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' thousands of demons i::fest earih'S atmosphere PASTOR RUSSELL Shows From the Bible Their Origin and Their Pernicious Influ ence Upon Mankind. (f s "Glvlns hed to Reducing p1r)ta and 4octrlnes of drmntiM" (I Timothy Iv, 1). "Wicked Rplrlla In high ponltlorm" (Eph Uns vl, la. "The heathen aacrlllca to fevlli and not to Uod" (I Corinthians x. Trenton, N. J., February 12. ra tor 11 u a h e 1 1 of Brooklyn Tabernn clo preached hero today in the Opera II nu Re on the "II EKE AFTER" and subsequently ,4? o "Those angels which kept not their firnt eHtnte" (Judo C). Excellent attention wns given at both Rcrvleea. We report tho latter an follows: The Bible's teaching Hint tho earth's tmoHphore la lnfeHtcd with evil spirits la now very Konenilly disbelieved. As a remilt of t ho disbelief thoiiHunds of well-mi-iinlng people are being tho more paslly entrapped by these evil plrits. The blight is both physical and moral. The usual method of pro cedure is to arouse curiosity. Wlillo the quest for knowledge proceeds, an Influence much llko that of hypnotism affects tho Investigator, impelling hlin forward to further investigation. Sometimes tho curiosity In attracted through the outer Reuses at spiritualis tic Rounccs, with oulja lsiards, etc. At other times It Is by spirit rapplngs, Again, It may lw by whisperings in the ear, Inaudible to others. At other times the messages come through trance-mediums. Iu every Instance theso communica tions purport to come from dead hu man beings. This of itself gives to tho communication a special charm to many. They feel honored In being sought out by the dead and in being able to communicate with them. They are curious for information respecting the hereafter. They forget that they have been taught from infancy that the holy dead are far off In heaven, and that the unholy dead are far off In torment. They Teach False Doctrines. How fully this Is forgotten Is showu by a letter which I received on tho first day of this month from a Catho lic lady. In It she tells how sho first obtained clairvoyant powers tho gift of hearing what others could not hear. This, In turn, permitted her to commu nicate with the evil spirits, tho fallen angels. These, representing themselves to her as Inmates of purgatory, came to lier for help. They solicited her prayers and were progressing to get her moro and more under their control Just In time sho was rescued through reading my writings on tho subject. Since then she has exercised her will and her prayers against having any fellowship whatever with these falTen angels, (iradually she Is becoming more and more enlightened In the Truth of Ood's Word. Not Infrequently do theso spirits per Ronato tho Heavenly Father and Christ, urge more prayer, accuse of sin, recom mend the reading of the Scriptures, etc. This appears to be with a view to gaining the confidence, the relaxing of tho will. Later on dishonorable sug pest Ions are made. The Itlble is scorn ed, prayer Is laughed at. if, then, the uubject takes fright and Reeks to break the hypnotic chain, the evil spirits laugh at him, swear at him, and some- times tell him that they will shortly have him fully In their power to roast talm forever. If ho attempts to pray, they Intrude and Interrupt and tell him that God would not hear him now, that he has gone too far, etc. With some tho matter goes so far that tho human will Is broken down completely and the spirits obsess them and use their bodies foolishly some times viciously, sometimes Insanely, until finally they nro pronounced dan gcrous and committed to asylums. We do not claim that all the Insano are obsessed of evil spirits, but so far as we can Judge, nearly one-half tho In mutes of asylums aro obsessed by demons who live In them while they oro mastering their wills. Prepared For Thete Delutiont. Clod, through Ills Word, has fore warned Ills people against these delu sions. In permitting them, neverthc " less, to fall Into theso traps, He Is merely teaching a great lesson. The terrible results of disobedience, of ucgleet of God's Word, aro not eternal. The Dlvlno arrangement Is that ulti mately the entire human family shall be released from the bonds of sin and death, Ignoranco and superstition, ami all have full oixrt unity for coming into full harmony with God. Tho present lesson will illustrate the ne cessity for searching the Scriptures and obeying God's volco therein, deducing Spirits Doctrines of Devils. St. Paul, in describing our day, de clares ono of Its prominent signs to bo (hat many will now give hood to these deducing spirits, whose teachings and jiractlses lead away from God. St Faul Intimates also that by these nils leading spirits many will come to hold doctrines of demons, or devilish doc trines. It Is n sad commentary upon our wonderful day "of enlightenment that the most enlightened people should hold the most awful doctrine respect ing the hereafter. A iloctrliu' of demons it most surely is whh h tells, to the dishonor of God's inline, that nine hundred it ml ninety lilne out of every thousand of