The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-12-17

"A SUNDAY brought
TO climax hts
- Drama rsSo Of cfss.
- ~ ,ion. exhibited
I to approximate
4 xTfl ~ lily twenty five
FF7<<<K thousand people
%%fk In the Coliseum
Week. our eity
M has been great
lily stirred to new
and better views
OF tho Bible by
f;~TVN6 as,yxrTy,f this great drama
4 (laStSk kuSStiliI OF four parts.
two hours esch-
II had run OF some three months
here In tho Victoria Theatre year
kaxo. and many OF those attending
ydurtns the past week Witnessed "
then. and Enthusiastically declared
that It's wonderful lectures and
beautiful pictures surpassed any
II other entertainment. as respects IN :
struction Ia Science, Philosophy and
keiigton from the Bible viewpoint.
We understand that In Chioago the
drama has had a run OF nearly a
yoar and IN stlli showing at the
Metropolitan Auditorium In New
York City Temple, West ssrd at.
near broadway, the horne OF the
na. it has had a run OF more
al
showing In German. swedish. ttai :
4 isn and Polish. IL 10 announced
that the drama viii reopen In Eng
lish next sunday afternoon. contin-
uinx every week night indefinitely.
Pastor Rus.elfs topic OF today,
1.-THE OVERTHROW OF SATAN'S
EMPIRE" was e fitting conclusion 20
the drama here. emphasizing some
OF the lessons In the drama He
sasd In part;
the fable that satan 10 In some far
eff and unknown place called He'll.
sticking fires and causing untellahle
4 anguish 10 millions 90 cur race. But
The BIBLE tells no such fable. II
represents satan as great and
powerful spirit eelng-"tho prinee
u this world John i4.s0D.
Again, IL styles him the ruler or sod
OF tails world. who now workc,h
in the hearts OF the children Of dts
Ephesians .;.l. lie has a great
spiritual smpir. smongs, men.
which controls through Ignorance.
superstition aud fear the vast ma
jortty Of the human family.
The Bible declares him 20 De the
great expert In aeceiviug the people
making darkness appear to be
light. fRisehood sppear 20 be truth.
and truth appear 20 be fAlaeho0d
II declares that God has permitted
satan thus TO rule as prince. but
that He never authorized him--that
hts power is purely usurpauon,
based upon these receptions. IL
tells why God has permitted him
70 usurp authority, what object viii
b. served eventually by the permits
sson OF evil. how Satan shan De
thousand wars of Messiah's glorious
kinxdam, ard that eventually no
Win be utterly dcstroyef--snniniia
ved---Rsvelatfon ao:T.s.
AArAN ORIGINALLY A GLORIOUS
me Bible story is that Satan was
essAtsd perfect. that hs was an
angel of very high rank. named
Luctfsr. which signifies bright
lleriou:, intsilisens. lie was IN. NE
Ags,ns. tho Divine Arrangement
Pride and ambition becioudcd hts
wisdom He desired TO become
kinR, an autocrat, In some realm OF
his own. which he apparently fan
cfed he could rule more wisely than
could Jehovah. Behoidirg the newly
created Adara and Eve with procre-
atfvs posers and with authority from
God 20 f,li the earth with glorious.
perfect human beings. satan con-
riud~d that hs would never have
batter opportunlty than this for os-
sabfishinS himself as great King,
III he could ALLEVIATE mar from mo
Creator. hs would soon have an em-
pirs OF his own. He succeeded IN
tempting Adam 20 disloyal'y o
obediencs 20 God. and thus barred
him from Divine favor. But later
he found that Gods pronouueernent,
~The wages OF sin Is death, tho-
mans s.z31 was not an IDLE threa,.
and that all OF his subjects were
dying. The blight OF sin was upon
Ma ktnrdom, and the only way ne
could maintain IL at all was through
continued deception.
Ills next move was 70 estsbiisn
- new race. infused with fresn
bfood. me fact that God had not
punished satan's disioyaity was, no
doubt. a surprise TO all the noiy
angels. IL appeared as though satan
were too powerful for God 20 pun
Ssh him. Hence. when satan pre-
angels should rnatsriaiize as men
and begst hurAan children OF the
human mothers of the race. con-
sfderable number Of the Angels CO
Elected. and participated IN the
propositfou. As the Bible declares.
ssTh~y Jeff their own estate" or
Condition. The Bible tells IA that
the result, Of this unautnorirea
union was a new race, phy sl,any
giants. men OF renowu--intenec
tuaIly strong. but morally p.rss.tsI
The record further n that this rev
sorninatinr. snsiaving. mistrsating
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 80.
WHAT THE DELU6E ACCo"-
r.r,o,,,rg these conditions. God
had arranged for deluse: Tor man :
Kind had become so corrupt under
fhees evil Influences that contiu-
nance OF those condition. coula ~
longer be beneficial: inc entts
r.ce sxceDt Noah's family OF eight
nersons we're drowned in the de-
ing. Not a word In the Bible tells
that thesa people went 20 etsrna al
torture: but everything IN IL teacnes
that they died--lost life sntireIy.
But because Goa purp aan,h
eventual deliverancs from ose,n
during the thousand years OF Christ
rafgn therefore the Bible teache =
xfhat they fell asleep in death. not
/, be awakened until attet tns
<siiIsnnlai dawn and the estaD ~
Tnant OF rfghteousness in the earun.
Then they are 10 come forth. not
ali al once, but every man IN MS
own order."--1 Corinthians 1873;
Al peter q Peter 2D ana 81
Jude Jude % Informs us that from
ire time OF the dslugs. Satan ana
ire other angels OF lower order. who
wero rnisIed by him into misuse or
their powers, were put under chhihs
Of darkness until the tndgnenI o.
the great day, now At mana. ih,s
signifies thelr fsst - strcn
rance from materializing. since
then. their dealing with MANKIND
ta~ not been open as before, but IN
5arkness. in deception. etc. satan
4. called the Prince OF Darkness. OF
svtl. OF sin, Of error Jesus styles
him the father OF Hes, ana pc
cause IL was through his misrepre-
.erta.fous that Adam and his race
earne under the Divine sentence OF
death. therefore Jesus styles satan
"a murderer from the beginning -
John ss44. - ..a,,..uA
vasra this mighty, wicked spiritual
orlnca has not only been the prince,
81 demons, the angels who sinnsd,
but aiao by deception, tho goo, or