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PEOPLE'S
Sermon by
CHARLES T.
RUSSELL,
Futor Brooklyn
Tabernacle.
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Knoxville, Tenn.. Sept 23. A Con
vcntion of Bible Students Is In session
In this city Pastor Kusseil of the
Brooklyn Tabernacle, as President of
the International Bible Students Asso
ciation, addressed the Students twice
todny. Ills audiences were large and
Intelligent. We report one of bis ad
dresses from the text foregoing. He
said :
Much speculation bus been aroused
by our text Some have claimed that
it signifies that Christ, after his death
on the cross ami before his resurrec
tion, went to some place where human
spirits are Imprisoned In some kind of
purgatory and there preached to thera.
Not only Is the Catholic theory In lino
with this suggestion, but many Protes
tants bold that the dead may be pray
ed for and thus bo assisted to escape
from eternal torment All of this Is
wrong, as we shall show quite con
trary to the teachings of our text when
viewed In the light of Its context
Those preached to were not human
beings, but spirit beings not men, but
angels. This Is clearly stated In Terse
20, wblcb tella as when these angels
were Imprisoned and why. Tbcy were
Imprisoned In the days of Noab at tbe
time of tbe flood. They were Imprisoned
for disobedience. So we read (verse
19), "He preached unto spirits In pris
on, wblcb sometime were disobedient,
when once tbe long-suffering of God
waited In the days of Noah, while the
ark was a preparing." Turning back
to the Genesis account of that time we
find quite a complete record or history
of these disobedient spirits, lu tbe
Sixth Chapter, verses J -5.
Angela Preferred to Bt Humans.
Some time after father Adam's diso
bedience and his expulsion from Eden
the holy angels were permitted to
visit humanity with a view to assist
ing men back to harmony with God.
This doubtless was permitted for two
reasons: First, bad such an opportu
nity not been furnished, tbe angels
might In tbe conclusion of God's great
Plan, have been Inclined to suy. Vis.
God accomplished human salvation,
but In a very roundabout way and at
very great cost and trouble. Had be
given us art opportunity to mingle with
bumu ulty we might have had an up
lifting Influence upon the people and
have accomplished tbelr reconciliation
10 God.
Mflod wished to forestall nny stu b
(misunderstanding of the wisdom of
'the Plan which he had arranged and
would. In due time, work out; second
ly, the angels themselves never bad
come In contact with sin of any kind.
Uence they never bad been tested or
tried In respoct to their obedience and
loyalty to the Creator. They were per
mitted to attempt tho recovery of hu-manlty-pnrtly
In order to test their
own obedience and loyalty to God.
Our kuowledge of spirit beings and
the powers granted to them by the
Almighty Is limited to our observation
of the Bible record. The angels who
appeared as young men at our Lord's
sepulchre and again at his ascension
and who, as soon as they had accom
plished the purposes of their visit, vun
ixhed. are Illustrations.
We remember the account of how
Abraham sat in tbe door of his
tent and. Behold, three men came to
him. He received them as men. enter
talncd them at dinner and, we read,
"They did eat and talked with Abra
ham." They bad human powers though
tlll spirit beings. When they dema
rerlallzed they vanished.
Genesis vl, 1-2, informs us that this
privilege of materialization for the as
slstance of mankind was eventually
misused by some of the angels as an
opportunity for sinful Intercourse with
tiumnnlty. Tbe time at which this be
gan Is not definitely stated. The ex
nresslon, "When men began to multl
ply on the face of the earth," might
safely bo estimated at about a thou
sand years after Adam's creation and
falL This would leave a period of C53
years to the flood. It was approxl
mately during that long period that
tbe angelic sons of God, seeing the
daughters of men, took to themselves
for wires all that they chose of the
fair daughters of men. And they bare
children to them. The same became
mighty men wblcb were of old men of
renown and giants. We remember
that at that early day human life was
much longer than now and that man.
tiood was scarcely reached before a
;entury and thnt few became fathers
sooner; and when we remember also
hnt tbe children of the angels
ore not mentioned as boys, but men
mighty men, renowned men. It gives
the thought that the angels, without
Divine permission, had really started
to propagate a new ruce and thnt their
progeny wos much stronger than that
of the poor, Adnnile stock.
