The Washington times., 1915-12-13

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Il - IA the Casino today |
| brought to a climax |
| his great photo |
kIsS22*$s$s$ Drama Of Creation" |
- | exhibited to approx |
~ 80 / mately twenty-five |
~ ! thousand people In !
E.4# II the Coliseum during |
lHN$ / the past week. our
Ess II city has been greatly |
f$$4tSSss stirred to new and
better views Of the
Bible by this great ,
! AS%* Drama of four parts,
M each two hours long
~ l 1t had a run OF some
Lz$ three months here IN
the Victoria Theatre,
AS56R 9GssIE9 nan; year ;"., ;aa 'ss;: s:: n:
| past week witnessed
| It then. and enthusiastically declared that
| its wonderful lectures and beautiful pic
as respects instruction in Science, Philoso-
| ply, and Religion, from the Bible viewpoint
We understand that in Chicago the Drama
has had run Of nearly a year. and is still
| showing at the Metropolitan Auditorium. In
| New York city Temple, w. sard ST..
broadway. the home OF the Drama. 1t has
had aorun OF more than a year, and lately
has been showing in German. Swedish. Ita-
ian and Polish. Announcement has been
iish, beginning. next sunday afternoon.
continuing every week night Indefinitely.
Psstor RHsselrs topic Of today THE
was a hitting conclusion to the Drama here,
| emphasizing some OF the lessons In the
| Drama. He said In part:
| Long has the world been taught the fable
that Satan is in some far-ofr and unknown
place called Hell. stoking hres and causing
| untellable anguish to millions OF our race
But the Bible tells no such fable. 1t repre-
sents Satan as a great and powerful spirit be-
ing-'the Prince Of this world" John Il 80. }
Again. II styles him the ruler, or god, Of
this world who now worketh IN the hearts
| 81 the children Of disobedience.' q Conn
thians a.; Ephesians 2:2) He has a great
| m Ynan "a oh
trolls through ignorance, superstition and
fear the vast majority Of the human family.
| The Bible declares Satan to be the great
| expert in deceiving the peope-making dark =
ness appear TO be light. falsehood appear 10
be truth, and truth appear to he falsehood.
II declares that God has permitted Satan
thus to rule as a prince but that He never
, authorized hm-that Satan's power Is pure
ly usurpation, based upon deception. II tells
why God has permitted him to usurp au-
ttority. what object will be served eventu-
ally by the permission OF evil. how Satan
Thousand years OF Messiah's glorious King
dom. and that eventualiv he will be utterly
destroyed-ahnhilated.-R ?o:7.,.
SATAN ORIGINALLY GLORIOUS
ANGEL.
The Bible story is that satan was created
perfect. mat ne was originally an ange
OF very nigh rank. named Lucifer. winch
signiies bright. glorious intelligent. lit
was the first OF Gods creatures to rebe
against the Divine arrangement Pride AND
mDItion beCluuded his wisdom. He desired
To become a king. autocrat In some
calm OF his own which apparently ns
| Iancied that he could rule more wisely thar
could Jehovah. Beholding the newly created
| Adam and Eve with provocative powers Snc
with authority from God to MI the eartt
with glorious perfect human beings, SataI
concluded that he would never have bette
| opportunity than this for establishing nim
self as a great king. If he could slenat
man from the Creator. he would soon hav'
an empire Of his own. He succeeded II
tempting Adam TO disloyalty. disobedienc
to God. and thus barred him from Divin
fntF lat he .nhs nFn
nouncement, The wages Of sin IL death.
was no idle threat: and that all Of his SUP
jects were dying. iRomans 6:23D The bligh
of SIN was upon his kingdom and the oni
way he could maintain It at all was throug
continual : deception.
His next move to establish a ne,
race, infused with fresh blood. The rae
that God had not punished sstan's disoyal
ty was, no doubt, surprise to all the hol
angels. II appeared though Satan wa
too powerful for God to punish him Hence
when Satan presented the proposition tina
oeget human children Of the human mother
OF the race. a considerable number Of III
angels detected. and participated in tn
proposition. As the Bible declares. the
left :her own estate" or condition. Tn
Bpe tells us that the result Of this ur
authorized union was a new race, physicali
giants. men OF renown''-intellectuaiI
strong. but morally perverted. The recor
further is that this new race "hlled l,S,., II
nristreating acknowledgements 6:i
WHAT THE DELUGE ACCOMPLISHED
u fUreknowing tnese condilIUas, uou had a
~ ranseu Ior II ucIuse, Ior mankind had u
come So Co.Iupt Under these evn innuenc'
mat a cunt.!Iu'tnce "a these conuitions Cou
no longer uc penenciai. Tne entire rae
e. eAcep, Moan lamIIy Oh eignl persons, Wei
ST uIoMneu III the DeIuge. Not word in u
!, niUIe tells tnat those people went to etern
u LUI Iure; UuI every ming IL teaches thi
he tuey uIeu-lusI hls entirely. Bat pecau
w UIuu purposes lneIr eventual uelveran
ot from ueAln during the Thousand years
"" Chrlsts heIgn therefore the Bible teach
mat tney Iru asleep IN ueath, not 10
er awakened until alter the Miilennial lav
ne ana the establishment OF righteousness
a tne earth. inen tney are TO come Tort
st. own er."-John 5:2s,@S corintha
nd l0:II.
nd ST. Peter and st. Jude inform us that fro
the time OF the Deluge Sa alan and the oh
angels OF lower order. VINO were misied
MIN into the misuse of their powers, we
-, put under Cnains of darkness until the Jud
ment OF the great Day now at hand.
Peter "a Jude % This signifies their r
straint. their hindrance from materialiZin
since then, their dealing with mankind HI
not been open. as before. but in darkness.
deception. etc. Satan Is called the Prin
of Darkness of evil of sin, OF error Jes
styles HIM the father of lies; and beca Use
, was through his misrepresentation III
a Adam and his race csine under the Dtvt
sentence of death. therefore Jesus calls SAT-
"a murderer from the beginning. John s.:
For approximately four thousand years II
mighty, wicked spiritual prince has not ON
=, been the prince OF demons. The angels W
sinned," but also. by deception, the god
ruler of humanity. His rule OF darkne
has not been open one, which the ra
s would resent. but a reign through decepti
J, and through the wickedness of humanity
'Children OF disobedence'- masses
:, humanity.-Ephesians 2:2: Corinthians "A
The work of Satan and his demon hosts
= manifest amongst the heather peoples.
St Paul declares. these are so deceived II
- thew really worship the demons instead
', God-ignorantly. CActs l7:23.l The demt
a | ology by which they have been deceived
70 operated through dreams. visions ana spi
mediums In every heather nation.
a CHRIsTENDOM is sATAN'S TRIUMPH
~ When God entered into a Covenant with
~ Israelites at Mount Sinai. His Law forbs
them to have anything to do with these g