The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-09-26

SCRIPTURES IN Describing thu l0ilcn ans
gels who from earile DAYS have nj
tempted 70 deeeiye humanity repre-.
sentlns themselves is human beings
who hive died and wlis de y life 10 com
inuhIeate with theif friends Andthey
attempt toi do 50 tirotis Ii spirit ilie-
ldinms This Is their practice from OF
old. Their endeay Is 70 break down
the human Will and to more and more
control It The height Of their ambt-
ton and success Is to fully dominate
the human will. 50, that they nlny use
the human; body as tielr oEn iiesli. iis
wien they Ind power 10 ma efiallse.
Those who come fully gunie is their con-.
troll become gdemehted. often several
spirits ginning POSSESSION Of the one
personality and attempting to use the
same brains and body tits. eshmated
that one.half Of all who are In insane
asylums 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 a man Is dead
he knows not anything, and will never
know anything untl the resurrection
Of the .dead. Whoever knows this Is
fortified against all the, receptions of
the evil spirits. Z,
We arc 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 netting as tools OF
Satan by, the reading Of our little
pamphlet, Proofs that spiritism IS
Dcmonism."
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. will
hear TINT name In Gods due time In
the resurrection-during the thousand
years Of Messiah's reign when he. as
the true Light. shall tighten every man
that cometh into the world (John !. 9).
But If Jesus died and in death knew
not anything. how could he preach to
the fallen angels? We answer that
rs common expression that factions
speak louder than words" The great
actions or facts connected with our
Lords death and resurrection consti-
tuted a most wonderful sermon to the
fallen angels. As they beheld the Re-
deemer's faithfulness to God. even
unto death, even the death Of the cross,
and us they then beheld Gods faith
fitness to him in raising him from
the dead to the highest natnre-the
divine nature-'far above angels and
municipalities and powers and every
name that is named"-all this const-
tuted most wonderful sermon of love
and loyalty, faith and obedience, etc.
The sermon to them meant. How seri-
Gus was our mistake in being dlsobedl-
ent to God in any particular. Itmeant
also. May not God, who has thus gone
to so much trouble for the redemption
of fallen men, have in bis heart also
n place of mercy for us. should we re-
pent? The Apostle intimutes 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 shah
judge angels-not the holy angels, for.
Of course. they need no judging on
our part-but the fallen angels 1t Cor.
vi, 81.
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 Mt
the hands Of the rebellious angels.
who would be aroused to luminosity by
their reform.
The Scriptures seem to imply that
fallen angels" wicked spirits" ely
ing Spirits" demons will have
much toado with bringing about the
great slime of trouble" with which
this Gospel Age will end, before the
complete Inauguration Of Mcssiah's
Empire and the binding Of Satan (Rev.
elation Xxx, ~. The intimaton is that
the trouble here win be short and
sharp, as in the days Of Noah. The
declaration of the Apostle TINT these
evil spirits will 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 will be
broken. If, therefore, we have the
right understanding OF this matter
great events IRE near atihand. Spirit
mediums are already declaring that
the spirits tell them that they will
soon be able to matefialize in broad
daylight. With the power to counter
felt and personate humanity what may
this not mean In the way of deception
mentioned by our Lord. who declares
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