The - Piattsmouth - Journal rrra MlisheJ Seml-Yeeklf at PXattszautb, Nebraska CUD R. A. BATES, Publisher. Entered at the Postoffice at Piattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class matter. $1.5 0 PER YEAR IN AD VANCE many millions ot oiaers suutreu over the country, I would be more in sympathy with the financial diffi culties that beset his administration. if to relieve them, he had displayed the same zeal in loosening the grip of the robber tariff, that he does ia trying to fasten this un-American in stitution upon us. And also, while I am enamored of the massive intel lects of our own representatives In congress, and appreciate deeply the self sacrificing spirit which prompts oo. PEOPLE'S Sermon by CHARLES T. RUSSELL, Pastor Broollyn 1 abernacle. Strike for a Fourth of July cele bration. :o: The public is beginning to under stand more fully why the department employees in Washington were given ironclad Instructions never to talk. :o: ' Mr. Bryan has not given up the special session " proposition. His closest friends at Lincoln state from reports that a session Is very prob able. '- :o: Bill Trice says he will not with draw from the race for the nomina tion for senator until the last vote Is counted in the primaries. It Is a sure thing he will withdraw then. :o: If get-up-get-there will win any thing, William F. Porter, candidate for the Democratic nomination for railroad commissioner surely deser ves succcsa He 1b proving himself a hustler. :o: During the first ten days ot May the government spent $1,610,081.46 more than it took In. All Republi can papers who have declared that the new tarif law is a success as a revenue producer will please copy :o: I'lattsmouth can have a celebration on the Fourth of July If they want it. The way to express yourself for or against it is to attend the meeting of the commrecial club tonight. If you are Interested you better be on hand. :o: Halley's comet it seems, has never moved from the east, and the learn ed astronomers are now wondering where wo are at. The people have been badly fooled, and will not set up all night any more to get a glimpse of It. :o: The anti-saloon and prohibition advocates can perhaps get some con Coo London, Eng., May CU.-Albert Me- - . ot the group. Among those was them to seek a re-election at our President U B. Howey, of Beatrice, hands, I do not hesitate to say that I whose address we print below, be- would be more in sympathy with mortal Hall was again crowd,! to hear cause we consider It one of the ablest their desires lr it were not mat, in overthrow of Sntuu's Empire. and most concise articles In opposl- their advocacy of this postal bank wa la the nature of a religious lec tion to Mr. Taffa scheme we have scheme, they display such a woeful " marked throughout by I I AtnTaat mrftrDriM far the Rlhlo mnnv persued, and shows how the plan runs lack of understanding of the condl- lf thfl png8ages of whlcn Bhone out to control the money of the west by ons, ana neeas oi our state, j, a new meanm(? umier the search PftRtPrn sharks Mr Hower is a I "Id- tn postal savings bill that light of his message. He asserted, and banker at Beatrice, and a Republican Passed the senate, provision Is made -ea prov ne P-y - in politics, but hiB address will prob- for the Investment of the funds de-1 a great mistake to suppose the Arch- Mv have the effect of onenin the posited in government securities only, enemy of mankind to be afar off atok and President Tart has given it out mg rurnacea ana torturing iu ueuu. loo PULPIT... PASTOR RUSSELL'S DISCOURSE The Overthrow of Satan s Empire eyes of some who do not understand the Taft administration's scheme, which Is being supported by Ne braska's two senators and the Re publican members of congress from this state. The address is truly a model document, and worthy of a several times perusal : "As a plank In the last Republi can national platform, placed there by cool and calculating politicians, pledging the support of the Republi can party to the establishment of a postal savings bank system in this country, expediency Justified that ac tion; but it is quite another thing, simply because the party was sue cessful at the polls, for the party flat that he will veto any bill lacking Instead, he Is the cunning Deceiver who for ceuturios has been hoodwink that provision; hence if the system is I g humanity, Including the Church- adopted here, it means