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PEOPLES
Sermon by
CHARLES +.
RUSSELL
Pastor Brooklyn
Tabernacle.

London, Eng, May 22.-Albert Me-
mortal Hall was again crowded to hear
Pastor Russell. The discourse, on
"The Overthrow of Satan's Empire"
was in the nature of a religious lee
turc II was marked throughout by
deepest reverence for the Bible, many
of the passages of which shone OUT
with new meaning under the search
light Of his message He asserted and
seemed to prove, the personality of Sa-
tan. But according to his showing ii
Is a great mistake to suppose the Arch
enemy of mankind to be afar off stok-
Ing furnaces and torturing the dead.
Instead, he Is the cunning Deceiver
who for centuries has been hoodwink
ing humanity, including the Church
putting 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
beheld our first parents in Eden, noted
their power to produce race in their
own likeness and coveted an empire
with them as his subjects.
For six thousand years God has per-
mitted Satan to exercise measure of
deceptive power over the race and to
display to both angels and men the ter
rible results Of sin, as exemplitied 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
is he 1.-THE Prince of this world" or
age, but additionally he is the prince
of devils"-demons. The speaker show
ed from the Scriptures Genesis vi;
Jude g. how these subordinate de-
mons had once been holy angels, too
and when and where they sinned, and
how
THE Apostle Peter gives the key to
the real solution of the matter when,
in reciting the events connected with
the flood, he tells us of the fall of the
angels at that time, who in the days
of Noah kept not their first estate
q Peter iii. 80. 20). Those angels who
were permitted to have measure of
control of the fallen race, with view
to 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
human form, became enamored of the
human female, and preferred the hui
man form to their own state as spirit
beings. They thus left their original
Ind nj
g.. These angels are the ones de-
nominated the sons of God none of
the human family being given that
name after the fall. The angels who
fell from their noble work and condi-
ton, and became groveing and sen.
sual, manifested clearly in their own
course the downward tendency of all
transgressions of the divine law.
The Apostles Peter and Jude clear
iy mark out the punishment visited
upon those sons of God who thus be-
trayed the'" trust and fell into sin,
leaving their own habitatiOn' their
own nature. and affiliating with the
human nature. Their punishment has
been their deprivation of all such lib.
critics, and their separation from God
and from the holy angels: and this re-
straint 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
known as angels Of Darkness de
mons wicked spirits incidentally
we remark that these are the spirits
in prison mentioned by Peter Il Peter
ill., 19), and that although restricted as
respects their powers Of fellowship
with the holy angels. and with man.
kind. being no longer privileged to ap
pear as men, they still seek human
fellowship, endeavoring to gain posses
sion of human beings who yield VI
their wills, and who are then said t
be possessed of devils or 'obsessed.' II
is but a preliminary step toward thus
getting possession of the individual
that these wicked spirits appeal to hu
mainly to become their mediums (spir
1t mediumsl, through whom they t
some extent communicate. And they
perSOnate dead human beings, because
they know well that humanity would
shun them and fear them If their rea
identity were discovered.
Satan and his subordinates have
maintained a system of human decep
ton" the speaker declared, and Il
must be confessed that he gave Bib
lical proofs for his every claim. HI
asserted that the communications be
lievcd by Spiritualists-Dr. Funk, Prof
Hyslop, Editor Stead and others-to h,
communications from the dead, arr
really deceptive communications from
these fallen angels. So far from claim
ing that these professors and medi
UNI practice deception. his claim Il
that they themselves are deceived anC
are unintentionally leading others on
ward into terrible Spiritualsti
maelstrom, which. he declares, we ar,
nearing, according to the Bible. III,
warned against hypnotism, mind cures
etc, practiced by well-meaning but de
ceived physicians, ministers and 9th
ers. He declared that all these tended
70 break down the human will tn