Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-24
PEOPLES PULPIT.
Sermon by
CHARLES T.
RUSSELL.
Pastor Brooklyn
Tabernacle.

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London, Eng, May 22.-A!bert Me-
mortal Hall was again crowded to hear
Pastor Russell The discourse. on
THE Overthrow of Satan's Empire
was in the nature of a religious lee
ture. 1t was marked throughout by
deepest reverence for the Bible, many
of the passages of which shone out
with new meaning under the search
light of his message. He asserted, and
seemed to prove, the personality Of Sa-
tan. But according to his showing it
Is great mistake to suppose the Arch
enemy of mankind to be afar off stok-
Ing furnaces and torturing the dead.
Instead, he is the cunning Deceiver
who for centuries has been hoodwink-
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-perver-
sion through ambition Originally his
name was Notwithstanding Star. He
beheld our first parents in Eden, noted
their power to produce a 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
rible results of sin as exemplified in
what the Apostle TENS the reign of
sin and DEATH" 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 he is the prince
of devils"-demons. The speaker show
ed from the Scriptures Genesis vi;
Jude O. 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 us of the fall Of the
angels at that time, who in the days
of Noah kept not their first estate
q Peter iii, 49, 20). Those angels who
were permitted to have a measure of
control of the fallen race, with a view
to helping them as much as they
might be able, and who, Fer the pur-
pose of rendering such assistance to
mankind, were permitted to appear in
human form, became enamored of the
human female, and preferred the hu-
man form to their own state as spirit
beings. They thus left their original
estate, as Jude also explains Jude
O.. These angels are the ones de-
nominated the sons of Cod 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 own
course the downward tendency Of all
transgressions of the divine law.
"The Apostles Peter and Jude clear
iy mark out the punishment visited
upon those sons of God who thus be-
trayed their trust and fell into sin,
: 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 hoiy 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 Cod 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 powers of fellowship
with the holy angels, and with man
kind, being no longer privileged to APP
pear as men, they still seek human
fellowship, endeavoring to gain posses
sion of human beings who yield up
their wills, and who are then said to
be possessed of devils or 'obsessed.' 1t
is but preliminary step toward thus
getting possession of the individual
that these wicked spirits appeal to hui
mainly to become their mediums (spir-
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 his subordinates have
maintained a system of human decep-
tion," the speaker declared, and 1t
must be confessed that he gave Bib
lical proofs for his every claim. He
asserted that the communications be-
lieved by Spiritualists-Dr. Funk, Prof.
Hysiop, Editor Stead and others-to be
communications from the dead, gre
really deceptive communications from
these fallen angels. So far from claim
ing that these professors and medi-
ums practice deception. his claim Is
that they themselves are deceived and
are unintentionally leading others on
ward into terrible Spiritualktic
maelstrom, which. he declares, we are
nearing, according to the Bible. He
warned against hypnotism. mind cures,
etc, practiced by well-meaning but de-
ceived physicians. ministers and 9TH
ers. He declared that all these tended
to break down the human will, the
God-given barrier and defense of man.
kind against the Entertainments of
these fallen angels. who seek contin-
ually to intrude themselves into the