The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-09-29

Scriptures in describing the fallen an
gels, who from earliest days have at
tempted to deceive humapity-repr
senting themselves as human beings
who have died and who desire to com
municate with their friends And they
attempt to do so through spirit me
diums. This is their practice from OF
old. Their endeavor is to break down
the human will and to more and more
/ control it. The height of their ambi-
/ ton and success is to fully dominate
the human will, so that they may use
/ the human body as their own flesh, as
when they had power to materialize
/ Those who come fully under their con
/ troll become demented, often several
+ spirits gaining possession of the one
( personality and attempting to use the
, same brains and body. Ii is estimated
( that One-half Of all who are in insane
/ asylums are merely victims Of spirit
obsession. The great remedy against
all this is the Truth of Gods Word.
/ Those who accept that cannot be de-
ceived. But the masses of mankind
are being deceived. The Scripture
teaching is that when q man is dead
he knows not anything, and will never
know anything until the resurrection
of the dead. Whoever knows this is
fortified against all the receptions of
| the evil spirits
We are not claiming that all me-
diums are fraudulent Some of them
we know to be most sincere. A large
number have been delivered from their
awful position of acting as tools of
! Satan by the reading of our little
pamphlet. proofs that Spiritism is
Demonism"
Jesus Preached to These Spirits.
There are no human spirits TO be
preached to. Human beings are not
spirit beings The dead of humanity
who have never heard Of "the only
name given under heaven or amongst
men whereby we must he saved" will
hear that name in Gods dumime-in
the resurrccton-during the thousand
years of MoSsiah's reign when he, as
the true Light shall tighten every man
that cOmcth into the world CJOhu j. %.
But if Jesus died and in death knew
not anything, how could he preach to
the fallen angels? We answer that it
IS a common expression that actions
speak louder than words" The great
actions or facts connected with oug
Lords death and resurrection consti-
tuted a most wonderful sermon to the
fallen angels. As they beheld the Re
deemer'S faithfulness TO God, even
unto death, even the death Of the cross,
and as they then beheld Gods faith
fitness to him in raising him from
the dead to the highest nature-the
divine nature-"far above angels and
principalities and powers and every
name that is named"-all this consti-
tuted a most wonderful sermon of love
and loyalty, faith and obedience, etc.
The sermon to them meant, How seri-
Gus was our mistake in being disobedi-
ent to God in any particular. 1t meant
also, May not God, who has thus gone
to so much trouble for the redemption
Of fallen men, have in his heart also
place of mercy for US. should we re
pent? The Apostle intmates that
these angels, with the exception of
Satan, are yet to have testing or
trial, for he assures the Church that
God purposes that we, as the Bride of
Christ, shall not only be entrusted
with the work OF judging or giving
trial to the world Of mankind during
the Millennium, but also that we shall
judge angels-not the holy angels, for,
Of course, they need no judging on
our part-but the fallen angels q Cor.
vi, 81.
Quite possibly the hopes inspired by
that great sermon preached by our
Lords resurrection to the spirit be
ings led some of those fallen angels
to repentance. If so we may suppose
that during the eighteen centuries
since, they have suffered severely at
the hands of the rebellious angels,
who would be aroused to animosity by
their reform.
The Scriptures seem to imply that
fallen angels" wicked spirits" '1y-
ing spirits,' demons" will have
much to do with bringing about the
great time of trouble" with which
this Gospel Age will end, before the
complete Inauguration of Messiah's
Empire and the binding of Satan Rey-
elation Ky, A. The intimation is that
the trouble here will be short and
sharp, as in the days of Noah. The
declaration of the Apostle that these
evil spirits will be in chains of dark
ness until the Judgment of the Great
Day leaves room for the inference that
when the Judgment of the Great Day
begins, the chains of darkness will be
broken. If, therefore, we have the
right understanding of this matter
great events are near at hand. Spirit
mediums are already declaring that
the spirits tell them that they will
soon be able to materialize in broad
daylight. With the power to counter
felt and personate humanity what may
this not mean in the way of deception
mentioned bV our Lord who declares