The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-01

darkness were to control them until
| the Great Day-not necessarily into
that day-perhaps at its very begin
ming they may be permitted to gain
certain liberties and do a certain
| amount of injury to humanity, to all
who are not attentive to the Word of
God, and who therefore. will not
know who these spirits are-that they
are the fallen angels, the demons of
| the Bible.
''Wicked Spirits,'' "Lying Spirits.''
| These are the terms used in the
Scriptures in describing the fallen an
gels who. from earliest days have at
tempted to deceive humanity-repre
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-
d1umS 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 ambf-
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.
i Those who come fully under their con-
troll become oemented, often several
spirits gaining possession of the one
personality and attempting to use the
same brains and body. It is estimated
that one-half Of all who are in insane
lasylums are merely victims of spirit
obsession. The great remedy against
| Those who accept that cannot be de-
ceived. But the masses of mankind
are being deceived. The Scripture
teaching is that when a man is dead
he knows not anything, and will never
know anything until the resurr ection
of the dead. Whoever knows this is
fortified against all the receptions of
1.-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 positions Of acting as tools of
Satan by the reading of our little
pamphlet proofs that Spiritualism 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 1.-The only
name given under heaven or amongst
men whereby we may be saved will
hear that name in Gods due time-in
the rrection-during the thousand
years of Messiah's reign when he, as
the true Light. shall tighten every man
that cometh into the world (John
Ii, 81.
But if Jesus died and in death knew
not anything, how could he preach to
the fallen angels? We answer that it
is common expression that factions
speak louder than words " The great
: actions or facts connected with our
Lords death and resurrection consti-
tuted 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
| fu1neSS to him in raising him from the
| dead to the highest nature-the Di-
vine nature-'far above angels and
! principalities and powers and every
name that is named'-alI this constf-
tuted a most wonderful sermon of love
a4a
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
q place of mercy for US, should we re-
pent? The apostle intimates that
these angels, with the exception of
Satan, are yet to have a 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. 50.
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 amin osity by
their reform.
! The Scriptures seem TO imply that
fallen angels" wicked spirits" ely
ing spirits" demons" will have
much to do with bringing about the
great time of trouble" with which
this Gospel Age will lend. before the
complete resurrection of Messiah's
Empire and the binding of Satan Grew
elation Xxx, ~. 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 the 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
Il daylight. With the power to counter
felt and personate humanity what may
mentioned by our Lord, who declares
that it will be SO strong that it would
deceive even the every elect were
they not specially protected and
! guided.
We remind you also of the great
stride which Spiritism, Occultism and
Psychic Science have made within the
last few years. These now number
amongst their friends and advocates
some of the brightest scientific minds.
One of these, Professor James of Har-
ward college recently before dying, de-
cIared that he would speedily COM
municate with his friends. Already
the newspapers tell US that he has be-
gun to communicate. but the mediums
claim that he has difficulty in operat-
ing through them, because of the great
/ force and power of his intellect and
that hey must gradually become able
to act as his medium. From the Bible
! standpoint all this is a fraud-a de-