PRINCE LUCIFER OF OLD
NOW PUCE OF DEMONS
Pastor Russell !
Finds Much In the Bible on
Satan's Past, Present and Future
Washington. D.
C. Jan. 2!.-Pnstor
Russell addressed
large audiences
twice today in Con
vention Hall and
also In Musculo
Temple. He bad
cIiisa n 1 1 1 n 1 1 mi
teM.feglU from very intelli
gent congregations.
We report his address on Satan, the
rebel angel.
Doubtless many of the audience were
surprised when told that Satan is not
in some furon place stoking fires and
torturing human or other victims, but
that be Is present amongst men, an in
visible angel of evil, ably supported in
his work as an adversary of God by
legions of other falleu angels, of whom
lie is a master "Prince of demons,"
cither because of his superiority of na
ture, or because of belonging to a high
er rank or grade than the ordinary an
gel. It was a surprise to many to
learn that Satan, so far from being ill
favored, is beautiful, according to the
Scriptures, and that be is supervising
the work directly and through the
fallen angels, his servants, to mislead
and to deceive bumauity putting lighf
for darkness and darkness for light,
error for truth, etc.
Fastor Russell's text was taken from
Romans xvl, 20, "The God of peace
ehall bruiso Satan under your feet
shortly." He said:
The time was not long ago when In
telligent people made light of every
thing In the Scriptures respecting in
visible spirit beings, good and bad
the messengers of God and the mes
sengers of Satan. This, however, can
110 longer be done. Under the' In
creasing light of the New Dispensa
tion man himself today can do things
which but a short iinie ago would have
been considered impossible. Can we
not speak with our friends over hun
dreds of miles with a telephone and
recognize each other's voices? Yet
there is no pipe, no tube to convey the
sounds and nothing, seemingly, car
ries it over the wire. We speak Into
a hole in the wall and our friends hun
dreds of miles away hear audibly.
Still more marvelous is wireless teleg
raphy and wireless telephony. If man
an accomplish these things what can
not the Almighty accomplish? Who
?an deny the possibility of invisible
Iresence of spirit beings and yet admit
the possibility of wireless telegraphy?
We are safe, dear friends, in guiding
our Judgments directly by the Word
of God and reasoning Inside and not
outside of its boundaries.
Tho Bible, nud it alone, explains cer
tain phenomena and all of the Bible
explanations, although written, some
of them centuries apart, are In most
perfect accord. Thus in Genesis the
Bible tells us respecting Satan's de
flection, and the book of Revelation,
written more than three thousand
.years later, tells us of bis binding for
a thousand years, of Messiah's reign
and Satan's ultimate destruction. Isa
iah and Ezekiel tell us of his at one
time being in full harmony with God,
nnd that then ho was the "covering
cherub," glorious, grand, beautiful,
and that bis name was Lucifer, which
signifies the Morning Star.
All of the angelic heavenly hosts
nre termed stars, bright ones; but Lu
cifer, being of a higher order, was
styled the Morning Star, the Brightest
Star. It was at that time, while in
Divine favor, that Satan permitted the
lodgment in his mind of a disloyal
thought resecting his Creator. He
thought of how, Indirectly, by lielng
in higher responsibility, he could work
Home wonders and do some things bet
ter than the Almighty. He craved the
opportunity to make a demonstration
of what he could do. But the Scrip
tures declared that first of all he said
this merely In his heart and uttered It
not. "He said In his heart. 1 will as
cend Into heaveu; 1 will exalt my
throne above the stars of God (still
farther above his luiLrellc associates),
I will be as the Most High" a ruler.
The Opportune Time Came.
Never had there been sin In heaven
Ha tan was (lie first of all Its iulmbl
tunts to cherish, to enleruln a rebel
lions thought and to bring It to a con
summation. He held the thought in
abeyance until the opportunity afford
ed, and God himself nlTorded the op
portunity, with full knowledge of the
tons4)(ueu( ex. and with the desire that
this test of the entire heavenly host,
and of a human race as well, should
be effected because God seeketh not
the worship of constraint, but "seek
eth such for worshlers ns worship
him in spirit aud in truth," voluntar
Vj, Joyfully.
It was when Satan beheld our first
parents, In the Image and likeness of
God, yet not spirit but flesh, earthly,
that he perceived the opportunity of
paining the coveted power for an em
pire, separate from that of Jehovnh.
Id the first pair tho Adversary beheld
a new thing, a creature of Godlike
qnatltles and possessed of the power
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to propagate his own species. Satan
realized that tie conquest of this pair
and the bringing of them into subjec
tion to himself would signify the cap
ture of a world full of peopio eventual
ly that the enslavement of the par
euts would signify the enslavement
eventually of the race.
