The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-02-07

with mankind that the Word of God
is false when it declares that "the
wages of sin is DEATH" and that ''the
soul that sinneth 1t shall die" From
that day to this he has been using this
falsehood to the injury of our race, and
surely he has succeeded wonderfully.
Today, not only in heather lands,
but amongst the most civilized 1t is
freely believed (and by many Chris
tians considered ScripturaI to believe
the nonsensicab that dead man is
more alive than before he died. Peo-
pie of good. sound reasoning faculties
on ordinary subjects seem to be 'hoo-
dooed' by this falsehood of Satan, I'VE
shall not surely de" So true is this,
that 1t seems not inconsistent to them
to say, that man hit over the head
with stick and knocked senseless,
knows nothing, but man, hit over
the head harder and killed. knows ev-
erything.
The Fallen Angels.
It was sometime after the fall of
Satan and the fall of man that the
Lord permitted the great test to come
upon the angels of heaven, under
which test host of them fell into sin,
disobedience, ETC., and since then are
known In the Scriptures as the fallen
angels and as devils-more properly
demons. Two weeks from today, D.
", we will consider their temptation
and sin and penalty and whether or
not there be any hope Suffice it to
say now that these fallen angels,
demons, are under Satan as their great
Prince and that they have been his
active agents In long centuries in de-
ceiving mankind and opposing the Di-
vine Program.
1t would have been as easy as not
for God to have blotted out of exist
ence entirely both Satan and the fallen
angels, and man also, and to have COM
pleted another creation, angelic and
human. But such was not the Divine
Program. Gods ways are not as mans
ways, but higher-as the heavens are
higher than the earth isaiah ". 81.
Satan the Great Murderer.
No less an authority than our great
Lord and Redeemer tells us that Satan
was a murderer and a liar. He de-
clares that he was a murderer from
the beginning and abode not In the
truth; when he speaketh lie he speak
eth of his own, for he is the father of
lies John viii. AZ. 1t is well that we
keep this Divine testimony In our
minds. 1t is well that we note just
what the first great lie was, namely,
Satan's misrepresentation, saying, Eye
shall not surely die" 1t is important
that we notice this. because so thor
oughly has Satan accomplished his de-
ceptive work that practically every
body, heather and civilized, accepts
Satan's version of the matter and dis
credits the Almighty's.
Let us note also that Satan is muir
derer; that he murdered Father Adam
and Mother Eve and that his lie is still
numbering our race under the Just
laws of heredity. The error of be-
heving Satan instead of God has got
ten many into the confused situation
of disclaiming that God proposed that
man should live forever on earth in a
Paradise, and, as his family would In.
crease and continue in harmony with
his Divine regulations, the boundaries
of his Paradise would be enlarged and
be a Paradise filed with the knowl
edge of God and the home of perfect
humanity, in accord with God, priti
legged to maintain everlasting life here
But, says this theory. by Satan's H..
and our first parents fall, we die and
by dying become more alive and some
Of us go TO heaven and the mass to
some eternal. fiery hell. Of which we
have no knowledge and for which
there is no Scripture proof.
But let God be true and let us see
how and wherein Satan lied when be
contradicted our Maker, and let US
see also how our race was not sent
to heaven or to hell Of torment. but
was murdered, killed. put to death
1.-THE wages Of sin lie DEATH
"The Gift Of God is Eternal Life"
(Romans vi, 23).
God, while permitting Satan and sin
and depravity and death to take their
course, has not been idle. He has had,
and still has, a great plan for human
salvation-a plan for recovering man
from sin and from death and from all
of his fallen conditions. plan of res
titution to human uplift. a plan by
which the Seed of the woman shall
yet, fguratively, crush the Serpent's
head, or undo Satan's great original
misdeed-recover man from his muir
dered condition and from his fallen
estate to all that he had at first, plus
the knowledge and experiences, Of the
present life and plus the experience,
incidental to his uplift, during the reign
Of Messiah, for which we pray. 'arhy
Kingdom come"
The Scriptures clearly show us that
all of this recovery Is to be accom-
plished through the merit of Jesus
sacrifice" the just for the unjust"
That the work has not yet begun Is
evident. We are still living under the
law Of sin and death. The Messianic
Kingdom must come In power and
great glory and be established, the
Scriptures tell us, in a great time Of
trouble. Then the earth will be made
to blossom as the rose. and the wilder
ness and the solitary places will be
made glad, and all mankind will re-
ceive Divine blessing and opportunity
to return to Divine favor and eternal
life as human beings. And the will
fully disobedient and negligent Of
those opportunities will die the Second
Death, from which there win be no
recovery. no resurrection. no hope