The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-05-07

efforts would be a terrible experience
and, besides this, we may be sure that
the rebellious would not hesitate to
persecute the repentant ones In every
manner. as they would be
lawless, regardless of the Divine will.
On the other hand, the repentant
ones would be obliged to restrain
themselves and to not render evil for
evil, knowing that this would be con-
trary to the Divine will. In other
words, repentant ones amongst those
fallen spirits, influenced by the preach
ing Of Jesus or otherwise, would have
a kind of purgatorial experience, and
the thought calls forth our sympathy.
When imprisoned or cut off from the
privilege of naturalization. many OF
the fallen spirits, we know not what
continued their active OPP
position TO GoI. after The manner of
Satan Hence they are spoken Of rs
his angels. his messengers, his sery-
ants and he is spoken of as Ree!zebub.
the Prince Of Demons. Satan, who
sinned much earlier than the others.
and in different way, the Scriptures
tell us was an angel of higher rank
or higher nature, and this SUPERIOR
ty of his has made him the Prince or
ruler over the hosts Of fallen spirits.
Fighting Against God.
The fight Of Satan and his fallen an
gels is against God, against all who are
in harmony with Him, against all the
regulations of righteousness, an6
against all the channels and servant.
whom the Lord may use. st. Paul's
words along this line are forceful; h
remarks that Gods people contend ne
merely with flesh and blood but al'
"with wicked spirits in high positions"
and the question arises, who is suffi-
cient for these thingsP The reply is
that none is sufficient; without the aid
of the Redeemer His church would be
quite overcome and vanquished by evil.
Likewise, without the Redeemer's aid
through His Kingdom, without the
binding of Satan, without our Lords
releasing of the world from the bond
age of sin and death, there would be
no hope of the worlds recovery from
its present bondage. But with the
Apostle we exclaim, "If God be for us,
who can be against usP (Romans
viii, 3D.
Through Mediums and Obsessions.
Satan's original plan of attack was to
bring our race under his influence by
Misrepresentation putting darkness
for light and light for darkness-for in
stance, the temptation under which
Mother Eve fell. Satan there repre-
scented himself as Ewes friend, giving
her sound advice. He represented God
as having a selfish motive behind His
command that our first parents should
not eat of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil. Satan declared that
God had told an untruth when He said
that the penalty for sin would be death
Satan declared that man cannot die.
And has he not since kept up the
same line of Justification? And has he
not deceived the whole world upon
this very subject? Do not all peoples
in every land believe that when a man
dies he does not die, but gets more
alive exactly Satan's lie of the first
instance? How few have believed
God, even amongst His people who
truly love Him, and who truly desire
to believe the teachings of His Word!
We have all been under a kind of
"hoodoo." THE god of this world
lSatanl hath blinded" our minds on
this subject. We are now coming to
see that death is the penalty for sin
and that the resurrection is the saliva
ton God promised and will provide.
Satan has had powerful allies and
servants In the fallen angels, and it is
through their persistence that his lie
has triumphed over the Divine Word
of truth-"Dying, thou shalt die. >
These fallen spirits have made various
manifestations in every land for cen
turtles, and thereby have apparently
substantiated the theory that a dead
man Is more alive than when he was
alive. Knowing that mankind would
have nothing to do with them if their
real personality were known they hide
their personality and represent them
selves as our dead friends who desire
to speak with us, either directly or
through mediums.
A further desire of these angels is to
obsess or to get possession of a human
being. Being chained or restrained
from the privilege of naturalization
the next most desirable thing in their
estimation is to gain control over a
human being and to use his body in
stead of their own. This is styled
obsesSion, and persons so afflicted to-
day are sent to an insane asylum
where, it is estimated, they constitute
at least one half of the entire number.
In the days of our Lord these were not
mistakenly supposed to be insane, but
rightly declared to be obsessed. All re.
member the New Testament account
that our Savior and His Apostles cast
out legions of fallen spirits.
How Jesus Preached In Death.
Here arises another question: If Je-
sus was really dead. as the Scriptures
declare, If He poured out His SOU
unto death.v aud made His soul an
offering for sin" and His soul was not
raised from the dead until the third
day after His crucifixion, how could
He In the meantime preach to spirits
in prison, or to anybody else? We
reply that He could preach in the
same way that the Apostle refers to
saying, He. being dead, yet speak
eth" (Hebrews xi. a; and again. in the
same way that the blood Of Abel is
said TO have cried To Cod iguratively
or one thing we are sure, namely, that
Jesus gave no oral address while He
was dead. He preached In the way