The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-05-13


me; and he that gathereth not
with me scattercth Abroad
v. 30.
Sometimes on a battle field it would
appear as though each man were
hghting for himself All battle lines
seem lost in the cOnfusion yet in the
end the victory will show the same
clear-cut distinctions as prevailed in
the beginning OF the. battle. Accord
| ing to the Great Teacher the entire
human family is either on one side or
on the other side of a great bat
tie between right anu wrong, truth
and error God and Satan. There is
no doubt whatever as to how the bat
tie will end-God will have the vic
tory Indeed the Bible assures us that
at any time he colnd quickly put an
end to the conflict deliver his saints,
overthrow Satan ana. his empire, etc.
The Divine promise is that this will
be done in Gods due time"-when
the Church will be completed and
| by the power of the First Resurrec-
ton, and the time shall come for the
establishment of Messiahs Millennial
Kingdom for the blessing of all the
nations of the earth.
Is it asked why the long delay Of
now six thousand years that sin has
ltriumphed, two thousand of this since
Messiah died for the redemption Of
sinners and their release from the
death sentence? The answer is that
during these nineteen centuries those
whom he has favored with some
knowledge of his will-testing their
Loyalty to him, TO his Law, to his rep
Iresentatives-- he Is testing because he
seeks to find, amongst those processing
loyalty, such as have the principles
lof righteousness at neart Our pres
lent Study shows how some at the First
advent were thus tested and we know
that throughout these nineteen CEN
turies the experience OF the footstep
followers of the Nazarene have been
similar to his own. Frequently they
have been hated without cause
Imaligned, misunderstood, slandered-
sometimes by feIow rellgionists OF
nhonorable standing, In every such
instance we are I" remember that
there are but two sides to the con-
flict-the side of God, truth, right
eousness, and the side of error, false
hood, Satan.
AS we see how Dlindly scribes and
Pharsees and Doctors of the Law
hated Jesus and said all manner of
evil against him, we preceive that
Ireally they were on Satan's side. AS
we see Saul of Tarsus stoning stephen
to death and others prosecuting fol-
flowers of Jesus, we see clearly that
lthey were in Satan's service, deluded
by him, and, in some instances, we
lare assured that these servants of
Satan and unrighteousness varily
thought that they did God service,
Let us therefore be on guard along
these lines remembering the words
of the Great Teacher, "Ye cannot
serve God and mammon," HE that is
not for me is against me-" HE that
gathereth not with me scatteretn
abroad" Alas, how many noble peo-
pie have unwittingly been on the
wrong side of the great controversy
fighting against God and the Truth,
ignorantly deluded by the Adversary,
BY permitting this conflict and the
measure of darkness, God Is the more
effectively trying, testing, those whom
he has called To be his people, Not
only are we tried directly as 10 the
side we will take, but, secondary
sense, we are tried as respects our
humility. Those who are honest OF
heart and who make the mistake OF
fighting against God, when their eyes
are opened, have a great test of hu-
mility in the matter of confession OF
their error and becoming Jealous for
1.-THE Truth, Those who are on the
, fright side have also a test of humility
, that they be not puffed up by theiI
Victory, but humble themselves under
the mighty hand of God, that he may
exalt them in due time,
Satan, because created in a higher
plane, is styled the Prince of demons
in his relationship to the fallen. an
: gels Judge of the delusion In the
0 hearts of the Pharisees which prompt
ed them to charge the Master will
being Satan himself and, on this
score, accounted for his power to cast
out demons The Master took thu
q time to philosophiZe with them OF
Il this subject and to show that II thu
d time had come when Satan would
r work against his own associates an'
d servants it would imply the speed.
o fall of his empire, He also pointed on
a THAT demons had been cast out b,
some whom they acknowledged am