The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-02-13

Protestant misconception OF awful and
unendlng torture for all except the
sanity few.
Enemies Of God and Men.
These doctrines Of demons have in
creased the gulf between God and hu.
manlty and have made the Bible the
message Of Gods love. book Of ter.
rors-not to be loved, merely to he en-.
dured or kept as fetish to secure pos.
slbly cooler place In purgatory. We
may safely say that all the false doc.
trines of Christendom, represented In
all Of the creeds OF the Dark Ages"
are doctrines of demons. Our minds
became defled-our hymn.books, our
creeds, everything.
Thank God that the light of the New
Dlspensatlon is now bringing to us the
beginning of blcsslng-releass from
some of our darkness. The seeing Of
the true wage of sln-that It Is death
and not eternal torment-ls one Of the
most important features connected
with our enlightenmcnt When we
learn that the dead are really dead
and, as the Bible declares. will not
know anything until the resurrection,
then we begin to see the beauty of
Gods Plan-the need Of Christ's death;
the need of His second coming: the
need of His Kingdom: the need of
resurrection; the need OF an opportu.
nifty for all mankind to come to a clear
knowledge of the great Truth Of re.
demptlon through the precious blood
and the opportunity then, by Gods
grace, OF attaining eternal llfe-either
during this Gospel age, as New Crea.
lures, spirit beings like unto the an.
gels, or in the New Dispensation dur.
Ing the more general salvation OF the
world to human perfection in an earth.
ly Paradise
Jesus Cast Out Devils,
Our great Redeemer manifested his
power by casting out demons from
those who had become obsessed. And
we read further that he commissioned
his Apostles to heal all manner of dis
ease and to cast out uncleau spirits.
We are told that they did this-and
numerous Instances, In illustration, are
given us. One man was obsessed by
a legion of these spirits No wonder
the poor fellow was crazy. But after
they were cast out he was clothed and
In his right mind and became disciple
luke wifi, 20-36).
st. Paul and Silas had an experience
with an obsessed young woman who
practlsed sooth-saylng, fortune telling,
by the power of the evil spirit which
obsessed her. AS the evil spirits rec
ognized Jesus and cried. I'VE know
Thee, who Thou art, Jesus" so this
spirit knew the Apostles and, through
the young woman's lips, cried after
them, These be the servants of the
Most High God, which show to us the
way to obtain eternal life" (Acts XVI,
1919.
Neither Jesus nor the Apostles were
willing to accept demon testimony and
commanded the evil spirits to come
out of their victims.
Scientists Being Entrapped.
The Scriptures indicate that there
will be a wonderful activity amongst
the fallen angels in the close of this
Gospel Age The Master declared that
the deceptions would be such that, II
1t were possible, the every elect"
would be deceived. But that will not
be possible, because Divine providence
stands engaged to protect the elect.
The Ninety-First Psalm. which gives
n picture Of the closing Of this Age
and its sundry trials and tests, de-
clares that God will give his messen-
gers charge concerning the feet mem.
bers of the Body of Christ in all their
foot should be dashed
against n stone of stumbling psalm
xci, 12).
AS Satan and the fallen angels op-
crate largely through "the children OF
disobedlence," so God and his holy
use not only the Scriptures.
but Gods children of obedience az
as helpers, MS Gods am
bassadors in building one another up
In the most holy faith" Hence the
time when "a thousand shall fall at
thy side and ten thousand at thy right
hand" will he also the time when these
and deceptive errors will
not come nigh them'-not come nigh
The members of the Body of Christ, the
elect.
II our understanding of the Scrip.
lures be correct, we need not be sur.
Drlsed II the fallen angels may again
seemingly gain victory over the Di-
vine restraints and materialiZe In
broad daylight-personating not only
he dead, but also at times personatlng
he living. Spiritists and mediums
ire claiming such things as already
beginning and likely to be accomplish
sd on grand scale shortly. Should II
,ome 1t will inaugurate terrible time
II trouble such as has not been since
he food. Gods people, while resting
and at ease under Divine
should be on the alert to
'esist everything akin to Spirtism,
Jccultism. Hypnotism. and to warn
heir friends respecting these things.
Numerous scientific men are being |
'ntrapped by these lying spirits whose |
longs and powers they are inyestigat. |
ng under the name OF Psychic Phe-