The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-05-26

PULPIT.
PASTOR RUSSELL'S
DISCOURSE
The Overthrow Of
Satan S Empire


warned all against occult influences of
every kind, urging that the human will
should be preserved and should be
submitted only to the Almighty, and to
him only-intelligently in accordance
with his instructions in the Bible.
Overthrow of Satan's Empire.
Satan, through false doctrines
doctrines of devils has entrenched
himself in the superstitions and preju-
dices, not only of the heather, but also
of the civilized. The creeds of the
Dark Ages evidenced the fact that he
had much to do with their formulation
His false doctrines, antagOnistic to the
Bible, have been palmed off upon us
as veritable Bible truths-just as Satan
endeavored to twist and misapply the
Bible to Jesus in his wilderness temp
tatiOn Mark i, 49,. Thus Satan has
| caused gross darkness to cover the
heather and considerable darkness to
cover the civilized earth. @dt we are
in the morning of the New DISPENSE
ton which is to bring so much bless
ing to the world of mankind in the
opening of the eyes of mans under
standing, and in physical blessings and
comforts. AS a result we have the
wonderful convenienceS and appliances
of steam and electricity, the printing
| press and the electric light. as instead
! of the tallow candle and Quill pen of
the past. Whatsoever doth make
manifest is light and special light is
due also at this time to Gods cOnSe-
Grated people. The illumination now
! granted to the eyes of our understand
ing as Christians, through Bible study
helps, is intended TO be for the Chris
| tian what the arc-light is in nature.
MANS subserviency to Satan is an
| unwilling captivity. Even those who
realize their bondage do not generally
recognize by whom they have been
enslaved. But gradually the bonds
are breaking as we near the time of
! Satan'S overthrow. According to the
| Bible our Lord at his Second Advent
! will bind the Adversary for thou
! sand years that he may deceive man
| kind no more Meantime all the bless
ed influences of light and Truth and
| grace will be let loose in the world
and as a result. the knowledge of the
/ glory Of God shall fill the whole
earth Instead of the darkness OF
the night of sin and death there will
be the morning of joy and gladneSs
| and restitution and blessing. The sun
! of Righteousness will arise with heal
| ing in his beams OF that glorious
! day Saint Peter spoke, saying, Times
| of refreshing shall come from the
presence of the Lord and he shall send
| Jesus Christ, who before was preach
ed unto you, whom the heavens must
retain until the Times of RESTITUTION
| of all things which God hath spoken
by the mouth of all the holy prophets
| since the world began acts iii. 1920.
| Satan's destruction, according to the
! Bible, will not be cOnsummatcd until
after the MILLENNIAL KINGDOM
| OF CHRIST shall have accomplished
its glorious work of uplifting human
ity out of sin and death conditions to
| full human perfection and the image
| of God All the unwilling and dis
! Obedient will be counted as servants
| of Satan and will, with him. be de
| stroyed in the Second Death-eXtinc"
| tion-from which there will be no re.
demption or recovery.
Great Missionary Work.
"The missionary work of blessing
| and uplifting all the families of the
earth is appointed of God for the Mil
| lennial Kingdom-and. thank God, the
/ evidences are that it is very near, yea,
in sense, already beginning. Its
| blessings are intimated by the wonder
full progress of our day. Everything
| waits until the predetermined number
| of Missionaries shall have been called
| and schooled and tested and found
worthy of the great and honorable
work The qualification is that each
must be a copy of Gods dear Som
| so far as heart intention is concerned.
| Then these Missionaries will be glori-
fed like their Lord, on the spilfs plane
| and with him they will constitute the
| Kingdom of Gods dear Son. which
! for a thousand years will bless the
world and bring to pass all that the
| Lord our God has spoken, and more
! than we could have asked or thought.
christian people have no need to
upbraid themselves on the score that
! the missionary efforts of eighteen cen
| turtles have accomplished comparative
! ly little. They have no need to be dis
couraged with the fact that the census
returns show that in the past century
of the greatest missionary endeavor
the propCrtionate numbers of the heI-
then have doubled (siX hundred mil
lions century ag0--tweiye hundred
millions today. This is all as God
foreknew and intended. God did not
| purpose the conversion OF The heather
during this age. but commissioned his
! people to preach his Gospel to every
nation for iritart& ;har The Elect Mis-
siOnaries for tine future work might
be gathered from every country. peo-
! pie and tongue. Gods will has been
done. The Adversary temporarily mis-
led the Church into "A misunderStaud-
ing of her mission. He sought to have
US lower our standard of saintship. in
order to increase the Church far and
near. He sought to oppose the Divine
Will by lowering the standards of