The Washington times., 1915-05-10
Why Would Demons So Teach?

Why Would Demons So Teach?
At first thought 1t would appear that
Satan would not favor anything telling
about future trouble, thus many are
deceived into thinking that whatever
tells OF the goodness and love of God
must be a deception to the Devil Let
us notice carefully the line of the Ad-
versary's attack. He skillfully uses
preachers, evangelists and the profane
ALTO tell about He'll and devils. and
the Creeds to tell that all this was
Gods Plan. Thus effectually he puts a
barrier between God and the people.
and drives them from God and the Bible.
Have not these doctrines of devils"
religion into social furries and non
sense? Have not men been led to
plunge into business, novel-readinE.
theater- going. drinking, carousing. gam
ins-anything to keep, their minds off
Of God. the things which the Bible
teaches? And yet thousands of minis
ters are preaching Hell-fre torment.
who do not believe a word of what they
say. but who imagine they keep peo-
that they are wiser than God? Do they
expect to hear the Masters We'll done.
good and faithful servant" for having
slandered His name. His character and
people when He plainly told them that
the Truth alone will sanctify?
sympathize with the preachers; they
are In terrible place. as the Apostle
hypocrisy; having their conscience scar
ed with a hot iron" Only badly scar
ed conscience could approve of the
slandering Of Almighty God. the repre-
worst of devils we could possibly imag-
inc. 1t would be hard matter for
these gentlemen. SO long looked up to
as standard bearers for God and the
Truth. to come humbly down from their
pedestals and tell the people plainly.
we have been deceivins you all, or at
least have been keeping you in ignor-
ance OF the Truth, for the sake of the
salaries we received" few, we may
surely expect. will do this. They are
coming nearer to the point every min
ute. But the majority will brazen the
matter out, adding falsehood to hypoc-
risy: and every day that they delay to
step out on the side of Truth will make
their case the worse, The people arc
becoming enlightened, and are ahead of
the preachers il the knowledge of God
and in honesty of thought and word
Quite recently heard from a young
man who went to his pastor saying
DO you really believe in He'll fire as
the punishment for sin?" The answer
was, Yes. certainly. of course-we all
do" ThrI the young man told what
he had been thinking; and as he was
leaving the minister's study. the latter
put his hand on the young mans
shoulder. saying. George. l do not be-
| liess in eternal torment; but YOU know
we must preach It. Otherwise We
would be out with our denominations
and creeds. and out with everything;
and perhaps the people would be the
worse on"
| What a shameful position! God has
| given preachers much advantage over
| the common people In education and
| time for study: and >surely He will not
! hold him gultless that taketh His
name in vain-that ISLANDERS Him. that
| misrepresents Him, and that does so In
| the Name Of God, religion. and the
! Bible | am speaking plainly. but not
! nrkindly. My heart grieves fOr the
ministers: for the judgments of the
! Lord surely will come upon them for
! the. course. Our forefathers had the
! excuse of ignorance, misunderstanding,
! poor translations. and severe bondages
| Of superstition. But no excuse can he
! offered now for misrepresenting God
| for deceiving the people of God and the
world, and for joining with Satan IN at
tempting to thwart the Divine Purpose
| OF selecting the Household OF Faith.
| Again I ofrer free on postcard re-
| quest Sv pamphlet on He'll. II dis
cusses every text containing the word
! He'll. and certain misunderstood pa ra-
bles Address me at Brooklyn. N. Y.