The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-30
PASTOR RUSSELL
DELIVERS LECTURE
Striking Assertions Aboul sa-
tan's Modern Methods
OVERTHROW OF HI EXPIRE
Pastor Of Brooklyn Tabernacle Heard
BY Large Crowd at First Zap
fist Church--Leoture Very
Impressive.

Charles T. Russell, better known as
Pastor" Russell OF the Brooklyn Tab
ernacle. New York. lectured to large
audience at the FIRST Baptist church last
night. His subject was THE Overthrow
of Satan's Empire and 1t was treated
in such manner as to be deeply eff
fective Some of the speakers asser-
tons We're ever startling, especially his
views as to the means Satan employs
In modern times TO further his ends.
He declared that the evil spirits have
sought fellowship with mankind through
mediums witches. wizards, necroman-
GERS" in all ages. EIe maintained that
Satan lis bringing strong delusions to
bear from various quarters and espe-
cially through spiritisn. miracle work
ing and cures Of disease-to delude man
kind, to hold them under his snares."
The speaker in beginning his lecture
cited various scriptures In proof of ths
personally Of Satan styled in the Bible
the prince of this world and god OF
this world" He pointed out that the
word Satan signifies adversary of God.
and that the scriptures Indicate that he
who now is Satan. an adversary by rea-
son of sinful course, was originally
a holy angel of high order, styled in
the scriptures covering cherub," and
named Lucifer, which signifies bright
shining star" The scripture was cited
to prove every point-that In his glori-
GUS condition Lucifer entertained an am
bilious thought of taking still higher
rank among the angels and estab lsh
Ing over some of them an empire of
his own independent of that of the Crea-
tor. The ambition smouldered, but broke
forth into a flaming rebellion when. the
opportune moment came for It's gratifi-
cation. That moment was when Satan
beheld our first parents in Eden. a Gre
alton of new order possessed of one
quality which the angels did not possess
namely, the powers of procrea tion--the
powers OF race development.
The ambition there, the opportunity
there. Lucifer merely lacked a reason
which he soon found. He told the first
parents that the divine restriction that
they should not eat of the forbidden
fruit meant merely that God was Jealous
of them and fearful that they would by
eating of the forbidden fruit become
competitive gods. He assured them that
God had falsifed when he declared that
the penalty for eating the forbidden fruit
would be DEATH His words were: rye
shall not surely die, but shall be a.
GODS
Murderer From the Beginning.
Our Lord speaks of Satan as a liar
who abode not in the truth" He also
declares that Satan was murderer
(John SAD We can readily see how both
OF these evil qualities of character de-
veloped at this time: His lie deceived
mother Eve and led our first parents into
sin, and into its penalty, death; and he
therefore. who promulgated that lie which
lead to death was the murderer of Adam
and through Adam the murderer of the
entire human family-for are not all per-
ishing because of one mans sin under a
death sentence which came upon al
through him7
The Fallen Angels.
The speaker declared that before the
flood, according to the scriptures, the
heavenly angels were permitted to dc
what they could in the interest of ths
fallen race and were permitted to ma
terialize and mingle with mankind tc
render such assistance as might be nee.
essary. 1t was at this time that all the
angelic hosts were tested by coming ir
contact with fallen human nature. Man,
Of the angels yielded to temptation and
became the fallen angels mentioned b,
st. Peter and ST. Jude as those who
kept not their first original estate OF
nature. The temptation and sin are spec.
fled in Genesis 62, where we read OF
them, ''The sons of God saw the daugh
tiers of men that they were fair, ant
they took them wives of all which the,
chose" And there were born unto then
children which became giants In the
earth and men OF renown. God fore
knew all Of this and had purposely al
lowed the angels to be on trial, to tn,
intent that the faithful the true, NIGH
be manifested by the disloyalty of tn,
others.
The Fall Foreknown.
TOTchHOWfnB In1S COnQlt1On OF Things
God has already prepared the flood fol
the opportune time-to wipe out thi.
spurious progeny of angels and men
whose numbers and influence had be
come SO great we read that the Who'll,
earth wss corrupted, and the thought.
OF men were only evil and that contin
ually.
Only Noah and his family were pre-
served. and we are specially INFORMED
that they were all pure Adamic stock
without any conlngling with the falleI
feet in his generation And thus ",
are assured In the scriptures that thu
entire race of men today on the earth 4
Adamic-all fallen through Adam. an.
all redeemed by Jesus.
We are informed in the scriptures tina
the angels which snned have been sep
arated from the holy angels as well al
isolated from manlsind-restraned b,
chains of darkness--not permitted to ma
terialize until the trial OF the "grea
day The speaker believed the grea
day of their trial to be near, and as
serted that we must not be surprised 4
the fallen angels shall soon again obtain
the freedom from restraint which woult
enable them TO materialize and personal,
humanity. He declared that ever sine,
the fall these fallen angels have sough
Fellowship with mankind through medl
ums, witches. wizards, necromancers-
known to every age and every nation
These were strictly forbidden In the land
OF Israel. but nevertheless these were the
demons, or devils. Of the New Testament
Il le Ion Of whom our Lord Jesus cas-
out of one poor sufferer who had become
obscessed by them. Our Lord and the
apostles frequently practiced the casting
out of these demons. The speaker de
clared that many In insane asylums, VIII.
give no evidence Of any functional disor
der of the brain, are evidently obscesse,