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Excerpt from The Contributor, Vol. 1: September, 1880
Continuing, Satan in his sufferings is made to enquire if there is no place for repentance and pardon left? And then answers: None left but by submission; and that word Disdain forbids me, and my dread shame Among the spirits beneath, whom I seduced With other promises and other vaunts Than to submit, boasting I could subdue The Omnipotent. Ah, me! They little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain, Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of hell.
Revelation teaches us that in heaven, before the fall, Satan was an accuser of his brethren. He doubtless often made them offenders for a word, criticising per haps the sentiments written on the ban ners of heaven, his envious eye, jealous heart and ambitious mind distorting every act and word of others as intent of per sonal injury, or as encroachment upon his self-claimed, over-reaching, unearned and unestablished prerogatives. While planning to dethrone Jehovah and to crush, with false 'accusations, his breth ren, no doubt he claimed to be the most abused person of all those surrounding the throne of God. Cast outfrom heaven, his purpose unmasked, treachery made bare - rebellion defeated; hear the song of angels turned to lamentation as the envious, self-condemned, fallen deceiver, crawls in serpent form to the portals of Eden's happy garden; revenge, his purpose; to corrupt man's allegiance to heaven's law, the mode; to destroy God's gift of peace on earth and good will to man, the end.
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