolis. It is the Scarlet Beast
in another costume, still struggling for power, especially
for the power of money, and aiming a deadly blow at the
life of our free government and free religion. The name
assumed is the " Tammany Ring," and if it be not a verit-
able personification of the Romish Papacy, it is an aux-
iliary agency, proffered on its part and accepted and used
by Rome for the subversion of all civil and religious
freedom, and to establish in our land a reign of the
Papacy.
Our business with the Ring is as an agency of Satan
employed by the enemy of all good in our great metro-
polis. In spite of an immense amount of good in New
York, there is a controlling power for evil. But we insist
upon no special designation here. It is enough that the
Devil has " come down" unto our great Babylon, proclaim-
ing woe, woe, unto the inhabiters thereof We accept the
aforementioned Ring as a veritable incarnation.
And what is the record of the Ring ? As serpent -like
it Ijas dragged its slimy lengA along through every slough
of int'juiperance, licentiousness, deception, theft, gam-
bling and all manner of de' 'ilry, crowded with a depth of
fraud that puts the veriest heathen to the blush, we may
not pretend to follow its serpentine, underground wind-
ings. Wo 3an only detect some of its more ostensible
outgrowths. It has been said, and with too much truth.
we fear, that, whosoever else may be reckoned of the
Ring, we are safe in placing there all loafers, prize fight-
ers, felons, and the whole gang of thieves, rum-sellers,
drunkards and gamblers. Yet all these precious hordes
united are not the authors of a tithe of the mischief
which may justly be set at the door of the notorious Ring-
leaders.
One of the most palpable mischiefs of the Ring, and one
which at the very outset identifies its spirit as from the
Pit, is that it has struck a deadly blow at the majesty of
THE RING AND ITS CONSTITUENTS.
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law. It has corrupted the judiciary, and so bought up
the representatives of the law that the criminal — the
thief, the murderer, the meanest or the boldest transgres-
sor — if he be of the "gang," or can, by bribe or otherwise,
purchase its favour, may defy the demands of justice and
laugh the lawgiver to scorn. And consequently, in the
same degree, all honest, industrious citizens are made to
feel that all ]:'ight and justice are at the mercy of the mob,
so notoriously have fraud, dishonesty, embezzling of public
funds, characterized the administration of the Ring. The
law has no terror even to the most shamelessly lawless, if
he may find refuge in the Ring.
A few facts and figures will illustrate. And take first
the management of the Ring in i^he finances of New York
City. These " thieves" are already proved to have stolen
upward of fifty million of dollars, and in the opinion of
competent men who are still looking into our affairs, the
real amount embezzled does not fall short of one hundred
million. They have doubled the city d^bt in two years.
A very few years of the like rule, or ra Irjr misrule, would
see the entire aggregate of the real estate * )f the city vir-
tually mortgaged for th(i debt.
The following are a few of the details. The new Court
House at once looms up as a monument of Tammany's
honesty. Though by no means completed, it has already
cost more than $12,000,000. Then come in bills for more
than $5,663,000 for furniture of the Court House and re-
pairs of armouries and drill rooms ; for plastering and re-
pairs, $2,370,464 ; for plumbing and gas works, $1,231,817
46 ; fer awnings, $23,503 51. These four bills give an
aggregate of more than $9,000,000.
We can only judge what the amount of the grand
swindle would be, by the fragmentary items which have
slipped out of the common budget. The little charge for
the public printing for two years is $1,401,269 ; for sta-
tionery, $871,373 ; for advertising, $369,184. A total of
$2,641,828 for these three items.
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The following is a bill for work, furniture, etc., covering
only three months :
Furniture.
County S2,G19,639 23
City 240,564 03— $2,800,203 8G
Plaster, etc.
County $2,905,404 00
City 126,101 90— $3,031,625 96
Plumbing, etc.
County $1,231,817 70
City 1.149,874 50— $2,381,092 26
Carpenter-work, etc.
County $1,421,755 42
City 88,074 29— $1,509,829 71
Safes.
County $404,347 72
City 19,080 00 — $423,427 72
Awnings.
County $41,740 83
City 4,881 00— $46,627 83
Carpenter-work.
County $02,300 46
City 25,753 60— $88,114 OU
Painting.
County $256,833 51
City 151,480 86— $408,«ei4 87
Transcript Printing Association.
County $127,735 76
City 152,971 69— $280,707 45
I^ew York Printing Company.
County $1,575,989 54
City 260,283 81— $1,836,273 35
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11,509,829 71
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Manufacturing Stationers.
County $97,881 21
City 180,499 01— $284,880 82
Total $13,151,1^^8 39
Or take as another example the public parks of the
city. The annual expenditure for their care and mainte-
nance only has been $60,000, while the total expendi-
tures for seventeen months was $3,128,543. We need
not be surprised then at the forebodings of those who best
know, that the city debt, instead of $125,000,000, as liad
been supposed, would prove to be not le^s than 200,000,-
000, more than half of which we are obliged to credit to
the embezzlement of the Ring. " Such a set of thieves,"
says an enemy of the Ring, "never were unearthed in
this world, before." Their motto is, " in business, lie and
steal cleverly, and wealth and honour are before you."
And the same modesty is shown in the matter of sal-
aries. Though the stipend is of much less account than
the " pickings," yet these honest officials are here, too,
" wiser in their generation than the children of light,"
providing not only for themselves but for their house-
holds. P. B. S and four of his relatives have the
credit of receiving salaries to the amount of $104,000 a
year — himself $128,000, besides his salary and "pickings'*
as State Senator. Nor is S an exception. Other
members of the Ring come in for a yet much larger share
of the spoil. T has the lion's share. And of the scores
— the hundreds of subordinates who are receiving exorbi-
tant salaries, the most are paid to non-occupants, if not to
non-existents. On the advent of an honest man (Assis-
tant-Controller Green) into one department, more than
three score and ten were, within a few weeks, dismissed as
useless incumbents. Nor are we to suppose this any ex-
ception to the prodigal expenditure in other departments
of municipal affairs. As the frauds perpetrated in the dif-
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fcrent departments have been exposed, we have seen scores
of assistant clerks and other supernumeraries reported in
each, all drawing salaries — or oftener, others drawing in
their names — names which have no existence but in fic-
tion and fraud.
It is believed safe to say that not a tithe of the money
drawn from the treasury to pay bills presented, has gone
to pay for services ever rendered, or material furnished,
and not a tithe of the men for whom salaries were drawn
ever rendered service, if they had any existence at all.
But pecuniary frauds, embezzlements and thievings are
but the beginning of the diabolical end compassed by the
Ring. Everything dear to a free people is perilled. In
their efforts to entrench themselves securely, the Tam-
many rulers struck a deadly blow at everything honourable
in public life. They have done more to debauch the prefss
than anything or anybody in recent times. The courts of
justice have been shamefully polluted. The police are
made agents of corruption and misrule. The very
schools are turned into arenas of political jobbeiy,
and rendered the nursery grounds for an alien faith. The
commercial credit of the city is tarnished ; our property is
wasted away in order that the scum of the earth may ac-
quire unheard-of fortunes ; every man's possessions will
soon be mortgaged to their full value. This is a dark
picture, but it is not so dark as the reality.
"In the reign of the Ring," sa^'s one, "a holocaust of
wickedness such as society has not seen in later times has
followed. Intemperance revels in maddened drunken
orgies. Lust pollutes the fountains of social purity most
shamelessly and destructively. Sabbath-breaking will
make your streets hideous with noise of revellers, your
schools will be robbed of every Bible influence, and so of
every moral influence. Your courts of justice will he
shambles where justice is bought and sold like meat, your
whole community will be a hissing and a by- word in the
mouth of the world. It is a solemn and a mighty crisis
A HOLOCAUST OF WTf'KEDNKSS.
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in our municipal history. All the best men, without
doubt or misgiving, feel this to be so. All good things
are at stake. Religion has interests at stake, so has pub-
lic morals, so has i)ublic order, so has a sound i)olitii'al
morality, so has the good name of this metropolis, so has
justice — honesty.
"With all that is good and gi'eat about this city, how
much there is to make a thoughtful mind apprehensive
and sad ! What a vast amount of crime and misery, what
drunkenness. Sabbath-breaking, [)rofligacy of all sorts
centre here ! Whatextravagance characterizes our jieople !
What corruption invests our high ])laces ! What a horde
of ignorant and unprincipled creatures make this city the
scene of their nefarious pursuits!"
Then there are the hidden works of darkness that elude
all scrutiny, and yet, from police investigati(jns and me-
dical testimony, we can make some calculation of the
numbers of those who are leading a life of shame. It will
be safe to say that there are 1,')()0 prostitutes and 2,500
other women who visit houses of assignation, etc., making
a total of 10,000. The value of the real and personal
property invested in the business cannot be short of So,-
000,000. And the amount of money spent in houses of
ill-fame, and the amounts recpiired for the expenses of
criminal and human institutions growing out of the terri-
ble evil, must make a total of $5,000,000 more. And
then the dreadful havoc here on health and human life !
The average duration of life after entering on a course of
prostituticn is four years. So tliat more than 1,800 of
these miserable women die every year.
But the New York Devil is not a single personage. He
is a triune god, three persons, or three .o-reat devils. They
are Fraud, Intemperance and Licentiousness, inspired by
the goddess Fashion. Under the fascinations of fashion,
" the filth of I'aris has been gathered as the gold of Ophir."
In the name of art and refinement come vulgar display
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abominations and domestic ruin. In our churches, wo-
men, given to the god of Fashion sit at our communion
tables. Folly flaunts its finery in our best pews. A
rogue purchases immunity by endowing a church, or build-
ing a hospital.
If we may judge of the character of the demand from
the suppli/, we meet a very good cr-erion in any of our
large furnishing depots. Go into the house of A. T.
Stewart and inquire the price simply of ladies' shawls.
" Brussels jioint of the purest white, $1,000 ; point ap-
pliqu(?, $1,000 ; black chantilly, $1,000. Or, betterthan all,
bordered with autumn leaves, $5,000.". This purchased,
then dress your lad}' to match. A two or three thousarsd
dollar dress, jewellery to twice that amount, a bouquet of
point lace, representing orange blossoms and other varieties
of liowers, with all the paraphernalia needful to make up
a modern fashionable lady — a dear creature worth possibly
$20,000 — a wife or a daughter worth having. Indeed we
think we know of one, or did know her in the days of
her maidenhood, who is recently reported to have paid
$18,000 for six and a half yards of point lace, thus rival-
ling Queen Victoria and the Empress Eugenie, who had
refused so rare a bargain. This matched, and Senator
has the dearest wife of them all.
But the Ring of modern celebrity is no new design of
Satanic agency. Rings, confederacies, juntas, monopolies
have been his darling schemes by which to work. We
hear of the " Whisky Ring," the " Canal Ring^" the
"Erie Ring," the idolatry of fashion, the corruption of the
ballot-box and of the legislature, frauds, false weights and
adulterations, dishonest mercantile practices, an insane
passion for speculation and gambling — " keno," " faro,"
and all the mysteries of the gambling hell. And plenty
of politicians there are, who, that they may gain place,
power and good " pickings," would not hesitate to sell us
to Rome, to burn our Bible, to abolish our Sabbath and
free schools, and to deluge our land in rum and ruin.
THE INFALLIBILITY DOGMA.
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But our hero does not confine himself to New York City,
If not omnipresent, he has peculiar capabilities of locomo-
tion. Such wonderful ubiquity has he that while we are
watching his movements in our great metropolis, we hear
of his doings in London, in Paris, in Rome, seemingly all
at the same moment. His late presence and presidency at
the (Ecumenical Council of Rome deserves special noticfj
in the records of his doings in these latter days. His
most faithful allies and genial friends, the Jesuits, having
laboured most insidiously and indeffitigably for many a
long year to regain lost power, and if possible to consum-
mate the supremacy of the Papacy, now, as a dernier re-"
sort and desperate attempt, instigated the calling of the
council. Having, through the Pope, already a controlling
influence at the Vatican, they thought, in his authorized
supremacy, to secure for the Order the supreme control of
the nations. Hence their indefatigable, unscrupulous
scheming for the infallibility of the Pope. And in their
supposed success is verified, in the Romish Hierarchy, the
last sign of the great apostasy. Now " that man of sin
is revealed," " so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of
God, showing himself (or claiming) that he is God."
Thus the fearful climacteric, the dizzy height of Papal
usurpation being reached, we need not wonder that the
divine forbearance was exhausted. Heaven could bear
no more. The very next day — some say the very day
the heaven-provoking act of the Infallibility dogma was
passed, heaven's indignation burst forth in the form of
that dreadful war waged on the part of thp French Em-
peror (the right arm of the Papacy) for the defence of the
Romish Hierarchy, but overruled by indignant heaven to
the downfall of his Imperial Majesty and as an awful
scourge and humiliation to France.
Never did the Devil more signally outwit himself Like
as in his first rebellion, when he essayed to usurp the
throne of the Most High, he now thought to exalt a poor
mortal intd the place of God, that he should be worahip-
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ped as God. But how, in that thunderbolt of war at once
let loose on France, the strong arm of the Papacy, was
"hell from beneath moved to meet him at his coming."
" It stirred up all the chief ones of the earth, it raised up
from their thrones the kings of the nations." Already is
their " pomp brought down," and we seem to hear the
triumphal song, " How art thou fallen from heaven,
Lufiifer ! how art thou cast down to the ground, which did
weaken the nations !"
France is the most complete personification or realization
of Papal Rome. It is Romanism gone to seed. Here is
the beau ideal of what the religion of Home can do for the
world. Pointing to France, his Infallibility may proudly
repeat the boast, " Is not this the great Babylon that I
have built ?" We here see what a nation, ])ossessed of
every advantage of military power, of art, science, wealth,
culture and commanding position, can be, when existing
and developing under the auspices of Papal Rome. In
proportion as Rome is the controlling power, the triune
god of France is Fashion, Licentiousness and Infidelity.
And no help or hope for her till she shall come out and
be separate from a system not less demoralizing than the
boldest idolatry.
And would that we were not obliged to concede that,
as in dress so in the poison of infidelity, Paris rules the
fashion. In nothing do we more distinctly trace the foot-
prints of our Foe than in the prevalence of modern infide-
lity. It is not the open, defiant infidelity of Hume and
Voltaire, but the insidious, covert Christian infidelity of
the present day. The Devil is turned reformer, preacher,
teacher, author, anything — appears clad in the garb of the
Christian, the more adroitly to compass his diabolical
ends, edits religious journals when he can, or, as contribu-
tor, slyly leavens them with the virus of modern scepti-
cism. And especially at the present day is he exercising
a boundless control in the realm of fictitm. With an air
often of evangelical piety, our works of fiction are but too
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often secretly permeated with a specious infidelity more
dangerous than that of the open scoffer.
It is this kind of infidelity that lurks through the dif-
ferent systems of '* liberal Christianity," and is indeed a
characteristic feature. The following paragraph very
aptly expresses what we mean.