The disregard of Divine I.nw mnnnl
thnt the strength of these giants would
be used selfishly and the licentious ex
ample of the nngels had a donioral
Izlng effect upon I lie children of Adam
ivh well as upon their own children
All this Is suited nnd Implied In the
words, "And God saw thut the wicked
ncss of tun n great In the enrth.
and that cvrrv Imagination of the
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PULPIT...
PREACHING
TO
IMPRISONED
SPIRITS
'By which alio he went and
preached unto die spirits in prison"
(IPeteriii. 19).
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continually." What a terrible picture
of the condition of things before the
flood! But God was not astonished.
for he bad foreknown everything.
Hence he bad a great canopy of water
In tbe sky which temporarily gave the
earth an equable, temperate climate,
but which he intended should fall
upon the earth and cause the great
flood in Noah's day. Hence at tho ap
propriate time God gave Instructions
to Noah to prepare an nrk for the sav
ing of himself and his bouse. Noah
and bis family were the only members
of Adam's race In all tho earth who
were not more or less contaminated by
those angels. How wide must have
been that Influence when we read os
on exceptional matter, "Now Noah
(and his family) was perfect In bis
generation" the disobedient nngels
had nothing whatever to do with gen
erating them.
Fallsn Angsls Changed.
While the angels preferred to live as
men In human bodies, tbcy would not
be overwhelmed like humanity In the
flood, but merely dissolve, by demote-
rlullzatlon, their human bodies and be,
as originally, spirit beings. Satan was
the first sinner against tbe Divine gov
ernment. In his endeavor to set up n
separate empire and to have humanity
for his subjects. Although God hod
full power to destroy Satan and the
other disobedient angels, he has not
exercised that power. Instead he mere
ly Isolated them from himself and tbe
holy angels and imprisoned them, In
the sense that be no longer permitted
them to materialize, either as a ser
pent or as humanity for the tempting
and Injury of our race. In this sense
they are Imprisoned restrained of lib
erty. Now let us hear St Peter's words re
specting these angels who sinned. He
says (II Peter 11. 4), "God spared not
tbe angels that sinned, but cast them
down to bell, and delivered them into
chains of darkness, to be reserved unto
Judgment" The word tartanu here
rendered "bell" In our Common Ver
sion, is found nowhere else In tbe Bi
ble. It refers to our earth's atmos
phere and to the fact that those fallen
angels, called demons or devils, are
"the power of the air." And Satan,
who was originally an angel of much
higher rank and nature. Is their
Prince, "The Prince of tbe power of
the air," the Prince of demons. They
are "cost down" In the sense of being
treated Ignomlnlously. They are "In
chains of darkness," not In chains of
Iron. They can still go and come and
be sources of temptation to humanity
who are In a sinful attltudo of mind.
They are restrained In chains of dark
ness In tbe sense that whatever they
do muBt be done In the dark until
their Judgment time at the Great Day
at tbe beginning of Messiah's thou
sand year day of tbe reign of right
eousness. Turn to St. Judo's Epistle, There
we read iverse Oi. "The ongels which
kept not their first estate, but left
tbelr own habitation, be bath reserved
In age lasting chains, under darkness,
unto the Judgment of the Great Day."
Their first estate In which they wero
created was the spirit or angelic con
dltlou. They left tbelr own proper con
dltlon of living and nature, In viola
tlon of tbe Divine will, that they might
live on a lower plane live In sin; for
the angels are sexless, though always
referred to as mascullue. And our
Lord declares that those begotten of
tbe holy Spirit, who during this age
shall attain to the resurrection of tbe
dead, the "First Itesurrectlou," will bo
'like uuto tbo angels" In severul re
spects one of these being that they
will neither marry nor be given in
marriage, but be without sexual dls
Unction.
In harmony with this note how
spiritualists bold their seances, cither
In absolute darkness or In a very faint
light They claim now that the splr
Its are getting more and more power
of materialization and that soon they
will be able to materialize In broad
day light and go about amongst hu
manlty as members of the race. We
do not question the power of God to
restrain these fallen angels, these de
monshis power to restrain them from
materializing and thus doing great
harm In the world. Nevertheless, we
wonder If they will not be permitted
by God to And some greater powers
Q mMerlMiQ contrary t0 he Dl.
vino decree, that their course In this
matter mny more particularly mani
fest to wh.it extent some of them
have changed and reformed and de
sire to be obedient, for Instance, while
others are still as opposed to God and
rlghtoousuess ns ever. There Is room
for this understanding In tbe state
ment of the Apostle thut the chains of
darkness were to control thorn until
the Great Day not necessarily into
that day-perhups at its very begin
ning they may be permitted to gain
certain liberties and do a certain
amount of Injury to humnnlty, to all
who are not attentive to the Word of
God. and who, therefore, will not
know who these spirits are that they
are the fallen angel, the demons of
the ttllile
"Wicfctd Spirit." "Lying Spirits.
