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THE 
 
 Foot-Prints of Satan. 
 

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THE 
 
 FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN: 
 
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 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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 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. 
 
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 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- 
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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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 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, 
 
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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. 
 
22 
 
 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 
 
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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 — 
 
24 
 
 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, 
 
29 
 
 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 
 
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 : First, 
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 avenly 
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 pis was 
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 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. 
 
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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, 
 
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 f,i> iinpnir. ImiI. only I" (tiM\iMl Ium ;'m>mI jimwm II<> im 
 now JiimI. MS pultMil. I<M mif^rliii'l )!M lio <irM'»> WMM fni^lily 
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 Inil iiol \v(>mI<<mm><| in «mIIi<m |tlivM(rfil or rri'MihiJ |pow»M'. 
 
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 Imi mIimII IImmi t'lMiM' Mini hn ImiIImt He <oiiM nol, liMrrn 
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 MM^tnillM MM iN'If'i \v<Mi' mmII'M*'*! \i\y m fi»rM» f,o f/'^f, liirri 
 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 
 
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 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 
 
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 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 
 
64 
 
 THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN. 
 
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 '■' i f 
 
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 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 
 
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 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. 
 
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 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 
 
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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. 
 
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 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. 
 
 i 
 
 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 
 
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 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, 
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 ornado, 
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 y^rs was 
 
 ids from 
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 ,, that he 
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 of wild 
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 ion, (the 
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 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. 
 
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 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 
 
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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, 
 
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 ts as their 
 ve agents, 
 
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 rone. 
 
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 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 
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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. 
 
92 
 
 THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN. 
 
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 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 
 
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 50,000,000, 
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AMERICAN WARS AND WAR DEBTS. 
 
 93 
 
 
 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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94 
 
 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. 
 
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 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, 
 
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 !ow many 
 
 Lieges, and 
 
 first half 
 the same 
 )Oor abori- 
 nse. One 
 
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 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. 
 
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 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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 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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 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 ! 
 
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 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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 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. 
 
 I 
 
^ 
 
 I- 
 
 112 
 
 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 
 8 
 
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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 id I 
 
 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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 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 
 
 ''1 
 
 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. 
 
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 • 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 
 9 
 
 4 
 
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 
 
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 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,, 
 
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 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; 
 
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 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 
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 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 
 
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 10 wuml piliMiiiM nhjocl, I i^vor hohoM. II 14 vvoid^, ' QurJ, 
 
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 liin. will iiovor ho ror|/nl,lo,n hy Uioko whn hoz-rd him. 
 
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 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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'AN. 
 
 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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WAR DKMORATJZINO. 
 
 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 
 
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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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 rHuin outer r,),j, 
 
 [r-ihum) in ovor, 
 
 vvorlc ofsalvati.,; 
 
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 fcy, lualovoloi,,; 
 
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 •*''^'««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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 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 
 
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 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 
 
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STATISTICS OF INTEMPERANCE. 
 
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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- 
 
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 144 
 
 THK FOOT-riUNTS OF 8ATAN. 
 
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 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. 
 
 145 
 
 |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 
 10 
 
 f 
 
140 
 
 THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN. 
 
 M ■ 
 
 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 
 
 ♦*• 
 
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 
 
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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 
 
 ii' 
 
 
 ■ I 
 
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 
 
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 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. 
 
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 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- 
 
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 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- 
 
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 )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- 
 
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 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. 
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 " 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 
 
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 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 
 
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 ■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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 TIIK FOOT-PRINT.S OF SATAN. 
 
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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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 tM 
 
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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 THR FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN. 
 
 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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 vus 
 of 
 
 2 
 
 it hah in the ten years destroyed ()00,000 Uvea, 
 
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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 172 
 
 THE FOOT-rniNTS OF SATAN. 
 
 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, 
 
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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. 
 
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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 
 are always hurtful : that they are in fact poisonous, like 
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 titles for medical purposes, and which, if so used, may be 
 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. 
 
PHYSICAL TOKENS OF DISTRESS. 
 
