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

we report MS ADDRESS on Satan. the
rebel angel
Doubtless many of the audience were.
surprised when told that Satan is not
In some far-of place stocking fires and
torturing human or other victims, but
that he is present amongst men, an In
visible angel OF evil. ably supported In
his work as an adversary of God by
egions of other fallen angels, of whom
he is master-"Prince of demons
either because of his superiority of ma
ture. or because of belonging to high
er rank or grade than the ordinary an
learn that Satan. so far from being Ill
favored. is beautiful. according to the
Scriptures. and that he is supervising
the work directly and through the
fallen angels, his servants. to mislead
and to deceive manufacturing Ugh.
for darkness and darkness for light,
error for truth etc.
Pastor Russell's text was taken from
Romans xvi, 20. 1.-THE God of peace
shall bruise Satan under your feet
shortly" He said:-
The time was not long ago when in
telligent people made light Of every
thing in the Scriptures respecting in
visible spirit beings, good and bad
the messengers of God and the mes
sengers of Satan. This, however, can
no longer be done. Under the In
creasing light of the New DISPENSE
ton man himself today can do things
which but short time ago would have
been considered impossible. Can we
not speak with our friends over hun
dreds Of miles with a telephone and
recognize each others voices2 Yet
there is no pipe, no tube to convey the
sounds and nothing, seemingly, car
ries it over the wire. We speak into
q hole in the wall and our friends hun
dreds Of miles away hear audibly.
raphy and wireless telephony. If man
can accomplish these things what can
not the Almighty accomplish? Who
can deny the possibility Of invisible
presence of spirit beings and yet admit
the possibility of wireless telegraphy?
We are safe. dear friends. in guiding
our judgments directly by the Word
Of God and reasoning inside and not
outside of its boundaries.
The Bible, and it alone, explains Ger
tain phenomena and all Of the Bible
explanations, although written, some
Of them centuries apart. are in most
perfect accord. Thus In Genesis the
Bible tells US respecting Satan's de-
| Election, and the book of Revelation.
written more than three thousand
years later, tells US Of his binding for
thousand years, of Messiah's reign
and Satan's ultimate destruction Isa-
iah and Ezekiel tell us of his at one
time being In full harmony with God.
and that then he was the covering
cherub." glorious, grand, beautiful,
and that his name was Lucifer, which
signifies the Morning Star.
All Of the angelic heavenly hosts
are termed stars, bright ones; but Lu
offer, being of higher order, was
styled the Morning Star. the Brightest
Star. 1t was at that time, while in
Divine favor, that Satan permitted the
| lrndorTnn11< IN n 10 ind Of 4cln
thought respecting his Creator He
thought Of how, indirectly, by being
in higher responsibility, he could work
some wonders and do some things bet
ter than the Almighty. He craved the
opportunity to make demonstration
of what he could do. But the Scrip
lures declared that first of all he said
this merely in his heart and uttered 1t
not. He said In his heart, L will as
cend into heaven; l will exalt my
throne above the stars of God (still
farther above his angelic associates),
will be as the Most High"-a ruler.
The opportune Time Came.
Never had there been sin In heaven.
Satan was the first Of all its inhabi-
tants to cherish, to entertain a rebel
lious thought and to bring it to con-
summation. He held the thought In
allegiance until the opportunity afford
ed, and God himself afforded the OPP
| portunity, with full knowledge of the
consequences, and with the desire that
this test of the entire heavenly host.
and Of human race as well, should
be effected because God seeketh not
the worship of constraint, but seek
eth such for worshipers as worship
him in spirit and in truth" voluntar-
lily, Joyfully.
1t was when Satan beheld our first
parents, In the image and likeness Of
God, yet not spirit but flesh, earthly.
that he perceived the opportunity of
gaining the coveted power for an EN-
pire, separate from that of Jehovah
In the first pair the Adversary beheld
new thing. a creature of Godlike
| qualities and possessed of the power
to propagate his own species. Satan
realized that the conquest Of this pair
and the bringing Of them into subjec-
ton to himself would signify the cap
ture of world full of people eventual
ly-that the enslavement of the par
ents would signify the enslavement
eventually Of the race.
satan's Methods Were Successful.
We cannot deny that Satan's plans
were logical and that he has carried
them out with great success-so that
the Scriptures declare him "the Prince
Of this world" John xiv, 30); and again,
''the God Of this world Oh Corinthians
iv, ~. Nevertheless, his victory was
not so great a one as he doubtless ex-
pected it to be. No doubt he expected
that he was capturing an immortal
race. Quite probably he believed the
falsehood he told mother Eve, when
he contradicted the Word of God-that
sin, that disobedience In eating the
forbidden fruit. would bring upon them
the penalty Of death. dying thou shalt
de-"
Satan's charge was that God had
misrepresented the facts for the pur-
pose Of holding his creatures in mental
slavery to himself; that he did not
wish them to be wise, therefore he for
babe the eating Of this particular kind
OF fruit and declared the penalty of
death for the transgression of his law.
Il. Satan, assure you that you need
not be afraid Of the fruit; assure you
that 1t will do you good, and that you
win not surely die from the eating
of it" Alasl Mother Eve believed the
Adversary and disbelieved her God,
and then enticed her husband, still
thinking, no doubt, that she would not