The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-05-27

~ ieving Satan's lie.
And he really told
spirit mediums
lfPASTOR -RljSSFIDl that they were the
- mediums, not be-
tween dead and living humans, but
between humans and demons-the fall
en- angels. And yet the Pastor said
all this in such a kindly, sympathetic
manner that surely none could take Of
Tense Evidently no offense was in
tended, but merely the presentation of
what the speaker assuredly believes to
be the teaching of the Bible.
He opened his address by noting the
fact that the common conception re-
specting Satan's appearance and where
abouts is wholly false. built not upon
the Bible, but upon human tradition.
human imagination. handed down
from a darker day. The Pastor be-
lieves in a real, personal Satan. and
believes him to be BeelZebub, the
prince of demons. In other words, he
believes the Bible to teach that Satan
is an angel of higher rank than or
binary angels and possessed of su-
perior powers. Hence he outranks
those who are with him, and perforce
is their leader, or prince.
That Satan is not in some far-off
place with his fallen angels. torturing
millions of the human family in fur
naces. the Pastor made very clear. He
showed that nothing of the kind is
taught in the Scriptures. On the con.
trary, they teach that Satan and his
host, since the Deluge. are under re-
straint, confined to Tartarus, our
earth's atmosphere. They cannot wan
der around the universe, as before.
Satan is very literally, therefore, "the
prince of the power of the air. and
his associate demons are members OF
this aerial. or spirit power, malevolent
as respects everything that is of God
and righteousness, and especially the
foes, therefore, of such Of humanity as
renounce the works Of the flesh and
the Devil, and seek to walk in the
footsteps of Jesus.
The Lie and Where Told.
The lie was told in Eden. The ser.
pent was used as Satan's tool. Satan
himself was originally the only rebel
His associates. the fallen angels, were
not with him in his rebellion until
some time afterward The Pastor would
not say that the serpent could not
speak under a satanic impulse or OBJ
session or hypnosis. but he inclined
to believe that the serpent spoke by
its actions He quoted the provert
which declares that ACTIONS speak
louder than words" He thought that
this was probably the way in which
the serpent spoke to Mother Eve.
God had forbidden our first parents
to eat of a certain kind of fruit in the
Garden, without telling them why. II
was simply a test of their obedience
their loyalty to Him. He told then
that disobedience. disloyalty, in this
matter would result in their death
He said nothing about eternal torment
The wilful sinner. according to the
Bible, is to die. to perish as a natural
brute beast. Gods favors are for only
those who will abide in His Love
.@The wages of sin is death; but the
gift of God is everlasting life, through
Jesus Christ our Lord
The serpent. by eating of the forbid
den fruit without dying, but on the con
trary being the wisest of all the beasts
seemed to give the lie to Gods word
Through the serpent Satan declared t.
the woman. "Ye shall not surely die
Through the serpent, Satan also toll
Mother Eve that God evidently wa.
trying to keep herself and her husband
in ignorance. blindness. darkness; ant
that it was time for them to awake. (,
assert their rights, and to make tn,
best of themselves. by eating of tn,
better. but when he found that his dea
wife had eaten and thus had come un
der the sentence. or curse. of death. h,
was so discouraged that he determined
to die with his wife, loving her so mucl
that he would rather die with her thai
live without her.
Satan's object in telling this lie, il
deceiving our first parents, was mad
very clear by the Pastor From othe
Scriptures he pointed out that Satai
for some time had been saying in hi
heart that he would like to have and t
exercise still higher powers than thos
which he possessed. He would like t,
be 'as the Most High" He would b.
a sovereign. who might work out hi
own plans He had no thought of sup
planting the Almighty but had tn
pride TO suppose that he could manag
the universe better than God could
and that if he had a small section ur
der his control, he would demonstrat
this and put the Almighty to the blush
When man was created, Satan's Cd
portunity for exercising his ambition
seemed to have come. Man possessed
a power which the angels had not. II,
could propagat his own kind, and wa
commissioned to fill the earth with
population and to bring it to Edeni,
perfection. Satan saw his chance. b.
capturing the first pair and maxim,
them his subjects and alternating then
from the Almighty, he would captur,
a race. and eventually be the spiritua
prince. or ruler, of this world. 1t wal
to carry out this program that he de
ceived our first parents and started hi.
great lie.
Satan's Plans Changed.
When Satan perceived that his sub
jects were perishing and becoming i'm
beetle. mentally and physically, h,
thought to circumyent the Divine pen
atty by introducing fresh vigor, life
into the human family. This he die
by seducing some of the angels. Orig
inally angels apparently had the pow
er of materialization-Of taking human
form or any other form that they
might choose. Satan's program de
Elected some of these from their loyalty
to God and to their nature, and Undue
ed them to materialize and live as hu
by taking human wives.
The Pastor pointed out the Scripture
which described this DETECTION of tn,
angels. This, he said, must have pro
crossed for centuries, according to thi
Bible account The angelic ''sons o.
God saw the daughters of men tina
they were fair, and they took unit,
themselves wives Of all that they
chose" There were born unto then
children. men Of renown." intellec
tually, and giants physically. The vi
rility of the angels grated upon tn,
human stock, produced a race in SOM
respects superior, but in others yer,
inferior. Begotten and born in oppo
sition to the Divine will and in re