" The fact of Christ's life and death, the purity of His
character, and the sublime and elevated nature of His
teachings are acknowledged by both good and bud. In-
fidelity assumes a different position. Instead of denying
the Bible, it accepts it conditionally — it is an excellent
book, but full of imperfections — not to be taken as a guide,
but as a help, containing both truth and error. Satan
has grown wiser by his hmg experience with man. He
has found that he cannot carry tbe citadel by storm, and
so he has resorted to sapping and mining. He knows
that when he can get men to receive the Bible with the
same respect, and no more, which they do any other good
book, he has gained his end — it will in time share a like
fate with them. And what makes this form of infidelity
the more dangerous, is the strange fact that it assumes to
be a religious belief, the foundation of a Christian Church."
A strange mixtui-e of blasphemy and religion, of rank in-
fidelity and pretended reverence for God.
But these social, civil and religious eruptions and re-
volutions are but a part of the modern evolutions of t'le
Wicked One whereby to make his power known, if not to
perpetuate his reign upon the earth. Nature responds.
Or rather the god of thif: world uses the tremendous
agencies of nature to makp his power felt, or to compass
his ends. Hence earthquakes in divers places, famines,
pestilences, floods and tornadoes, and these latter terrific
agencies of nature, now more frequent and disastrous than
ever before, submerging whole cities and towns, and
spreading devastation over large portions of country.
The famine in Persia swept over almost the entire
length and breadth of the land. The people in every city
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and village died by hundreds. In Ispahan the ravages
were fearful, and scarcely a town was exempt from the
dreadful visitation. " Persia," says a dispatch, *' seems
likely to suffer to the utmost extent all the possible con-
sequences of the great disasters of famine and pestilence
that have within some months past ravaged her fattest
provinces. Insurrection is the latest calamity. Insur-
rections have taken place at Shiraz and at Tabriz. No
doubt as winter comes on and this year's scanty supply
of food is exhausted, the people, frantic with hunger and
despair, will cease to regard any control but that of a sa-
yage instinct, and the country will be still further deviis-
tated by general pillage and murder. Three thousand
die daily, and tens of thousands are dependent on cha-
rity." ^
Passing by the unprecedented number of floods, storms,
and tornadoes that have devastated many portions of our
©wn country, we notice a single one on quite the opposite
side of the globe. A correspondent says, " The whole
country in the neighbourhood of Tien- tsin, China, is inun-
dated, and communication only possible by boat. The
crops are destroyed, and large numbers of cattle and huraan
beings have been drowned. The survivors are flocking
into Tien-tsin, and camping on the city wall. Their
houses, which are built chiefly of mud, are washed away.
Great distress will evidently prevail through the winter,
and even though rice may be provided by Government or
by private charity, it will be almost impossible to provide
fuel. The fuel used throughout the North is the millet
stalk, and this of course has all been destroyed with the
grain.
" The fact may be difficult to realize, but it is a fact that
several people have been drowned in the streets of Pekin
— in the sloughs of mud and water."
The North China Herald says that "at Tungchow,
people are up to their waists in water in the principal
streets. An appeal for charity has come down from New-
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chwang to aid the survivors of a village which has been
entirely swept away by the flood. 8ome 1,200 lives are
reported to have been lost."
In New Chiang twenty thousand square miles of ter-
ritory were inundated and a thousand persons were
drowned.
A telegram from Constantinople brings intelligence
that the City of Antioch, in Syria, has been visited by an
earthquake, causing terrible loss of life. The dispatch
states that one-half of the city was totally destroyed and
1,500 persons lost their lives. Great distress prevails in
that portion of the city not demolished, and the remain-
ing inhabitants are sadly in need of assistance.
Advices from Zanzibar say the island had been visited
by a terrible hurricane. One hundred and fifty vessels of
all classes were sunk or stranded on the coast. The town
of Zanzibar was badly damaged, and the loss was esti-
mated at $10,000,000.
Whether it be earthquake, or flood or tornado, or famine
or pestilence, it speaks " woe, woe to the inhabitants of
the earth."
But we pass to the great events of this eventful year,
the fires of Chicago and the North-west. But why inti-
mate, it will be asked, that these and the like dreadful
casualties which come in the shape of fires, earthquakes,
storms, and tornadoes, are, in any sense, the handiwork
of the Devil ? No doubt they are permitted, restrained
and overruled by the Divine Hand. Still, if there Avere
no Devil, we apprehend these things would never be.
Though it be not conceded that he is necessarily the
originator and instigator of them, it will not be denied
that he runs riot in them as the delight of his soul.
We have been especially struck with the terms inci-
dentally used and the epithets applied to describe the
ravages of these fires. They are such as these : " The de-
stroying angel," " the fire devil," " a raging, roaring hell
of fire," " run like a conscious fiend drunk with victory,"
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"rushed in fury as if some agency of hell were its vis a
fergii" " The reign of tire and brimstone in Sodom and
Gomorrah," writes another, " can hardly be compared
with the devastating ruin of the fire-riend in Chicago."
"The wind, in devilish league with the Hery element,
whistled and howled and madly whirled along the streets,
urging and hurrying on the flarnes to new feats — to fresh
orgies." "Ah, his Satanic Majesty might gloat in fiendish
glee." " The proud city of the prairies, so grand, so
magnificent a few days ago, glorious in her beauty and
her strength, is laid in dust and ashes by the withering
breath of the destroying angel."
And, in appalling correspondence with this, was the
fiend-like rage of the PitA[iUE Fires in Wisconsin,
Michigan, and half a dozen other States and Territories
of the North-west. The tornadoes of flame — the burn-
ing clouds that drove with lightning speed through the
air, were ominously terrific. The terror-stricken people
thought the last day had come — " the great day of his
wrath."
The phenomena and results of this storm were my.steri-
ously strange. In some places the forest trees lay in every
imaginable })osition, while in others they were carried into
winrows. They were mere sticks in the hands of a great
power, slashing and whipping the earth, and then made
fuel for the work of death. The fields, woods, barns,
houses, and even the "air," was on fire, while large balls
of fi'-e were revolving and bursting in every direction,
igniting everything they came in contact with ; and the
whole of this devouring element was driven before a
tornado at the rate of a mile a minute. There can be no
doubt that the air, strongly charged with electricity,
helped on the work of destruction and death. Mr. A.
Kirby says he saw large bodies or balls of fire in the
air, and when they came in contact with anything, they
would bound thirty or forty rods away. Others testify
that th^y saw large clouds of fire burst into fragments, and
'
i
h vis a
lom and
>m pared
'hicago."
element,
3 streets,
-to fresh
liendish
rand, so
luty and
withering
was the
iscon3in,
)rritorie3
he burn-
)ugh the
n people
y of his
mysteri-
in every
ried into
f a great
en made
s, barns,
•ge balls
irection,
and the
36 fore a
in be no
ctricity,
Mr. A.
B in the
ng, tliey
testify
mts, and
«
n
WISCONSI AND MK'IIK^AN KMIKH.
4.'»!)
in Rnnio in^^tnnroM j:rtrMt, tiinj^in'sof Jin- lik<^ li^'ht?»inp wonM
JHsno from tlirNrdnik rNnidMniid W'^lti. n|>nn llin Itiiildifi^'^.
Priinirs wen* mcllrd in (,lio |nK'l\rt,M of |M'rs(iii,H wlio wcro
liiit )il(l(^ Itiiitinl. A siiwdl )m>II n|M)i) nil cM^^diin, niid a
new hIov(\ Itotli Hlnndm;^ IVoiii t.wrnt.y to loity fret from
jiiiv Iniildini;, wen* iiicltrd.
And who conld luiv(? witrH'sscd t,|io.s(« Niraii^^fs plicrio-
mciiii nmiiovdd i ll'iMMipli' who visit th)^ ruins since- tho
liro nn^ forciMl ♦,(> thinU that (iod hid his \'nn'. in wiJitli
nnd sent f'oith his thiindfrholts of divstnirtion ; iifiy, that
ho f^Jivir thi> V(M'y licnds of hell tho ri^ht nnd j>ow(!r to
shako tho |)hi('<' nnd hnni it up, what must havo hccn
tlin f'tM'lin^s of* thos(«, who pnsscMl thnMi;^h the- firry or-
(h'.il ?
Ill Wisconsin niono fVoni I ."iOO to l.HOO pcrisliod in
th«; fhiiiH's, and inon^ thnn t(Mi tinuiFj th<; hist nunibur
wcio niiidc lioni(d(vss nnd dcvstit.utc.
Soiiin t(?stify thnt tho fin? did not nomo upon tlioni
^raduiilly from hurtling trfMvs ninl otlicr ohjocts to tho
windward, hut the. first iioti(r(? they had of it was a wliirl-
wind of flauKjs, in ^rcnt rh»uds from ahovo thn tops of
tnM's, which fell upon and <',nv(;lopf5d nvfjrytliinf^. Tho
atmosj)h(M*o scomnd oiui of f'lro. Th ) poor po:pl(5 inhaled
it, or the iiittmsoly hot air, and foil down dead. This is
vorifi(;d hy tho appoaraiici^ of many f)f tlie corpses. They
wore found doad in the? roads and opcm spacns whoro thf;re
wore no visihlo marks of tin? fiic nnar l>y, with not a trace
of burniii'' upon their bodies or clothiii''. At tho Sii^'ar
Bush, which is an extended clearing, in some [)laces four
miles in width, corps(5S were found in the open road, be-
tween fences which were only slightly burned, Nf) mark
of tiro was upon them, but they lay there as if asleep.
This plienomenon seems to explain the fact that so many
were killed in compact masses. They seemed to hive
huddled together in those places that were re-^arded as
the safest, awiy from buildings, trees and other inflamma-
ble material, and there to have died to;'other. Fences
:S
r.
I )!
!
I
I
t
^
m
r,
, t-
I
4(U)
TIIK FOOT IMUNTM OF HATAN
nroun<l t'lonvoM lioM^ woro l>»n'no(| in spo|,q nl* only a frw
rotl'< in lonj^^th, nn<l pl^iMvInMo no( (ont IumI l''ish wom
killt»tl in {\\o Mtroinn m n( I'l^shli
«"
'I'hp sotMn* WMM Mwlnl Itoyond <li»si'i i|»l ion 'I'ho mKv. so
tl.nU M n\<Mnrn( ImMoio. lunsl info j^ricMl rlondM of linv Tlii»
I^om'^Im o( {\\o Jort^sN ojnnt* nmninjr lor MniM'otn' inio llio
n\itls( of {\\o Ht»l(l(Mn«Mil>«. nnd tin* ^h'mI toil roimnniint;
\\\v {\A\ npon nil monnd. Tho diomilnl Hn>n(» Inckrd no
Mnni:j l»Mt tho Honndin^ ortholnMl hnnip — nnd indiM'dlln*
np)>ro;\»'h ol'tlio nwl'nl roMiinir, nnii (ln» prtMnoniliouM IVom
tho distanro, N\j|>pliod o\n\ (lint <o (l\o MpHMllfd injii^ininns
»rii
\p
poo|
>I0
And a liko (mIo is (old of Michi^Mn. A Inr^o trnjlory
>x*Ms hntut oviM". l»nnnM\s«» forosis woro dt'Mhuvcd 1(10,
0()i\(>l)(> loot of InnilMM" conMnniod HMrns. Ijoimom, nnd ml
tU» wiMV swop! nw.w MS l>y (lu» Ixvsoni ol" divslnirlion In
o
no d.iy tiri»vM\ ilnnisiind poopit* nvimo thrown np(»n ihn
tondov nuMvios of pov<Mty.
No\t, (ho ttdogiiipli orio.s " Kir(^!fir(>!" froni tho fnilhosl
i'^riont. Vovido in Japan lies in riigldfnl rniiiM. A wiilor
says
It is inipossihlo io oiniooivo o( anoduM* snoh Noono of
ovorwlu'hniniT and instantanoon,mh\sohition. Within loss
than tlnvo lu>\irs a distriot of (\v*> Ht^naro n»ih>s was liiid
wasto, fivo tht>usanvi odilioos woro dostroytMl, ami twenty
thousand pooplo woro (nrnod honn^K^ss into th(» Nlrools.
Tho list ot hiMisos dostrovod i«\oludo.ssovonto(»n larirolJov-
ornniont otVuvs. sixty toniplos, tAvo hnndnMl ami oi^hly-
vsovon small piiMio ollioos. and to\ir thoiisand sovon Inni-
drod an*l til'ty-throo privato dwollings, shop-s, oic. With
all itss tVo()nont iiovast^'\tions hy tiro, plagiio.s and oarth-
qnakos. b\U two groator publiooalaniitioshavo occurred in
^ oddo since tho tinio of it^s tonndation."
Sincowriting tho ahovo scarcely a week has ]>ass<Ml with-
out the announcement of territic tires in ditlcrent parts of
our land. " Thirty-tive miles of forest burning in Pennsyl-
vania — fearful destruction of lumber and loss of life, nnd
iiAnK (If Trir. msV(H?FiiN(i i<:i,k.wf.nt.
401
IImiiimmikIm ir«lii( 1 .1 i.» |Miv«»fl V " Ki'iiii Mn«MnrlMi«;oMM, fVorn
Nt'W YkiIn. Npw fl«'!M«»v, KpriliK'k y, Ni'IummIoi, htikofii,
riiiiMilM. rtiiiM's (Im» MMliin HirUiMii»i^ tiilr .tf W'mv 'I'Iim nigo
(iT Hm' rliMiH'iilM \h Ii»I. loMsr tn liiy wmmI«» nn«l «l«'st.toy. Tli'^
|nH4 liy liif* cmiiiiIm up Ity inillinim.
Ami iiitl. Ilip |«'H'4 r»'iii(nl iM flin onUiimt. of luirnnfi 'lo-
IHiivily. Vinlciico, iniiifh'r, liol.H ntid polit.ifMl f.li'M'vin^
lire liiil. Ilio Inn cniMiiioii Mi«l»'r of (lin «lny. Wm IdwI
Hf'Mrct'lv iMcnvortMl IVuin l.ln» (IiihI.iiiiII v MSMMsMinntinn of
llir (liiNMMiKU (IriH'inl «»!' ItifliM wlwri tlics t,»'l»»j^r'i|»li /iri-
noniiri'il Mio nl.l«<iii|iliMl riiii!«l«'r nf IJm' (^.1"'''" "^ Kri^lnri'l.
hnl l<>l. iiM iniii Mf^iiiu In I.Ih' ^m»'mI. ('ily rmw in f uirm,
iiimI witn (Mfi h'll nl" I. lie nivM^«'M nl" Mm «l»'Hl,royinj( nrn/ol
|lM'r«» / TIm' H'^rinli (IcVMHlnhMl WJIH I'lVM MJjIinU' iril IcM, f'f |ll>l I
In nil nl" New Yn?k wliicji li»H JM-lwppfi tliM l')il,l,»'ry n.ri'l
I'ninti S(ni/iir, niKJ iMUiinhMJ liy Mm Nnrth nn«l KmkI, iiv»TH.