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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. 
 
THK WRECK OF THK IIOMK. 
 
 181 
 
 '* 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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 And what was tliO cause ? It was, I say again, the in- 
 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. 
 
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 " 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- 
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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 
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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- 
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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 
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 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 
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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 
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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 
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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, 
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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 
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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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 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- 
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 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 
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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- 
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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- 
 
HOME REPUDIATES HER OWN HISTORY. 
 
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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- 
 
 * According to Street, who translates ** in Him," instead of "there- 
 in," as is rendered in King James's Bible. 
 
TRUE RELIGION AND SCIENCE. 
 
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 lence or 
 
 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 
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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. 
 
X. 
 
 THE PERVERSION OF WEALTH. 
 
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 MONEY A POWER IN THE HA.NDS OF THE GREAT ADVERSARY 
 —THE COST OF SIN —PRIDE — AMBITION — WAR — LUXURY 
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 Money is power. And no power perhaps exerts a 
 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 
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 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- 
 
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USE AND ABUSE OF WEALTH. 
 
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 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- 
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 «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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 ('(>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 
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 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^. 
 
 21 
 
 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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 |»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 
 
 rgo. 
 ►Some 
 
 o on<> h.'iM i?iv(>n iim 
 
 Mi(> I 
 
 ollowmir 
 
 lniof 
 
 Murnirtnry o 
 
 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 
 
 1 (;aU 
 
 for spirituous Ii(|uors an( 
 
 arc startling. Wo mak(^ tlio following oxtra(;tR, an( 
 
 the attention of domestic, as well as [lolitical ocoiiomists to 
 
 the record : 
 
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 VWK FDOT PUINTM t»F SATAN 
 
 " Tlioro is Olio «'Xp»M»<li<un» winch w«» m»v«'f liPrtf |Ii«h«» 
 «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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 217 
 
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 Mnnlli ('Mn.liiiM \()y,\{),V,2r, 
 
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 I >•-!(« \vMn» .'{.770..'{r,r, 
 
 MiHMiMHi|(|.i 4,4!»:{,.'{Or. 
 
 ( )n'^. .M 4,2f; 1 ,240 
 
 Novn.ld 4,M:m.7.M5 
 
 Noi.fMHk M .•{;2!M),r, I r, 
 
 (^jIohmIc. .M.745,2ir, 
 
 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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 THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN. 
 
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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. 
 
 ! 
 
CONSUMPTION OF TOBACCO. 
 
 219 
 
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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 
 
 Tl 
 
 10 uu 
 
 >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. 
 
 *iJ21 
 
 (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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 THK r«>oT riMNrs of hatan 
 
 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 
 
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 oflto^'orv avS 
 
 io\\\i 
 
 K\\\ oi)\un\ an< 
 
 1 oil 
 
 \(M* i\ar(M>(ioH w 
 
 rhiol 
 
 ) aro 
 
 iooidodlv luirifnl. vot <ho\ aro at host, hnf Inxnrios, and 
 
 • • • 
 
 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;. 
 
 223 
 
 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^ 
 
 li 
 
 tv n cumpMiiNdii willi juiolln'i 
 
 I 
 
 y HiM'li rorripMf isofi we 
 
 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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 Christendom is $60,000,000.* This immense sum would 
 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. 
 

 COMPARATIVE WASTE OF RUM. 
 
 225 
 
 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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UNKQUAI, DISTHimTTroN. 
 
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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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 oxools in n^.'\oni1ioono(* nnv o() m' o( iho Uinmlonv Ho 
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 hroadth Mn^i (>7 loot in lioiiiht. oovoroil hy 7o,000 stpiaro 
 foot of iil;\ss, and wnvniod hy sovon niilos o( |n|H\ oonvoy- 
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 tho Inghost jot in tho worlo. Chatswortl\ oontains .S.AOO 
 aoros. but tlio Pnko owns 9(>,000 aoros in Dorhvshirc. — 
 Within, tho ontiro is *^no vast soono o( paintings, sonlp- 
 tnrc. mosaic work, oarvod wainsooting.and all tho clogancos 
 
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 (l(M)in VVo wnuld tiul. fnil lino In iioiir»> Mud, MM»d*'^r»'M 
 of privnlioii niid hiiII'im iii^ nii |.|m> ofm* nido iw l»id, Mm o%n<t 
 ('omd«M|unl. nI'Mir |t|«'Mi(tni mid oxlinvngniicn of tlio <»M»Mr. 
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 iii^ oI'Mir iiiiiny. 
 