that every dol- putting darkness for light and light for in w ... - ,u. ; darkness. God did not create hlra a devil. Fie became such by self-perver- ity where deposited, and transferred Bion through ambition. Originally his either to Washington direct, or to the name was Luclfer-Mornlng Star. He -rh. iori,,. of. beheld our first parents in Lden. noted their Dower to produce a race In their feet this would have on the business own likeness and coveted an empire Interests of a state is so apparent with them as his subjects, that 'h whn rn mnv rend ." ovpn for six thousand years God has per niltted Satan to exercise a measure of a congressman, unuer existing cou- .wlv nnwer over the rape and to . , , ditions in this state the loss of any I display to both angels aud men tbeter nnrtinn nf th wnritln rinHl ""Ible results of sin, as exemplified In demonstration among other things, of the great popular demand for such upon them to bend all their energies in an effort to incorporate It Into law. "As a matter of fact, there never what the Anostle terms the "relcn of community Is a damage to it, be- 8m nd death,"'and the mental .moral cause every dollar available is need- and physical degradation resulting. .H nd la now in ctlv demand tnA Satan has not been alone. Not only I is ne tne rnnce oi mis worm or age. but additionally be Is the "Prince community should oppose as a mat- of devils" demons. The speaker show- leaders to construe this success as a I. . , , . ... . ed from the SorlDtures (Genesis vl: . ... . . ... I v V " J I' f I -m , . I. ..l,.ln .1 rt signed to accomplish such ends, yet, mona nad once bPpn i,0jy ongels, too of course, the damaee it would bus- and when and where they sinned, and a system, and therefore incumbent . . . .. ... .. . .how I f oln in rnnnoptlnn with tha nnotnl I " . ...... .1 M - I uNII . i t . M . I ll. . ten A lue Aposiie I'L'iLT giwa mu nry iu savings Dans muBt ne measurea Dy the rea, goUltion 0( tne matter when, the amount of deposits therein. . In reciting the events connected with To aid us In a better realization th flood- he tells "9 'th faI,1 Vhe unu-oU nt thnt time, who In the dllVi m 4i i . . i m u. i i i I oi me oaneiui iiiiiuence oi lue puauu nt v.h. ,unnt . ,kip Ht atnt' aB, except as u ex.stea in tne minas Bftv,ng(J bank upon a country dralned a peter 1f 10 20)- Those angel( who of the politicians, and Is not now. any of ,tg cap,ul a8 wjn we ,n Nebragka were permitted to have a measure of noticeable demand on the part of thek H,in r thav ,ra . contro' 01 lUL Iautn rilLe' llu " v be drained of ours once they are es- t0 heipln(? tUera as much as they .win. i colu.1Buu.iu ui taMlBhed herei we wlu flnd such a might be able, and who, for the pur a system, and every careful observer LnnrPota ovamrila fn lh hiBtnrv i P of rendering such assistance to will testify to this with respect to the ,r, tha avo,om firtr)ohoa n,anK,na' were iMiruiuieu 10 V " Ireland. There the system flourishes human form( became enamored of the like a green bay tree, but in the human female, and preferred the hu same proportion business languishes, lu,"n w " " shall we sit supinely by and watch Ln(, rftmmorMfttf oha Aaai, .... "elnB8 iey iert tneir onginai ' and commercially she is dead. Mil- jh.i ur. rniini iaa I. V . ,.. i.jia, . I 1 1 x .u. .uim,Uuye ...umereuiw. llons are ftnnuany deposited In these 0. These angels are the ones de frantic efforts of the politicians in hflnk. onlv to bn lmmedlfltelT trans. nominated the sons of God.' none of Folntlon from the election roturus In Washington, Including every repre- . . j t. . . . . the human family bolng given that tvaBiuuBiuu, iiiuuius oeiy itpre- ferred to London, thus depriving her .ffer the fall The anwls who Denver la:U Tuesday, but we cannot tentative of this state in both branch- . ,t , u ,J4 ? , ! fu . , V ' Bi-"iaiie 01 hub hioie in uom uruntu ft. ,n caDi;ai B0 much needed to fell from the r nob e work and condl- oe wiiero It Is. Only 15,000 major ity against the antl-ualoon element. It was certainly very decisive. :o: , sentiment of his own community. The question is then .fellow bankers, If all the census enumerators were like some who did the work In this city, the department will have a time In straightening out their paper It is no .wonder that Nebraska only pained a little over 3000 population, if other towns were served as wo have been. :o: The poll taken at Washington hull In Omaha