'rwnily-livc IhnuMMiMllion^rH vvrni liiiriw'*), Jii'i.OOl) ycr-
NniiH iiuidr «l«'HlilMl«', nil)) mnir tJwm f\. Iliniisnn*! |»»TiKlwl.
rii(» Inlnl InsH nl" prntuTly iw CKlinintod uh lii^li mk Jif'JOO,
OOO.OOO, MM nil iiiiiiMMlinip Iokh In Mio citi/rriM, to mjiv no-
lliiii|^^ nl'ljir tlcum^M'inrril. of lniMiiicsH iirwl llw ^<'iM'nil Iosh
(»r |trn|M'rl,y Minm^lioMl, Mm? cnimtry iiM',oriH<'(HH'n(<', ofllio
Cliicii^Mi (lisMslrr. No kiicIi (JrHl.iuct.lon of property wmh
I'vrr known Itrlnrn in liino nl' piwice. 'rhree, Imndred rriil-
liniiH in twenty fniir ImniH KMlnced to mkIich iw n |»}ie.nojrie,
lion never expel iirneed ln'f'ore l»y the, firiMneial world. On
tliis enpitnl, too, nri eiKdinoiiH eiedit huHinoHH wjum d(;ne, all
wliieh WMH t»Mii|)orfiiily Itroken up,
Tlie Hanie Htniii^rf. „riil tenific plienornena were, witne«Ked
ill the city ns on the pniirieH. When the, de,vonriri^ eh;-
riient ?-ea('he(l the river, ail Kiip[»ose,d its ravH^eM would hf,
Klayed. Yet in ten ininuteH niter r(;ae.hin^ tiuj river, tho
fire, •' like a wild hea.st Miat had tasted l)lood, Heornin^ Ut
he hedged in, e}iu<;ht u[) a pile of hisKing seantlirif^H and
vaulted acroHs the river with a thousand torches." As
it took tlu^ main leap, it showed its eoritempt for tlic pniiy
«trciigth of its advernary by seizing a sloo[) and con.sum-
I
4(1 L>
HHi' I'tiMl IMMMI'l n|i «?VfAM
inj) il In Ihi' wtHi't M i"ilfH<, ulillc llic lunii. lfi((|iMMl i\n\ui'u
IMMili' \\\\A\ \\f\\ fll'Mt«:H IMltfl' ll'I'^nU'h Ujinli (lie lijidtMM
' h Hm\\ M)MiIi> i|Mi('lt Witllt h |'!iI|m|.(.(| IImiIImvmmI t)|.
r''rMnl<li!i, \,'\ MmIIp ihoI « 'hit It Mltft-JM tM»';hvMf«l. »|Mtv»i II-h
♦ I'^on, /NtlMMH, \'m» MiniMi iumI Mimuih., mI IIic l«'MiM»« mlo
iM M hl.tiK !» niinMli>
" Tl«i» Ji'M ililt' l»nmlt)ntl»Mi'«)l mm 1 |ii> umi I |i >.<I(((> "I ill cmoI i
iMh'il. MMil !» MnllliM* tlMiniiini' Mii'MMi>n/M>iM id iiiiti u»t».
plunuiHn HuiMijilHltn Imitliiir Al llii< Moiiii mmi IIm.
\\\v limil tMM't* iniMc slnnij fiH tt iHMMirlil fll l«)M . Ml»'M, M ilji
tM\i' «t\\ r^un l>i\nnil. il fi'Mi Itnil llli< it|l|" .-lil (« li)Mtl<M III if.
nl^OJI limit t Ih' »t'\ tMlll*' •»! t« lifM l»!M i'Mi |m| 1 III. iliMllll III II
HishuhM' Il wi>l Imrri'tlf lltf ttill'i mIImhI mh (||)> fivi'i. imhI
Hi'l\HlMi'i| lluMM fUHiMIJi |Ih» Mln|t)till(r. Mt-i^in^ j |(H'»' H»'Ihi(|
niM^ nn»l l>nnnn|i (lu'iu !•» llu' wmIimm i-ilmv
" TIm' n»Mll< MJilt* WMM MMW . t»l linll |i(u-il I \VM Ml liii'lt , Idii Iv
on Iho, oMii ol»\ inn^K iIih mnl II tliil tiuj Idimi Iuimm'k
ol ionlin\iil\ \\'\\\\ l<mnititi ltuililihn'4. Iml. lnM-iiimt. nl lln'
inn'^><tnH l^iMulwntltupnl
" I ,i\ »» iMnl^MM Irll r\ iM \ U IliMf MH I lt!» I mmCm nriiii(|t!rN,
plnui)mji llntMinl* llii> w imlow >!, Il\iiiir umli'i Iiim mm mimI
iulo slunlrs. linnji Iht^!, iIimuI Iiiimh. wiilt« witllt't, iiihI
Irun''? Tlu' lh'\inr-4 IIimI I'miiiil (il si \vt M< iMi.|(i(i d (miih
vt\v\\ \\{\\v\ Vwv wwH ii'nmiuniciili'il iliii>(I\ liy Ih inn
"TIh> dirndl nl K'l^nH Im Iml Inn \vt>ll Idtnvrn I'lvt'is'ijiinM'
nulos of (l\o v'\\\\ it^rhiiliii}) tti'in n liimilntl jm'i inilirnh.
n M<MM»« ol luntK'^, hull n hmnluil "( ItnlrlM, »;(|iiii.|>).
rl\m\'l\o^, in\<l I wo IIumIh oI IIh' wrnlllt n| I lu- < il y, mMi ilv
poiishod."
Anolhn oyi^ w ilnrss ol' llu> IrfnTnl Rrriio fn\\<A, "Tim
<lMn\o'<. l\Ko Mnnu> ^li^tnilic iminMlrr n'mliiiiu iml ih In i ilJn
nvn\^ (o ^»M4p i(M lu*lpli'^M im«»v. hIu'Ii IumI ncumM |Im> livi'i.
ujv;ld \\\ <h(» |mIo'4 oI lumlxM-. nml, H9 il" in riiiinnM ninu'i
nt <l\o ^\\v\\i \A\o\Ak w hii'h IIhm i\«Mf)iivo In iln »l«'\ ii'dnlni}/
n\!U'oh. (I vushovi \\\ «l<M\»oniMc Inry npon llio (Inipch' jm
p\ilatovl \iiHtiiol ol the K»\v tVaim* liMU'nKMil, Iuiiim(>h, known
ui i
/itvrfr fMrwowrv/^
ir,n
" A h'l H'lW. ftM if tM'iwIftl/ «iff'ifft( fifi'l lufi'i'lM. fi'! if t^/rifi
hijr iiMW'f f»ff'l fftfi'lfr^flM f»v wfrfil if. Un(\ filrr<fi<ly f>'M ii(>'.rr,
il (iMMHf|r>f| u|»Mh Mif« ffif(iMilf)''^rif Mf/ifi/' fr'ififM fif Ott* fonif't
y»»MfM fli«' jffi'l" 'if (he rify. Mi^ MMrfiirnfi^n of fill ^J(^< fn-
♦ mtm. I lif» ^\iif J(t(iM. ('l'«(M(fil, friofitifM''rif«< 'rf (^tiotify nti<\ iri'lufl-
hy l'"ll n vi'Mfft f'» lie* 'lo'sffiyr-r If wn^i nwluily ^/rnrcl ■
(,lii« (IruMf'M Iffipifii^ !«)( Ifi>'» f !(<« fl^flV^frM. fi/rw ^r^n^rir(^ f»fi''|
f/tllJKjr nwfiy ifi Ml'' t\ttiu]^ iiii ^•,nifiU(\ '-fily fo K^ rollowr.^1
hy fifMillicr Mfi'l fifioflxf fidf'^f, '-T llMffi''M Hf,»ll lri((li<*r y-f,,
(ill jl. H''''ffi''l MM fl('«(n/li llir-y WfV' r^M^fliflJ^ Mif. f/» ^rr^^f,
|,|if» v«'fv 'I''""' '•' '''♦* fi''MV<'fiM nl'r'.v^ (;^rr'l^ ^^l^l'lM nfr^'f
vnlfifrC'M /»l' Mfft'il?'', hhw filfi'k mm fMi'lfii^frf, 'l»rk rK'«^«<, ht''<f't
wifli >(|imH<m Mft'l liiiffiifil^ ),ff\tfr),hn,ti(iw ligM^'l rjp Ky f.h^
|»'M|iJH(.( llnrrK'M of fir»v I li'» wiri'l, in '^-vili'^lr l^f^i/r|^ //iflr
Mil' lli'i y >'lr-ffirfi(, }i'»wl"l Mfr'l wfii'!M"'l, nr»'l rrift'lly whirk"'!
nloit^/ fill' MfM'f'ftt. •Mt(irii^ fifi'l lii(fryiri^( fli/' fl»fri''M fo ri^v/
fcflMlM f'» (M'mIi Of^i'M ^)lll/^' fill Wf\» l\if' '\<nft'f,]t)^ T'ti^r
fit flif lif", Mft'l III" rofifiriMnl rrn^liir» ^/ of follirij/ firoK^r^
fifi'l wmIIm I All. Ill" MnfMfiir MMJ<'»<f,y f(irrl^^lf rfti^)'iM«<»;^h
ill lif'M'liHli (/!♦'" ov'f III" MppnUin^ ^;|<^'•^n^l^
" 'IIm' Im w of (/rMvifnl ion M'' rn^'l ' uf (,^rl<I^<l «f, H,^ Ko-
lir'HJ of lli»» fi'i^aiifij/ 'Irnfiofi Mui;" f.iirr.irij/ KoftfU w^r^
Miii^lif. 11(1 Mnil liiifi'"! ov'.f f,|if« |(Mi«!/' fy»|[-M hk^ hrftrcU cf
Im'II ri»'(i>»i f.r hi<lifi(./ WIT" <rv»s«</'<l ;»ri'l ^rnrrl^'l <ftpri<'i'
((UHly fo^N'f.lii'f MM if l»y p.(ifH(\ irnf* of <k'Hf riKf.ior,, f,K^r»
W\\\\\t otif, li^lif,*"l M|»or» Ml" furioim norflt wsh wind, hk^
(Inrnifi^ kif.i'M lltni'lk'M '»f fiMif KurrioH lftf.li« wr-r.f, wp hkA
rofkols Mfi<l f"ll full of fury in .'^on.'^ (,i)it\r y>n(\H two or
l,liM'*» lilorl<M ili«f,>inf.
nu(\ woffipfi, pMhifvl wif.fi Jli/^, f/.f.f,*'rint( rtlonj/ fK^ ^tr-^^t^
'JpMf'i h^liin'l fJi'^rn mtkI fl*'Rp«ir hffor'', f,li#>rri ; rnoth^r^
iM
wiiri voiin
^ l'M,l
>m i/i
f,ll^,l^ Mfrns, nft'l littU) halfdr^HH^/l
t.Hl
if:
liU
464
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
children clinging to their skirts, were struggling frantically
through the throngs and jams, going they kiiew not
whither, only away from the fire — children screaming for
mothers, mothers calling hopelessly for children ; sick per-
sons, too weak to walk or even sit up, imploring in weak
voices not to be abandoned to the terrible death ; men
with loads of household goods, whose looks showed that
even their thoughts of the coming winter filled their
minds with anxious care."*
Though Chicago and the prairies of the North-west
stand out in av;ful grandeur amid the multitude of hea-
ven's judgments in 1871, yet they do not stand alone.
Fire, the sword, pestilence, famine, earthquakes, floods and
tornadoes have made the year in question eventful above
any other year. A wail came to us from South America,
A deadly pestilence raged in Buenos Ayres, till " the city
was desolated, and fields and cemeteries and gardens were
filled with the loathsome corpses of the slain."
And while the dread messenger was yet speaking there
came another who told of the ravages of that deadly fa-
mine in Persia. Gaunt hunger had enacted scenes of
misery there such as has seldom been the lot of any peo-
ple to suft'er. The homes of the living were left desolate,
while the cemeteries, the cities of the dead, were crowded
with victims of the dreadful scourge. And while this
messenger was yet speaking there came another that told
of earthquakes in divers places. In the Philippine Isles
(like as in other places) the firm earth reeled to and fro
like a drunken man, and the foundations seemed to be
dissolved. Houses toppled down at a crash, and many
were buried iii their ruins. Desolation now reigned where
but a few months ago a happy people pursued their avoca-
tions without fear of danger.
And while the earth yet shook and gave forth ominous
* To the foregoing may 'be added the two arpalling conflagrations of
November, 1872, and May, 1873, in the old, wealthy and substantial city of
Boston. ''
■antically
new not
ining for
sick per-
il! weak
h ; men
ved that
ed their
)rth-west
of hea-
id alone,
oods and
ul above
America.
' the city
lens Avere
ng there
iadly fa-
icenes of
my peo-
desolate,
crowded
lile this
hat told
ne Isles
and fro
I to be
d many
id where
ir avoca-
ominous
grations of
itial city of
THE MADDENED ELEMENTS LOOSED.
465
sounds, the fiend of war was loosed in Europe. And not
enough that France should be devastated by the German
war, but a deadly civil strife followed, whose horrors far
outstripped the devastations of her foreign foe. All na-
tions stood aghast at the outrages, the inhumanities of
this war. Most unmistakably do we detect in these the
foot-prints of the arch demon of the Pit. And then, as
if in awful mockery of all these dire calamities, followed
the dreadful conflagration to which we have referred.
But we shall not attempt to enumerate the disasters of
this eventful year: floods, earthquakes, disasters at sea,
railroad slaughters. A flood in Jonapoor, India, inunda-
ted the streets, demolished three thousand houses, destroy-
ed temples, markets, post-offices and mission schools, and
made ten thousand people homeless. ^
Indeed, from all parts of the world come tidings of the
destruction of life and property by winds, earthquakes,
floods and fires, famine and pestilence, storm and shipwreck.
In China, the storms and floods of which we have spoken,
are reported to have overflown, by a tidal wave of the sea,
driven by a typhoon, 20,000 square miles of territory, and
to have swept away three thousand persons.
The disasters at sea have been such as perhaps no year
ever witnessed before. Wrecks have been numbered by
the thousand,. property lost by the million. The late dis-
aster in the Arctic Sea is but an appalling example. In
a single storm thirty-two out of a fleet of forty whalers
were wrecked — a dreadful blow to that line of trade. New
Bedford alone lost a million of dollars.
And yet more appalling, because nearer our door, is the
record pf the recent Staten Island Ferry catastrophe :
" Yesterday a long record of safe and prudent manage-
ment was broken by a disaster whose magnitude far ex-
ceeds anything known to the annals of local navigation.
At twenty-five minutes past one o'clock the steamboat
' Westfield ' was laden with a chatting and laughing crowd
of some 800 excursionists, who had already begun to en-
30
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4G6
THE FOOT PRINTS OF SATAN.