Satan's Methods Were Succestful.
We cannot deny that Satan's plans
were logical and that he has carried
them out with great success so that
the Scriptures declare him "the Prince
of this world" (John xlv,30); and again,
"the God of this world" (II Corinthians
lv, 4). . Nevertheless, his victory was
not so great a one as he doubtless ex
pected It to be. No doubt he expected
that he was capturing an immortal
race. Quite probably he believed the
falsehood he told mother Eve, when
he contradicted the Word of God that
sin, that disobedience in eating tho
forbidden fruit, would bring upou them
the penalty of death, "dying thou shalt
die."
Satan's charge was that God had
misrepresented tho facts for the pur
pose of holding his creatures In mental
slavery to himself; that he did not
wish them to be wise, therefore he for
bade the eating of this particular kind
of fruit and declared the penalty of
death for the transgression of his law.
"I, Satan, assure you that you need
not be afraid of the fruit; I assure you
that it will do you good, and that you
will not surely die from the eating
of it." Alas! Mother Eve believed the
Adversary and disbelieved her God,
nud then enticed her husband, still
thinking, uo doubt, that she would not
die and that tho serpent bad told her
the truth and that God had been the
deceiver. St. Paul tells us that father
Adam knew better and ate tho fruit,
knowing that It would cause his death,
willing thus to disobey in order to
maintain the fellowship of his wife,
whose life, he realized, was already
forfeited.
When the Divine sentence began to
go Into execution; wheu our first par
ents were driven out of Eden to bat
tle with the thorns and thistles until
they should return to the dust, no
donbt Satan was disappointed. He
had rather be the Prince of a uoblo
living family of angels or of humans
than the Emperor of a weak and dying
race. However, from that day to tho
present time he has been fighting upon
the same line; he has been contending
with mankind that the Word of God
is false wheu it declares that "the
wages of sin Is death," and that "the
soul that sinneth It 6hall die." From
that day to this he has been using this
falsehood to the Injury of our race, and
surely be has succeeded wonderfully.
Today, not only in heathen lands,
but amongst the most civilized, it Is
freely believed (and by many Chris
tians considered Scriptural to believe
the nonsensical) that a dead man is
more alive tbaai before be died. Peo
ple of good, sound reasoning faculties
on ordinary subjects seem to be "hoo
dooed" by this falsehood of Satan, "ye
shall not gurdy die." So true is this,
that It seems not inconsistent to tlieui
to say, that a man hit over the head
with a stick aud knocked senseless,
kuows nothing, but n man, hit over
the bond harder and killed, knows ev
erything. The Fallen Angelt.
It was sometime after the fall of
Satan and the fall of man that the
Lord permitted the great test to come
upou the angels of heaven, under
which test n host of them fell Into sin,
disobedience, etc., and since then are
known In the Scriptures as the fallen
angels and ns devils more properly
demons. Two weeks from today, D.
V., we will consider their temptation
and sin and penalty and whether or
not there be any hope. Sufllce it to
say now that these fallen angels,
demons, are under Satan as their great
Prince and that they have been his
active agents in long centuries In de
ceiving mankind and opposing the Di
vine Program.
It would have been as easy as not
for God to have blotted out of exist
ence entirely both Sutau and the fallen
angels, aud man also, and to have com
pleted another creation, angelic aud
human. But such was not the Divine
Program. God's ways are not as man's
ways, but higher as the heavens are
higher than the earth (Isaiah lv, 0).
8atn the Great Murderer.
No less an authority than our grent
Lord and Redeemer tells us that Satan
was a murderer and. a liar. He de
clares that he was a murderer from
the beginning and abode not in tho
truth; when he spenketh a lie he speak
eth of his own, for he Is the father of
lies (John vlil, -it). It Is well that we
keep this Divine testimony In our
minds. It Is well that we note Just
what the first great lie was, namely,
Satan's misrepresentation, saying, "Ye
shall not surely die." It is Important
that we notice this, because so thor
oughly has Satan accomplished bis de
ceptive work that practically every
body, heathen aud civilized, accepts
Satan's version of the matter nud dis
credits tin Almighty's.
Let us note also that Satan is n mur
derer; that he murdered Father Adam
and Mother Eve, and that his lie Is still
murdering our race under the Just
laws of heredity. The error of be
lieving Satan Instead of God has got
ten ninny Into tho confused situation
of disclaiming that God proposed that
man should live forever on earth In a
Paradise, aud, as his family would in
crease and continue In harmony with
his Divine regulations, tho boundaries
of his Paradise would be enlarged nnd
be a Paradise filled with the knowl
edge of God and the home of a perfect
humanity, In accord with God, prlvi
leged to maintain everlasting life here.