luHt Monday night by Mr. Uryan showed that a big majority were In favor ot tlio Inltiativo and referendum. Hut when the poll wan t nl;cn on the special session proposi tion, tlio audience was not nearly unanimous. Nebraska Is really moro fortunate in the census taking than Iowa. Iowa decreased, whilo Nebraska Increased a small number. Tho emigration to Texas and Oklohoma has drawn more heavily on theso two states than any of tho northwest Btates, which prob ably will account for this state of affairs. capital es of congress, to foist upon this develop her manufacturing and other tlon' "nd became gvellng country such an un-American lnstl- ln(,It.tP,... Tn h- f.r nf .rh .n Bua'' ie.Hieu ' lu w. . conrse llie oownwara tenaency ot an example as this are we not justified transgressions of the divine law, "The Apostles Peter and Jude clear tution as this, or shall we with up lifhted vnlrn. nntl with Avnrv moanal. , I In lAolffnotlnfT thla avatam oa nn, at our command, strlvn valiantly In Li a -n mark out tho punishment visited . . ' - u...u, auu u Ul luo upon those .80U8 ot God. wuo tu9 be- these, the last days of the struggle consequences which are bound to trayed tholr trust and fell Into sin, now going on In congress over the follow its introduction into this 'leaving their own habitation.' their :o:- Tho houso Inst week pussed by a Btrlct pnrty voto, 121 to 90, tho bill to reimburse tho sub-treaury at St. Louis for JGl.nOO that was stolen from tho valuta In 1906. Tho Repub licans stood for the bill while tho Democrats were against it. There never was a full investigation of this steal, but so long as tho Republicans are In power there will never bo an investigation of this steal or any of the big grafts. :o: Till: POSTAL SAVINGS HANK. At the annual convention of group four of the Nebraska Hankers' as sociation held in Hastings Wednes day, May 18, the matter of tho pres ent postal savings bank bill now be fore congress, was dlBcussed, and very ably, too, by several members provision of tho bill up for consldera- country, are we not also sufficiently tlon, to at least, Induce our own rep resentatlves to withhold their sup port from It, on the good and suffi cient grounds that Its passage will bo inimical to the best Interests of our state, as It will be, and as I shall endeavor to show. , "At the outset, the advocates of this system haa apparently but the bnzlest idea ot how It would work out in this country In connection with our present banking system, which, bo it understood, Is unlike that of any other country where post al savings banks are In operation; but they knew wo had tho postof- flees, and they assumed 'to think, because other countries had such a system, that it would flourish with equal facility here. "Tho president desires to seo tue system Introduced here, because ho needs tho mythical millions that, through Its operation will bo gather ed up from tho four corners ot the earth, out of tho hoards of tho thrift less, and tho foreign born, and cover ed Into tho national treasury, in order to relieve his administration of the financial embarnssments that now loom up threateningly. And to the representatives In congress light shin ing out of utter darkness, and point ing tho way whereby he may, In spite of other possible shortcomings, gaily nsk for, and perhaps receive nt the hands of his constituents, tho plena ing of 'well done good and faithful servant.' " "Now, while I am not Inclined to yield to anyone in my admiration for tho president, considering that I am a Republican, and somewhat of an athletic myself, still in common with Justified In our opposition to It? Un questionably wo are; and I feel sure that could the business Interests of our state be brought to a full real ization of tho menace It will be to them, tho demand that would be made ot our representatives in con gress, to line up in opposition to tho pending bill, would be so strong and Insistent that they must give heed to it. "In conclusion, gentlemen, I desire to say that our consideration of thi3 question should not terminate with tho arguments either for or against It, but we should examine deeply into the fundamentals, from which arise the so-called popular - demand for postal savings banks, and also for the guaranty of bank deposits." :o: 1 KH M. Smith, the Union hog raiser, camo up this morning on tho early M. P. train to look after business matters In the city returning