Scriptures In de.-wiiblus tlie fallen an
gels, who from earliest tl.iys have at
tempted to deceive bu:uni)!ty repre
senting themselves a hmnuu beings
who have died and who desire to com
municate with tlielr friends. And they
attempt to do so through spirit me
diums. This U their practice from of
old. Their endeavor Is to break down
the human will and to more ami more
control It. The height of their ambi
tion and success Is to fully dominate
the human will, so that they may use
tho human body as their own flesh, as
when they had power to materialize.
Those who come fully under their con
trol become demented, often several
spirits gaining possession of tbe one
personality ""and attempting to use the
same brains and body. It Is estimated
that one-half of all who are In Insane
asylums are merely victims of splrlt
obsesslon. The great remedy against
all this Is the Truth of God's Word.
Those who accept that cannot be de
ceived. But tho masses of mankind
are being deceived. The Scripture
teaching Is that when a man Is dead
be knows not anything, and will never
know anything until the resurrection
of the dead. Whoever knows this Is
fortified against all the deceptions of
the evil spirits.
We are not claiming that nil me
diums are fraudulent. Some of them
we know to be most sincere. A large
number have been delivered from their
awful position of acting as tools of
Satan by the reading of our little
pamphlet. "Proofs that Spiritism is
Domonism."
Jesus Prsachsd to Thett Spirits.
There are no human spirits to be
preached to. Human beings are not
spirit beings. The dead of humanity
who have never heard of "the only
name given under heaven or amongst
men whereby we must be saved" will
hear that name la God's due time In
the resurrection during the thousand
years of Messiah's reign when he, as
the true Light, shall lighten every man
that cometh into the world" (John 1, 9).
But if Jesus died and In death knew
not anything, how could he preach to
the fallen angels? We answer that It
Is a common expression that "actions
speak louder than words." The great
actions or facts connected .with our
Lord's death and resurrection consti
tuted a most wonderful sermon to the
fallen angels. As they beheld the Re
deemer's faithfulness to God, even
unto death, even the death of the cross,
and as they then beheld God's faith
fulness to him In raising him, from
the dead to tbe highest nature the
divine nature "far above nngels and
principalities and powers and every
name that Is named" all this consti
tuted a most wonderful sermon of love
and loyalty, faith and obedience, etc.
The sermon to them meant, How seri
ous was our mistake In being disobedi
ent to God In any particular. It meant
also, May not God. who has thus gone
to so much trouble for the redemption
of fallen men, have in his heart also
a place of mercy for us, should we re
pent? The Apostle Intimates thut
these angels, with tbe exception of
Satan, are yet to have a testing or
trial, for he assures the Church that
God purposes that we, as the Bride of
Christ, shall not only be entrusted
with the work of Judging or giving
trial to the world of mankind during
tbo Millennium, but also thnt we shall
Judge angels not the holy angels, for.
of course, they need no Judging on
our part but tbe fallen angels (I Cor.
vl, 3).
Quite possibly the hopes Inspired by
that great sermon preached by our
Lord's resurrection to the spirit be
ings led some of those fallen angels
to repentance. If so we may suppose
that during the eighteen centuries
since, they have suffered severely nt
tbe bands of the rebellious angels.
who would be aroused to animosity by
their reform.
The Scriptures seem to Imply that
"fallen nngels," "wicked spirits," "ly
ing spirits," "demons," will have
much to do with bringing about the
great "time of trouble" with which
this Gospel Ago will end, before the
complete Inauguration of Messiah's
Empire and tbe binding of Satan (Rev
elation xx, 4). The Intimation Is that
tbe trouble here will be short and
Bhnrp, as In the days of Noah. The
declaration of the Apostle that these
evil spirits will be In chains of dark
ncss until tbe Judgment of tbe Great
Day leaves room for the Inference that
when tbo Judgment of the- Great Day
begins, the chains of darkness will be
broken. If, therefore, we have the
right understanding of this matter
great events are near at hand. Spirit
mediums ore already declaring that
the spirits tell them that they will
soon be able to materialize in broad
daylight. With the power to counter
feit and personate humanity what may
this not mean In the way of deception
mentioned by our Lord, who declare
that It w ill be so strong that It would
deceive even the "very elect" were
thej not specially protected and guld
ed.
