Satan in the Character of Goliath.
By Wm. Penniman
The Witness says, “Satan is coming forth, Goliath-like, at the Centennial to challenge all the good elements of the nation; and in the matter of selling the bane of society and curse of the country on the Centennial grounds he has beaten all the temperance men and half the Christians of the Union, as probably a much larger proportion of real Christians. He is now going to have his hardest battle of all; namely, to overthrow the Christian Sabbath, as far as the Centennial Exhibition is concerned; and he goes into the contest confident of success, while the spiritual Israel are, since their overthrow on the liquor question, as fearful as were the Israelites before Goliath.” The Witness is very much mistaken in regard to Satan’s working to overthrow the “Christian Sabbath;” for the facts in the case prove conclusively that he is making a desperate effort to sustain it. This arch-enemy of the truth has so blinded the minds of the people as to cause them to think he is attempting to overthrow the very day he is determined to set up. And why is this? Is it not because Satan knows that if he can delude them to think he is against them, they will work so much the harder to sustain his counterfeit day? Thus we can see that in the providence of God deluded men, urged on by Satan, will eventually help to fulfill Rev. 13:11–18.