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 (HI lilt* oii(» |»(irl., Mild M rnin»H|»ofidiii^ )i«»vi*ity »»ri Mio oMior, 
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 inlioriird, nr nlln»rvviso lionoHMy nr(jiiin»d ; nrnl Mioy may 
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 ninn miuI MioHorviro oI'Mio |/i«>mI. IVlMHl,or. And Mio pov^^ity 
 ol' ilu* jMtor, Iwid MH it \H, \h not Mm* wotHt rvil liiirnnfiity is 
 hoir to. VVIion Micho niMnirnoMi lortiifM-H nrct rniudiiN^ntly 
 oMniiKMl ; wImmi tli(> ncrnnmJMtifin involvoH diKlionf«Mty, 
 (licrtH, ninl rviMy H|i(M'i(»H of Sntnfiidrnif't n.nri ^nilr ; nnd 
 when tlic nnii^lit«MMiN ninnimon iw iiRod only to r,(»rrupt 
 H(M'i(»ty nnd do^nidr- Imnwmity, tlnui wo hco tlio hand <>f 
 tlu> l)ovil in it. 
 
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 in tlio innttiM'of nutnoy'Ho jliH^rncofnl to all <lrrf;Tit hurrinn- 
 ily n» liMH luM'tJ ])(MjK>tnit(M| in tlio inonojjolios, Injt luort^ 
 oHpiH'iMlly in tlio doingH ol'tlio " Ring.s" of afow yoars pnst. 
 Hut wo will not go into d(!tailH lioro. Wo take; oonrago 
 that liottor times mio <'oming, Himply from tlio fact that the 
 Dovil liMH luMo dono IiIh worHt, and tlioroforo )io caniiot 
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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 
 
BARON ROTHSCHILD. 
 
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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. 
 
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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," 
 
EXOKBITANT SALARIES. 
 
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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 : 
 
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 with the passion for ex )ensive weddings, until some peo- 
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 goods should be expended in commemorating his marriage 
 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- 
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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 
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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 ! 
 
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EXPENSE OF FURNISHING AMUSEMENTS. 
 
 239 
 
 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 
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 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. 
 
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 of magistrates and police, and the whole corps of execu- 
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 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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 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. 
 
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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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 '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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25G 
 
 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 
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 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 
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 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. 
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 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. 
 
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 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. 
 
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 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. 
 
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 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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 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 
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 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- 
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 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. 
 A small minority of a people are reached by the preacher. 
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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- 
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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 
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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- 
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 W(;steni Asia and tln-fuij^hout the great continent of 
 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." 
 
 But the machinations of our enemy to oppose the pro- 
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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 
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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 
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 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- 
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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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 virtue, and the most overwhelming evidence of loyalty to 
 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 
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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 
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 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 
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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- 
 vading Deity. 
 
GOD SPEAKING IN NATURE, 
 
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 ' * In nature's open volume they did re»d 
 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 
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 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- 
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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- 
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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, 
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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 
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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 
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 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 
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 [»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 
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 .\ 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. 
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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,, 
 and perfect and wise, and the only inventor of the sacred philosophy «" 
 
ANCIENT FIRE-WORSHIPPERS. 
 
 305 
 
 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 
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 ADVANCE OF THE TRUE RELIGION. 
 
 307 
 
 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. 
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 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 
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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 
 
REFORM OF IDOLATRY. 
 
 311 
 
 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 
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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. 
 
THE TRIUMPH OP SIN. 
 
