The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-30

eth not the worship OF constraint, but
seeketh such Tor worshipers as worship
joyfully.
It was when Satan beheld our first par
ents. 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 empire. separate
from that OF Jehovah. In the first pair
the adversary beheld new thing, "A crea-
ture OF Godlike qualities and possessed
OF the power to propagate his own spe-
fies' this satan realized that the conquest 70
subsection to himself would signify the
capture OF world full of people even
tually-that the enslavement of the par
entS would signify the enslavement even
tually Of the race,
Satan g Methods Were Successful.
We cannot derry that Satan's plans were
logical and that he has carried them
out with great success-so that the Scrip
tures declare him the Prince OF this
oGd Sos IL ,5,s Hohn nos, xiy go and again; the
Nevertheless, his victory was not so great
a one as he doubtless expected it TO be.
NO doubt he expected that he was cap
ne 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
shalt die '''"e 'i''u
satan's charge was that God had mis-
represented the facts for the purpose OF
holding his creatures In mental slavery
10 himself; that he did not wish them
10 be wise. therefore he forbade the eat
ing of this particular brand OF fruit, and
transgression of his law. "I. Satan. as
sure you that you need not be afraid of
the fruit; assure you that II will do you
good, and that you will not surely die
from the eating of its
Adam Knew CONSEQUENCES.
TAII,
versary and disbelieyed her God and
then enticed her husband, still thinking,
no doubt, that she would not die and
that the serpent had told her the truth
and that God had been the deceiver. St.
Paul tells that father Adam knew better
and ate the fruit, knowing that IL would
cause his death, willing thus to disobey
his wife. whose life, he realized was all
ready forfeited
When the divine sentence began to go
into execution: when our first parents
were driven out of Eden to battle with
the thorns and thistles until they should
return TO the dust, no doubt Satan was
disappointed. 1e had rather be the prince
OF a noble living family of angels or OF
humans than the emperor OF a weak and
dying race. However, from that day to
the present time he has been fighting
upon the same line: he has been contend
Ing with mankind that the word of God
is false when IL declares that "the wages
of sin is death" and that "the soul that
Sinneth IL shall die
From that day TO this he has been
using this falsehood to the injury OF our
race. and surely he has succeeded Won
derfulIy,
Today. not only In heather lands. but
amongst the most civilized. It is freely
believed tand by many Christians con-
sidered scriptural TO believe the nonsensi-
cal) that dead man is more alive than
before he died, People OF good. sound
reasoning faculties on ordinary subjects
seem To be 'hoodooed" by this falsehood
of Satan ''ye shall not surely die" So
true is this. that 1t seems not inconsst-
ent to them 10 say. that man hit over
the head with stick and knocked sense
less. knows nothing, but a man. hit over
the head harder and killed. knows every
thing.
The Fallen Angels.
II was some time 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
etc. and since then are known In the
Scriptures as the fallen angels and as
devils-nore properly DEMONS Two weeks
from today, D. ". we will consider their
temptation and sin and penalty and
whether or not there be any hope. Suf-
flee II to say now that these fallen an
gels demons, are under Satan as their
great prince and that they have been
his active agents In long centuries In
decciving mankind and opposing the
divine programme,
1t would have been as easy as no.
for God to have blotted out OF existence
entirely both Satan and the fallen angels,
and man also, and TO have completed
another creation, angelic and human.
But such was not the Divine programme.
Gods ways are not as mans ways, but
hlgher-as the heavens arc higher thar
the earth Gsaiah ". ~.
Satan the Great Murderer.
No less an authority. than our great
Lord and Redeemer tells us that satan
nd n
that he was a murderer from the be-
ginning and abode not in the truth when
he speaketh a lie he speaketh OF his
own. for he is the father of Hes tJohn
VIII. 4i). 1t is we'll that we keep TINS
Divine testimony in our minds IT is
well that we note just what the first
Tesentaiion. saying, "Ye shall not surely
die" II Is important that we notice this.
because so thoroughly has Satan accom-
plished his deceptive work that pI;raS pI;raGS-
accepts Satan's version Of the matter
and discredits the Almightys.
Satan Is a Murderer.
Let us note also that Satan is q. mur-
derer; that he murdered Father Adam
and Mother Eve, and that his lie is still
numbering our race under the just la ws
Of hcredity. The error OF believing Satan
instead OF God has gotten many into
the confused situation OF dlsclalming that
God proposed that man should live Tor
ever on earth in a paradise, and, as his
| family would Increase and continue in
| harmony with his Divine regulations the
boundaries Of his paradise filled with the
| knowledge Of God and the home OF @ per-
! feet humanity in accord with God.
privileged to maintain everlasting life
here. But. says this theory, by Satan $
lie and our first parents fall. we die and
| by dying become more alive and some
| OF us go 10 heaven and the mass to some
eternal. fiery hell. OF which we have nc
knowledge and for which there is nc
| scripture proof
But let God be true and let us see
how and wherein Satan lied when nc
contradicted our Maker, and let us see
also how our race was not sent tc
heaven or TO n hell of torment. but was
murdered. killed. put TO death-"The
wages of sin is DEATH
"The Gift Of God Is Eternal Life"
God while permitting Satan nnd sir
| and depravity and death to take theil
course has not been idle: He has had
| ,~1 fa, hun a ~