Ml
;;
■ft
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joy in anticipation a pleasure sail across the upper Bay.
Within less than five minutes later, about a fourth of
these happy holiday seekers were either dead, dying, or
suffering intense agony from being scalded by steam and
bruised by falling ties and timber. The forward deck of
the ferry-boat, which a few minutes before had seemed
as safe to tread on as the firm set earth, had suddenly
opened under the feet of its occupants, and amid sounds
and sights which the mind shrinks from realizing, had
given place to a shapeless mass of wood and iron and
scalded and shattered human bodies. In the course of
that fatal five minutes a badly caulked joint, a defective
plate, something unknown, and destined perhaps to re-
main for ever unknown, converted the boiler into an in-
strument of the most fearful destruction, and made the
expansiveriess of the vapour which it contained the cause
of ruin, agony and sudden death."
Nor can we recall a year sp awfully signalized by man-
slaughters, murders and suicides, to say nothing of rail-
road slaughters. Read the record of a single day, and
that too the death-knell of a single journal.
" Miss Emily A. Post died from the treatment she re-
ceived from Dr. Perry and Mrs. Buskirk." Ah ! what a
sad tale is here told, and but the repetition of many and
many a like tragedy. And here who does not call up a
sad remembrance of the beautiful Alice Augusta Bowlsby,
and of others who grace or disgrace the annals of the
past.
Who can read these sickening records and not discern
the handiwork of man's inveterate foe ? Sad memorials
these of what sin and Satan can do with a world that was
once Eden, and which, by the regenerating power of One
stronger than he, shall become more than an Eden.
Here we leave his Satanic Majesty for the present, still
at work, and ever at work, and never more busily, ener-
getically, stealthily and determinedly than at the present
writing, and all this becausd he knows his time is short.
XXIV.
YET LATER DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE
DEVIL IN NEW YORK.
THE GREAT ASSASSINATION — FISK, STOKES AND THEIR CON-
FEDERATES — THE PROFANATION OF THE SABBATH ; OPEN-
ING LIBRARIES — WAR UPON THE BIBLE — UPON OUR
COMMON SCHOOLS — FRAUDS, DISHONESTY, LICENTIOUS-
NESS NO DISGRACE — THE REIGN OF A LICENTIOUS LITER-
ATURE — THE END OF THE DEVIL, AND WHAT OF IT.
But we may not take leave of the hero of our tale
quite yet. We had hoped he had, in his late antics in
our great metropolis, reached a kind of climacteric, and
that he would rest a little. But alas! his disquieted
spirit knows no rest. As he roamed up and down in the
earth, he found no such faithful allies as those in old
Gotham. All is moving on, events are thickening, a
crisis is approaching, and our arch enemy is on the alert
to seize an advantage or forestall a disaster. His plots,
stratagems, machinations, are devised and executed with
redoubled craft and virulence. The death record in the
City of New York the last year (1871) tells a tale of Sa-
tanic triumph not to be mistaken : Deaths by violence,
1,S14, viz., 851 killed by accident — 105 suicides — 106
dead bodies of infants found — 179 dead bodies found in
the rivers around the city, stabbed, mutilated and other-
wise injured.
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The new year commenced with a tragedy nearer akin
to the nether world than anything which preceded it.
It is now Devil against Devil — a family feud — two pro-
mising scions playing the assassin one upon the other.
In a freak to do an unusually devilish act and outdo him-
self, he instigates one of his faithful servants to become
the murderer of another yet more faithful.
The late sensation in New York (where Satan's seat is)
has roused us to a fresh conception of his terrific reign
there. But if Satan be divided against himself how shall
he stand ? ** Every kingdom divided against itself is
brought to desolation." Hence a gleam of hope that the
colossal Tammany domination is undermined and must
ere long come to grief. The diabolical act of a confederate
in sin, in murderously taking the life of James Fisk, Jr.,
who outraged all honesty and purity, waged a deadly
war on all our social and domestic relations and commer-
cial interests, startled the whole nation. Confederates
in life, they will not be long separated in death — the one
by the assassin's revolver, the other by the hangman's
rope (if there be any majesty in law.)
Whether we recall the relations of these two notorious
actors to one another, or their unenviable character and
position in society, we cannot mistake the brand of Cain
on both. James Fisk, Jr., wicked, bold, shameless, un-
scrupulous in all the ways and means of getting wealth,
and that even without a blush of shame, and infamous
among all decent people, falls a victim to a notorious rival
in fraud and profligacy. With the enterprise of a burglar,
the daring of a pii te and the desperation of a gambler,
Fisk had heaped up riches. Wealth had given him power,
and such was the exercise of that power, that Bench, Bar
and Legislature were at times subject to his control. "A
proprietor of railroads, steamboats and theatres, and of
judges and bad men; a profligate debauchee, rolling in os-
tentatious, dishonest wealth and luxury, defying public
opinion and lost to every sense of shame, he became no-
A FEARFUL RETRIBUTION.
469
torious and infamous" in the eyes of all honest and busi-
ness men.
" We regard Jim Fisk, Jr.," says another, " as a walk-
ing pestilence while he lived, his death by the hand of a
wilful murderer as a fearful retribution — not a word to
mitigate the abhorrence which such a life as his awakened
in every upright soul." But, says some apologist, he had
a kind heart. Was that a kind heart that could daily
insult decency and propriety by his company on the
avenue and in the Park ? Has the habitual swindler, the
defrauder, the repudiator of his bargains when likely to
fail, a kind heart ? But worse than his ill-gotten gains,
and his tawdry show, was " the gross immorality of his
life, which he took no pains to conceal. Not content
with showing off his ill-gotten wealth, he flaunted his
vices in the face of the community with an utter con-
tempt for public opinion, and it is a remarkable instance
of retribution that he came to his end from the rivalries
and jealousies of his dissolute companions."
Bloody and wicked as was the deed by whichHhis
bold, bad man was cut down in his profligacy and shame,
there is in the public conscience a fitness of the termi-
nation of his career. " The wicked is drawn away in his
wickedness." " Thus far shalt thou go and no further."
" Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their
days." " The wicked shall fall by his own wickedness."
Such a career, if it end not in an untimely death, is
pretty sure to terminate in financial disaster and perso-
nal humiliation.
Disgusting as such a career must ever appear to all
reflecting people, yet, as an example of apparent pecuniary
success, how disastrous is its influence on aspiring young
men. He was envied by thousands who saw him appa-
rently prospering in his wickedness, as if wealth were
alone the road to distinction and honour. While in the
very gush of a life of unparalleled fraud, and of the most
shameless dissipation and profligacy, and as the natural
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fruit of his own corrupt life, he is publicly assassinated
in a hotel, by a friend, an associate in knavery and com-
panion and rival in profligacy. The murderer of Fisk was
a wicked man — a befitting agent to perpetrate the foul
deed confided to his hands by their common master. He
had a wife and child whom he had forsaken to pursue
the slimy footsteps of a wicked woman.
We shall hazard no definite speculation here on the
policy of the Devil in instigating one faithful ally to the
murder of another yet more faithful. Wise as the Devil
is conceded to be, he has been known before to make mis-
takes, to commit blunders, and work against himself.
The act itself was worthy its original, but we do not
quite comprehend its policy. Why was Fisk stricken
down while yet in the very zenith of his strength and
glory in the service of his liege lord ? In vain we look
around for the man who, by tact, corruption, satanic sa-
gacity and unbounded activity, can fill the place of James
Fisk, Jr. The leaders of Tammany Ring, each in his
own sphere, has rendered invaluable service to their mas-
ter, and has not failed of a " Well done, good and faith-
ful servant." But neither of these could make a Fisk.
He seemed to unite in one, more of the attributes of his
master than any mere man of modem days. Youth,
hope, vigour, great acuteness and quickness of intellect on
his side, with subtlety, corruption and unbounded un-
scrupulousness, James Fisk, Jr., stood pre-eminent and
alone in a choice portion of his master's vineyard. And
who, among the multitude of aspirants for such honours,
shall fill the vacancy now made?
Yet how shall we account for it that one loyal subject
should wilfully murder another not less loyal? Were
they not children of the same father, united by the ties
of brotherhood, heirs to the same destiny, and each in
his sphere loyal to the same master ? And why did this
master suffer such damage to be inflicted in the sanctum
of his own household ? Is there no loyalty to that king,
3sinated
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RED CLOUD, THB ORATOR SIOUX CHIEF, AT WASHINGTON, PMADINQ FOR JUSTICE
TO HIS PEOPLE AND PROTECTION FROM THE WHITK CHRISTIAN DEMORALIZATION
AND PLUNDKR. ...-.'HiL.
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471
no subordination to that master, no reverence to that
father ? Possibly there is discord there— envyings, jeal-
ousies, hate, revenge — Devil against Devil, to get rid of a
rival.
And no wonder if the children of him who is the father
of lies, the " deceivableness of uurighteousness," should
be too much like their father, always to live in harmony.
In the case in question a little feud arose, a little family
rupture, a corroding jealousy about an abandoned woman,
and the revolver pronounced the dire decision. Paternal
regard is overruled, paternal rule is disregarded, mutual
interests are fatally perilled, and brother murders brother.
It is a " happy family " no more.
And do you not hear that wail ? It is from beneath.
The hosts of hell are moved. Tammany is in tears.
Tweed weeps. The scores of thousands, if not the
hundreds of thousands who congregated to pay a final
homage to the victim of his own lusts, do but testify
to the consternation felt at the terrific deed and to the
deep-seated and wide-spread corruption of the Tammany
rule.
Yet James psk, Jr., was not so low sunk in moral
turpitude that he has not found a biographer to per-
petuate his brilliant deeds. Such a volume is published
and open to the perusal of every young man who
would follow in his distinguished career. One reviewer
has expressed, in a single sentence, the opinion of every
pure and honest man in the land : " It is a worthless,
tawdry biography of a worthless, tawdry rascal."
[* The state of demoralization prevailing all over the
Union is to the right-minded, reflecting citizen, most ap-
palling. Murders everywhere, and the murderers almost
always screened under various pretexts. It is only neces-
sary that the criminal possess wealth^ — have wealthy or
influential friends, and he or she may laugh at law. Take
* Added to Canadian Edition.
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the following case, from the Topeka (Kansas) Common-
ivealth, as a sample of the state of society generally :
" William Taylor, a quiet, industrious man of colour in
Dodge City^ Kansas, earned his living as a public
carter. Six valiant drunken roysterers, finding Tay-
lor's mules and waggon standing at a door, at once
treat themselves to a free excursion at Taylor's expense.
When he remonstrates, these brave white citizens shoot
one of his mules. In reply to his further remonstrance,
the whole six empty their revolvers into the man himself
This not finishing the work, they follow up with kicks and
blows till their victim lies a lifeless corpse on the public
street. Yet, although this Dodge City, or Fort Dodge, is
under military rule, these free and enlightened citizens,
and twice as many more like them, walk at large, none
daring or caring to say them nay." And this from the Axis-
tin (Texas) Journal : — " Between the 1st and 10th of
May, 1873, a party consisting of, say half a dozen, more
or less, visited a camp of workmen on the railroad (Texas
Pacific) twenty m'^es north of Jefferson, in a state of in-
toxication, headed by a Mr. Porter, an old citizen of Cass
County. Mr. Porter, the leader, commenced an attack
on a negro man, who, the bystanding white man said
to Mr. Porter, was a peaceable and unoffending man. The
negro pushed Mr. Porter off and kept out of his way. At
this Mr. Porter took great offence, but, not consider-
ing himself suflSciently strong, went back home, recruited
his party, and returned in a day or so, and found the
duties of the negro as a labourer had caused him to change
to a camp some miles distant on the railroad. Thither
Mr. Porter and his increased force followed, finding the
negro engaged at his labour. Porter assumed to be sheriff,
and the others of the party, subordinates, took the negro
prisoner, bound him fast, opened his eyes and spat in them
tobacco juice, confined him fast to one of the horses, started
off at a fast gait, compelling him to keep up or drag ; or-
dered the negro to bow humbly to every white man they
met
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met on the road, and on the streets of a town through
which they passed en route. Proceeding on their way to
a spot sufficiently retired for their diabolical purposes,
they confined the coloured man between two small trees,
so placing him that he could only move his head. Thus
located, they deliberately proceeded to make a cross on his
forehead by incision with a knife, and then scalped their
victim. After thus inflicting on him all the torture of
which they were capable, they retired a few paces and
finished their barbarous work by shooting several loads
of ammunition into his exposed and defenceless body.
After thus cruelly accomplishing their work, they threw
the lifeless body into a stream of water convenient to the
scene of action. Thus ended this bloody tragedy, com-
mitted in the open light of day, under a pretended cover
of law, and in open defiance of the civil authorities. The
perpetrators had not, at last accounts, been arrested. The
above occurrence took place within thirty miles of the
City of Jefferson, one of the largest cities of Texas, and a
county settled some quarter of a century. It is stated
that the perpetrators were composed of old citizens of the
County of Cass, in which the transaction occurred."]
But we may not Zoca^i^e these fearful eruptions of satanic
outbursts. They are but too characteristic of the wide-
spread worldliness, greed for riches, love of pleasure, and
reign of fashion, licentiousness and defiance of law, a reck-
less disregard of human life, and loose notions of the mar-
riage relations. AU these are but too indicative of the
ruling demon of the land. As some one very significantly
asks : " What is the soil that generates such abnormal
growths of iniquity ? What is the atmosphere that
nourishes these moral monsters ? But yesterday the
Tammany Ring and the Erie Ring dominated City and State,
and openly challenged the power of the nation. They had
friends, parasites, henchmen. They lived in pleasure and
wantoned in open, shameless vice. They boasted their
crimes, and made a merit of their rascalities. And while
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setting at defiance all virtue and all law, human and di-
vine, they still received the homage of multitudes who
regard success, however gained, as the best of all that is
desirable in human life ! "
With all our detestation of the outrages perpetrated by
the bad men whose careers we have now in view, we can-
not blame them as the only great sinners in our composite
community. They were representative men. They ex-
emplified in their conduct the operation of sentiments,
opinions, and principles which of late have gained an
alarming ascendency, and unless that ascendency be
broken, we shall continue to have a succession of men in
the political and commercial worlds whose art will be
employed in prostituting honour, truth, and integrity in
the dust.
We cannot be supposed to have any sympathy for the
deed of murder. Nor is there a well-balanced mind that
dare applaud the mean and cowardly act of an assassin.
And yet the tragic fate that in one way or another has
overtaken the bold, bad men who had made a league
of fraud against the rights and welfare of the public,
proves how true it is that the wicked are snared in their
own net, and provide methods to ensure their own down-
faU.
Let us hope that this last additional opening of the
abyss will enable many hitherto blind to perceive how
certain it is that they who " sow the wind shall reap the
whirlwind."
" We weave the mystic web of life
With colours all our own,
And in the field of destiny
We reap as we have sown."
