River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-02-26

Priest after the Order of Melchizedek.
He will bless, instruct and uplift the
people from their weakness, mental.
moral and physical Thus He will be
making all things new-bringing all
things to the perfection of the original
Divine purpose.
According TO the Promise
The SayiOr'S works ut the First Ad-
vent-hea!ing the sick. opening the
awakening the sleeping dead-were
merely typical illustrations of the
greater work which He with His glori-
fed Church will accomplish amongst
men during the great antitypical Sab
bath Thus Jesus and His Church. as
the antitypical Seed Of Abraham, will
fulfil the Divine Promise made TO
Abraham. saying. in thy Seed shall
all the families of the earth be bless
ed" St Paul points US back to that
same Promise, saying. Which Seed is
Christ; and if We be Christ's.
then are We Abrahan's Seed, and heirs
according to the Promise Galatians
3:16, %
Alas, many have taken the misrep-
reservations of Gods character in the
creeds of the Dark Ages too literally.
The result is that many have gone to
insane asylums Others have been
driven away from God to pleasure or
to sin, in their endeavor to forget Him
Others have been made very unhappy
as they thought Of friends and neigh
bors. kind and good, who have made
no profession of walking in Jesus
footsteps. Alas, that we should have
so misunderstood our great Creators
character and Plan! Although we did
it ignorantly. adding to the Word of
God human traditions. we, neverthe-
less. have suffered for our carelessness
and temerity.
Christendom's Great Mistake.
Gradually Cbristendom fell into the
great mistake of disregarding Gods
Word and believing Satan's lie, as the
heather do. God declared that the
wages of sin would be death-the ex-
tinction of life Satan contradicted
this and falsifed to Mother Eve, assur-
ing her that there would be no death
penalty. Satan and his fallen angels
have insidiously sought to perpetuate
his lie by telling us that when our
friends appear to die they really be-
come more alive than before. In ac-
cepting their testimony we have been
doing what the Apostle cautioned us
q O0i DIV RI cr0i7
it's and doctrines of demons.-1 limo
thy IL
Be Not Deceived-"The Wages of Sin
Is Death"
The evil spirits have seduced Chris
tendon, as they have seduced the en-
tire heather worldly giving feigned
communication between the dead and
the living. Satan and his demon host
have full knowledge of all the affairs
of humanity. 1t is an easy matter for
them therefore, to personate the dead,
and through spirit mediums, witches
and wizards, planchettes, tipping ia
bles, writing pencils, visions and
dreams, to represent them as still
alive.
The heather indeed are eXcusable for
falling into these seductive snares; for
the heather have no revelation from
God and no warning against these evil
spirits. But how shall we excuse our
selves, to whom God committed the
Oracles of Truth, which clearly tell us
that the soul that sinneth shall die.
that the dead know not anything, that
there is neither wisdom nor knowledge
nor device in Sheol, Hades, the tomb,
whittier all are going
Do not the Scriptures tell us that
these demons, not content with Sc
ducing us from the Truth and teach
ing us doctrines of devils which dis
honor our Creator, go further than
this and, wherever possible. possess
poor humanity, dispossessing the hui
man will and acting through the hui
man body? Did not Jesus and the
Apostles deal with such possessed per-
sons, casting out demons? How strange.
therefore, that we should have forgot
ten all these lessons and taken Satan
for our instructor. How strange that
we should believe the unreasonable lie
and disbelieve the real testimony CT
God. that the wages of sin is deabh,
and that the soul that sinneth il shall
die!
Blind and Deaf W. Were.
Even when we had "a our hands. the
Word of the Lord re made it of none
effect by believing Satan's lie. When
we read in tae Scriptures that the
wicked shah perish, that ar the wick
ed will God destroy, we were hoodooed
by the seducing spirits into interpret
ing perish and destroy to mean ever
lasting life in torment. 1t is a wonder
that Christian hope could be held at
all under such an avalanche of error!
Those who triumphed down through
the Age. we may be sure, were upheld
by the precious promises of Gods
Word. which negatived their fears and
led them often to say, Alas. we do
not understand it; but we trust the
ord thaf He will do right