Satan and His Kingdom 191 looks on ! “Let both grow together till the harvest,” He cries, for the tares cannot be uprooted without danger to the grow ing wheat. And the adversary also works on! The Lord’s wheat, and the adversary’s tares; the true and the counter feit; are always found side by side throughout the inhabited earth. We must face the fact that the Scriptures declare these things to be true concerning all men, be they high or low, rich or poor, cultured or ignorant. There is no trace given of neutral ground. The Scripture “hath shut up all things under sin” (Gal. 3:22) that “every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God” (Rom. 3:19, A. V.). “He that doeth sin is of the devil” (1 John 3 :8 ) . The Divine life which comes from God, and is implanted in the child of God, does not sin, for the good tree bears good fruit. The fallen life must also bring forth its own fruit of sin. Sin in greater or lesser degree it is true, but sin as God calls sin. We are children of the one by whose life we live. Children of God if His life is imparted to us, or “children of the devil” if we live under his control. The arch-fiend has studied the fallen race of Adam for many thousand years, and knows how to allure his subjects. Among the sons of men there are some with more spirit- capacity than others, and these are the ones especially open to his snares, and most likely to become his tools to work out his will. These souls would not be allured by the “flesh,” nor would vain philosophy and reasonings charm them. Beguiled, as the serpent beguiled Eve, by the fascination of the knowledge of good and evil, he draws them on into unlaw ful dealings with the spirit-world, until some are given “a spirit of divination” (Acts 16:16) like the damsel at Philippi, or like Simon the sorcerer, and are led into “magical arts” as in the days of Paul. Such are the workings of the adver sary today in spiritism, palmistry, crystal-gazing, and such like things. In the twentieth century professed Christian
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