human tt v are to be eternally tortured, either because of Divine Incompetence to make better arrangements for them. or because God willed and foreordulu- ed it so before creation. This doc trine of demons has enslaved many honorable people who would them selves scorn to make such a plan of the ages as they attribute to God. Thank God, the time is not Tar dls tunt when these seducing spirits will be completely bound, restrained, and deceive humanity thus no more. But the deception has so long prevailed that poor huuiaulty Is thoroughly un der its control. The falsehood leading up to all this error Is Satan's first He to our parents In Eden. There, con tradicting the words of God, he suld, "Ye shall not surely die." Ever since, for six thousand years, he has worked along this Hue, and all the fallen an gels with him. His message is, "1'e shall not surely die." You do not sure ly die. When men seem to die, they become more alive than before they died. On account of these errors, that dead men are alive, Satan and the fallen an gels, contrary to the teachings of the Itlble, have Instilled into the whole world, nonsensical, heathen supersti tions respecting heaven, purgatory and hell. The Catholics pray for those who go to Furgatory, to help them out. Protestants do not bo pray, believing that tho saintly few go direct to heaven and all of the unsalntly go as directly to eternal torture. If this great He wherewith Satan first seduced Mother Eve and murder ed our race could bo fully eliminated from our minds and our creeds, it would mean a religious revolution to both Catholics nnd Protestants back to the Bible and away from tho dom ination nnd seduction of tho lying spir its, tho fallen angels, who personate humanity. The Fallen Angela Luttful. So far as we can learn from those who have once lx-on spirit mediums, tho trend of Spiritism is toward un chastity, Impurity. And this agrees well with tho Scriptural declaration relative to tho sin through which these fallen angels first became reprobate. St. Judo (0) and St. Peter (II Peter II, 4), tell us briefly of the fall of the angels-that "they left their own hab itation nnd kept not their first estate." Both Apostles mention the circum stance In connection with human las clvlousness. Tho story of the full of tho angels Is given us briefly In Gen esis vl, 1-1. After man's fall Into sin God permitted tho holy angels to have communication with humanity. And because human eyes cannot boo spirit beings, God permitted the angels to materialize. For Instance, we note tho case of the angels who visited Abra ham on tho plains of Mature nnd for whom ho prepared a veal dinner. e read that, materialized, these, angels were llko men, nnd taken by Abraham to be men, while they ate nnd talked with him. It was subsequently that Abraham learned that they were real ly heavenly visitants. So It was with all the angels before the flood. They were permitted to ma terialize and to appear In every sense of the word as men. The record shows that tho angels became lustful. We read, "Tho sons of God saw the daugh ters of men that they were fair and took unto themselves v. Ives of snch ns they chose." The angels, with su perior powers and superior knowledge to man's, acted ns the masters of men. who were practically obliged to do their bidding. The result Is staled In few words. The children of this mesal liance, we aro told, were giants ns compared with the ordinary members of our race. And not only wero they giants physlcnlly, but also Intellectual ly "They wero men of renown." Poor humanity could not competo with this race. Tho result was that strife and contention and lustful, Rlnful prac tises abounded in all the earth, until God declared that every Imagination of tho thoughts of man's' heart wns only evil continually. God had foreknown nil this, and a canopy of waters, which then sur rounded tho enrth, similar to Saturn's rings now, was held In readiness to cause a flood, that sinful men and tho human offspring of tho angels might be destroyed. Only Noah nnd his fam lly were found worthy of preservation to be tho new start of humanity this shlo of tho flood. The declaration of the Scriptures respecting Noah's fam lly Is, "Now Noah wns perfect in his generation." Ho was properly gener ated or born so were his children. Thero was no strain or admixture of tho angelic stock In that family. The plain Information is that the remainder of humanity wero so degraded by tho seductions of those fallen angels that they wero not fit to live. Tho entire ruco had become corrupt. Angela Restrained Chains of Dark neat. Of course, tho fallen angels were not destroyed In tho flood, for they not only had the power to materialize, but also tho power to dematerlall.o. It vns nt that time, however, that all of tho fallen angels wero put under re straintsnot permitted again to ma terialize, tho limitation lasting "until the Judgment of the great day." Their restraints or chains nro not physical, to confine them to a place In rorfon-the earth's atmosphere. They niny roam at will; but are chained, or restrained from