at 10:23 to his homo. He had business at tho court house to look after. Adam Fornoff, the popular Cedar Creek citizen, Is among those who came down to the city this morning from his home to spend the day. DR. Herman Breeder, Graduate Veterinary Surgeon (Formerly with U. S. Department Agriculture) Licensed by Nebraska State Board Calls Answered Promptly Telephone 378 White, Piattsmouth. own nature, and affiliating with the human nature. Their punishment has been their deprivation of all such lib ertles, and their separation from God and from tho holy nn;;els: and tbis re straint Is called, by the Apostle, 'chains of darkness,' while the rc strained ones themselves, Instead of being recognized ns 'sons of God,' or angels of - light, were tlienceferth known ns 'angiis of darkness,' 'Co tnoiH.' 'wieked spirils.' Incidentally wo remark that these n re the 'spirits In prison' mentioned by 'Pet or (I Peter lil. and that although restricted ns respect their powers of fellowship with the holy angels, mid with man kind, bolng 110 longer privileged to rp- pear ns men, they still seek human fellowship, endeavoring to gain posses- slon of human beinjjs who yield up their wills, and who arc then said to bo possessed of devils or 'obsessed.' It Is but n preliminary step toward thus petting possession of tho Individual that these wicked spirits appeal to hu manity to become their modiuuis (spir it mediums), throusa. whom they to some extent communicate. And they personate dead human beings, because they know well that humanity would shun them and fear them lf their real Identity were discovered. "Satan and his subordinates have maintained a system of human decep tion," tho speaker declared, and It must bo confessed that he pave Hlb lleal proofs for his every claim. He asserted that tho communications be lieved by Splrltuallsts-Dr. Funk. Prof, llyslop, F.dltnr Stead and others to be communications from tho dead, nro toady deceptive communications from tnose fallen angels. So far from claim ing that these professors and medi um j practice deception, his dulin is that they themselves are deceived and aro unintentionally leading others on ward Into n terrible Spiritualistic maelstrom, which, ho declares, we nro Hearing, according to tho Hible. Ho warned against hypnotism, mind cures, etc., practiced by well-meaning but de ceived physicians, ministers and oth ers. Ho declared that all those tended to break down tho human will, the God-given barrier and defenso of man kind against the encroachments of those falleu angels, who seek contin ually to intrude themselves Into the 00O ' 1 mind, thoughts aud will of men. He warned all agaiust occult influences of every kind, urging that the human will should be preserved and should be submitted only to the Almighty, and to him only-intelligently in accordance with his Instructions in the Bible. Overthrow of Satan's Empire. "Satan, through false doctrines 'doctrine of devils,' has entrenched himself In the suerstitlons and preju dices, not only of the heathen, but also of the civilized. ' The creeds of the Dark Ages evidenced the fact that he had much to do with their formulation. His false doctrines, antagonistic to the Bible, have been palmed off upon us as veritable Bible truths Just us Satan endeavored to twist and misapply the Bible to Jesus In bis wilderness temp tation (Mark 1, 13). . Thus Satan has caused gross darkness to cover the heathen and considerable darkness to cover the civilized earth. But we are in the morulug of the New Dispensa tion, which Is to bring so much bless ing to the world of mankind in the opening of the eyes of man's under standing, and in physical blessings and comforts. As a result we have the wonderful conveniences and appliances of steum and electricity, the printing press and the electric light, as instead of tho tallow candle and quill pen of the past. 'Whatsoever doth make manifest is light;' and special light Is due also at this time to God's conse crated people. The illumination now granted to the eyes of our understand ing as Christians, through Bible study helps, is Intended to be for the Chris tian what the arc-light is in nature. "Man's subserviency to Satan is an unwilling captivity. Even those who realize their bondage do not generally recognize by whom they have been enslaved. But gradually the bonds ure breaking us we near the time of Satan's overthrow. According to the Bible our Lord at his Second Advent will bind the Adversury for a thou sand years that he may deceive man kind no more. Meantime oil the bless ed Influences of light and Truth and grace will be let loose In the world and as a result, 'the knowledge of the glory of God shall Oil tho whole earth. Instead of th darkness or the night of sin and death there will be the 'morning of Joy,' and gladness and restitution and blesslug. 