[* Americans are a money-loving and a money-making
people. Does it ever strike any of them how much it
costs to make money ? For example, the lust of wealth
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CHARACTER OF THE AMERICANS.
475
ew, we cau-
se overrides every other consideration in this country that
fraud in trade is the rule, instead of the exception. We
poison all our provisions witli adulterations. We poison
even our drugs with cheaper material. We sell shoddy
for wool. We sell veneering for solid wood. We make
abominable messes and call it wliisky. We make
horrible rolls of nastiness and call them cigars. We
build wretched shells of bad brick and bad mortar
and green wood, and call them houses. We rob and cheat
each other all round, and in every trade and business, and
we are all so bent on making money that we have not
time or inclination to protest against even the most palpa-
ble frauds, but console ourselves when we discover that
we have been imposed upon by going forth and swindling
somebody else. We pay a heavy price for our national
idiosyncrasy. We kill each other quicker than is at all
necessary. We pay two or three prices for very inferior
articles, as a rule. We spend much money and get
very little in return, and we are rapidly destroying our
national sense of honesty and integrity. In those be-
nighted and slavish countries which are ruled by
monarchs, they contrive to live a great deal cheaper,
and a good deal better than we can. There, fraud
is regarded as criminal, and the impostor when de-
tected is punished severely. There, tricks of trade are
looked upon as swindles, and are treated as such. There,
honest weights and measures are used. There, woe betide
the contractor or architect who shall put up a house in
American fashion. There, commercial transactions are
based upon fair dealing, and the merchant and trader who
should be caught in an openly dishonest scheme would be
ostracized, if not proceeded against legall3\ But those
are Old Fogy countries, the people of which know nothing
about liberty ; who have no Fourth of July, or Wall
Street, or codfish or shoddy aristocracies ; and who do
not recognize the fact that the right to life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness (which means money), entitles every
man to cheat his neighbour, and bars redress.]
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'. But we should find no end of recounting the domgs of this
Srince of darkness. Till that angel shall come down from
eaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great
chain in his hand, and shall lay hold on the dragon, that old
serpent which is the Devil and Satan, and shall bind him
and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up and
set a seal upon him, he will go up and down in the earth,
seeking whom he may devour.
We will trace his foot-prints for a moment in his viru-
lent yet more subtle attacks on the Sabbath ; on our
common schools ; in his devices to make some of the most
flagrant sins fashionable, and so venial; in Darwinism, and
the idea that crime is a disease, physical, mental, moral.
Much that is trumped up as progress, is but moral retro-
gression. The Devil has turned reformer, that he may the
more effectually vitiate all true reform. He has be-
come especially interested in matters pertaining to the
Church, that he may make men and women bow to the
shrine of pride, and fashion and mammon — not only that
he may dupe his blind votaries to the peril of their own
souls, but that he may shut out the " poor to whom the
gospel is preached."
But what attracts our more especial attention just at
the present moment is the late assault on the Sabbath, in
the form of opening public libraries and art galleries on
Sunday. This recent invasion on the sanctity of the
Lord's day claims for itself certain specious apologies —
yet the more plausible and subtle the more dangerous.
It may be it will ever and anon reclaim a stray young
man from the more flagrant Sabbath desecration, and
gather him into the library, the Academy of Design, or the
common Art Gallery, and make him a more specious
transgressor. But will it not draw five to one from the
church and Sabbath school ? There are plenty of the
latter who only want the sanction of the pulpit and the
press, or rather of public sentiment, and they would be
very ready to exchange the sober realities of the sanctuary
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477
for the freedom of tbe library or the excitement of the art
gallery.
And if the library be open, then (as a large class of
moralists will demand) why not the picture gallery, the
concert hall, the opera-house and the theatre ? And how
short and easy would be the transition, and plausible the
demand that the dance-house and the race-course should
have conceded to them the same freedom. All are places
of amusement — and some say of instruction. France has
tried it, and we have no doubtful evidence of the result.
In Paris the experiment had the freest play uader the
second empire. To please the masses, all the picture gal-
leries were thrown open on Sunday, and so were the
theatres and other places of amusement. In due time,
and as a natural sequence, " the excitement of the tuif "
and civil elections came to be added to the routine of the
day, which by this time had become little else than a day
of recreation and sensual indulgence. But what a finale !
Heaven's indignation slumbered not. The religious sen-
timent was eaten out of the popular heart, and it left a
prey to the " seven worse spirits " that came and " found
it swept and garnished."
Is this the kind of history we would have repeat itself
in our country ? We have Communists, numerous and
defiant. They are even now demanding of the municipal
government, as a "right," the occupancy of the City Hall,
the city courts and other public buildings on Sunday, for
what they call " free discussion." This granted, these free
discussions might in time become a little too free for our
free country.
But there is something involved here besides the dissi-
pation of Sunday pleasure-seeking. Other parties are
concerned. Service must be rendered — work must be
done, which not only conflicts with the divine command,
but necessitates the labours of many who might otherwise
be glad to respect the Sabbath. There must be janitors,
librarians, ticket agents and helpers and assistants of
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different grades. And what better this than to lay
bricks on the Sabbath, or dig ditches or guide the plough ?
And near akin are Sunday excursions — jaunts into the
country and their consequent recreations and amuse-
ments. One may as well laugh over Don Quixote or
Artemus Ward in a pleasant grove, as in the public
library.
AJl these things mean the reproduction in this country
of the German — or, what is worse, the French — idea of the
Sabbath. And compared with this, all the evils connected
with our foreign immigration fade into insignificance.
The ignorant we may hope to enlighten, the subjects of
foreign despotism to republicanize, and to liberalize the
deluded votaries of the Papacy. But if they are allowed
to secularize our Sabbath, and convert it from a day of
sacred rest, of div.ae worship and holy instruction, to a
day of pleasure and amusement, we may despair of
heaven's favour upon us as a free, Christian people. No-
thing so surely entails upon a nation the malediction of
heaven as the desecration of the Sabbath.
Again, it is a favourite device of Satan to gild over sin —
to take away its deformity and make it fashionable. If
men and women in high life desecrate the Sabbath — if
magistrates and men of high social position, and perhaps
members of the Church, will defraud and embezzle and
betray a sacred trust, how is the public conscience demo-
ralized, and the standard of virtue and common honesty
prostrate in the dust ! Of this we have had no doubtful
proof in our own recent history. The gigantic frauds and
embezzlements in high places in our great metropolis
made rascalities, which were once looked upon as disgrace-
ful and scandalous, popular in all our great cities and
throughout the land. And so of o ^her sins, even of those
of the most flagrant type. Fashion divests them of de-
formity, and even makes them fascinating.
And a yet bolder attempt is made to screen sins the
most enormous, and crimes the most heinous, from all
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479
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connected
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honesty
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ities and
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sins the
from all
guilt. It is the modern device of treating crime asinsanity.
Some of the most daring crimes and outrageous violations
of all right and justice, have failed of their retribution on
this very plea. What think we of law, of courts and
judges, who thus prostrate all law and all justice ? Let
this idea once prevail and no crime need fear punishment,
no transgression a penalty. Our jails, prisons, and peni-
tentiaries would at once pour out on a defenceless commu-
nity hordes of thieves, robbers, murderers, the vilest of
the vile. For cunning craftiness we know not a more
hellish device than this. It is license unrestrained for
every crime. What next 'i
When contemplating, as we have done, the ruins of sin
and the riotings of Satan, we are led to exclaim, ' How
long, O Lord, how long ? " Is there no deliverance ?
Shall this beautiful earth lie under the curse for ever ?
Shall the noble creature, man, made in God's own image,
made but a little lower than the angels, for ever remain
the merest wreck of his high original — the bond-slave of
sin, the dupe of the Devil ? Shall the whole creation
groan and travail in pain for ever? We hope better
things. We already hail the star of promise. Gleams of
light are already seen upon the dark cloud that appears
before the dawn. We clip from the " Watchman and
Reflector" the following paragraphs, which go to illus-
trate the hope expressed. It is entitled ** Phases of the
Times:"
" Times have their phases — phases in the days of Moses
or of Solomon, of Csesar, of the great Napoleon —
'Down the ringing grooves of change.'
" I. Our times are times of mental activity. Carlyle
thinks faster than did Plato in his garden of the Aca-
demy ; the 'Autocrat' here with us, than Cicero in his
Tusculanum villa. High schools are now what universi-
ties once were. Books are more numerous now than were
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reeds in the Nile for papyrus, or strips of parchment, sub-
sequently, in all Europe. Inventions, discoveries, strange
appliances tread close upon discoveries, inventions, appli-
ances, till you wonder, not at what is, but in conjecturing
what is to be. Nothing hid is hidden too deep for in-
vestigation ; nothing remote is too far off; clear up to the
north pole.
'* II. The times are times of violonce and rascalities.
The war is charged with these, out war or peace, they are
upon us. Violence is not contined to the bloody South —
rascalities are everywhere : defalcations, malfeasance in
office, frauds, embezzlements, forgeries, tricks of trade,
smuggling, adulterations, combinations in the gold market
and the stock market, bribery — these are some of the
names and the things.
" III. The times are times of extravagance and indul-
gence. ^Families lose tibre and strength — many a son and
daughter are ruined. Then, fair women sweep the dirty
pavement with their rich dresses, a thing they do not
dream of doing in the birthplace of the fashions.
" IV. The times are times of religious daring and infi-
delity. People at large, children, young men and maidens,
have learned to handle sacred things very roughly. Boys
and girls settle and unsettle ministers. It is the ambition
of many a German scholar to crowd into existence one
more new scheme of interpretation of Scripture, or a re-
adjustment of a particular book of Scripture, not unlikely
to force forward a notion whose startling merit it is that
it cannot possibly be true. At times the preacher, so
called, is an infidel man clearly, and verily * takes the
stump.' Infidelity is thrust in your face as the autho-
rized gospel.
" V. The times are times of great improvement and gain
to religion. Consistently with all that has gone before, I
believe that the world is a better world at this moment
than when the sun came up this morning, A quicker un-
derstanding of these bad things, our being all alive to them,
THE GOOD TIME COMING*
481
is proof of progrcs. The light it is that makes us to
know the darkness. Mighty forces are lodged with the
churches of Christ, and are at work. A kingdom there is
that is to dominate. Collateral hel[)s are all abroad, and
the great currents of human destiny do set in the right
direction, but, under God, the gold in California and dia-
monds in Africa; cotton in one country and the spinning
power in the other ; steam on their track and on the
track of ocean and river ; electric wires over the land and
under the depths of the sea; rumours of war and vc.y
battles ; pestilence in Persia and tornadoes of lire in
America; Mormonism and Mohammedanism; end)assies
from old China and old Japan, and the killing of Chinese
in this newest land ; " the infallibility of the Pope " and
the sure fallibility of the Pope ; the going ahkoad of
THE MISSIONARY and the staying at home of the misan-
thrope — all hasten the day of deliverance and of victory.
We can now forecast how the glad earth is to rise in her
green and sunshine beauty of holiness to the Lord, as she
did not so certainly rise at first, a stony, watery, black-
ened, uninhabitable mass. The time of the end is not yet,
not yet, but the time of the end shall come."
"Yes, the time of the end shall come. Already do we
hear the " sound of a going in the tops of the muiberry-
trees." It is the Lord going out before us to smite the
" hosts of the Philistines." Our enemy is doomed. His
strongholds are undermined. His empire on the earth
must end. A stronger than Tie has come, " w^^o shall
overcome him and take away from him all the armour
wherein he trusted, and divide his spoils." An open
Bible, a free press, benevolent and reformatory organi-
zations of every name and for every purpose, a host of
Christian evangelists scattered through every land, and
all the resources, facilities and elements of moral pro-
gress furnished by our modern Christian civilization — all
give cheering assurance that earth's redemption draweth
near.
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482
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
Christ's mission on earth was to "destroy works of the
Devil." Consequently every inroad made by the Gospel,
every Bible translated into another tongue, every truth
preached, every convert made, every Church organized,
is a direct invasion on the empire of Satan.
Christ, as Immanuel, entered the battle-field of a long-
contested war. From the first revolt of the great apostate,
"there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels,
and that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called
the Devil, and Satan. He was cast out into the earth, and
his angels were cast out with him." And being driven
out and exiled from heaven, and banished to this planet
we call earth, he took possession, set up his standard and
became (by usurpation) the god of this world. And how
he has monopolized and subsidized to his vile purposes
the great elements of power that govern the world
— wealth, intellect, education, the press, civil govern-
ments and religion, manners, customs, habit and fashion
— everything which controls the mind and the heart, we
have essayed to illustrate in the preceding pages.
From Adam to Christ there was no cessation of hostili-
ties. So universal was his empire that his dominion was
almost undisputed. On the advent of Christ, the right-
ful "heir" and king, though he knew that Christ had
" come to his own," yet he met him (in the " wilder-
ness ") and boldly claimed as his own " all the kingdoms
of the world," and challenged Christ's allegiance, as if by
this magnificent bribe he might retain the supremacy.
But here he received the " deadly wound." From this
point the " proud waves were stayed," and the floods of
iniquity which he had rolled over the world began to be
turned back. From that eventful moment when Jesus
said, " Get thee hence, Satan," to the present hour, his
empire on the earth has been on the wane. And the
" sure word of prophecy " for it, that Christ shall ride
forth conquering and to conquer, till he shall put out of
I.
THE WEALTH OF THE CHURCH.
483
the way and for ever destroy all the kingdoms and do-
minions, principalities and powers of Satan. Every ad-
vancement of the kingdom of Christ, every inroad of the
Gospel, is a sure prognostic of the approaching downfall
of earth's great adversary. And no one can contemplate
the progress already made by the Gospel, the facilities and
present resources of the Church for a yet more speedy
progress, and not take courage that the day of earth's
redemption is near. Railways, telegraphs, steamboats, the
great increase of wealth in the Church, the progress of
science, and the gift of tongues, are the ready agencies of
the aggressive host — winged messengers to the ends of the
earth.
Were the Master now to visit his possessions, he would
not be compelled, as of old, to take up the lamentation,
" The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests,
but the Son of man has not where to lay his head." (Matt.
viii. 20.) Tentmakers and fishermen are no longer the
bankers of Zion. To-day she owns the cattle upon a thou-
sand hills, the golden har\ests of a million fertile fields.
She has, also, her manufactories, her shops, her mills, her
market-places, her banks, her stores, in ten thousand vil-
lages, towns and cities. Her ships, likewise, are on every
sea, her silks and teas and furs and precious stones in all
the ends of the earth. The islands are sending her gifts.
Seba and Sheba are yielding to heri^heir gold. And what
means this ? Nothing beyond the simple fact that the
people of Christ are becoming " rich and increased in
goods." Make no such mistake. Already the Master is
annually employing million after million of his earthly
treasures for the furtherance of his earthly interests. As
the end approaches, not a farthing will accumulate in the
hands of his servants which shall not be in active circula-
tion for his glory.