materializing. Tho in tlmatlon of tho Serlpturo seems to bo that, with the ending of this Gospel Age, Just prior to the inauguration of tho New Dispensation, these evil splr Its may be allowed to break their chains and manifest themselves ns men, In connection with tho great trou bio tlmo Incidental to tho change of Dispensation. Separated from God and tho holy angols, and unable to assume human bodies, tho sinful angels have probably had terrible experiences during the past forty four hundred years. True tapplnoss Is not to bo expected amongst those allennted from God. Anger, malice, hatred, strife, "work of the devil," the Apostle says, are not compatible with the love, Joy and peace which belong alone to a condi tion of holiness. Under such circum-Ntaii'-en we cannot woadcr that l!ie:e fulleu uugels wou'd see!; assx'laflon wl'h humanity, being under the con trol it Sutan ns a chief or prime of devils, they have followed his course and propagated his original falsehood - "Ye Khali not surely die." They have conjured to men's minds the hell of the heathen, tho hell nnd Purgatory of the Catholics, and, worst of all, our Protestant mis onceptlon of awful nnd unending torture for all except the saintly few. Enemies of God and Men. These doctrines of demons huve In creased the gulf between God and hu manity and have made the Bible, the message of God's love, a book of ter rorsnot to bo loved, merely to be en dured or kept as a fetish to secure pos sibly a cooler place in purgatory. We may safely say that all the false doc trines of Christendom, represented In all of the creeds of the "Dark Ages," are doctrines of demons. Our minds became defiled our hymn-books, our creeds, everything. Thank God that the light of the New Dispensation Is now bringing to us the beginning of blessing release from Home of our darkness. The seeing of the true wage of sin-that It is death and not eternal torment Is one of the most important features connected with our enlightenment. When we learn that the dead are really dead and, ns tho Bible declares, will not know anything until the resurrection, then v?e begin to see the beauty of God's Plan -the need of Christ's death: the need of Ills second coming; the need of Ills Kingdom; the need of a resurrection; tho need of an opportu nity for all mankind to come to a clear knowledge of the great Truth of re demption through the precious blood and tho opportunity then, by God's grace, of attaining eternal life either during this Gospel age, ns New Crea tures, spirit beings like unto the an gels, or In the New Dispensation dur ing tho more general salvation of the world to human perfection In an earth ly rarudl.se. Jesus Cast Out Devila. Our great Iledeemer manifested his power by casting out demons from those who had become obsessed. And wo read further that he commissioned his Apostles to heal all manner of dls ease and to cast out unclean spirits. We are told that they did this and numerous Instances, in illustration, are given us. One man was obsessed by a legion of these spirits. No wonder tho poor fellow was crazy, but after they wero cast out ho was clothed nnd In his right mind nnd became a disciple (Luke vlil, 'JO-IND. St. rnul nnd Silas had an experience with an obsessed young woman who practised Hooth-saylng, fortuuo-tolllng, by tho power of the evil spirit which obsessed her. As the evil spirits rei ognlzed Jesus nnd cried, "We know Thee, who Thou art, Jesus,", so this Hplrlt knew tho Apostles and, through the young woman's lips, cried after them, "These be the servants of tho Most High God, which show to us the way to obtain eternal life" (Acts xvl, 1(1-18). Neither Jesus nor the Apostles were willing to accept demon testimony nnd commanded the evil spirits to come out of their victims. Scientists Being Entrapped. Tho Scriptures Indicate that there will be a wonderful activity amongst tho fallen angels In tho close of this Gospel Age. The Master declared that the deceptions would be such that, If it wero possible, the "very elect' would be deceived, but that will not be possible, because Divine providence stands engaged to protect the elect Tho Ninety-First Psalm, which gives n picture of the closing of this Age nnd Its sundry trials nnd tests, de clares that God will give his messen gers a charge concerning the feet mem bers of the body of Christ In all their wavs lest a foot should bo dashed against a stone of Rtumbllng (PRiilm xcl, 12). As Satan and the fallen angels op erate largely through "the children, of disobedience," so God aud his holy messengers use not only the Scriptures, but God's children of obedience ns mouthpieces, as helpers, as God's am bassadors In "building one another up In tho most holy faith." Hence tho tlmo when "a thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand" will bo also the tlmo when these ensnaring nnd deceptlvo errors will "not come nigh them" not come nigh tho members of the body of Christ, the elect. If our understanding of the Scrip tures be correct, we need not be sur prised If the fallen angels may again seemingly gain a victory over the IH vine