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compatible with the love. JOY and
peace which belong alone to condi-
ton of holiness. Under such circum-
stances we cannot wonder that these
fallen angels would seek association
with humanity. Being under the con-
trol OF Satan as chief or prince OF
devils. they have followed his course
and propagated his original falsehood
-"fe shall not surely die" They have
conju~ld to mems minds the hell Of
the heatSen, the hell and Purgatory Of
the Cathoh"s, and, worst of all, our
Protestant MS, onception of awful and
unending 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-
manity and have made the Bible, the
message of Gods love. book of ter
rors-not to be loved, merely to be en-
J dured or kept as fetish to secure pos
| sibly a cooler place in purgatory. We
may safely say that all the false doc
trlnes of Christendom. represented in
all of the creeds of the Ozark 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 blessing-reease from
some of our darkness. The seeing Of
the true wage of sin-that 1t 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 Christ's death;
the need Of His second coming; the
need of His Kingdom; the need of II
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 Gods
grace, of attaining eternal life-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 unclean spirits.
We are told that they did this--and
numerous instances, in illustration, are
given us. One man was obsessed by
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 "A disciple
duke will, 2G-3G).
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
ognl2ed 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
. d
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.
NH. @.
will be wonderful activity amongst
the fallen angels in the close of this
Gospel Age. The Master declared that
the deceptlons would be such that. IL
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 its sundry trials and tests, de-
clares that God will give his messen-
gers charge concerning the feet men,
bers OF the Body of Christ in all their
ways--lest foot should be dashed
against stone of stumbling psalm
xci. 12l.
As Satan and the fallen angels op-
crate largely through "the children of
diSobedlencc" SO God and his holy
messengers use not only the Scriptures.
but Gods children of obedience AZ
mouthpieces, as helpers. as Gods am
bassndors 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" viii be also the time when these
cnsnurinE and deceptive errors will
mot come nigh them"-not come nigh
the members Of the Body of Christ, the
elect
If our understanding of the Scrip
lures he correct, we need not be sur
prlsed II the fallen angels may again
y seemingly gain II victory over the Di-
vine restraints and materialize in
broad daylight-persOnatlng not only
the dead. but also at times personating
the living Spirltlsts and mediums
are claiming such things as already
beginning and likely to be accomplish
cd on Il grand scale shortly, Should 1t
come It win inauSurate terrible time