The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-10
Driving the People
From God and Bible
DOCTRINES OF DEMONS RESPONSIBLE.
Satans Successful MehodWy Cod Permits Darkness for Light
Faith and Love Tested Responsibility of Preachers SLAM
dered-Eveybodys Duty-Tuth Soon Tnumphant-'Ihey
Shall Be Ashamed

| would have an opportunity Of responding
voluntarily.
| BY and by. through Messiah's King
! dom, force will be used for the instruc-
tion Of others: but those now being Sc
lected from the world are taken out by
the power of the Truth alone e Peter Ia:
John 17:l7J To whatever extent God 3
| Word is received into a good and honest
| heart' 1t does transformation work.
I through the Holy Spirit.-Romans 2:2.
Satan, personally and through his
demon hosts of fallen angels, seeks to
misrepresent Gods Message. Gods char
acter. as st. Paul tells us. G. Corin-
thians 4:4) This Islander against the
Almighty. which Satan has manufac-
eured. Is that God made a great place
caiieo Hell. Sheol. Hades, supplied it
with hre-proof devils and fuel to last
Tor all eternity; and then created man.
knowing that nearly everybody would
go to that awful place. Additionally. we
were taught. We would be rendered in
oestructible. In order that our torments
might last eternally.- I think too highly
OF my fellow-creatures to believe that
any human mind could invent such doc
.rines: accredit them. as does the
Apostle In our text. to demons; and, "a
ne explains. their object was to separate
us from God and His Word.
When satan's Work Ber.n.
Satan has been working his plan O,
opposition TO God for more than six
| thousand years. He began nv telling
Mother Eve that her sin would no. bring
punishment Of death. as God had saio.
ana ne has kept up that statement until
To-Day. He has convinced the whole
world That the dead are really more
ailve than when they were alive. This
Is the fundamental doctrine of demons.
But the Bible says. THE dead know not
anything, Ecclesiastes $50; THE
wages Of sin is death"-not eternal for
ment anywhere tRomans $50: and, The
soul that sinneth. it shall die Ezekiel
B:4.2O. If We had believed the Bible. we
would have been spared the nonsense.
the fear, the decisions. which have
troubled us. But We neglected Gods
Word and took the word of Satan. tn.
Serpent. Thank God. Messiah's King
dom will not only bring in blessings to
the world. but will bind Satan, that ne,
may deceive the world no more until
the thousand years of Christ's Reign
are finished and the world uplifted:-
Revelation 2O1-4
These doctrines of demons, include
Purgatory and masses to get out of
Purgatory. They include the work of
spirit mediums; for as bishops anu
priests are deceived. SO are mediums
They verify think they are communi-
eating with dead humans: whereas the
Bible makes clear that they are being
deceived by the fallen angels, the de-
mons, who through mediums try to inn
press upon us that our dead friends are
alive, thus giving the only confirmation
there Is to Satan's lie that the dead are
alive. Poor creatures who come under
the influence of evil spirits tell us dis
tinctly that the spirits who once claimed
to be their dead friends declare plainly
after getting control Of these unfortu-
mates. that they are demons. and then
proceed to terrify their victims with as
surances of eternal torture.
At first thought 1t would appear that
Satan would not favor anything telling
about future trouble; thus many are de-
ceived into thinking that whatever tells
of the goodness and love of God must
be a deception to the Devil. Let US no.
tice carefully the line of the Adversary's
attack. He skillfully uses preachers.
evangelists and the profane-all-to tell
about He'll and devils. and the creeds
to tell that all this was Gods Plan.
Thus effectually he puts a barrier be-
tween God and the people. and drives
them from God and the Bible.
Have not these doctrines Of devils"
led thinking people away from God and
religion into social furries and nom
sense? Have not men been led to
plunge into business, novel-reading,
theatre going. drinking. carousing. gam
ins-anything to keep their minds off the
most important things, the things OF
God. the things which the Bible teachest
preaching Hell-fire torment, who do not
believe word of what they say. but
who imagine they keep people from go.
ing into sin. Do they think that they
faithful servant" for having slandered
His name. His character and His Mes
when He plainly told them that the
Truth alone will sanctify?
I sympathize with the preachers. they
are in terrible place. as the Apostle
describes in our text. speaking lies IN
ed with a hot iron" Only a badly. scar
ed conscience could approve OF the
slandering Of Almighty God. the repre-
senti1s Of Him as we ee eau,S S0r possibv $
agine. 1t would be hard matter Tor
these gentlemen. so long looked up to as
standard: bearers for God and the Truth.
tails and tell the people plainly. We
have been deceiying you all; or at least
have been keeping you In ignorance OF
ns TssR the fss w Se may
expect, viii do this. They are coming
nearer to the point every minute. But
the majority will brazen the matter
out, adding falsehood to hypocrisy: and
every day that they delay to step out
on the side of Truth will make their
case the worse. The people are becom-
preachers in the knowledge of God and
in honesty of thought and word
Quito recently 1 heard from . young
man who went to his pastor, saying.
do you really believe In He'll FIRE as
the punishment for sim? The answer
was. Yes. certainly, Of course.we all
do, Then the young man told what
he had been thinking: and as he was
leaving the minister's study. tho latter
put his hand on the young mans shout
der, saying, George. do not believe In
eternal torment; but you know We must
preach II. Otherwise. we would be our
with our denominations and creeds. ana
out with everything: and perhaps tho
people would be the worse of.
What a shameful position. God has
given preachers much advantage over
for study: and surely He will not holo
him guiitiess that taketh His name in
vain-that ISLANDERS Him. that misrepre-
sents Him. and that does SO In the Name
Of God. religion and the Bible: I am
speaking. plainly. but not unkindiy. NV
Judgments OF the Lord surely will come
upon them for their course. Our fore
fathers had the excuse or Ignorance:
misunderstanding, poor TRANSACTIONS, ans
severe bondages OF superstition. But no
excuse can be offered now Tor misrep-
resentinS God. for dcceiving the people
Of God and the world. and for joining
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