The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-09-30


senting themselves as human beings
who have died and who desire to COM
municate with their friends. And they
attempt to do 30 through spirit me
dfums. This Is their practice from Of
old. Their endeavor Is to break down
the human will and to more and more
control 1t. The height of their ambi-
ton and success Is to fully dominate
the human will. 30 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 one
personality and attempting to use the
same brains and body. 1t is estimated
that one-half Of all who are In insane
asyiums 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 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 'the only
name given under heaven or amongst
men whereby we must be saved' win
hear that name In Gods due time-in
the rection-during the thousand
years of Messiah's reign when he, as
the true Light, shall tighten every man
that cometh into the world" John 1, o..
But If Jesus died and in death knew
not anything. how could he preach to
the fallen angels? We answer that 1t
is common expression that factions
speak louder than words" The great
actions or facts connected with our
Lords death and resurrection consti-
tuted q most wonderful sermon 10 the
fallen angels. AS they beheld the Re
deemer's faithfulness to God, even
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
prtncipalities and powers and every
name that is named"-all this consti-
tuted a most wonderful sermon of love
and loyalty, faith and obedience, etc.
The sermon to them meant, How serf-
Gus 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 fallen men. have In his heart also
a place of mercy for us, should we re-
pent2 The Apostle indmates that
these angels, with the exception Of
Satan, are yet TO have a 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, -.
Quite possibly the hopes inspired by |
that great sermon preached by our
Lords resurrection to the spirit be-
ings led some of those fallen angels
TO repentance. II 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 10 imply that
fallen angels" wicked spirits" 'ay-
Ing spirits" demons" viii have
much to do with bringing about the
eAOat LAho VI lIOuDAt Win nAASh
this Gospel Age win end, before the
complete Inauguration Of Messiah's
Empire and the binding of Satan CRev-
elation Xxx. a. The intimnticl Is that
the trouble here win be short and
sharp, as In the days of Noah. The
declaration of-the Apostle that these
evn spirits VIII 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
begins, the chains of darkness win be
broken. II, 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 VIII
soon be able to materialize IN broad
daylight With the power to counter
lett and personate humanity what may
his not mean in the way of deception
mentioned by our Lord, who declares
hat 1t VIII be so strong that It would
deceive even the "very elect" were
hey not specially protected and guild
d.
We remind you also Of the great
.fr1da which CnfritiSrn 0ccuitfsrn and |