But " let no man deceive you by any means, for that
day shall not come except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who
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TIIR KOOT-PHINTS OF HATAN.
i
(ipposctli and oxaltt^th Ininsolf nhovM* nil Mutt isrHlKMi (Jud,
or timt is worHliipjUHl." " 'I'liis know also timt in tlu* Ijtst
days piM'ilons times .sliall coinc." " V'un'y iriiilH rIuiII try
you - «j^i(>at triludatiimM, hucIj as wcro not from tho lu'f^in-
ning ot* tho world, no, nor (»vor sliall bo."
As tho fiold narrows, as tho stroii^^diolds of Sf»t*<n arc,
ono aftor anothor, oaptnrod, thci mon) will ho (M)ncontrato
liis forcoH and tho liottor will bo tho linal battlo. Tho
noaror tho victory, tho moro tlosporato tho onsot of tho
foo. Whon tho armios of onr nuMliatorial kin^ shall put
on their strength, coiu'ontrato tluu. foroos and oloso up
thoir ranks — whon tho king hiniHolf shall gird on his
sword, ready for tlu^ linal battlo, tho onomy shall bo
aroused to make his last d(>sporato onslaught. And tho
more do8j)orato his condition tho moro deadly will bo tho
iight.
Pleasant as has been tho driMim that tho sapping and
mining process of tlnj Gospel shall go on, undermining
ono stronghold after another, tho onomy quietly retiring
and yielding a })eacoful possession to the invading host —
that the glory of the milletinial morn will gently arise upon
tho "sea of glass," spread (uit in beautiful contrast to tho
darkness, the vstorms and temp(\sts of this distorted earth,
yet the word of unerring truth teaches us, and tho well-
known character and antecedents of our inveterate foe
atlnionish us that ho Avill not yield tho final ])osse.ssion
— oven the forlorn hope of all further empire, without
such a battle as he never I'ought before. The Devil will
die hard.
This accords with the teachings of tho inspired Word.
Of the several notices of tho groat and final battlo that
shall precede the ushering in of tho millennial glory, we
need refer to but a single one. It is denominated the
" slaying of the witnesses." (Hev. xi.) This eventful con-
flict most ob'iously follows tho groat success of tho Gospel,
which heralds the no distant approach of tho millennium
— tho no doubtful conquest of the world for Christ.
VKrroilY IN HKF.MFNCJ DMKKAT.
485
" Wli(^n Mn^y «lin,Il ]\i\y/{) JiiKiftfird fhrirfrnHwn7iy, ih(\h(\iiHi,
tlint nH('(Mi(l(itli onl. (»!' Mm lioltomlcsH pit, hIijiII inak(? wmt
ii^jiiiist Uicm arul kill ilicm." 'I'lio ovcrtJirow i« HorrFi-
in;,'ly comploin aini (iiinl — ji(l('Hp»'nii(MM)nlli('.t of tlio hcvil
a!»(l IiIh hoytH, i?iH(,ijjjnt,(M|, ir»riitini«Ml J»y tho Iat«^ triiunpliM
of ( 'liriHtianity, and tho no doubtful pr(jHa,^'(3 of a linal
triuuipl).
Ju.st attlic cris'iM wIkui tlio HJicTaiiKJtital liost aro luarcli-
iu^ on, vvitli hanncM'H unfurhul, to final victory, tin; IxuiHt
from tlio bottomless pit, and Ids (lonHMlcrfitcd liosts of
niodorn iididclity and sin, make, war upon tli(!m arid ov(!r-
como tlj(!m. A strikitig typ«3 of tliis w(; liav(i in tho (kind-
ly assault nijuh^ on tho ohoson tril)08 at tlio Hod S(!a.
Aftor tlioir wonchirful (lolivorano(\ they triumphjintly sot
thoir fatsos towards tho pronnscMl land, with nono to molost.
But when thi^y suppostid all dan^'(;r p'lst, thoy won;
sud(hMdy confrontod by a moro formidablo onomy thnn
over boforo. Nothing soomod to await thoni but discrom-
fituro and uttor (hvstruction. It was (as we anti(!ipato in
tho antotypo) tlio thiok darknoss that [)rccodoH tlio (hiwn.
Tho identity of tho typo and antotypo is beautifully ap-
parent in the wordin^r of tho triumphal song, sung over
tlie final victory of the Churoli and tho overthrow of lior
hist enoniy. It is tho " song of Moses arixl of tlie Lamii."
Tho instance adduced is sustained by others referring
to the same groat event. Again, John saw tho " spirits of
devils working miracles and going forth to the kings of
tho earth and to tho whole woi'ld, to gather them to the
battle of tho great day of God Almiglity." And after the
seeming and temporary triumph of the enemy, and the
unexpected and final triumph of the groat king and Im-
manuel, tho angel comes down with the key of tho
bottomless pit and a groat chain in his liand, and he lays
hold on the drngon, that old serpent which is the Devil
and Satan, and casts him into the bottomless pit, and sets a
seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more.
And HEllE WE LEAVE HIM.
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XXV.
THE REMEDY.
"THE RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS" — THE CONQUEROR
AND THE FINAL AND COMPLETE CONQUEST — THE USURPER
DEPOSED AND CAST OUT FOR EVER — THE EARTH RENEWED
— THE RUINS OF THE FALL REPAIRED — EDEN RESTORED
— PARADISE REGAINED — THE UNIVERSAL REIGN OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PEACE.
" Where sin abounded, grace did {or shall) much more
abound ; that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so
might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life,
by Jesus Christ our Lord." — Rom. v. 20, 21.
Having disposed of the Devil— .^ least for a thousand
years — the query very naturally arises, What next ? With
the great deceiver, corrupter and tempter has passed away
every evil humanity is heir to — intemperance, fraud and
licentiousness ; violence, murder, suicide and war ; the per-
version of money and mind, of the press and the tongue ;
despotism, oppression and the direst perversion of every
good thing.
We have seen what our Enemv hath done — what have
been the sore ravages of sin — how it has " abounded," how
reigned, how spread its desolation everywhere — ^how it
has assailed the throne of God, raised rebellion in heaven,
THE WORST OF SIN.
487
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cast out a " third part of heaven's sons," and reserved them
in chains of darkness unto the great day. It hiid our once
beautiful and ha])])y world in ruins, covered it with de-
formity, woe, lamentation and death. It has cast his dark
mantle over the face of society, beneath whose sickly
shade every social virtue droops.
It has laid man in ruins. The noble structure of his
body is marred, deranged, disorganized, enfeebled by ex-
cess and disease — the direct fruits of sin — and is finally
demolished by death. His mental constitution is so
completely fibused and demoralized, so vitiated and de-
based that it remains but little else than the miserable
wreck of its once noble original. And his moral confor-
mation is still more distorted. It was here that God
stamped on man liis own image. It was in his moral
features that he bore a likeness to his God. But so mar-
red had he become by sin, that, with an angel's ken, you
would look almost in vain to trace a lineament of his god-
like original. Before he sinned he shone in moral beauty,
the delight of his God, but no sooner did he touch the ac-
cursed thing than his glory departed. From the crown of
his head to the sole of his feet was nothing but deformity
— " wounds and bruises and putrefying sores."
But it is in the soul, the immortal soul, that sin has
made his sorest ravages. • You cannot look amiss to read
the appalling fact that sin everywhere abounds unto death.
It has laid the soul in ruins.
Not only has sin thus abounded unto death, and
abounded in its workings of death, but it hath reigned
unto death. It has well nigh secured universal empire.
It has enslaved the entire race in bondage from the fear
of death, and then commissioned the king of terrors to exe-
cute the dread mandate, " to dust thou shalt return" Nor
has the reign of him that had the power of sin ceased
when he has dissolved man's earthly fabric. His might-
iest, deadliest triumphs are reserved for the disembodied
spirit. There sin shall reign and riot for ever. He
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488
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
Bhcall cast the wretched minions of his power into the pri-
son of everlasting darkness and bind them in chains of
eternal fire.
But is there^no remedy ? Shall not this in-rolling tide
of iniquity be turned back ? Shall sin reign and riot on
human happiness, and trample down the noblest part
of man, and none be found to rescue the prey from the
power of the destroyer ? Is there no eye to pity, no arm
that can bring deliverance ? Sleeps the compassion of
Heaven ? Slumbers the arm of Omnipotence ? No ; the
lion of the tribe of Judah has prevailed. He has risen
up to shake terribly the earth. The prince of darkness
trembles on his throne. His empire is sapped in its found-
ations. He that rideth forth King of kings and Lord of
lords, conquering and to conquer, shall put down the
usurper, restore the ruins of the apostacy, reinstate the
earth and man in all their primeval beauty, holiness and
honour, claim his purchased inheritance, and reign forever.
And then shall the angels sing the triumphal eong of
" Paradise Regained."
" This world, over which Satan has lorded it so long,
and which for ages has laboured under the primal curse,
shall be regenerated. The time is coming when the mark
, of the beast shall nowhere be seen in all the earth,
when the trail of the serpent sha-ll nowhere appear in all
its borders, when no storm shall shake its bowers, no
earthquake disturb its repose, no blight descend on its
flowers, and when the sun shall look down with smiles
upon the fair bosom of regenerated nature. Yes, this
sin-cursed earth shall be redeemed. It shall be delivered
from the dominion of evil ; a new genesis shall overtake
it, it shall again be welcomed into the brotherhood of
worlds, with a shout louder and sweeter than that which
saluted its first advent in the f?kics." *
But " who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed
i . . . __—
* Rev. Thaddous Mollae's "Lectures on Satan."
THE GREAT DELIVERER.
489
[;:
nto the pri-
chain.s of
rolling tide
and riot on
oblest part
y from the
ity, no arm
npassion of
No ; the
e has risen
3f darkness
■ its found-
id Lord of
down the
instate the
3liness and
?n forever,
al eong of
it so long,
imal curse,
I the marlr
he earth,
pear in all
owers, no
5nd on its
th smiles
Yes, this
delivered
overtake
irhood of
at which
ith dyed
garments from Bozrah ? — this that is glorious in his ap-
parel, travelling in the greatness of his strength ?" He
answers : *' I that speak in righteousness, mighty to
save " — the great Deliverer. But " why art thou red in
thine apparel, and thy garments like unto him that tread-
eth in the wine-press ?" — "Why these marks of blood and
of severe toil on a person of so noble mien ?" He replies :
" I have trodden the wine-press alone, and of the people
there was none with me, for I will tread them in mine
anger, and trample them in my fury, ^'-nd their blood shall
be sprinkled on my garments, and I will stain all my rai-
ment. For the day of my vengeance is in my heart, and
the year of my redeemed is come." That is, with a holy
zeal for the honour of his Father and the happiness of
man, and a holy indignation at the impious and daring
attempts of Satan, the Lord Jesus Christ assailed Sat<an
and all his angels, and sin and all its adherents, and
treading them as in the wine-press of God's wrath, gained
a glorious victory over sin, and wrought out redemption
for man.
Much has he already done. Many a glorious victory
has he won. And his " apparel is still red and his gar-
ments stained with blood. ' He is going on from con-
quering to conquer. He will overturn and overturn, and
overturn till he whose right it is to reign shall come. This
is terribly expressed in the concluding part of the passage
already quoted : " I will tread down the people in mine
anger and make them drunk in mv fury, and I will bring
down their strength to the earth * — a dreadful prediction
of the final and complete overthrow of sin, and of all who
persevere in rebellion aganst the Great King.
Yes, blessed be God, there is a remedy ! There is a balm
in Gilead, there is a physician — one that is mighty to save
— the Great Deliverer. A gratuitious deliverance.
All progress of the gospel, all success of every s|)ecies of
reform, all increase oi light, knowledge, civilization and
civil liberty are but the sure triumphs of the truth and
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490
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
H
harbingers of the good time coming, prognostics of the
approaching end of Satan and his reign upon the earth,
and God and his government vindicated. Christ comes to
*'his own," is welcomed by his people, his empire on
earth is established, and all things, physical, social, intel-
lectual, moral and religious, are reinstated in their beauty,
utility and glory as they came from the hand of the per-
fect architect.
What, then, are we to look for as the final triumph of
grace through our Lord Jesus Christ ?
I. The first essential advance towards the "restitution"
in question is the setting right of an apostate race in their
relation to God and his government. Sin is rebellion, — a
casting off* of God, and an allegiance to the usurper.
The mission of Christ is one of reconciliation, to bring
men back to their rightful Sovereign. Sin has alienated
man from God, put enmity between Creator and creature,
cut off* communication between heaven and earth, and
unfitted us for companionship with holy beings. Grace
has repaired the breach — ^has brought us into covenant
with God — makes all who will come, children of God, yea,
heirs of God to an immortal inheritance — changes our re-
lations from enemies to friends, from aliens and rebels to
sons and heirs. It brings them who were afar off* into the
family of God, and gives them mansions in their Father's
house. It does more than to eff'ect a reconciliation between
God and min. It gives citizenship in heaven. It pro-
vides a Sanctijler, without which an Atoner would profit
nothing.
What then will the full realization of the work of atone-
ment by Christ, and of sanctification by the Spirit, do for
our apostate world ? It will undo what sin has done. It
will destroy the works of the Devil. It will turn away
the wrath of the Almighty, and remove the cause of man's
alienation from his God. Now accessible through the
atoning sacrifice, as a father he bids us approach him as
children. Redeemed man becomes the companion of an-
THE RESTITUTION.
491
ics of the
the earth,
' comes to
empire on
'ial, intel-
ir beauty,
the per-
iumph of
3titution"
'€> in their
ilJion,— a
usurper.
to bring
alienated
creature,
^rth, and
Grace
covenant
^od, yea,
i our re-
[ebeJs to
into the
Father's
between
It pro-
d proi5t
fatone-
k, do for
me. It
ti away
f man's
gh the
Sim as
of an-
gels as well as of just men made perfect. The grand bar-
rier — the otherwise impassable barrier, to man's recovery
from the fal^, is completely removed. God shall again
dwell with men. In the earthly paradise, restored to all
its primeval beauty, purity and loveliness, a fit habitation
for the everlasting residence of the saints, the " voice of
God shall again walk," as a loving father with his loyal
and loving children.
Indeed, it is only through Christ and his redeeming
work that we know God. We obtain through the volume
of nature the merest outlines of the character and the
works of God. His existence and his power, wisdom and
goodness are inscribed on all his works and ways. But
it is through God " as manifest in the flesh" that the
godhead is revealed unto men. It is only through the face
of Jesus of Nazareth that we see God who is invisible.
And only through the atoning blood of the Lamb of God
that we understand our true relations to God and to his
violated law, and his relation to us as the forgiving God.
The great wonder in the history of our world — and per-
chance of the universe, — is the mysterious union of the
divine justice and mercy in the scheme of redemption
through Jesus Christ. How could God vindicate his law
and yet treat as guiltless the transgressor ? This is the
theme of wonder, praise and adoration of the heavenly
hosts throughout eternity. This is what " angels desire
to look into." Hence the triumphal song when Christ
appeared as the babe of Bethlehem. It was, " Glory to
God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill towards
men."
