The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-02-17

49, and subsequently
". -. on Those angels
LSsAsToR fSIJsSElE9 which kept not
their first estate
Jude s.. Excellent attention was
given at both services We report the
latter as follows:
The Bibles teaching that the earth's
atmosphere is infested with evil spirits
is now very generally disbelieved. AS
result of the disbelief thousands of
wellmeaning people are being the
more easily entrapped by these evil
spirits. The blight is both physical
and moral. The usual method of pro-
cedure is TO arouse curiosity. While
the quest for knowledge proceeds. an
influence much like that of hypnotism
affects the investigator, impelling him
forward 10 further investigation.
Sometimes the curiosity is attracted
through the outer senses at spiritualis-
tic seances, with ouija boards, etc. At
other times it is by spirit rappings.
Again. il may he by whisperings In
the ear, inaudible TO others. AT other
times the messages come through
trance mediums.
In every instance these communica
lions purport to come from dead hui
man beings. This Of itself gives TO the
communication special charm to
many. They feel bonored in being
sought out by the dead and in being
able TO communicate with them. They
are curious for informa ton respecting
the hereafter. They forget that they
have been taught from infancy that
the holy dead are far off in heaven,
and that the unholy dead are far off
in torment.
They Teach False Doctrines.
How fully this is forgotten is shown
by letter which | received on the
first day of this month from Catho-
lie lady. In it she tells how she first
obtained clairvoyant powers-the gift
of hearing what others could not hear.
This, in turn. permitted her to commu-
nicate with the evil spirits, the fallen
angels. These, representing themselves
TO her as inmates of purgatory, came
TO her for help. They solicited her
prayers and were progressing to get
her more and more under their control
Just I'm time she was rescued through
reading my writings on the subject.
Since then she has exercised her will
and her prayers against having any
fellowship whatever with these fallen
angels. Gradually she is becoming
more and more enlightened in the
Truth of Gods Word.
Not in do thoSo ri nor
senate the Heavenly Father and Christ
urge more prayer, accuse of sin, recon-
mend the reading Of the Scriptures.
etc. This appears to be with view
10 gaining the confidence. the rela king
Of the will. Later on dishonorable sug-
gestious are made. The Bible is scOrn-
ed. prayer is laughed at. IT, then, the
subject takes fright and seeks to break
the hypnotic chain, the evil spirits
laugh at him, swear at him, and some
times tell him that they viii shortly
have him fully in their power to roast
him forever. If he attempts to pray,
they intrude and interrupt and tell him
that God would not hear him now, that
he has gone too far. etc.
With some the matter goes SO far
that the human will is broken down
completely and the spirits obsess them
and use their bodies foolishly-some-
times viciously, sometimes insaneIy,
until finally they are pronounced dan
gerous and committed to asylums. We
do not claim that all the insane are
ohsessed Of evil spirits, but so far as
we can Judge, nearly one-half the in
mates of asylums are obsessed by
demons who live In them while they
are mastering their wills.
Prepared For These Decisions.
God. through His Word. has fore
warned His people against these delu-
sions. In permitting them, neverthe-
less. TO fall into these traps, He is
terrible results of disobedience, of
neglect of Gods Word. are not eternal
The Divine arrangement is that ultf
mately the entire human family shall
be released from the bonds Of sin and
death, ignorance and superstition, and
all have full opportunity for coming
into full harmony with God. The
cessity for searching the Scriptures
and obeying Gods voice therein.
seducins spirits-Doctrines Of Devils
st. Paul, in describing our day, de
clares one of its prominent signs to be
that many will now give heed to these
seducing spirits. whose teachings and
practises lead away from God. st
Paul intima ties also that by these mis-
leading spirits many will come to hole
doctrines of demons, or devilish doc
trines. 1t is sad commentary upor
cur wonderful day of enlightenment
that the most enlightened people should
hold the most awful doctrine respect
ing the herea fter.
A doctrine of demons. it most surely
is which tells, to the dishonor OF Gods
name. that nine hundred and ninety
nine out of every thousand Of human
fly are to be eternally tortured. eithel