The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-05

hassy is rumour which has got
laholt that the world Is approaching
its end by which / mean that me
millennium IL about to begin, ana
tatan be bound. az the old legend mas
st.
such state uf affairs would ma
lturally be rather disastrous 10 Elm
tund supposlng Satan about TO be
bound disastrous in an equal degree
10 Satan. In view Of said contin-
gency the kingdom Of sin sends an
icnbassy TO propose an offensive ana
tde5ensve alliance against jehovah;
Iupon the part Of Satan ana HIS king
dom Of hell, and sin and Its kingdom
OF sin.
/ Laid off at 2 to 1900 A. NJ for
nap.
Satan IL Misunderstood
I shoald here state In nutshell
so to sneak. aud without going INTO
line profound subject as 1 snail in the
future With you, that Satan Is ABOUT
as Thoroughly misunderstood per
sonauty AS II is possible to picture ny
the employ lutnt ot tne moss vigorous
i."-aG va SON. 10 pas i, somehow mia
IN. Satan IS no enemy Of Jehovah
as Is Color Wntn SATAN mas stooa
AS d prototype In the Scriptures both
+ Old and New Testaments, since the
beginning Of time. Satan liz Jehovah
right hand minister, Satan is Jeho-
.Nah's public prosecutor as the district
attorney Is with us In the North ana
the commonW ealth's attorney IN IN"
louth. Personiiied sin Is everything
vile, treaCherous and bad THAI satan
or the devil is alleged 70 be IN the
Scriptures But Won must know, that
had the existence Of personlded SIN
been revealed IN the Scriptures It
would have complicated an already
sufficiently complicated state Of al
faira among believers Therefore
Satan has employed III the dual role
Of Jehoyah's attorney generate tTF
out all supposedly fair MINDED men
land women, and separate the gold
from the dress and the role OF per
sonihed sin. or sin as ] shall IN future
name that most damnable being.
Otherwise Il would have been ucceS-
sary 70 draw aside the veil, az / am
about 10 do with you, and uiNuiSe
things which thu world was not sui
I ficientiy sophisticated to near sooner
= than this epoch Of widespread educa
. ton, invention and business methods
/ the world around. Briefly, Satan IS
t the highest power IN heaven after the
trinity. He reigns tn hell but appears
= in heaven as he pleascs: Satan il 4
prince: as has been well said. the
= prince OF darkness Is a gentleman
= lie Is far more. he Is a hero and noble
4 creature, who has been maligned~-
owing to the circumstances above de-
scribed-~-as no other being has been
maligned since the beginning of time
You must know that things are far
better down here IN he'll than Is gen
orally supposed. Jehovah is q loving
n and tender-hcarted "A Being as IT Il
= possible for an experienced. high
u r'iuded aud enlightened mind 10 con
ceivo. To put Ii mildly. Jehovah Is
as all embracing III His sympathy al
- the good grey poet" our own Wal
4 whitman, to whom the prostitute ant
" thief were sister and brother in ad'
p versity That being the case, Je-
ly hovuh knowing full we'll the nature
e that If He allowed the magniiicen
II facts that / am about to diVulge Il
sr you. To get abroad that the rattle o.
y. wickedness to the square mile woult
ut be raised to the nth degree, or In
W nnity. throughout the civilized world
n World Prepared.
- In a word nobody need try 10 &c
to heaven If he or she does not care
for that sort of thing. There il /
- world prepared for men and womeI
Of the world. for men of the Wori,
and for women of the world. Now thl
hrtSHt spot OF SHDl-nt ga arm.
~ bliss stripped OF all spirituality, an
"a ought bur merely formal. more o
", less perfuuctory, religions but WhicI
is os orderly as the best regulate
modern society anywhere an earth
Iaud as outwardly respectable-but II
III more so. by the waY-Ahis brigh
w realm is under the rule OF Satar
ST This realm lis known ~ the under
OF world This realm is situated IA
uf from hell, and far fram the kinEdor