II. What this great renovation, or " restitution of all
things," shall do for the world. We have seen what sin
has done — how it has laid the world in r lins — covered it
with thorns and briers — filled it with violence, fraud,
malice, murder and death, and made it the abode of
wretchedness and woe. It has filled the heart of man
with every furious and hurtful passion, and turned hJs
i-i
i:':
t ; *
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f
Mi
492
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
hand against liis fc^llow and his heart ap^ainst his (Jod.
It )ia,s cI()S(mI tlio lismdH of charity, (h'iod up tlio .stroiuns
of bonevolonce, tliwarttvl tlie kind dosignH of nliilanthropy^
and bound the world in the fro.sty chains of Hollislniess.
Grace enters as the great regenerator — to bring back tli(>
workl to its original purity, dignity and moral rectitude,
to its pristine beauty and liappiness. Christ conies to
eradicate the tliorn and the briar — to speak peace to the
warring elements of strife, to quell the voice of tumult,
to stay the hand of violence, to banish every corrodini,'
passion from the human breast, to bind all together by the
ties of a common brotherhood, and to evidence to all that
we are children of the same father, heirs of the same in-
heritance and c pectants of the same glory. Grace will
restore all that sin has taken away.
And what signs that the morning cdmeth have we in
the rapid extension of the gospel! How is the desert
ch.anged into the fruitful field and the wilderness into the
garden of the Lord ! The withering curse, whether in the
form of infidelity or idolatry, licentiousness or intempe-
rance, has spread, like a pestiferous sirocco, till it has
made our world little else than one great moral desert.
The gospel standard is set up against it. Nation after
nation has been reclaimed, till there are brought under the
benign sway of the gospel all the most enlightened, the
strongest, the most civilized and retined nations of the
earth. And of all the Pagan tribes that remain wedded
to their idols there is no considerable nation, the strength
of whose civil power is not broken and the vigour of whose
religious system is not decidedly on the wane. What has
done this ? It is doubtless the resistless encroachments
'•■f the gospel. It is the "t^tone cut out of the mountain
without hands," which, having " smote the image," shall
till the whole earth. The victorious banners already wave
over many a nation and many an island where fifty years
ago Satan reigned without a rival. And, if we may
judge from present prognostics, the day is not distant
TTIR DARK DAY fS COMINCJ.
493
kvhcn tlio triumphs of grace shall bo co-cxtciiHivo with
llho cartli.
111. But " let no man deceive you by any inennH, for that
iday .sliall not come except there come a fallirif^' away first,
and that man of sin he revealed, tlie Hon of ])erdition, wlio
'o{)|)oyet}i and exalteth himself above all that is called God,
or that is worshipped :is God, sitting in the temple of God,
sliowin<j^ himself that he is (Jod." " The mystery of in-
iquity doth already work : that Wicked shall be revealed
whom the Lord sliall consume with the spirit of his mouth,
and destroy with the l)rightness of his coming." A yet
darker day than the Church has yet seen must first come.
He that opposeth will arise in yet greater wrath, to strike
the last desperate blow. " His coming is after the work-
ing of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders,
and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness." " Evil
men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving
and being deceived." " This know, that in the last days
perilous times shall come." And then follows a catalogue
of sins, black and hideous, which shall characterize those
" last days." Again we hear of " mockers in the last time,"
of " scofiers, walking after their own lusts," and of the
"mystery of ini([uity." It will be a dark day — the great
and dreadful conflict that shall herald the glorious advent
of our King. It will be the thick darkness that precedes
the dawn of the millennial glory. Already we seeni to
see through that dark intervening cloud the speedy ap-
proach of a glorious day to Zion — the no distant triumph
of light over the power and prince of darkness. Come,
Lord Jesus, come quickly, for the ^yhole creation groaneth
and travaileth in pain, waiting deliverance from thee.
And more than this may we expect. We are promised
'A physical deliverance, a material renovation of this earth
which shall remove all Tia^ira^ evils, take away the thorn
and the briar, the desert, the earthquake and the tornado,
which shall repair the physical ruins of ^ho fall and re-
store the earth to its primeval, Eden state. The earth
I'l
4f)4
TIIK FOOT-rUINTH OF SATAN.
^
;
I
itself Hlmll bo rcii()\atcd niui beautifiod, sliall uiulorpfo a
cbniigo nnjilo^ous to tbat wliicli takes pinco in tbe Hi)iiitual
worUl. Tlio long and droa'y winter of nix thouHand years
Hbal) pass away. IMagues, d(»artliH, tenipoHts, famines sluill
be known no more. Tbe llowers, tbe fruits, tbe l)eauty,
tbe sabUirity of l^Men nneursed sball aboir.id, and tlio
eartb jigain be a paradisfj and a lit luibitation for tbe sons
of God. Tbe tHn-se sball be removed. Tbe eartb sball be
pb3^sically redeemed, wben tbe very "desert sball rejoioo
and blossom as tbe rose," wben tbo " taint sball be ro-
movetl from tbe atmospbere and tbe malaria from the
ground," wben tempests and tornadoes sball coase to
rage and volcanoes sfiall rend tbe earth no more.
" We, according to bis promise, look for now heavens
and a new eartb, wherein dwelletb righteousness ; new —
i.e., renewed, restored to its origitial fertility and beauty
— purified by lire, and made again what it was when ho
tbat created it ])ronounced all to bo "good" — without de-
fect or deforuiity, with no barrenness or deserts, no ex-
cess of beat or cold, no devastations by wind or tide, by
storm or tempest, but all beauty and fortility, all perfect-
ly adapted to tbo best interests and tbo supremo ba{)pi-
ness ot man.
Sucb a condition of the eartb shall return when our
enemy sball be dispossessed of bis dominion, bound in
chains and cast out for ever, when our blessed Immanucl
sball come and claini Is own — shall repair all tbe physi-
cal ruins of sin and make eartb again a j)aradise. All
thinars sball then be reclaimed from a lonij-continued and
debasing perversion. The silver and tbe gold and the
cattle on a thousand hills sluill be tbe Loi'd's. Tbe earth
that brings forth all that can make glad tbe heart of man,
and make bis face to shine, shall be as tbe garden of the
Lord. Men shall then buy and sell and get gain, tbat they
may honour God and bless tlieir fellow-men.
Wbat a cbange ! It sball write boliness to tbe Lord on
all things. It shall sanctify all the relations of common
rAIlADFHK UIWAINKD.
4J)5
'ncs'slutjl
'I'l'l the'
tlio Honn
|j nIwiII bo
'I 'vjoico
MI be i\).
^lom the
coase to
beavcns
i ; now-~
J beauty
when lie
hout (le-
'^,}io ex-
tide, by
I perfect-
liappi-
''ben our
)ound in
imanueJ
D physi-
^e. All
lied and
md the
e earth
^f man,
L of the
at they
iord on
)mmon
lifo— all tlio ocHMipationH, roHourceH and ])owerH of man.
It Hball hhiHM the H0(;ial and doniestic^ nilatiotiH, rcf^ulnto
the lawH of tnuhi, ho tlmt nwin hIimII honour (lod with their
subHtMiice, di-sbursin^' tlieir abundance aeeordiuf^ to tbo
(lietateH of a ri^bteonHei(5n(;(;and the proniptin^rs of an en-
iiufre*! iKiTU'-voience. It .shall make all men )>u?e and
penceablo, gonth;, easy to bo (UitreatcMl, without |)artiality
and without hy|)oeriHy. Wars shall cease, fraud and op-
pression shall be no more. Impartial love to man and
HUprenu^ love to Ood shall prevail. And then sliall be
realized in all the beauties of holiness wljat the angels
foreshadowe<l over the manger at Bethlehem : " Glory to
God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill towards
men."
Human government, civilization, scicnee, learning, com-
merce, war and peace, which had so long done little else
than to add power to the original curse and intensify its
penalties, shall henceforth become most efficient agencies
for good in the new kingdom. The majesty of law shall
no longer be tram[)led under foot, or the judiciary be cor-
rupted, or the guilty allowed to go unpunished. Manners,
customs, habits, fashions, pleasures, recreations and all the
socialities of life, shall become subservient to the honour of
God and the highest good of man.
But one as[)ect of the subject just alluded to deserves
more than a casual glance. Wo have traced the desolat-
ing footsteps of our enemy in man's noci(d life. Human
hap|)iness is very much suspended here. If tares be sown
on this field, man has little to expect but a bitter harvest.
Yet true it is, as we }uive seen, that here our enemy has
perpetrated some of his saddest devastations.
IV. Let us then see if we can, on the r)ther hand, trace
the footsteps of grace as she comes again to repair uhe
ruins of the a])osta(!y. What lias grace done for ns here ?
The venom of sin has spread through all the veins and
arteries of society, corroding it to its very vitals. It
made selfishness tlie watchword of every little community,
l!.
496
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
I ■
and set the green-ej'ed monster, Jealousy, to watch at
every door. It phinted deep the tree of discord, and caused
to spring up in every nook and corner the unsightly
plants of envy, pride, ambition and distrust, Confidence
was exiled, and the world set on fire by the tongue of
slander. Thus did sin reign in man's social relations unto
the workings and wranglings of a lingering death. In
proportion to the prevalence of vice, our social relations
are vitiated and wretched. Not a single social virtue can
thrive — can expand into its own native beauty and love-
liness and come to maturity under the reign of sin. It
can little more than exist, and that only with a ceaseless
conflict with opposing elements. But what a change when
grace comes to her rescue ! Grace rebukes the raging of
the passions, humbles pride, curbs ambition or gives it a
lawful direction, extinguishes envy and banishes jealousy.
She comes not, but there follows in her train a lovely band
of kindred graces, all bearing the image of their maternal
origin. Benevolence is her handmaid, humility her cover-
ing, and hope the light of her countenance. Around about
her you may see, sporting in all the charm and luxuriance
of spiritual life. Love, Joy, Peace, Long-suffering, Gentle-
ness, Goodness, Faith, Meekness, Temperance. Against
these there is no law — they need no law. They can, when
left to their own legitimate workings, produce nothing
but love and harmony — goodwill towards man and glory
to God.
Adorned with these golden fruits of grace, society can-
not be otherwise than happy. Show me a place where
grace reigns, and triumphs over every vice, and I will
show you a place where all the social aflfections and vir-
tues are so beautifully developed that society there is al-
together happ3^ But we inquire again,
V. What are the achievements of grace on individual
character?
Sin hath put enmity between G " -^nd man, made man
an alien and an enemy, unfitted him for the discharge of
FINAL DESTINY OF THE EARTH.
497
ty can-
where
IwiU
id vir-
J is al-
vidual
e man
rge of
the duties of life, unfitted him for death or for a hap|)y
eternity. Sin has laid the whole man in ruins. Ilis
body is subject to disease, pain and death, and his soul
but the wreck of that godlike thing which God breathed
into the earthly tenement of man.
But giace comes to restore man to his pristine beauty
and strength, to reinstate him In the image of his God,
to open again a communication with heaven, to renew
his friendship with his God, and to fit him, by the wash-
ing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghast,
for the companionship of angels, and to open to him the
portals of heaven. Grace kindly offers to shield him
from a thousand ills in this Ufe, to make him a better
man, more happy and more honourable in every station.
— to be an angel of mercy to comfort and protect him in
the last dark hour of death — to go with him through the
dark valley, and finally to present him faultless before
the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.
What then are we to conclude shall be the final and
eternal condition and destiny of this earth ? It shall
undergo a very essential revolution, a purification by fire
— sometimes called a destruction — so completely changed
that it is called a " new earth." It shall become a fit
temple for holiness, the habitation of righteousness and
peace and purity, a suitable dwelling-place for the sons
of God. Sin and all its corruption and disquietude, and
rebellion, and misery and death, once banished from the
earth, and its regeneration once consummated, and this is
the " restitution of all things" to their primeval beauty
and perfection. And being once so restored, what shall
be its future and eternal destination ?
Before we urge a reply, let us ask what shall be the
future local destination of man ? The renovation of the
earth, we may assume, is but the noteworthy counterpart
of the renovation of man. And as the earth, and all
things pertaining thereunto, were originally made for
man, and as man and the earth mutually shared the curse,
32
!i
498
THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN.
for " together they groan and travail in pain," what is
more probable than that they shall be finally and for
ever united in their future destiny ? This planet eartli
is the home of our race. Born here, nurtured here — re-
joiced, suffered and sorrowed here — character, associations
and friendships formed here — here Christ came, and suf-
fered and died to redeem him — here is a Gethsemane and
a Calvary — where, rather, amidst associations so sacred
and dear, would redeemed man choose his eternal happy
home ? Where else would he find an abode so befitting,
so congenial ?
Nor are we here without the sure word of prophecy,
seeming more than to intimate such a realization. We
are assured the " meek shall inherit the earth." " Those
that wait upon the Lord shall inherit the earth." " Such
as be blessed of the Lord shall inherit the earth." God
shall again dwell upon the earth, and the angelic choii-
shall everywhere sing, " Glory to God in the highest ; on
earth peace, goodwill towards men."
What more can grace do ? Ah ! there is one thing
more that grace may do, yea, must do, or you, my impeni-
tent reader, are ruined for ever. It must overcome youi-
wicked heart — it must bring you into willing obedience
to your only Lord and Master. Has grace done this for
you ?
Grace has provided a way for your escape from eternal
ruin — has offered you a full and free pardon — has invited
and urged your acceptance. But you have rejected all
these gracious offers. You have turned your back on all
that a gracious God has done to restore you to the bosom
of his love. If grace has done so much for you, and you
have as yet done so little for yourself, on what ground
do you hope you shall not be a final outcast and lie
down in eternal despair, and sufier the just penalty of
abused love and a violated law ?
Come, then, and let grace do its glorious work in you.
Where sin hath abounded, let grace much more abound.
499
EARTH MANS ETERNAL HOME.
Where sin hath so long reigned working death, let grace
reign unto eternal life.
Christ shall sit upon the throne of his father David
Soon shall he come and call us hence away. Soon shall
the earth ])Ut on her robes of beauty and be made the
abode of Christ and his ransomed ones. May we all be
of the blessed number to whom upon his coming he will
say, " Rise up and come away !"
pi
^il*
Pi
M
i-i
A-dam's
Ambiti(
AmuBoi
Ancieii
Ancien
Ancien
Aposta
Aposta
Appall
Assaul
Angel
BAD
Baroi
Beaul
Bene
Bene
BetK
Bible
Bible
Bibl(
Bibl(
Bra!
Bud
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INDEX.
