The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-05-26
Sermon by
CHARLES T.
RUSSELL
Pastor Brooklyn
abernacie.

"The Overthrow of Satan's Empire"
was in the nature of a religious lee.
ture. Ii was marked throughout by
deepest reverence for the Bible. many
of the passages of which shone out
with new meaning under the search
light of his message He asserted, and
seemed to prove. the personality of Sa.
tan But according to his showing II
Is great mistake to suppose the Arch
enemy Of mankind to be afar of stok-
ing furnaces aud torturlDg the dead
Instead, he Is the cunning Deceiver
who for centuries has been hood wink
ing humanity. including the Church
putting darkness for light and light for
darkness God did not create him a
devil He Jecame such by self-perver
sion through ambition Originally his
name was Lucifer- Morning star he
beheld our first parents In Eden. noted
their power TO produce race In their
own likeness and coveted an empire
with them as his subjects.
For six thousand years God has per.
mltted Satan to exercise a measure of
deceptive power over the race and to
display to both angels and men the ter.
rible results of sin. as exempllhed in
what the Apostle terms the "reigD of
sin and death" and the mental. moral
and physical degradation resulting
Satan has not been alone Not only
is he "the Prince Of this world" or
age, but additionally he is the prince
Of devils" The speaker show.
ed from the Scriptures Genesis vi;
Jude .6D how these subordinate de-
mons had once been holy angels, too
aud when and where they sinned. and
how
"The Apostle Peter gives the key to
the real solution of the matter when.
In reciting the events connected with
the food. he tells us of the fall of the
angels at that time. who 'in the days
of Noah kept not their first estate
Il Peter Ill. 10. 20I. Those angels who
were permitted to have measure of
control of the fallen race. with a view
to helping them as much as they
Ut Ot uDlt. uuu NuOs lOi tht Dut-
pose OF rendering such assistance to
mankind. were permitted to appear In
human form, became enamored of the
human female, and preferred the hu-
man form TO their own state as spirit
beings. They thus left their original
estate, as Jude also explains Jude
o.. These angels are the ones de.
nominated the sons of God. none Of
the human family being given that
uane after the tall. The angels who
fell from their noble work and condl-
ton, and became groveing and sen.
sual, manifested clearly in their own
course the downward tendency Of all
OF the divine law.
'The Apostles Peter and Jude clear
Iy mark out the punishment visited
upon those sons of God who thus be-
trayed their trust and fell into sin,
leaving their own habitation.' their
own nature. and afiiliating with the
human nature. Their punishment has
been their deprivation OF all such lib.
eriies, and their separation from God
and from the holy angels: and this re-
stratnt is called, by the Apostle,
chains Of darkness, while the re-
strained ones themselves, instead of
being recognized as SONS of God or
angels of light. were thenceforth
known as angels of Darkness de
MONS wicked spirits Incidentally
we remark that these are the spirits
N prison mentioned by Peter Il Peter
III, l0I. and that although restricted as
respects their powers of fellowship
with the holy angels. and with man
Kind. being no longer privileged to ap-
pear as men, they still seek human
endeavoring TO gain posses
sion OF human beings who yield up
their wills, and who are then said to
be possessed of devils or 'obsessed.' Ii
s but a preliminary step toward thus
getting possession of the individual
hat these wicked spirits appeal to hu.
nanity TO become their mediums (spir.
/ mediumsl, through whom they to
some extent communicate. And they
Dersonate dead human beings, because
they know well that humanity would
'hun them and fear them If their real
IDENTITY were discovered.
Satan and his subordinates have
a system Of human dece'
don." the speaker declared. ana
must be confessed that he gave /
Iical proofs for his every claim
asserted that the communication
lieved by Splrituallsts-Dr Funk
Hyslop. Editor Stead and other
communications from the dpna
really deceptive communication,
these fallen angels. So far FROM
Ing that these professors aud
ums practice deception his cal
that they themselves are deceive
are unintentionally leading Others
ward into terrible Spiritual
which. he declares. We
nearing, according to the Bible
warned against hypnotism. mind cur
ETC., practiced by well-meaning bur q
ceived physicians, ministers and OF
ers. He declared that all these tende
to break down the human will, the
God-given barrier and defense OF man.
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