HET ON THE W WAGON. I will take my text from the 8th chapter of Matthew, the 28 th to the 32 nd verse, describing the casting out of the devils, which entered into the swine. Here we have one of the strangest scenes in all the gospels. Two men, possessed of devils, confront Jesus, and while the devils are crying out for Jesus to leave them, he commands the devils to come out, and the devils obey the command of Jesus. The devils ask permission to enter into a herd of swine feeding on the hillside. This is the only record we have of Jesus ever granting the petition of devils, and He did it for the salvation of men. Then the fellows that kept the hogs went back to town and told the peanut-brained, weasel-eyed, hog-jowled, beetle- browed, hull-necked lobsters that owned the hogs, that “A long-haired fanatic from Nazareth, named Jesus, has driven the devils out of some men and the devils have gone into the hogs, and the hogs into the sea, and the sea into the hogs, and the whole bunch “is dead.” And then the fat, pussy old fellows came out to see Jesus and said that He was hurting their business. A fellow says to me, “I don’t think Jesus Christ did a nice thing.” Yon don’t know what you are talking about. Down in Nashville, Tenn., I saw four wagons going down the street, and they were loaded with stills, and kettles, and pipes. “What’s this?” I said. “United States revenue officeis, and they have been in the
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