PAdE
ABUSE of wealth 204
A-dam's tomptation and sin... 27
Ambition perverted 208, 414
Amusements, oust of 230
Ancients, wealth of the. . 201 , 203
Ancient extravagance . . 251,253
Ancient wars, losses in.. 108, 120
Apostacy, the beginning of
evil — the first; 20
Apostacy, Papal 71
Appalling facts of intemper-
ance 143
Assaults upon the early
Church 67
Angels, Satan once the chief
of 26
BAD PASSIONS 413
Baron Rothschild, the money
King 232
Beauties of a good life 191
Benevolent affections 411
Benevolence, the world's.... 223
Betrayal of Christ 33
Bible a sealed book, the.. 87, 337
Bible, prohibition of 375
Bible no authority, the 379
Bible, war upon the 480
Brahminism 335
Buddhism 385
CHRIST'S temptation on
the Mount 33
PAOB
Chrl st f ore warns the Disciples 80
Christianity a new revelatioa 76
Christianity made for man . . 324
Civil war in U.S., cost of. 106, 113
Church, persecutions of the
early 81
Church-services perverted . . 287
Chicago Fire, the 457
Conscience, supremacy of.. 409
Convents, Beads and Rosary 366
Commune InsuiTection in
Paris 442
Conquest, the final and com-
plete 488
Consecrated wealth 261, 363
Constantino unites the Church
and State 84
Corn as food versus liquor. . 159
Corrupt literature 273
Cost of Amusements 237
Cost of Heathen temples 265
Cost of Intemperance . . 143, 170
Cost of war to Great Britain
since the Reformation 92
Crimean War, cost of 210
CrownofEngland, expense of 249
Cunning and craftiness of the
Devil 42
DANIEL and his times 309
Deaths by Papal persecution 381
Death record in New York,
1871. 467
502
INDEX.
PAGE
Debts and statistics — war. . . 91
Demoniac spirits 33
Devil, origin of the 25
Devil, expulsion from heaven 21
Devil, vjrod created him an
angel 25
Devil ? who is the 22
Devil ? where is the 23
Devil, names given to the . . 17
Devil, his tremendous power
Devil, his attributes, the. . .
Devil, canning and craftiness
of the. 42
Devil, his characteristics, the 25
Devil, his deceptions, the..
Devil, his delusions, the
Devil, his imitu,tion of mira-
cles
Devil, his power of locomo-
tion
Devil, his physical powers,
tiie
Devil, god of this world, the
Devil, once the chief of angels
Devil before the Deluge, the
Devil in Bibl 3 times, the. . .
Devil in Old ^I'estament times
Devil before Sinai, the, ....
Devil, miracles wrought by
the
Devil, he turns the nations of
the earth to idolatry. .
Devil in New Testament times
Devil, his corruption of the
Church 67
Devil in "Latter times," the 440
Devil in man, the. 405
23
24
34
3G
36
31
31
17
25
5G
55
56
59
23
61
63
PAGE
Dollars for ribbons, pennies
for Christ 261
Draft Riot of 1863 in New
York 443
Dr. Duff on spurious relig-
ions 354
EDEN restored 497
Egyptian my tliology 340
Elijah's contest with Baal. . 35
Eloquence, power of 188
Examj^les of good and bad
lives contrasted 189
Exorbitant salaries 235, 249
Expenses of royalty 251, 252
Expense of the crown of
England 249
Expenses, Sultan of Turkey. 252
Expenses of the Unit-l
States Government. . 93
Extravagance in fashionable
society 256
Extravagance in high places 206,
229, 451
Extravagance of great estates 230,
254
Extravagance versus benevo-
lence..... 223,260
FALSE religions, common
origin of 327
Famine, fire and floods 123
Fast young men 258, 437
Fire worshij)per8 304
Fisk, Stokes' assassination of 468
Final triumph of peace 481
Fourrierism 425
Devil in New York, the 467 ! Free love and its evils 425
Devil, the end of the 481
Disasters on land and sea 1 79,465
Dishonesty of tho liquor
traffic 163
Divorce and divorce laws. . . 433
Dogma of infallibility. 128, 345,
453
Fruits of municipal corrup-
tion 447
Funeral extravagance 235
Future punishment 422
GIANT Intellects perverted. 186
*' Girls of the period " 437
INDEX.
503
tion
...327
.... 123
m, 437
.. 304
of 468
.. 481
-. 426
.. 426
D-
. 447
. 235
. 422
. 186
. 437
I
PAGE
God, perfect law of 43
God speaking in nature .... 293
Goddess Fashion, the 451
Gambling hells and crime . . 239
HAND of the Devil in his-
tory 19
Hindooism 335
History of false religions . . 292
History of idolatry 70
History, perversion of . . 198, 283
History, Papal perversion of. J 98
Historic religion 312
Holy Spirit, necessity of the 421
Horrors of the early perse-
cutions 79
Hymn read by St. Paul on
Mars Hill 322
IDOLATRY, history of . . . . 298
Income of the Pope of Rome 251
Income of Queen Victoria . . 249
Income of foreign potentates 251
Infallibility, the dogma of 89,
128, 345, 453
Infidel publications 275
Illegitimacy and divorce 435
Inordinate desires 410
Inquisition, the 84
Intellect and business 190
Intellect, perversion of the . . 183
Instigators of war, who are
they? 122
Intemperance a terrific agen-
cy for evil 142
Intemperance,! 87o, statistics
of distilled ^''[uors. , . 143
Intemperance, sta iiiig stat-
istical conipnrisuns. . . 143
Intemperance, yearly cost of
li(\uors in U nit'd States 144
Intemperance .and lalionr. . . 140
Intemperance , aj) [ >al I i ng facts
fr(>m New York 148
PAOB
Intemperance, internal reve-
nue statistics 150, 216
Inteinperance, statistics of
malt liquors in United
States 152
Intemperance, statistics of
New York city 154
Intemperance in Great Bri-
tain 156
Intemperance in France 157
Intemperance ; corn as food
wr.sus liquor 159
Intemperance, its loss to the
nation 100,169
Intemperance, judicial testi-
mony on liquor and
crime 176
Intemperance, yearly fruits
of 148,161
Intemperance a foe to na-
tional prosperity 169
Intemperance, physical ef-
fects of 177
Intemperance, its effects on
mind and morals .... 172
Intemperance tlie author of
shocking disasters... 179
JESUITS, early rise of the. 88
Jesuitism, character of 389
Jesuitism, foundation and
history 391
Jesuitism, subtilty of 393
Jesuitism, animus of 395
Jesuitism and missionaries. . 395
Jewish religion, the 300
Job, the early religious his-
torian 296
Judas, the accursed kiss of. . 33
Judicial testimony on liquor
and crime 170
KINGS and queens, salaries
of 251
504
INDEX.
i-iii
PAGE
LAW of God perfect, the. . 43
Laws of nature contravened. 411
Lax laws of divorce 435
Learned proressions, the 193
Liberal Christianity 454
Libraries open on the Sab-
bath 476
Licentiousness in high places 451
Licentious literature . . . 280, 482
Liquor statistics of United
States . . . . , 143
Literary talents perverted . . 195
Lives of great men contrasted 190
Loss of life in ancient and
modem wars 109
Luther and the Reforma-
tion 87
Luxury versus poverty 231
MAN the image of God, 405, 419
Man in every sense perverted 407
Man cannot restore himself. 421
Magnitude and mischief of
sin 40
Marriage, the sanctity of. . 425
Marriage makes home 425
Martyrdom of the Apostles. 80
Mental resources and activi-
ties 184
Medical testimony on spirit-
uous liquors 177
Milton and Dante, ideas of 25, 28
Missionary appropriations . . 223
Modem extravagance 228
Mohammedanism 331
Money perverted-see Wealth 203
Money misdirected 206
Money wickedly applied 210
Money expended in liquor. . 214
Money expended in opium . . 222
Money expended in tobacco. 21 9
Money expended in wars. . . 2^ x
Money spent in amusements. 2o8
Money spent in war mig^it
do, what 96
PAGE
Money and the Church 352
Moral effects of intemperance
145, 173
Mormonism 429
Music, perversion of. . . 197, 286
Mythology, Egyptian 340
NAMES given to the Devil. 18
Nero, the Roman tyrant 81
(ECUMENICAL Council of
Rome 463
Opera and Church, the 287
Opium and its effects 165
Opium, statistics of 221
Origin of false Religions 292, 327
Origin of idolatry 300, 327
Osiris, the E'^yinian Messiah 319
PAGANISM a falseReii^^Hlon 330
Papal apostacy, the 71
Papacy and Paganism 360
Papal persecutions 381
Papal prayers for the deceased 371
Papal perversion of history.. 198
Paradise changed to a pan-
demonium 32
Paradise regained 488
Patriarchal religion 294
Purgatory, the doctrine of.. 373
Perversion of history.. 198,283
Perversion of the periodical
Press 272
Perversion of religion, the. . 327
Perversion of the religious
Press 275
Perversion of speech, the. . . :s84
Perversion of literary talent,
the 195
Perversion of intellect, the . . 184
Perversion of wealth, the . . 204
Perversion of music and song,
the 197,286
Persecutions, the ten first. . 81
Physioa
Pride
ProfligJ
Progrei
prohibi
Protest
QUEE
BEFO
Beligi'
Regal
Religi
Bescu
Bestii
Reve^
Revo
Riot
Riot
Rite
Ron
Rot
Ror
Roi
Ro]
IND£X.
506
PAGE
.. 352
ranee
145, 173
- . 429
197, 286
•♦.. 340
3vil. 18
. 81
lof
. 453
. 287
- 165
221
292,327
300,327
iiah 319
ion 330
... 71
. . . 360
•-- 381
3ed 371
y.. 198
m-
•• 32
•- 488
.. 294
■. 373
►8, 283
al
. 272
. 327
s
. 275
• -^H
'• 196
184
204
.286
81
PAQB
Persecutions of the Romish
Church 380
Peter^s denial 34
Pilgrimage the true idea 349
Politics and politicians. ... 69
Pope of Rome, income of. . Lol
Popery the great counterfeit 343
Popery and waste of money. 266
Popular notions of Satan. . 25
Power of a good life, the. . 190
Power of eloquence, the 188
Power of religion, the 291
Power of speech, the 284
Power of the printing press. 269
Pride the sin of apostate
angels 28
Physical eflfects of intemper-
ance 177
Pride 420
Profligacy, the curse of 439
Progressive revelation 313
Prohibition of the Bible .... 375
Protestant extravagance 268
QUEEN of England's salary 249
REFORMATION, the 87
Religion and science 200
Regal extravagance. . . . 242, 253
Religions, history of false. . 329
Rescue of lost truths 325
Restitution of all things 486
Revelations from Sinai 321
Revolt in heaven led by Satan 27
Riot of 1863, in New York,
the 444
Riot 12th of JulyjlWl, upon
'* Orangemen " 445
Rites and ceremonies of false
worshippers, 321, 332, 401
Romance and fiction 275
Romanism a false religion . . 334
Romis^ Church in America. 89
Roman:sm and crime 435
Romish festivals and holy
days 369
PAOB
Romish hostility to the Bible
337,377
Romish priesthood claim mir-
acles 36
Romanism resembles Pagan-
ism 375
Ruin repaired, the 482
Rum the great destroyer 147,
162, 171, 214
SABBATH a holiday, the. . 363
Sabbath, profanation of the 476
Sacrifices of the North and
South in the civil war 11.3
Salaries of European mon-
archs 251
Sanctity of marriage 425
Satan had no tempter 27
Satan leads the revolt in
heaven 27
Satan in faLe religions 290
Satanin the early Church.. 74
Satan's power over the ele-
ments 32
Satan in the marriagerelat.ion 424
Satanic majesty alarmed, his 441
Satan in war 91
Satan, why represented aa
black 29
Science and true religion.. 201
Senses, perversion of iie five 407
Sinner a self -destroyer, the. . 423
Sin entailed upon the human
family 61
Sin charged with all existing
evil 62
Sin the cause of all human
woe « . . . 42
Sin, why permitted 41
Sin as affecting our relations
to God 46
Sin as afiecting human gov-
ernment 45
Sin as affecting our social
relations 50
Sin, the urorst of 487
606
INDEX.
PAGE
Sin as affecting divine gov-
ernment 43
Smoking, effects of 167
Socialism 426
Song, perversion of 197, 286
Speech, perversion of 284
Spiritualism, modem 430
Spirit Tappings 37
Spurious religions, modern. 320
St. Paul on Mars Hill 322
Statistics of liquor and intem-
perance. . 143,149,152,168
Spaniards ravage Mexico for
gold 245
Supremacy of conscience 410
TAiyiMANY Ring 446
Tammany frauds 447
Theatres and their cost. . 238
Tobacco statistics 167, 218
True religion, history of 317
Triumph of righteousness,
the final •. . . . 489
UNIVERSAL reign of right-
eousness and peace... 497
Unrighteous investments... 246
Untold evils of intemperance 144
Untold evils of war Ill
Usurper deposed and cast
out, the 489
Use and abuse of wealth 204
United States census statis-
tics of liquor 143
VANITY and pride. 418
WAR— its untold evils 120
War, the expense of 91
War, revolution not reform-
ation. , 124
War, its moral devastations. 124
War, its desolations 13]
War, its demoralizing effects 135
War contradicts Christianity 139
PAOfi
War as an art perfected . . . 105
War, who are the instigators
of 122
War-debts, who pays them ? 98
War, with startling compari-
sons 100
War and agriculture 103
War and benevolence 102
War-debt of Christian nations
92,97
War and public debt of Eu-
rope 97
War — strength of ancient
armies 121
War, cost of standing armies 211
Wars, sacrifice of life in an-
cient 108,121
War, cost of the Revolution-
ary 92
War, the cost of 1812 92
War, cost of the Florida. ... 92
War, cost of the Mexican. . . 92
War, cost and losses of the Ci-
vil, 1861-5.. 106,115,130
War, horrors of Libby Prison
and Andersonville 119,130
Wars, cost of European. . 94,210
Wars, cost of Indian 95
Wars, sacrifices of life in
Napoleon's Ill
War-saying of Napoleon Bo-
naparte 136
War, cost of Italian 211
War, cost of the Franco-
Prussian 107,128
War, statistics by Baron Von
Reden 103
War, temptations of military
life 130
War, no necessity of 139
War, duty of Christians con-
cornint? 140
Wealth— se- Money, 2!)3
Wealth consecrated 352
Wealth, perversion of. . - , . . 203
INDEX.
507
PAGE
Wealth versus poverty 230
Wealth of the ancients.. 261,263
Wealth, waste of, in Pagan
Religion 241,265
Wealth, waste of, in Chinese
worship 243
Wealth, waste of, in the Ro-
mish Church 244, 266
Wealth, waste of, in the Pro-
testant Church 268
Wedding extravagance 206
Whaling Fleet disaster, the. 465
Woman in Eden 437
Woman's rights 429
PAQE
What is man ? 406
What is marriage ? ,, . 425
What hath sin done ? 42
Why is sin permitted ? 40
XERXES' army and losses,
109, 122
YEARLY fruits of intem-
perance 149, 162
ZOROASTER founds a new
religion 303
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retreat from Cavan who turned to bay and held their ground
at £nniskillen, through many a month of doubt and peril
Of whom another band sustained the LONGEST SIEGE which
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