The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-02-17

men, that they were fair, beautiful
and took of them for wives such as
they chose. and started human fami-
lies-all contrary to the Divine ar
rangement of their being, wholly mis-
using their power of naturalization.
Satan's course seemed to prosper.
Gods time to interfere had not yet
come He would allow disobedience
and a certain amount of liberty that it
might eventually illustrate to all GER
tain great principles and lessons re-
speeding the Divine character, Plan
and arrangements, designed for the
good of all Gods creatures.
The children of this combination of
angelic vitality grated upon the hui
man stock was race of giants
ically and intellectually superior to the
condemned and dying race Of Adam.
Being begotten and born under pure
ly lustful conditions, and in violent
opposition to the Divine will, this new
race of giants retained nothing Of the
image or likeness of God. They were
british, sensual tyrants. Under them
the human family would soon have
been exterminated; for we read re
speeding conditions that God perceived
that the earth was full Of violence AMI
that the thoughts of mems minds were
only evil continually. Gods Wisdom
saw that it would be best to blot out
entirely that order of things, and to
start a new arrangement The Deluge
accomplished this.
Thenceforth those angels who for
centuries had lived in sin were re-
strained from naturalization and sep
arated from the holy angels, being con
fined to Tartarus-or earth's atmOs-
phere. Meantime, instead of starting
a new race Of men. God carried over
Noah and his family of seven. These
constituted new start for the Adamic
family. And the statement that they
were perfectly generated and that
they had no angelic adulteration, as
sures us of the solidarity of our race.
and that the Redemption-price paid
for Adam includes every one of us;
under the Lords arrangement that
"As all in Adam die, even so all in
CnrlSt Snall De mdue awe.
Satan's Great Defeat.
This was the first defeat that Satan
had met with--the first great manifes
tation of Divine Power in opposition
to him. But still it only partially
stopped his program. The liberties of
himself and his associate fallen angels
were thenceforth restricted. limited, to
earth. No longer had they privilege to
roam the universe Furthermore no
longer were they permitted to assume
human form by naturalization.
They STILL however, had their original
perfection of organism and their gen
eral liberty. Satan thus had oppOrtu
nifty for assuming that God had done
all that He was able to do in the way
of restraining and opposing him.
Adapting himself to the new condi
lions, Satan and his fallen host at
tackled mankind in a new way after
the Deluge. They would poison the
minds of humanity against God. They
would declare that Satan's original lie
was the truth and that Gods state
ment was the lie. They would seek to
prove to mankind that the dead are
not dead = that they have merely
changed their condition from lower
to a higher one and that they are
more alive than ever. Whoever would
come under the influence of this their
teaching would discredit Gods state
ment-would believe the lie," would
think of a dead man as really adyanc
ed to a higher station, instead of hay
ing fallen into death
Men, persuaded that the dead are
alive, could easily. ON the basis o.
that error. be led to believe that the
dead were suffering torments. and the
thought that God would authorize and
permit such torments would tend t.
brutalize mankind. and tend also to
estop them from thinking of God ne
gracious. merciful and svmoathetic
Thus, alienated from God In their
minds, they would be more amenable
than ever to Satan and his associates
In evil. Then. too, upon the basis of
this falsehood. this deception. other
errors could be introduced Some
could be taught respecting purgatory
and respecting the possibility of es
cape from purgatory under certain
terms and conditions. All this would
tend to bring about the slavery of the
human mind. and make possible fur
ther inroads 10y the evil spirits
st. Paul refers to these doctrines of
demons, and styles them also strong
decisions, that they should believe a
lie" because they had less pleasure In
the truth. These strong decisions have
been operating in the world for now
more than four thousand years Can
we wonder that they have gained q
strong hold upon humanity? Can we
wonder that they are to be found in
every corner of the earth-among thu
savage Indians of America, among til,
blacks of Africa. among the millions o.
India, China, Japan? We cannot won
der at this, especially when we remem
Der the Apostles statement. I'VE wres I
tie not with flesh and blood. but with
wicked spirits in high influential
places"
Jesus Cast Out Demons.
In the days of our Lord we find that
many of the people had been dabbline
in Spiritism, and had come under the
influence of the fallen angels to the ex-
tent of obsession, and some of them to
the extent of being possessed by evil
spirits. which did their thinking and
talking for them, merely using their
human organs as their servants. This
would seem to have been the alterna
tive to naturalization. If the fallen
angels could no longer materialize. they
would do the thing next to their pref
erence-they would get control of the
mind of some individual and thus hav,
control of his body.
In all such cases, it would appear
that the victim. becoming a tool OF til
evil spirits. is frequently caused b
them to say and to do things indicai
Ing depravity greater than he OF sh
had before the obsession began. TIL
tendency of all such things seems I
be toward RIGHTEOUSNESS. In the dag
of Jesus and His Apostles, ACCORDING
to the Scriptural accounts. they cas-
out demons from many people, som,
of whom had more than one. Oni
man had a legion. Many physician
know well that some who are appar
emily insane are not really so as re
spects any brain disease. They merely
are obsessed. possessed Qf cyl spirits.