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amongst those alienated from God.

Anger. malice. hatred, strife works
of the devil" the Apostle says, are not
compatible with the love, joy and
peace which belong alone to Il condi-
ton of holiness Under such circum-
fallen angels would seek association
with humanity. Being under the con
troll of Satan as a chief or prince of
devils, they have followed his course
and propagated his original falsehood
I've shall not surely die They have
conjured to mems minds the hell of
the heather, the hell and Purgatory of
the Catholics. and, worst of all, our
Protestant misconception of awful and
amending torture for all except the
sanity few.
Enemies of God and Mon.
These doctrines of demons have in
creased the gulf between God and hui
mainly and have made the Bible, the
message of Gods love, a book of ter
rors-not to be loved, merely to be en-
dured or kept as fetish to secure pos
sibly 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 defiled-our hymn-books, our
creeds. everything.
Thank God that the light of the New
Dispensation is now bringing to us the
beginning of distinguishes from
some of our darkness. The seeing Of
the true wage of sin-that it is death
and not eternal torment-is one Of the
most important features connected
with our enlightenment. 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 Christs death:
the need of His second coming; the
need of His Kingdom: the need of a
resurrection; the need of an oppOrtu-
nifty for all mankind to come to clear
knowledge of the great Truth Of re-
demptiOn through the precious blood
and the opportunity then, by God
grace. of attaining eternal life-either
during this Gospel age. as New Crea-
lures, spirit beings like unto the an
gels. or i'm 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 unclean 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 We're cast out he was clothed and
in his right mind and became a disciple
duke viii, 26-36,
st. Paul and Silas had an experience
with an obsessed young woman who
practised sooth-saying, 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 IA wonderful activity amongst
the fallen angels in the close of this
Gospel Age. The Master declared that
the receptions would be such that, 1t
II were possible. the very 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 it's 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
ways-lest a foot should be dashed
against a stone of stumbling psalm
xci. 12,
AS Satan and the fallen angels op
crate largely through 1.-THE children OF
disobedience," SO God and his holy
messengers use not only the Scriptures
but Gods children of obedience as
mouthpieces as helpers. as Gods am
bassadors in building one another ur
in the most holy faith" Hence the
time when "a thousand shall fall al
thy side and ten thousand at thy right
hand" will be also the time when these
ensnaring and deceptive errors vii
mot come nigh them"-not come nigh
the members Of the Body of Christ, the
elect.
If our understanding of the Scrip
lures be correct. we need not be sur
prised if the fallen angels may agar
seemingly gain victory over the Di
vine restraints and materialize II
broad daylight-personatin not onl.
the dead, but also at times personatint
the living. Spiritists and mediums
are claiming such things as alread,
beginning and likely to be accomplish
ed on a grand scale shortly. Should l
come it will inaugurate terrible tim,