But says this theory, by Eaton's Ho
and our first parents' fall, we die and
by dying become more alive a id some
of ni go to heaven and the mass to
lome eternal, fiery hell, of which we
have no knowledge and for which
there is uo Scripture proof.
Hut let God be true aud let us see
how nud wherein Satan lied wheu hi
contradicted our Maker, aud let us
see also how our race was not sent
fo heaven or to a hell of torment, but
was murdered, killed, put to death
"The vnj,es of siu Is death."
"The Gift of God Is Eternal Life"
(Romans vi, 23).
God, while permitting Satan aud siu
and depravity and death to take their
course, has not been Idle. He has had,
and still has, a great plan for human
salvation a plan for recovering man
' from sin nnd from death and from all
! of his fallen conditions, a plan of res
titution to human uplift, a plan by
which the Seed 'of the womnn shall
yet, figuratively, crush the Serpent's
head, or undo Satan's great original
misdeed -recover mau from his mur
dered condition and from his fallen
estate to all that he had at first, plus
the knowledge and experiences of the
present lire ana plus trie experience.
Incidental to his uplift, during the reign
of Messiah, for which we pray, "Thy
Kingdom come."
The Scriptures clearly show us that
all of this recovery Is to be accom
plished through the merit of Jesus'
sacrifice "the Just for the unjust."
That the work lias not yet begun Is
evident. We are still living under the
law of sin and death. The Messianic
Kingdom must come In power nnd
great glory and be established, the
Scriptures tell us, In a great time of
trouble. Then the earth will be made
to blossom ns the rose, and the wilder
ness and the solitary places will be
made glad, and all mankind will re
ceive Divine blessing nnd opportunity
to return to Divine favor and eternal
life as human beings. And the wil
fully disobedient nnd negligent of
those opportunities will die I lie Second
Death, from which there will be no
recovery, no resurrection, no hope.
"The Saints Shall Judge the World"
(I Corinthians vi, 2).
These great blessings of restitution,
for Which Israel and the whole world
are waiting, cannot be brought about
until first the special salvation of a
special class, the salvation of the very
elect not to human nature, but to n
heavenly nature, ns the Bride of Christ
shall be accomplished. The select
ing of these has progressed for uearly
nineteen centuries and, apparently, is
about complete. The Divine blessiug
nnd work then to be Inaugurated will
be restitution to earthly nature aud
perfection "to the Jew first."
. Satan Serves the Saint.
During all these centuries, while
Satan has been the Prince or ruler
amongst the children of this world,
nnd while he has blinded them with
bis sophistries and falsehoods, he has
also done another work for the saiutly
few now being called to the heaveuly
places. For these he has. so to speak,
turned a polishing griudstone to pre
pare them for the riches of the heaven
ly glory ns new creatures, as heirs of
God and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ
their Lord. Quite unwittingly, we
may bo sure, lie has served the Crea
tor's purposes aud helped to prepare.
j through trials, this class for the glo
i rious things which God has In rescr
j vatlon for those that love him.
In Divine dealings, God's wisdom,
foreseeing the end, Is able to use the
wrath of men aud of the fallen angels
and of Satan to praise him and to work
out blessings to his elect Church, aud
the remainder, which does not thus
work, he can nnd does restrain. Hence
the Divine promise that "all things
shall work together for good to those
that love God, to the called ones ac
cording to his purpose."
Satan a an Angel of Light
St Puul declares of Satan, "We are
not Ignorant of bis devices," and be
tells us that Satan and his servants
transform themselves into servants of
righteousness, etc. We see this prin
ciple in operation as we rend Church
history. Satan, all through this Age,
has sought to pervert Christian hopes
and distort Christian doctrines by pre
senting counterfeits of Bible truths.
Thus, for Instance, the Scriptures tell
us that eventually the Church, "a lit
tle flock," will be associated with Mes
siah In his Kingdom of glory to reign
a thousand years. It was Satan's
method to counterfeit this hope, to sug
gest to men the establishment of an
earthly Kingdom with an earthly little
flock, an earthly glory, an earthiy
reign. This was set forth as the ful
fillment of the second Psalm.
