The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-05-23

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mortal Tan was asaIn crowded TO bear
Pasto Russell The discourse, on
sThe Overthrow Of Satan's Empire!
was ID The natute sof religions ilsrr-
ture. 1t was marked throughout ~
deepest reverence for the Bible. many
Iof the passages Of which shope oht
Iswith a new meaning under the search
Hight Of his message, He asserted. ADD
seemed to prove, the personaIIty of ga
ktan. But according to his showing It
Is n great mistake 10 suppose the Arch.
enemy Of mankind to be afar OF stok-
ing furnaces aud torturing the dead.
Instead, lie is the cunning Deceiyer
who for centuries has been hoodwilk-
5 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-peryer-
sion through ambition. Originally his
, name was Lucifer-M Morning Star. He
beheld our first parents in Eden. noted
their power 10 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 a measure Of
] deceptive power over the race and to
display TO both angels and men the ter
l rlble results Of sin. as exempllfed In
what the Apostleiterms the reign Of
sin and deaths and the mental moral
and physical degradation resulting.
Satan has not been alone. Not only
Is he ''the Prince of this world" or
= age, but additionally be is the prince
Of devils"-demons The speaker show
J, ed from the Scriptures Genesis 81;
Jude 6, how these subordinate de-
/. mons had once been holy angels, too
and when and where they sinned. and
how.
.aThe Apostle Peter gives the key to
the real solution Of the matter when.
in recIting tile 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
i Il Peter I'll. 10. 2O, Those angels who
were permitted to have measure OF
j control of the fallen race. with view
to helping them as much as they
might be able. and who. for the ppr-
I pose Of rendering such assistance to
mankind. were permitted to appear In
r human form, became enamored Of the
human female. and preferred the lu'
man form to their own state as spirit
beings. They thus left their original
estate, as Jude also explains GUIDE
q. 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 groveling and SEN
sual, manifested Clearly in their Owl
i course the downward tendency Of oil
transgressions Of the divine law.
"The Apostles Peter aud Jude clear
" mark out the punishment visited
upon those sons Of God who thus be-
trayed their trust and fell Into sin,
leaving their own habitatlon,' their
! own nature. and aff1liating with the
human nature. Their punishment has
= been their deprivation Of all such lib
ertiea and their separation from God
i and from the holy angels: and this re-
straint is called, by the Apostle.
,chainsfo 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
4, we remark that these are the spirits
In prison. mentioned by Peter Il Peter
!. Ill. 19), and that although restricted as
4 respects their powers of fellowship
I with the holy angels, and with man
hind, being no longer privileged to ap'
pear as men, they still seek human
fellowship, endeavoring to gain posses
e sion Of human beings who yield up
B their wills. and who are then said to
!. 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'
y manity to become their mediums (splr'
it mediums), through whom they to
some extent communicate. And they
personate dead human beings, because
they know well that humanity would
shun them and fear them If their real
+ identity were discovered.
Satan and bis subordlnates have
J. maintained system of human deep,
| tion," the speaker declared, and It
must be confessed that he gave Bib.
Heal proofs for bis every claim. He
: asserted that the communications be.
b lieyed by SplritualIsts-Dr. Funk. Prof.
. Hyslop, Editor Stead and others-to be
Q communications from the dead, are
/ really deceptive communications from
. these fallen angels. So far from clalrn-
ing that these professors and medl.
ums practice deception, his claim is
. that they themselves are deceived and
! are unintentlonalIy leading others on
ward into terrible SplrituallStic
maeIstrom, which, he declares, we are
nearing, according to the Bible. He
warned against hypnotism, mind cures,
etc, practlced by well-meanlng but de,
1 .N.ka aFNI ANI