'The sun of righteousness will arise with heal ing in his beams.' . Of that glorious day Saint Peter spoke, saying,. Times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord, and he shall seud Jesus Christ, who before was preach ed unto you, whom the heavens must retain until tbe Times of Restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets since the world began (Acts 111, 10-21). Satan's destruction, according to the Bible, will not be consummated until after tho MILLENNIAL KINGDOM OF CHRIST shall have accomplished Its glorious work of uplifting human ity out of sin and death conditions to full human perfection and the Image of God. All the unwilling nnd dis obedient will be counted as servants of Satan and will, with him, bo de stroyed In the Second Death extinc tion from which there will be no re demption or recovery. Great Missionary Work. Tho missionary work of blessing and uplifting 'all tho families of the earth' Is appointed of God for the Mil lennial Kingdom nnd. thank God. tlio evidences aro that It is very near, yea, lu a sense, already beginning. Us blessings are Intimated by the wonder ful progress of our day. Everything wails uutil the predetermined number of Missionaries shall 'have been called and schooled and tested and found worthy of the great and honorable work. Tho qualillcation is that each must bo 0 'copy .of God's dear Son' so far ns heart Intention Is concerned. Thou theso Missionaries will bo glori fied like their Lord, on tho spirit plane aud with him they will constitute the 'Kingdom or God's dear Son,' which for a thousand years will bless tho world and bring to pass all that the Lord our God has spoken, nnd more than wo could have asked or thought. "Christian people have no need to upbraid themselves on iho seoro that the missionary efforts of eighteen cen turies have accomplished comparative ly little. They have no need to bo dis couraged wl:h Hie fait I lint the census let urns show that In the past century of the ,';ivitost missionary endeavor the proportionate numbers of tho hea then hive doubled (six hundred mil lions a century no twelve hundred millions today). This Is all us God foreknew nnd Intended. God did not purroso the conversion of tlio heathen durin;; this a-e, but commissioned his people to preach his Gospel to every nation for a irilnrmt, that tho Elect Mis sionaries for the future work might be gathered from every, country, peo ple and tongue. God's will has been done. Tho Adversary temporarily nils- led the Church Into a misunderstand ing of her mission. Ho sought to have us lower our standard of salntshlp, in order to increase tho Church far nnd near. He sought to oppose the Divine will bv lowering tho standards of alntflhip to as to Include the masses I .f i.i.'n'i'r.tl. Ho t.ie.s worked nzaiust Divine arrangements. But he has not succeeded God has merely allowed him to prove, test, separate a'.;d mani fest the saints the "very elect.' A Great Time of Troubls. "The coming of the light, the loos ing of the fetters of ignorance and superstition from tho minds that are not submitted to God. the Scriptures show us. will result lu a great time of trouble, lu which the passions of men but partially enlightened will do great violence to the entire soclul fab ric. We see the preliminary stops already beiug takeu, and. in the light of the Scriptures, we see the awful; catastrophe which will result The world Is rapidly resolving itself into' wo mighty powers, selfishly and with semi-enUghtenment, preparing for a headlong collision which will mean wreck and ruin, tribulation and an guish, to practically the whole world.'; The Bible, In calling attention to this' great time of trouble, warns the peo-' pie of God, so far as possible to avoid; both sides of the controversy, saying, Seek meekness; seek righteousness, ; it may be1 that ye shall J hid in the day of the Lord's anger' (Zephanhth H, 3). With the wreck of present In-, stltutlons comes the end of Satan's! regime. So terrible will be the heat