The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

pire," was in the nature of
| a religious lecture. 1t was marked
throughout by deepest reverence for
the Bible, many passages of which
shone out with a new meaning under
the searchlight of his message. He
| asserted, and seemed to prove, the
personality of Satan. But according TO
his showing it is a great mistake to
suppose the archenemy of mankind to
be afar off stocking furnaces and tor
! turing the dead. Instead. he is the
cunning deceiver who for centuries has
been hoodwinking humanity, includ-
ing the church--putting darkness for
| light and light for darkness. God did
not create him devil He became
such by self-perversion through ambi
ton. Originally his name was Lu-
cifer-Morning Star. He beheld our
first parents in Eden. noted their pow
er to produce a race in their own like
ness and coveted an empire with
them as his subjects.
For six thousand years God has per-
| mitted Satan to exercise measure of
deceptive power over the race and to
display to both angels and men the ter
rible results of sin, as exemplifed in
what the apostle terms the reign of
sin and DEATH and the mental, moral
and physical degradation resulting.
Satan has not been alone. Not only
Is he 1.-The Prince of this world" or
| age. but additionally he is the Prince
of devils''-demons- The speaker
showed from the scriptures Genesis
vi: Jude 81 how these subordinate de-
mons had once been holy angels, too
and when and where they sinned, and
how.
''The Apostle Peter gives the key to
the real solution of the matter when,
in reciting the events connected with
the flood he tells of the fall of the
angels at that time, who in the days
| of Noah kept not their first estate
| q Peter I'll, 10. 2O). These angels who
were permitted to have measure of
control of the fallen race, with view
to helping them as much as they
might be able, and who, for the epur-
pose of rendering such assistance to
mankind, were permitted to appear IN
human form, became enamored of the
human female. and preferred the hui
man form to their own state as spirit
beings. They thus left their original
estate, Jude also explains dude
| 60. These angels are the ones de.
| 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 own
course the downward tendency of all
| transgressions of the divine law.
1.-The Apostles Peter and Jude clear
! " mark out the pupnishment visited
upon those sons of Sod who thus be-
| trayed their trust and fell into SIM
| leaving their own habitation,' their
own nature. and affiliating with the
| human nature. Their punishment has
| been their deprivation of all such lib
critics, and their separation from God
| and from the holy angels: and this re-
Straint is called by the apostle.
chains 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
we remark that these are the spirits
| in prison mentioned by Peter q Peter
Iii. 19). and that although restricted as
| respects their power of fellowship
with the holy angels, and with man
| kind being no longer privileged to ap-
| pear as men, they still seek human
| fellowship, endeavoring to gain possess
| sion of human beings who yield up
| their wills, and who are then said to
| be possessed of devils or 'obsessed.' 1t
| is but a preliminary step toward thus
| getting possession of the individual
that these wicked spirits appeal to hu-
rnanity to become their mediums -(spir-
it mediums), through whom they to
! some extent communicate. And they
| pc rsonate dead human beings. because
| they know we'll that humanity would
| shun them and fear them if their real
| identity were discovered.
| Satan and his subordinates have
| maintained a system of human decep-
| ton" the speaker declared, and it
must be confessed that he gave BIZ
| asserted that the communications be-
| lieved by Spiritualists-Dr- Funk, Pro-
lessor .Hysiop. Editor Stead and 9TH