Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1909-09-18
PULPIT
Thrust In Thy
Sickle.
Text. Thrust in thy sickle, and
reap; for the time is come for thee
o reap" (ReveIadon xiv. 80.

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they were until subsequently they re-
vealed their identity. as we read in the
account Of Genesis xviii. The Apostle
Paul adds his testimony to this Incl
dent. saying to the Church, BE not
forgetful to entertain strangers; for
thereby some have entertained angels
unawares" Hebrews xiii, p.
For long centuries this relationship
between the angels and mankind con-
tinued. Wes have no record of any
human being receiving an uplift from
as, God had foreseen. the influence of
sin was contagious and ere long some
of the angelic hosts became so enam-
ored of the daughters OF men that
they took to themselves wives OF
such as they chose" and preferred to
leave their own habitatiOn or spirit
condition and to remain in a material
ized form and to raise earthly families,
although their course was contrary to
the Divine arrangement and must have
been so understood by them. Divine
power was not interposed to hinder
them. The error of this sedition. the
leaving of their own habitation or
plane of spirit being. from small be-
ginning, spread. and Gods non-inter-
ference justified the supposition that
he was either not able to cope With
the situation, or unable to enforce his
own Law. Thus centuries rolled by.
while the earthly children OF those
angels which Kept not their nrst es-
tate became giants and men OF re-
nown' at time when maturity was
not reached until at least one Hun
dred years Genesis VI.
during all those centuries we may
be sure that every one OF the holy
angels had fullest opportunity to par
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This Present Evil world.
This present evil world differs
from "the world before the hoodD IN
that 1t is not under the mlnlstratlon
of the angels-but man, IN general
sense. is left to himself. Since the
flood the world IN general mas Deen
going on just as If there were no COD.
the exceptions, aside from the jewish
nation and the Church of Christ, being
the destruction OF the Sodomltes and
the preaching of Jonah to the Nine
vites. warning them that they were
about to perish. In other words. SO far
as outward appearance goes. God has
allowed the world to take It's own
course. interfering only wnen the cor
rruption became so great as to make life
injurious rather than Iavor. we
may also understand the Scriptures to
teach that God has had silent super
vision of the nations to hinder them
from overtnrning or disturbing any
feature Of the Divine program. lie Is
wise enough to know how to make the
wrath OF man to praise him and the re-
mainder more than this ne VIII restrain
ST. Paul, reviewing the question OF
human degradation as exhibited IN
heathendom. ETC., explains that the
great deterioration in the human fam
lily is the result of mans being left 10
himself as respects the Divine super
vision. He says, looking back along
the line of Noah's descendants. "Wnen
they knew God they glorified him not
as God. neither were thankful.
And even as they did not like to re-
tain God in their knowledge, God gave
them over to reprobate mina'-they
giving themselves over to things that
were not profitable, defiling themselves.