We remind you also of the groat
stride which Spiritism. Occultism and
Tsychlc Science huve mndo within the
last few years. These now number
amongst their friends and advocates
some of the brightest scientific minds
One of these, Prof. James, of Harvard
College, recently, before dying, de
clarcd that he would speedily com
munlcnte with his friends. Already
the uewspnpers tell us that he has be
gun to communicate, but tho mediums
claim thnt he has dllllculty In ope rat
Ing through them, because of the great
force and power of bis Intellect and
thnt they must gradually becomo able
to net as his mediums. From the Itlble
standpoint nil this Is a fraud a de
ception but not on the part of the
mediums who are themselves deceived,
but on the part of the falU-n nngels,
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HARDWARE!
Business Man of Ashland For
Over Twenty Years.
The following is taken from the
Ashland Gazette of September 16,
and refers to the death of the hus
band of a lady who was born and
reared in Cass county. Mrs. Derleth's
maiden name was Mary Ann Bache
lor, who was born on the farm now
owned by Isaac Nelson, four miles
south of Platsmouth. Her father was
Oavid Bachelor, who died In 1868,
and her mother passed away In 1872:
Death has again invaded the busi
ness circles of Ashland, removing one
who has been a prominent figure for
the last twenty-two years, in the
person of George A. Derleth, of the
firm of George A Derleth & Son,
proprietors of the City Meat market.
For several months it has been
known that Mr. Derleth's days were
about numbered, a3 he was afflicted
with Internal tumors from which the
best medical and surgical skill could
promise no relief. The end came on
Tuesday, the 13th Instant, at 3:12
'clock, p. m
George Adam Derleth was born at
Sauk City, Wis., March 28, 1873,
where the first fourteen years of his
life was spent. At the age of four
teen he went with hU sister, Julia
Derleth to Algona, la., to live, re
maining there one and a half years,
after which re returned to Wisconsin,
remaining for three years at Portage
where he learned his trade, that of a
butcher. From Portage he went to
Chicago, where he remained one year,
going from there to Omaha. At the
age of twenty-one he was married to
Miss Mary Ann Backlor, September
1878, In Mason City, la., and
made his home for the following year
at Algona, la., where he engaged in
business. From Algona he came to
Nebraska, settling on a farm In Cass
county near Louisville. After two
years spent there he went to Joplin,
Mo., remaining two years, after which
he returned to Nebraska, making his
home near Ashland, where he worked
at his trade. In 1888 he engaged in
business in this city and was Identi
fied with the meat business to the
time of his death.
Mr. Derleth was the youngest of a
family of eight children, five boys
and three girls, and was the first of
the family to be taken away. His
father died at the age of fifty-three
years. His brothers are Killan, John,
Frank and August, and his sisters,
Mesdames Susan Janek, Julia Reu
land and Margaret Schleck.
He was the father of five children,
namely: George, born In 1883; Jos
eph, born In 1885; Homer, born In
1887; Margaret, born In 1892; Ver-
cella, born In 1902
Mr. Derleth was a man of excellent
character and standing in business
circles, being always perfectly honest
and dependable and stood high In the
community. He was a prominent
member of the Odd Fellows and Unit
ed Workmen lodges.
The funeral was held at the home
Thursday afternoon, the Rev. J. W
Hilton, a former pastor of the Church
of Christ, conducted the services. The
attendance was large and the floral
tributes beautiful. The remains were
laid at rest In the Ashland cemetery.
Homer Derleth was away at the
1 1 mo and could not be reached In
time for hlra to reach Ashland to
attend his father's funeral. While the
funeral procession was on the way to
the cemetery a telegram was received
from him, requesting thnt tho re
mains be held till he could roach
DEATH TAKES AWAY
GEO. A. DERLETH
Threw hi the Grindstone
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HEATING!
request the body was held at the
cemetery, watchers keeping vigils
over the coffin, which was not inter
red till after his arrival this morning,
when his wish was gratified and he
was permitted to view the remains.
