The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-02-23
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TRENTON, n j., Special.-Brooklyn
Academy Of Music was crowded Sun
day to hear Pastor Russell on the
above topic. He declared that, notwith-
standing our modern inventions-the
telegraph, the telephone. with wires
and without the masses find ii diff
/ ficult to believe what the Bible teaches
/ respecting spirit phenomena. Yet on
the other hand, there is a class grow
| ingly large, which under the name OF
spiritism and psychic phenomena, are
being carried away, deceived by wicked
! spirits who personste the dead and
who give, through spirit mediums.
claivoyants. etc. various demonstra-
tions Of intelligence and OF acquain-
lance with human affairs. This class.
within the last ten years, has gather
ed 70 its number the names Of some
prominent scientists, both in America
and Great Britain. These are telling
the world that they are not spiritual
lists, but scientists. and that they are
scientifically demonstrating gradually.
with more and more OF satisfaction.
that they are in touch with superhu-
man intelligences
Giving these scientists and the spirit
mediums whom they use full credit
for all that they claim in the way of
manifestation and full credit for sin
certify, Pastor Russell holds that tn,.
Bible gives a better explanation of
the phenomena more rational one.
and in his opinion, the only satisfac-
tory explanation of the findings Of
spiritualists and scientists along these
lines
In heather lands magic and black
art are practiced. and. to considerable
extent, the demons are worshiped. In
Emma; Tor instance, our ordinary fire.
crackers are manufactured and used
III great quantities in endeaVor 70 rid
/ themselves of intruding spirits who
/ harass their lives and even make some
/ OF them insane through obsession.
| many OF the insane Of civilized lands
/ are likewise merely obsessed. 81
faul tells us that the gods whom the
/ heathen worship are demons and not
SouS q corinthians Y, 2O). Again he
/ tells OF doctrines of demons" IT
/ TIMOTHY ", -. All over h,atben-
/ dom these false doctrines ha e been
! more or less established. tan.ng one
/ IorIh or another to suit the conditions
ana preJudices of the people. And
/ VINO VIII say that Christendom has not
nad Its share of these doctrines of
! lemons VINO Will say that some of
Onese raise doctrines did not get work
ca INTO all OF our creeds of the dark
"7'S' 1oth Catholfc and Protestant?
Jesus Cast Out Demons.
The Scriptures tell us that NOT orI,,
Jesus cast out demons. but that as an
! evidence OF their authority and his
authority he gave this power to his
AposCes When he sent them out to
preach. Everyone is familiar with
the Bible narratives respectinp tbasa
/ Genohs-some of them very startling
FOR instance, our Lords visit TO the
country of the Gadarenes. where he
was met by a crazed man, obsessed
81 eNh spirits. The Master addressed.
not the man, but the demons of whom
a legion had taken possession, GRAZING
thelr victim by their various and COW
Trajectory suggestions and commands
legion of them were in him and
lheS requested that If they must come
OUT they be granted opportunity to go
into the herd of swine nearby-so
anxious were they for earthlv..s son
Suous life. Jesus granted their re-
quest because swine-owning was for
Dloden to the Jew under the Law
Inc erect of~the demoniacai obses.
sion of the swine was to craze the
herd until they ran violently down 2
steep place and were choked in the
sea The object of the demons may
have been desire to reside in anc
obsess the swine, or, possibly. by de
StrOy1ng the swine, to arouse indiena.
ton against Jesus mark 3: I-14).
Another remarkable instance wa.
the one when st. Paul commanded
the evil spirits to come out of the
obsessed woman. who was a sooth.
co on
that Paul and Silas were servants o
Cod. Although the message was az
endorsement of them, St. Paul real
lied that an endorsement from a de
moniac source was unworthy of hi.
Master and of his Gospel (Acts 16
Spirits today. including mediums
freely acknowledge that many OF tn,
spirits which communicate through
them are wicked spirits" and "se
ducing spirits" just as St. Paul sale
q Timothy 4: -. But believing the
spirits. that they represent dead hu
man beings, the mediums naturally
. suppose some of them good. The Bi
, BILE alone tells that they are all false
and that they are not human spirit.
at all; that dead men are ded nc
know nothing and can communicate
nothing, so long as they are dead, and
. that they will remain dead until the
resurrection morning, when the sleep
ing hosts of humanity will hear the
voice of the Son of Man.
Demons Once Holy Angels.
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