of passion and strife engendered at thati time that the Scriptures declare that: If it were not for the "Elect there would be no flesh saved (Mark xtll. 20V The interposition of the Elect as the Kingdom of God under Jesuaythe' great King and nead of the Elect hr the sliver lining to that dark cloud. The moment of man's extremity will be come the moment of God's opportunity., "So terrible will be that time of trou- ble that the Scriptures symbolically! represeut it as a whirlwind; as a flood;, and as a fire. Some have mls-lnterpret-. ed these Scriptures and are expecting a literal burning of the earth, but the Lord denominates It the flre of his Jeal ousy,' which will devour Society. And then ho tells us that following the fire of trouble he "will turn to the people a pure message that they may all call upon the name of the Lord to serve him with one consent' (Zephanlah 111, 9). Satan has had much to do with cor rupting the message originally given to the Church by Jesus and the Apostles. The Jarring creeds have made dis cordant sounds which have driven nany noble and logical hearts away. from the Bible. .God'a assurance is that the completion of the Church is near; that her change to the heavenly, glory in the First Resurrection' will soon be accomplished and that then the reign of SIN and DEATH will end under the Kingdom of Jesus. Then the bondage of the world to ignorance, superstition, etc., will terminate; then 'all the blind eyes will be opened and all tbe deaf ears will be unstopped' and the Lord's pure message of Dlvme Justice, Divine Love, Divine Wisdom and Divine Power exerted on man'a behalf shall lie made known to every . creature. "Feriow-ChrlHtlans, what an Incen tive to become more and more loyal and earnest aa the servants of so great and gracious a Sovereignty that of our Father and oir Redeemer! And what an Incentive we have to seek first. In preference to all earthly Inter ests, a share with our Savior In his Millennial Kingdom and its gracious work of human uplift from the depths of sin and degradation to the heights of earthly perfection and eternal life! Let us, .as the Apostle exhorts, May aside every weight, and tbe sin that does so easily lesot us, nnd let us run with patience the race set before us' (Hebrews xll, 1). This race Is for the 'crown of glory,' ns members of the Elect Missionary Church and for the glorious opportunities then to be af forded for tho realization of the most glorious dreams of service for tho Kin? of kings and Lord of lords. "We cannot suppose that Satan's Empire is entirely satisfactory to him self. Vr.d :)ublcd!y his original thought was tho organization cf r. realm resem bling that of the Al:i.fl;;by. But the course of sin is ever downward. To obtain control of our first parents they were misled into steps of disobedience sin and Ihv Adversary himself, hav ing started upon the wrong course, can maintain his own standing nnd king dom only by determined opposition to Jehovah. This Is the significance of the name given Lir.i In the Scriptures 'Adversary.' "Tho Scriptures set forth that nil hu manity must, either now or some time, como to tho polut of decision between obedience to God nnd disobedience. The obedient will bo guided back to ultimate harmony with the Creator and obtain the reward of life eterual. On the contrary, tho disobedient, the wilfully rebellious against God nnd his righteous arrangement, taking tho course of Satan, v.ill ultimately share ls fate destruction. "Responsibility nnd tho decision as to Ufo eternal nnd death eternal, como to each mr-mbcr, of Adam's rao as soon ns ho is brought Into n dear knowledge of the Truth. This privi lege of coming to a knowledge of tho Truth, the opportunity of eternal sal vation. Is secured to nil the families of tho earth, to Adam and every mem ber of his race, through the great Re deemer's sacrifice linl !nd at Calvary. While thanking God for tin length nnd breadth nnd height and depth of Ids glorious provision for tho world In general, wo who now hear this mes sage nnd heed It have the special bless ing and opportunity of Jolnt-helrship with Jesus the Redeemer in his groat work of the Millennial Ase. Let us not only accept tho Divine favor, but lot us run with patience the race set before us, looking unto Jesus, tho Au thor and tho one who shall bo tho Fin isher of our faith, seeking for needed aid to nm he our calling aud election ' sure!" j 1 - - -