restraints nnd materialize in broad dnyllght-personatlng not only the dend, but also at times personntlug tho living. Spiritists nnd mediums are claiming such things ns already beginning and likely to be accomplish ed on n grand scale shortly. Should It ccmo it will Inaugurate a terrible time of trouble such ns has not been since tho flood. God's people, while resting confidently ami at ease under Dlvlno supervision, should be on the alert to resist everything akin to Spiritism Occultism, Hypnotism, and to warn their friends respecting these things, Numerous scleutlllc men are being entrapped by these lying spirits whoso doings and powers they are luvesilgat Ing under the name of Psychic Phe noineiifl. Thank God we nro Hearing the time when Satan shall be bound and when every evil Influence shall be restrained, Not only will there be a full leanslng from a physical obsession, but n still greater rl -anslng and freeing from the doctrines of demou. ' SUITS! SUITS! SUITS! Remember these prices are lower than any body is making on this class off merchandise. A great many off your friends have taken advantage off them, but we want YOU to realize how cheap you can buy at our Clearance Sale. There is no monkey business about this its a genuine money saving event to you iff you snap it. TERMS STRICTLY CASH! THE HOME OF SATISFACTION EH FACTORY MACHINERY Soon the Smoke of Life Will Issue Therefrom and the Machinery Started. Mr. John A. Chopleska has finished unloading his machinery for the new foundry, and the same la In the build ing. Mr. Bert Tollock and Mr. II. A. Schneider, of the building committee, were confering with Mr. Chopleska this morning relative to tue position of the cupalo, "which Is that part of the foundry in which the multen metal is poured. This appliance will be at the east end of the building on the outside. Mr. Chopleska will have this cast in Omaha the early part of next week and it will probably be in place before the last of the week. Mr. Boyd is erecting an office room within the building which will occupy the northwest corner of the machine shop. In the machine shop two large lathes are in position, and a large combination piece of machinery. The shaftings and pulleys will be lined up at once, and by the time another week rolls round the new foundry will be ready to commence business. Mr. L. C. Sharp remarked this morn ing that when the fires are ready to light there should be a bonfire and banquet pulled off at the building, and everybody take part and whoop it up for the new industry.. v There are already orders coming ln for work as soon as the wheels I i ..I . .I . i, i. .a are Biarieu, anu ino uuuuuh. lor u good run of business in this line grows brighter every day, and the Plattsmouth business men who have contributed of their means to help the enterprise along will have the sat isfaction of seeing foundry and en gine factory a success of which they may all feel proud. The machinists and moulders, with one exception, will be Plattsmouth men, which Is another good feature of the enterprise. Little Child Quite Sick. The little six-year-old son of Mark Furlong, residing at Rock Bluffs, has been Buffering for the past three days from an attack of pneumonia. The little fellow is so ill that it is neces sary for some one to be at his bed side night and day. Miss Lillian Thompson, one of the efficient clerks at E. A. Wurl's store, has tendered her resignation and will accompany her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Thompson, to their new home la the western part of the state. Miss Lillian has a large circle of friends, who will regret her departure from their midst, but wish her much happi ness In her new home. Try the Journal's want pa column. f, ' iMyVVWWVVVifii l4 W T0d t V W 9 W 9W K 0 0 An Imitation 44 44 42.00, 44 44 .... 35.00 44 44 Dresser, 44 " 17.00, 44 41 .... 13.00 44 44 44 16.50, " 44 .... 12.50 "Mahogany 44 44 " 20.00, 44 " .... 15.00 A five-piece Parlor Suit, 44 44 45.00, 44 35.00 A three-piece 44 44 44 44 30.00, 44 44.... 24.00 A Plush Covered Couch, 44 iK 19.00, 44 44 .... 14.00 AVelour 4 4 4 4 4 4 44 10.00, 44 44 .... 6.C0 A Large Rocket 44 " 11.00, 44 44 ....,7.(K) A 44 44 13.50, 44 44 .... 8.50 A " 41 4. 25, 44 44 3.25 ArmChairs 44 44 7.50, 4' 4' .... 4.00 44 12.00, 44 44 .. .. 8.00 A Set of Dining Chairs, 44 14 10.50, 44 44 .... 7.50 44 44 8.00, 44 44 .... 6.00 A 12-foot Extension Table, 44 ' 15.00, 4' "....11.00 An 8-foot 44 " " " 21.50, " 44 .... 15.00 A Large Secretary, " " 30.00, 44 44 .... 20.00 An Iron Bed, 44 44 26.00, " 44 .... 19.00 " 44 44 15.00, 44 . 44 .... 10.00 44 44 12.00, 44 44 .... 8.50 A Piano, 44 4 4 3 00.00, " 44.... 200.00 ' 44 44 150.00, 44 44 .... 110.00 Now a few words to those who will be so fortunate as to read the above, I will say that my sale will be bona-fide, and that all purchases must be paid for in cash, as that it the only way that I will sell at the discount figures as above stated. Remember the dates, and tell your friends about this sale, if they are not subscribers to the local newspapers. THE FURNITURE MAN. Plattsmouth, Nebraska 8 8 8