And when later on some of Satan's
dupes began to get free from some of
his snares, he became their leader In
on opposite direction, called them re
formers nnd led them to claim that all
the civilized kingdoms of the earth
are the kingdoms of Christ. This Is
the status of affairs today. Tho world
In general believes that Christ's King
dom has come, even though they ore
still praying, "Thy Kingdom come,
thy will be done on earth as It Is in
heaven." Satan has led them away
from careful attention to making their
own calling nnd election sure by Chris
flan character development, into the
various reform movements of the
world, whose trial time lias not yet
come. Thus Christians of nil denom
inations have been bewildered, con
fused by the artful wiles of our enemy.
Now, however, ns the morning of the
New Dispensation dawns, our eyes of
understanding are opening. Wo per
ceive that our Adversary has but a
short time until he must be bound for
a thousand years; that tho Messianic
I Kingdom must prevail that all tho
families of the earth may be blessed
through the Seed of Abraham. Final
ly, at the close of that reign of right
eousness, the Scriptures declare that
Satan shall be destroyed.
The Church la the Body of Christ
of Messtab. Hence the Apostle's words
of our text apply to the Church in
glory-'Tbe god of peace ahall brulae
Satan under your feet shortly."
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SUITS
Don't Lose Sight of These Prices!
They're the lowest prices ever made in Plattsmouth on first-ckus cloth
ingr. They're "CLEARANCE" prices and they're doing the work. Come
NOW, don't wait .until they're gone. They mean more money in your
pocket if you buy now. Tnis is the month of bargains this is a veritable
carnival of low prices, and if you have waited till now to buy a suit or over
coat, don't wait any longer. Come in and look. Every looker becomes a
buyer at these irresistable prices.
Men's Pant $1.50
" Underwear 39c
Hats $1.00
Shirts 39c
" Gowns 45c
THE
FUNERAL OF BABE OF
. BOETEL
, The funeral of Edna May. the thir
teen and a half months old Infant
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claus
Boetel occurred from the Christian
church at 2 o'clock yesterday after
noon, the service being conducted by
Rv. Ratcllffe, pastor of the church.
Thero was a large attendance of the
neighbors and friends of the be
reaved parents, who assembled at the
church before the hour of the funeral
to show their sympathy with the
mourning parents In this hour of
their sad bereavement.
The music consisted of hymns
sung by a quartet composed of Mr.
and Mrs. Livingston, Mrs. Funk and
Mr. Jesse Perry, Mrs. RatcllfTo play
ing the accompaniment on the organ.
The floral tributes were very beau
tiful, typifying the purity of the lit
tle child.
The pall bearerB were the four
aunts of the little Infant, being Mrs.
R. C. Tulene, Mrs. Frank Bootcl,
MrsIIarey Shipley and Miss Ellen
Boetel. Interment was made In Oak
Hill cemetery.
Card of Thanks.
To the kind neighbors and friends
who so thoughtfully lent sympathy
and aid In the Illness and burial of
our beloved babe we tender our sln
cerest thanks, and esiwclally do wc
thank Mrs. J. V. Egenherger, Mrs. C.
L. Merger and the Loyal Mystic
Legion for tho beautiful flowers. The
donors shall ever have a place In our
memory.
Mr. and Mrs. Claus Boetel.
Meets With Accident.
Fred B. Egenherger met with an
accident yesterday afternoon which
left him with two fingers of his left
hand badly Injured. He was at his
work at the pop factory when a bot
tle exploded, the sharp pieces of glass
coming In contact with his hand, lac
erating his fingers in a painful man
ner. The injury was dressed and
Fred continued at work, although
his hand is quite painful.
Commissioner L. D. Swltzer, who
with Commissioner Frederlch ' and
James Donnelly have been checking
the county treasurer's office the past
few days, left for his home at Weep
ing Water this afternoon to spend
Sunday with his family.
Charles Peterson returned to his
home at Ilavelock last evening, hav
ing visited his parents over Sunday.
at? Vi
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on your own land than pay rent for
a mansion on your neighbor's land.
Think it over, talk It over with
your wife.
Become Independent.
Others have done It, why not you?
Start today. Come and see ua and
learn what a very little ready cash
will do for you.
W. E. ROSENCRANS & SON
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HOME OF SATISFACTION
M MRi TIRADE AGAINST OMAHA
HOI SAIICTIIED BY REPUBLICANS
Liable for Damages, and Must Prove Charges or Be Sued, Which
Places the "Fresh" Governor in a "Hot Box" '
A Bpcclal from Lincoln, under date
of January 27, says: "Events of the
last three days, arising from the last
election as conducted In Omaha, have
ghen rise to Inquiry as to the legal
position occupied by the governor at
this time.
