Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-09-28

SentlQg themselves as uuuldu UeluSS
who have died and who desire to COM
municate with their friends. And they
attempt to do so through spirit mel
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 ami
ton and success is to fully domina(
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 n
personality and attempting to use the
same brains and body. 1t 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 a 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 1.-THE only
name given under heaven or amongst
men whereby we must be saved" will
hear that name in Gods due time-in
the resurrection-during the thousand
years of Messiab's reign when he, as
the true Light, shall tighten every man
that cometh into the world" John i. 8,
But II Jesus died and in death knew
not anything, how could he preach to
the fallen angels? We answer that II
is q common expression that factions
speak louder than words" The great
actions or facts connected with our
Lords death and resurrection consti-
tuted a most wonderful sermon to the
fallen angels. AS they beheld the Re
Joo,,o,,o foif6f,1pac1 to Odd arnn
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"Zall this consti-
tuted a most wonderful sermon of love
and loyalty, faith and obedience, etc.
The sermon to them meant, How seri-
u 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 faffeu men, have in his heart afso'
a place Of mercy for us, should we re-
pent? The Apostle intimates that
these angels, with the exception Of
Satan, are yet to have q 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, B..
Quite possibly the hopes inspired by
that great sermon preached by Jul
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" .'ly-
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 REV
elation Xxx, 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
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
not meal in the way of deception
mentioned by u Lord, who declares
that it will be so strong that 1t would
even the Every elect" were
they not specially protected and guild
ed.
We remind you also of the great
stride which Spiritism, Occultism and
Science have made within the
last few years. These now number
mOnp their friends and advocates