 313 
 
 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- 
 sive, and we can trace its onward and upward progress 
 
GRADUAL REVELATION 
 
 315 
 
 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 
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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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HISTORY OF lUK TKIJK KELIOION. 
 
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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 
 Chuich from Adam to Noah. The posterity of Seth trans- 
 
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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 
 
OSIRIS THE EGYPTIAN MESSIAH. 
 
 319 
 
 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, 
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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 
 
NEW LIGHT FROM SINAI. 
 
 321 
 
 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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 THE FOOT- PRINTS OF SATAN. 
 
 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. 
 
RESCMTE OF LOST TIIUTHS. 
 
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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 
 
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 :n\d fi<« l\in\ for \\'\h \\\]\ nnd lin:d doMJiny. 
 
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 }wn^nnont nnd snUstnnlinl i;-o»>d. 
 
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 ,«(V?<>/ nnd rivil progross of man. It is this form of n^li- 
 givm whioh, oithor in it* nioiv innnodiato bonrings, or in 
 
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 nil lin JH nipnlilr of, Immc, (»r \\i:V('S\ili'.v. 
 
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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. 
 
 
il 
 
 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. 
 
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 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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 systi^n^s of n>lioion. 
 
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 nvoiini70«l. iho honvi so \]\v \ ioMs. in llw inslMnt'c of 
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 lni< vosovvos <o itsoU" <ho proro^onjivo of clojlnnjir Hum 
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 impoiuin^blo olonil Ix^twoon tlio (^ti'nl^onoo of tho jtitmI, 
 
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 ]><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'' 
 
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 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 
 
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 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. 
 
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 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 
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 Ka-sttMii monurcli in tlio mid.st ol'liis Hliininf^ lioKtH, or whfro 
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 >^^o^ i»in>v\jo*^iio:i)h votinM tluMt ;vu]>iM'{i\r snnM Mnd t(>vo|v 
 "ini) :>h«Mit \\\\^\\ :i\i>Q. i^iiMiuiMiU) l1\iMin olu< ion-i ol A>\\ '.\\\\\ 
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 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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 ont j!^^v?! tho ono. tho i«hNlMtv> M t1\o r.'Vi>"}n\ worM ; t\\\\ 
 tho othov of tho 01iviM\rti^ Movhl r.'ur.'\nsi tmo tho Minno 
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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 
 
 fttn- «">f a i'^hri'iti.'vn r\,ov.. tho v^thor M" :\ Vi\c;\\\ m 
 
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 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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 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. 
 
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 '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 
 
 
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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 
 
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 ROMISH AND HINDOO IDOLATRY. 
 
 337 
 
 re but 
 I holy, 
 110 can- 
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 before 
 me the 
 diators 
 — their 
 monks 
 Friars 
 images, 
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 jhers — 
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 rrh the 
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 of the 
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 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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 338 
 
 THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN. 
 
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 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.) 
 
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 cestors. 
 
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 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. 
 
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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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 3 — the 
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 should 
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 3ve we 
 jentia- 
 orking 
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 iresent, 
 
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 pery in 
 ■ dress, 
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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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XVll. 
 
 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 
 
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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 
 
 ('('» 
 
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 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 
 
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 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- 
 
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 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- 
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 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. 
 
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 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 
 
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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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 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 
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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. 
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 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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 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 
 
 
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 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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 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 
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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 
 
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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 
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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 
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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 
 
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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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 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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 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, 
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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 
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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 
 there be no delinquency here. 
 
 
 
PRAYERS FOR THE DECEASED. 
 
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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. 
 
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 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. 
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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- 
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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 ? 
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PROHIBITION OF THE BIBLE. 
 
 379 
 
 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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 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 
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 381 
 
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 that if the 
 igue, more 
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 naries and 
 
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 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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 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. 
 
 
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 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. 
 
SIMILARITY OF PAGANISM TO ROMANISM.^ 385 
 
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 idols. 
 India, 
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 3 where 
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 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 
 
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 have seen 
 Its essential 
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 the world, 
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 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. 
 
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 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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 THE FOOT-FHINTS OF SATAN. 
 
