The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-05-18


tent we have been hoodwinked by the
Adversary.
What Are Doctrines of Demons?
From first to last, the doctrines of
demons are various falsehoods de-
signed to misrepresent Gods character
and dealings, and thus to hinder the
light of Gods Message from taking
effect in human hearts. But, you say,
could not God have hindered Satan
from thus practising receptions and
slandering His character? Surely He
could, as He declares He will soon do.
But repeatedly the Lord indicates that
it has been His purpose not to use
force In the gathering Of the Church.
As st. Peter declares, GOD hath CIV
en- unto us exceeding great and pre-
cious promises, that by these we might
become partakers of the Divine ma
ture." e Peter 40 We are Gods
workmanship; but He is working mere
Iy through His promises and seeking
q class who will respond to His Mes
sage and promises. BY and by,
through Messiahs Kingdom, force will
be used for the instruction of others;
but those now being selected from the
world are to be taken out without
hands without human power, without
any power except that of the Truth.
"Sanctify them through Thy Truth,
Thy Word is Truth" John 17:17)
To whatever extent Gods Word is re-
ceived into good and honest heart, 1t
does work of transformation trans
formed by the renewing of your mind, :
through the Holy Spirit.-Rom. 1872.
Satan, personally and through his de-
mon hosts of fallen angels, seeks to
misrepresent Gods Message, Gods
character. st. Paul tells us this, say
ing, 1.-THE god of this world hath blind
ed the minds of those who believe
not, lest the light of the glorious Cos
pei of Christ, who is the Image of
God, should shine unto them" z Co
rinthians Az If the light of Gods
goodness shine into any heart, it will
be by the Truth shining In. which will
have the effect of scattering the error
and sin and of drawing that person
that more light of Divine Truth
will shine into all our hearts, that we
may be drawn nearer to our God and
separated more and more from sin and
everything opposed to God
What is to crush this SANDER against
the Almighty, which Satan has manu-
featured? He got us to believe that
before God created man He made a
great place called Hell, Sheol, Hades,
supplied it with fre-proof devils and
with fuel to last for all eternity, and
then made man, knowing that nearly
everybody would go to that awful
place, only one In ten thousand being
sanity enough to escape 1t. Addition
ally, we were taught that we would
be rendered fndestructible, In order
that our torments might last eternally
refuse to believe that any human
mind could ever make up such doc.
trines. l think too highly Of my fell
low creatures. accredit those doc
trines, as the Apostle does in ours text
to demons; and as he explains, theil
object was to separate us from God
and from the Bible, Gods Word.
When Satan's Work Began.
Satan has been working his plan Of
opposition to God for more than SIX
thousand years. He began by telling
Mother Eve that her sin would moi
bring the punishment of death, as Goo
had said; and he has kept up thai
statement until today. He has now
convinced the whole world that wher
they die they are really more alive
than when they were alive
This Is the fundamental doctrine of
the demons. Think how many false
doctrines that have troubled us are
based upon the thought that the dead
are alivel And remember what the
Bible says; namely, sThe dead know
not anything. (Ecclesiastes go; 1.-THE
wages Of sin is death"-not eternal tor
ment anywhere (Romans 6:23); and,
The soul that sinneth, it shall die"
ezekiel 1874, 20). If we had believed
the Bible We would have been spared
the nonsense, the fear, the torture, the
decisions, which have troubled us.
But we neglected Gods Word and took
the word of Satan, the Serpent.
These doctrines of demons include
-ourgatory and masses to get out of
Purgatory. They include the work of
spirit mediums; for as bishops and
priests are deceived, so are mediums.
They verify think that they are COM
municating with dead humans; where
as the Bible makes clear that they are
being deceived by the fallen angels,
the demons. who know all about our
dead friends, and through these me-
diums try to impress upon us that our
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 distinctly that the spirits
who once claimed to be their dead
friends declare plainly, after getting
control Of these unfortunates, that they
are demons, and then proceed to terrify
their victims by telling that they will
soon have them in eternal torture.
Why Would Demons So Teach7
At first thought it would appear as
thing telling about future trouble; and
thus many are deceived into thinking
that whatever tells of the goodness
and love of God must be q deception
of the Devil Let US notice carefully
the line of the Adversary's attack. He
skillfully uses preachers, evangelists
and the profane-all-to tell about Hell
and devils. and the creeds to tell that
all that is Gods Plan. Thus effectual-
ly he puts barrier between God and
the people, and drives them from God
and from the Bible.
Have not these doctrines Of devils
led thinking people away from God
and religion into social fiurries and
nonsense? Have not some men been
led to plunge into business, others into
novel reading, theater-going, drinking.
carousing, gaming-anything to keep
their minds off the most important
things, the things Of God, the things
which the Bible teaches? Surely it is
sol And yet there are thousands of
ministers who are preaching Hell-fire
torment, but who do not believe word
of what they say, and who think they
are doing it to keep people from going
into sin. Do they think that they are
wiser than God? Do they expect to
hear the Masters well done, good
and faithful servant" for having SIAN
dered Gods name, His character and
Message, for having deceived the peo-