The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-02-21

eiviousness. The story OF the fam of
the angels is given us briefly in Cen
esis vi, IA. After mans fall into sin
God permitted the holy angels to have
communication with humanity. And
because human eyes cannot see spirit
beings, God permitted the angels to
materialize. For instance, we note the
case Of the angels who visited Abra-
ham on the plains of Mamre and for
whom he prepared a veal dinner. We
read that, materialized, these angels
were like men, and taken by Abraham
to be men. while they ate and talked
with him. 1t was subsequently that
Abraham learned that they were real
ly heavenly visitants.
So it was with all the angels before
the flood. They were permitted to ma
terialize and to appear in every sense
of the word as men. The record shows
that the angels. became lustful. We
read, '"The sons of God saw the dangh
tiers Of men that they were fair and
took unto themselves wives Of such
as they chose" The angels, with su-
perior powers and superior knowledge
to mans, acted as the masters OF men,
who were practically obliged to do
their bidding. The result is stated in
few words. The children of this mesal-
lance, we are told. were giants as
compared with the ordinary members
Of our race. And not only were they
giants physically. but also intellectual
ly-'They were men of renown." Poor
humanity could not compete with this
race. The result was that strife and
contention and lustful, sinful prac-
tises abounded In all the earth, until
God declared that every imagination
of the thoughts Of mans heart was
only evil continually.
God had foreknown all this, and
canopy of waters, which then sur
rounded the earth, similar to Saturn's
rings now, was held in readiness to
cause food, that sinful men and the
human offspring of the angels might
be destroyed Only Noah and his fam.
fly were found worthy Of preservation
to be the new start Of humanity this
side of the food. The declaration of
the Scriptures respecting Noah's fam
lily is, Now Noah was perfect in his
generation" He was properly gener-
ated or born-so were his children.
There was no strain or admixture of
the angelic stock In that family. The
plain information Is that the remainder
OF humanity were so degraded by the
seductions of those fallen angels that
they were not fit to live. The entire
race had become corrupt.
Angels observation-disclosures Of Dark
ness.
OF course, the fallen angels were not
destroyed in the food, for they not
only had the power to materialize, but
also the power to dematerialize. It
was at that time. however, that all of
the fallen angels were put under re-
straints-not permitted again to ma
terialize, the Limitation lasting until
the judgment of the great day."
Their restraints or chains are not
physical, to confne them to place In
TGrtGsNs-the earth's atmosphere. They
may roam at will: but are chained. or
restrained from materializing. The in
timation Of the Scripture seems to be
that, with the ending of this Gospel
Age, Just prior to the Inauguration of
the New Dispensation, these evil spir-
It's may be allowed to break their
chains and manifest themselves as
men, in connection with the great trou-
Die time Incidental to the change of
Dispensation.
Separated from God and the holy
angels. and unable to assume human
bodies, the sinful angels have probably
had terrible experiences during the
past forty-four hundred years. True
happiness IS not to be expected
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 condl-
ton Of holiness. Under such circun
stances we cannot wonder that these
fallen angels would seek association
with humanity. Being under the con-
troll of Satan as 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
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 hui
mainly and have made the Bible, the
message of Gods love, book Of ter
rors-not to be loved, merely to be en-
dured or kept as fetish to secure pos
sibly a 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 blessing release 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 Chriat's death;
the need Of His second coming; the
need OF His Kingdom; the need Of
resurrection; the need Of an opportu-
nifty for all mankind to come TO a clear
knowledge OF the great Truth Of re-
demptson through sAe Rgec.eHs blood