"Governor Aldrich has practi
cally charged a man with fejony. If
he cannot prove his allegation tho
general rule of law Is that the object
of his charges Is entitled to nominal
damages and as much more as he
can prove himself to have sustained,
la his special message, the city clerk
of Omaha Is attacked for the alleged
commission of acts In connection
with the election which constitute a
felony. If suit were begun the gov
ernor would bo placed on the defen
sive and unless he proved his allega
tions the costs at least of the trial
would be taxed to the chief executive
of tho state.
"Republicans In the state house
generally condemn the special mes
sage as ill-advised.
"If the governor has evidence of
fraud in the election In Omaha he
Dies After Long Illness.
Mrs. Jane Atherton died at the
home of her son, J. M. Mefford, at
Greenwood, Thursday evening, Janu
ary 26, 1911, at G:20, after being a
helpless invalid and confined to her
bed for the past two and one-half
years.
Deceased was born at Bloomlng
ton, Indiana, September 27, 1833,
nnd was" a sister of Elder G. W. May
field of this place. The funeral will
occur at Greenwood today (Satur
day) at 2 o'clock from tho Christian
church Louisville Courier.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The undersigned will sell at public
auction at her farm, four miles and
a half cast and a mile and a quarter
north of Louisville, a mile and a
half south and .t half mile cast of
Cedar Creek and eleven miles west of
I laltsn.outh, on
TUESDAY, FEYJltUARY 7, 1911
the following property to-wlt:
Live Stock.
One bay horse, sixteen years old,
weight 1,300.
One gray horse, aeveiiteen years
old. weight 1,3.10. .
Team bay geldings, three years
old, weight 1,800.
Team black geldings, three years
old, weight 2,100.
Four milk cows, three fresh, one
fresh in July.
Fix dozen chickens and two Bhoats.
Implements.
Two farm wagons and one buggy.
One fanning mill, one elder mill.
Ono Champion binder,
One two-row stalk cutter and stalk
rake.
Two three-section harrows.
One riding cultivator.
One walking cultivator.
One John Deere riding lister.
One 14-lnch walking plow.
One John Deere two-row machine.
One corn planter and 80 rods wire.
One hooBler Boeder. ,
Two Hummer riding plows. t !
' One disc, nearly new.
Two mowing machines, one new.
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woauuPTom
Sons
Boy's Underwear 10c
" Mittens 19c
" Overcoats $1.00 I
" suits tf.on u
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" Shirts 25c
should have turned It over to th
legal department and should not have
made it the subject ot a stump
speech," said one official.
"Republican senators have been
put to it to fcold up their side of the
question in the discussion in the sen
ate. They havo been forced to rely
on the traditional dignity of that
body to shelter the executive and not
one of them. In the debates of Thurs
day and Friday, cared to say that he
believed what the governor said was
true. Those who touched upon the
veracity of the statements have said
no more than that they did not wish
a criticism of the governor to become
a part of the senate record until after
an Investigation had been mado.
"Although defending the governor.
It would not take a practiced ear to
understand that most of the republi
can senators would like It much bet
ter If the governor would cut out hi
special messages as long as they con
tinue to give only his opinions and
are not accompanied by actual evi
dence touching upon the matter of
the messages."
One hay rake, one hay rack.
One Majestic cooking stove. .
One heater, good as new.
Two grindstones.
One Iron kettle.
One road scraper.
Two sets of harness.
'Some household goods and many
other articles too numerous to men
tion. Terms of Sale: All Bums of $14r
and under, cash In hand; over $10, ft
credit of twelve months will be given,
tho purchaser giving good bankable
paper bearing Interest at eight per
cent from date. No property to leave
the premises until settled for. Sal
will commence at 12:30 p. m., sharp,
sharp.
Mrs. J. D. Thlerolf,
A. O. Ault, Auctioneer. Owner.
J. O. Meislnger, Clerk.
'JOSHUA PERKINS" AT THE
E
2
The sensational rural comedy
drama, "Joshua Slmpklns," will bo
produced at tho Parmele theatre,
Thursday night, February 2. The
play contains an Interesting and in
telligible plot, but It Is not allowed
to interfere with the fun, which is
said to be in abundance. During the
run of the piece some startling scenes
and situations are Been, the principal
of which Is said to be the saw-mill,
In the third act, shown In complete
operation, cutting up real timber.
The saw is the genuine article, the
same as usually seen in large coun
try saw-mills. An excellent band
and flno orchestra accompany this at
traction. The band will parade at
noon, when some good music may b
looked for, all being dressed as farm
ers. Mrs. John Murray was a passen
ger to the metropolis on the morning
train, where the visited friends for t
time.
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