Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-28
PEOPLES
Sermon by
CHARLES T.
RUSSELL
Pastor Brooklyn
Tabernacle.

Edoftal Hall was again crowded 70 hear
Pastor Russell. The discourse, on
1.-THE Overthrow Of satan's Empire"
vVRs In the nature OF religious lee
tUre. II was marked throughout by
deepest reverence for the Bible, many
Of the passages Of which shone out
with a new meaning under the search
Hight OF his message. He asserted, and
seemed to prove, the personality Of Sa-
tan. But according to his showing It
as great mistake to suppose the Arch
enemy OF mankind TO be afar Off stok-
ang furnaces and torturing the dead.
INSTEAD, he is the cunning Decelver
who for centuries has been hoodwink-
fng humanity, inclndng the Church
putfing darkness for light and light for
darkness. God did not create him a
devil He became such by self-perver-
sion through ambition. Originally his
name was Lucifer-Morning Star. he
bebeid our first parents In Eden, noted
their power TO produce a race in their
own likeness and coveted an empire
with them as his subjects.
For six thousand years God has per-
mifted Satan to. exercise a measure of
deceptive power over the race and to
display to both angels and men the ter
xIbie results of sin. as exempllfed in
what the Apostle terms the "reign Of
Sin and DEATH" and the mental. moral
and physical degradation resulting.
Satan has not been alone. Not only
81 ne ~the Prince Of this world" or
age. but additionally be is the Prince
OF devlls'' demons. The speaker show
ed from the Scriptures Genesis vi;
Jude 81 how these subordinate de-
snons had once been holy angels, too
ana when and where they sinned, and
how.
4'The Apostle Peter gives the key to
1he real solution OF the matter when,
IN reciting the events connected with
abe food. he tells us Of the fall of the
angels at that time. . In the days
OF Noah kept not their first estate
a Peter I'll, 10. 2Ol Those angels who
were permitted 10 hive a measure Of
control OF the fallen race, with view
90 helping them as much as they
might be able. and who, for the pur-
pose OF rendering such assistance to
mankind. were permitted to appear in
iHuman form, became enamored of the
hunaR female, and preferred the hui
man form 20 their own state as spirit
beings They thus left their original
estate. as Jude also explains dude
81. These angels are the ones de-
nominated the sons of God none Of
ahe human family being given that
name after the fall The angels who
Cell from their noble work and condl-
tioB, and became groveling and SEN
@uai. manifested clearly In their own
course the downward tendency of all
2ranagressions of the divine law.
'@rhe Apostles Peter and Jude clear
gy mark out the punishment visited
upon those sons OF God who thus be-
aayed their trust and fell into sin,
leaving their own habitation,' their
own nature. and afillluting with the
human nature Their punishment has
been their deprivation OF all such lib
,erties. and their separation from God
and from the holy angels; and this re
atraint 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
&nown as angels OF darkness de
mons wicked spirits Incidentally
we remark that these are the spirits
an prison mentioned by Peter Il Peter
Aii. t9l aud that although restricted as
respects their powers OF Fellowship
with the holy angels, aud with man
Kind, being no longer privileged to APP
pear as men. they still seek human
Fellowship. endeavoring 70 gain posses
sion OF human beings who yield up
rheir Wills, aud who are then said to
abe possessed OF devils or 'obsessed IL
10 6ut 9 preliminary step toward thus
getting possession OF the individual
that these wicked spirits appeal 10 hu.
mnnlty TO become their mediums lspir-
lt medinmsl, through whom they TO
SOME extent communicate. And they
personnte dead human beings. because
they know well that humanity would
nhun them aud fear them II their real
gdentity were discovered
satan and his subordlnates have
mniptained q system OF human decep-
zion. the speaker declared. ana Il
gnuas be confessed that be gave Bib
Heat proofs for his every claim. He
asserted that the communications be-
iievei by spiriualists- nr Funk. Prof
Hyaiop. Editor Stead and others-to be
communications from the dead. are
keally deceptive communications from
these fallen angels, So far from claim
ing shat these professors aud medi-
uns practice deception, bis claim IL
ehaf they themselves are deceived and
are Internationally leading others on
vgand into terrible Splrimalisuc
nacistrom. which. he declares, we are
nearing. according % the bible, lie
ugnrnnd against hypnotism. mind cures,
etc. pracuced By welhmeaning but de-
ceived physicians. ministers ana 9th
era. &c declared chat an those tended
90 break down the human VIII the
God-elv barrier aud defense OF man
&lud against the encroachments OF
eiieae fallen angels. who seek contin-
sally 10 intrude themselves into the