 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. 
 
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 )6tract or 
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 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. 
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 lembers 
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 iples of 
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 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. 
 
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THK ANIMl'S OF JKSUITISM. 
 
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 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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 390 
 
 THK KOOT-PHINTS OF SATAN. 
 
 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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JKHUITS AND MISSIONAUIKM. 
 
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 f of Uu'ir 
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 )f luMVOII. 
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 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>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. 
 
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 > loinuln 
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 MIMHIHN OK MAIMUIA. 
 
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 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 : 
 
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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. " 
 
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 " A Wanuug fi\mi the Vm&U' l>y tlu< Utw. \V. S. Mmikuy. 
 
j'liuifn MNirv rAHANi/.rih 
 
 401 
 
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 ho roll 
 t» rvory 
 
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 Uiom'o ot 
 
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 (i^ly lol 
 
 M* (M)uvov 
 
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 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 
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 ,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 
 
II 
 
 1 
 
 ^MNIMWHMMIM 
 
 Mai 
 
 ill * 
 
 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. 
 
 H 
 
, I 
 
 xxt 
 
 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 
 
400 
 
 THE FOOT-PUINTS OF SATAN. 
 
 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 
 
 H 
 
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-,- 
 
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 410 
 
 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. 
 
 ■■i 
 
1^ 
 
 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- 
 
 ^yand 
 cissions, 
 
 n be pr 
 ot say tl 
 ow appe 
 
nts are sup- 
 d, and a por- 
 only a small 
 ats in unison 
 .!rsts forth in 
 ponded to in 
 
 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 
 
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 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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 414 
 
 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] 
 
 h 
 
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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 416 
 
 THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN. 
 
 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 
 
» 
 
 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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 418 
 
 THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN. 
 
 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. 
 
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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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 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 
 
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 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 
 
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 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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 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,. 
 
 4:{l 
 
 I 
 
 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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 I'.'i 
 

 432 
 
 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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434 
 
 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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 Till-: FOOT-I'lUNTS OF SATAX. 
 
 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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 that is donrost. swootost. host o( doniostio lilo. 
 
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 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, 
 
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 luiri'M, I'lnplMy oil lii^ 0'^nno•'H. ui\(\ rrnik" on<' liruil, fU-R- 
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 nl'lhc hovil. yd, Mm net, dfirm is norif.', t,lm, Io^h df;vilish. 
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 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\(* 1mI(- uprising of m )m>(»|>1(> in (lio 
 inlcrivsls of mIjivim'V, is ngnin wrilicn in ll.'nning cnpilnlM 
 "on i]\o voslnro sind on (h«» llni>li" of <ho inrnnMl kinr. 
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 \i\io c'wW war in Krjnu'(\ N(»v«m- Ix^loic did M»o (^miMi 
 witness ,M nioiH* ronipK^to jinndoiuoninnK 'Vho incMrnnlo 
 (lonion of war hnd, \v(^ slioidd (liiniv, alrondy glnllcil Ids 
 insntiaM*^ maw in ilu^ Mood of llu* lunuliods (d" tlion- 
 sands slain in iho war just (>Ios(mI — a, war rn(ld«\ssly 
 waLVod l>v (1)0 " riirlif arm of {]]o Tapaov ' in llio intorosls 
 t>f tlu^ Soarlot H<\as<.. I^nt still inlcMil on Moodshod and 
 slaugldiM' and all (ho hornns of Iho l'i(, (lu» most, nnpar- 
 •iIU'KhI l>arl>ari(ios \V(M(^ porpt^ratod in I'aris. No(r only 
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 woro but, tlu> oon\mon pas(imos o\' (ho iVon/iod and do- 
 n\oniao mob, but thoro was iho nmsi wan(,on d(^s(, motion 
 of proporty — contlagratrU^ns (ho vandal hand ruthlo.ssly 
 laiil on tho m(>st prooioiis works of art -palaoos biu'nt — 
 olnirohos dosooratod and dostroycd — InitoluMios tho niost 
 brutal — and « roign of torror a.s if (ho! foulost tionds of 
 tho Pit woro lo(>sod- and tho whoh* oharao(,(M'izod as (ho 
 in(>s(, ruthloss roboUion against all law, divino or human, 
 and pursiiod with a wan(onnoss and oruoKy unparallolod, 
 and (orminatod in tiro and blood, which will loavo its 
 marks on tho ]y>\f!;o o( his(ory, noviM' io \)(\ 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. 
 
