The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-01
by which also he went and preach
ed unto the spirits in prison." q Peter
iii, 19.)

| ample of the angels had a democrat
| izing effect upon the children of Adam,
as well as upon their own children.
All this is stated and implied in the
words, And God saw that the wicked
ness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually What a terrible picture
food. But God was not astonished,
for he had foreknown everything.
Hence he had a great canopy of water
in the sky which temporarily gave the
earth an equable, temperate climate,
but which he intended should fall
upon the earth and cause the great
| flood in Noah's day. Hence at the ap-
propriate time God gave instructions
to Noah to prepare an ark for the saw
ing of himself and his house. Noah
and his family were the only mem beTS
! of Adams race in all the earth who
were not more or less contaminated by
those angels. How wide must have
| been that influence when we read as
an exceptional matter. Now Noah
| (and his family were perfect in his
generation''-the disobedient angels
| had nothing whatever to do with gen
| Grating them.
| Fallen Angels Changed.
! While the angels preferred to live as
men in human bodies, they would not
| be overwhelmed like humanity in the
flood, but merely dissolve, by demate-
realization, their human bodies and be,
| as originally, spirit beings. Satan was
| the first sinner against the Divine gov
| eminent, in his endeavor to set up a
separate empire and to have humanity
| for his subjects. Although God had
| full power to destroy Satan and the
| other disobedient angels, he has not
| exercised that power. Instead he mere
| ~ isolated them from himself and the
! holy angels and imprisoned them, in
| the sense that he no longer permitted
! them to materialize, either as a ser
pent or as humanity for the tempting
and injury of our race. In this sense
! they are Observation-Disclosures of lib
erty.
| Now let us hear st. Peters words re-
spect1ng these angels who sinned. He
says Gil Peter ii, ~, God spared not
| the angels that sinned, but cast them
down to hell, and delivered them into
chains of darkness, to be reserved unto
| Judgment The word tartarus here
rendered hell" in our common YER
sion, is found nowhere else in the BIZ
| Die. 1t refers to our earths atmos-
phere and to the fact that those fallen
angels, called demons or devils, are
| the power of the air" And Satan,
who was originally an angel of much
higher rank and nature, is their
| Prince, THE Prince of the power of
| the air." the Prince of demons They
are least down. in the sense Of being
treated ignominiously. They are ain
| chains of darkness" not in chains of
| iron. They can still go and come and
| be sources of temptation to humanity
who are in a sinful attitude of mind.
They are restrained in chains of dark
ness in the sense that whatever they
do must be done in the dark-unti1
| their judgment time at the Great Day
| at the beginning of Messiah's thou
sand year day Of the reign of right
eousness
Turn to ST. Jude's Epistle. There
we read (verse 81, 1.-The angels which
kept not their first estate, but left
| their own habitation, he hath reserved
In age lasting chains, under darkness,
unto the Judgment of the Great Day.
Their first estate in which they were
created was the spirit or angelic con-
dition. They left their own proper con-
dition of living and nature. in viola
| ton of Divine will. that they might
| live on a lower plane-live in sin; for
the angels are sexless, though always
| referred to as masculine. And our
Lord declares that those begotten of
the Holy Spirit, who during this age
shall attain to the resurrection of the
dead, the First Resurrection" will be
| like unto the angels in several re-
/ spects-one of these being that they
marriage, but be without sexual dis
| tinction.
In harmony with this note how
spiritualists hold their seances, either
| III absolute ddrkneSS OF IN a very IalnL
| light. They claim now that the spir-
| its are getting more and more power
| of naturalization and that soon they
will be able to materialize in broad
daylight and go about amongst hui
mainly as members of the race. We
| do not question the power of God to
restrain these fallen angels, these de-
mons-his power to restrain them
from Undertaking.. and thus doing
great harm in the world. Neverth eleSs,
| wonder if thew will not he narT17if-
| ted by God to find some greater powers
| of naturalization, contrary to the Di-
vine decree. that their course in this
matter may more particularly mani
fest to what extent some of them
| have changed and reformed and de-
/ sire to be obedient, for instance, while
others are still as opposed to God and