CAPTAIN MORRISON SUF
FERS FROM OLD WOUND
Captain S. H. ;.:orr!son who has
been making his home at the Riley
hotel for the past two or three years,
been suffering for the past month
from the effects of gunshot wounds
received during the war of the re
bellion. Captain Morrison went to
the front as a corporal of a company
In the Second Wisconsin regiment
and had the misfortune to be twice
wounded while his regiment was in
action. The first wound was receiv
ed at tbe second battle of Bull Run
and occurred soon after the fight op
ened on the 2Sth of Aiienst of that
year. The captain was a corporal
with his comnanv at the time and
was shot through the lungs, falling 1 effected wherein the merchants of
In his tracks and was carried back a j the town et together for mutual help
half mile, where he was allowed to j ttnd benefit. The object is to even
lie on the battle field for six days tually get every town enlisted, and
before he was nicked un. He waa ' now thirty-three states are organized
ott duty recovering from his wound
almost three months. When suffi
ciently recovered he again Joined his
regiment. When the soldier again
went to the front he was promoted
to first lieutenant. He was among
the first to be wounded In the battle
of Gettsburg, which opened on the
first of July, 1863.
The Second Wisconsin was called
the Iron Regiment, and It was in
some of the hottest fights of the war.
From having 1,000 men when It first
went Into the battle of Bull Run to
the end of the battle of Gettysburg,
the regiment had left but forty-four
men able for duty. Captain Morrison
In the Gettysburg engagement, was
leading a company in the thickest of
the fight when a rebel bullet went
through both his legs, producing only
a flesh wound in the left leg, but cut
ting off the nerve and an artery In
the right leg. At the time the shot
struck him he was waiving his sword
and ordering the men to push for
ward. He fell and was carried off
the field several hours afterward.
Later he was discharged for disabil
ity and placed In command of two
companies at Jefferson General Hos
pital near Louisville, Kentucky. The
captain was never able to do active
duty In the field after the Gettysburg
engagement.
The old wound In the right leg
has troubled him at times since. On
the 28th of August he was compelled
to take to his crutches and has used
them since, and has gotten around
with considerable difficulty. Captain
Morrison drawn $30 per month pen
sion, but this Is meagre compensa
tion for what he has suffered.
Rainfall Heavy.
The rainfall registered at tho Hur-
lington station during the past 24
hours ending at 7 a. m., this morning
amounted to 1.35 Inches. One or
two enterprllzlng citizens placed a
board across the current which tread
ed It way down Main street most of
the day yesterday. This plan would
be beneficial wero It followed tuoio
generally and have such a plunk nt
each street crossing. This would nnvo
a good many from having wet feet.
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PLUMBING! 0
GOVERNOR SHALLENBERGER
HONORS 1. W. H. HEiL
V. H. Hell, one of Cass county's
wide awake stock breeders and pro-'
gresslve farmers has been appointed
by Governor Shallenberger as a dele
gate to the 30th session of the An
nual Farmers National congress that
convenes at Lincoln from the 6th
to the 11th of October. This Is the
third time Mr. Heil has been given
this distinguished honor, and the
governor could not have made a bet
ter selection as Mr. Heil is one of the
representative progressive farmers In
this county. His experience In stock
breeding and success in all depart
ments of the farm fits hlra for this
Important duty. Mr. Hell expects to
be on hand at Lincoln on the dates'
mention and will do all In his pow
er to make this one of the best ses
sions of the congress.
I Merchants Organize.
I Last Monday an organization wa3
and working together. The merchants
Individually are powerless to secure
any relief for wrongs In the way of
legislation, as an organization they
will be a power. The officers elected
here were: M. D. Wickersham, presi
dent; W. D. Ambler, .vice president;
H. D. Reed, secretary; J. J. Meier,
member of executive committee.
Weeping Water Republican.
Tom Will, one of Cass county'B
hustling young farmers, was In town
today looking after some business
and made the Journal a pleasant call.
While here Mr. Will renewed for his
own Journal for another year, and
also that of his brother, Fred, at
Hennessy, Oklahoma.
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ttioiiihm of lii" heart wis only evil
TlieM- are the term mod In the
who are thus tricking humanity
Ashland. In compliance with that