The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-08-05

The Devil is the greater temper first he assails you
from the outside then if you yield to him he gets the
inside
And there many different kinds of demoniacal pos
session. think there kinds that ZION has been
overooking-for instance that of inordinate desire
SOME SILLY FORMS OF INoRD1NATE DESIRE
There in New York who think of nothing
but dress I believe that some women have been
amored with dress that they have themselves out and
died simply through changing their clothes so many times
/ day.
Others have mania for ewelry perhaps some of you
are thus afflicted
tell you frankly that decorating the body with gold
is directly against the plain Word of God. Hear what
Paul says
"In like manner, that adorn themselves in
modest apparel with shamefastness sobriey not with
braided hair, and gold pearls costly rament But
(Which becometh women processing godliness through
good works."
That is clear instruction, and yet many who
profess to be Christians flying the face of that plain
Scripture
God Almighty never intended the Temple of the Holy
Spirit to become display rack for fine clothes and ewey
There thousands of people who worship their clothes
and ewery truly the children of Israel worshpped
the golden calf.
THE NEED OF CONSISTENCY IN THE REFoRMER's CONDUCT
| useless certain
while he she is guilty of wrong equally great in his
or her life.
you inconsistent you will find out that people
have not much for YOU
have been asked what think of the Women's Chris
tan Temperance Union.
/ do not think much of it, and will tell you why
It's members go the platform and pirate about the
liquor traffic. and then todde off to drug store and buy
bottle of patent medicine which they enjoy drinking be-
cause it has a large percentage of alcohol in it.
You MUST LEARN TO RECOGNIZE THE DEVILS VOICE
you listen to him. the first thing you will know he will
have hold of you and when you attempt to pull yourself
away and get into line again, you will discover that you
cannot do it.
If man who has been delivered from the drink habit
passes liquor shop and smells the fumes of whisky then
the Devil speaks to him; he listens the Devil has
him inside and overcome.
You have right to listen to the Devil at all!
Some talk about consecratng every faculty of the body
to Cod including hands, and feet and then stand
before dirty abomnable billboard with it's filthy adver-
sements; is it surprising that they find themselves
burning up with helish lust.
Then they ask in surprise "How earth did the Devil
He got hold of you while you reading those filthy
advertisements
THE SENSATIONAL PUBLIC HAS MORBID APPETITE
will attend to the study of it, you will have little time for
reading anything else.
If not public man would look at a news
paper especially at American newspaper Australian
newspapers not oneundredh part bad American
newspapers.
do not want to take those horrible stories pictures
of crime into my head, much less into my heart. The
newspapers for the most part filled with mess of stuff
that will ruin the mind and damn the spirit.
You need not be ignoramuses if you do not read
the newspapers.
ooh, but, you say II have to keep posted the war"
But do you know that about eenths of the stuff that
read in the newspapers about the made up
newspaper Offices
For instance, the London Agents of the Australian
day; if they hard up for they make it up
and then the papers in Australia string it out for three
weeks the people meanwhile thinking they getting fresh
news from the field of battle
THE DEVILS CUNNING IN APPEALING TO THE SENSES
The first lesson to be learned from Adam and Eve is
that the Devil is the temper and that he appeals to the
You will observe that that tree good for food and
delight the eyes, that it appealed to the senses
Adam and Eve
Why therefore, did they go fooing around it, and