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 who wns tlio 
 
 Pit Olio writing ainiilHfc theHo diHgusting Hcunos of hor- 
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 of religion loriiiddcn, 11m> miniMt.ctH of" irligiofi iiiipriHonrd 
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 tli(» nsc! ol" the ont.wnrd rinhlciris of religion, snch ns tJu^ 
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 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. 
 
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 uur own times for our illustration. Wo need not go 
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446 
 
 THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN. 
 
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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. 
 
 447 
 
 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 
 
;2,381,G92 2G 
 
 11,509,829 71 
 
 THE TAMMANY RING. 449 
 
 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." 
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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 
 
DANGER OF INFIDELITY. 
 
 455 
 
 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 
 
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 JHsno from tlirNrdnik rNnidMniid W'^lti. n|>nn llin Itiiildifi^'^. 
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 liiit )il(l(^ Itiiitinl. A siiwdl )m>II n|M)i) nil cM^^diin, niid a 
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 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 
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 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^ 
 
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 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- 
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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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468 
 
 THE FOOT-PRINTS OP SATAN. 
 
 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 
 
470 
 
 THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN. 
 
 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, 
 
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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 
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 DEVIL AGAINST DEVIL. 
 
 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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472 
 
 THE FOOT- PRINTS OF SATAN. 
 
 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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BRUTAL MURDERS. 
 
 473 
 
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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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 474 
 
 THE FOOT-PRINTS OF SATAN. 
 
 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 
 
 * Added to Canadian Edition. 
 
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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476 
 
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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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 THE EXPERIMENT IN FRANCE. 
 
 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 
 
HOPE OF DELIVERANCE. 
 
 479 
 
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 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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480 
 
 THH FOOT-PRINTS OP SATAN. 
 
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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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 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. 
 
 m* 
 
11 
 
 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 
 
 ' I 
 
 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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 k 
 
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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 I' 
 
 , v.. 
 
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 
 
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 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 
 
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 TIIK FOOT-rUINTH OF SATAN. 
 
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 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 
 
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 )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 
 
 CHI 
 
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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 owning the largest domain on this continent ; a people who act out in fact, 
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" Within tlio city," says tho hhuw a\ith<»r, " tluu-o woro seven 
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 could not have furninhed Heven thousand men better qualified 
 to meet u terrible oniergency." 
 
 The Reign of Terror under whicli every Protestant in Ire- 
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 tho history of the events contained in this book, showing 
 clearly that there was no other course open to them but resist- 
 ance to tho Stuart dynasty, which, had it been perpetuated' 
 w .st have sunk the whole British Empire to the level of Spain, 
 7 jrtugal, or Italy. And if on this Continent a British Settle- 
 ment existed at all, we may judge of its extent and character 
 by what Mexico and Lower Canada now are. 
 
 Exlract/rom tJu; !^i>eirh. of LOIU.) IJ8(»Alv, Governor-General of the 
 Dominion, delivered at Toronto, Sit/i October, 1869 ; — 
 
 His Lordship spoke of the heroes of the Irish struggle in 
 1688-90 as "those who successfully conducted the toilsome 
 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 
 ever took place in the British Islands, and watched from the 
 walls, which their valour made impregnable, the slow ap- 
 proach of the sails from Lough Foyle, which were bringing 
 them relief to close the conflict in their triumph— a triumpli 
 not more glorious to the defenders than it proved advanta- 
 geous to them and their assailants, and to the cause of Civil 
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 Protestant Clergy, have set up the Confessional, the Rags and 
 Mummeries of Rome — keep out from their churches the pure 
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