SATAN’S SEAT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5198, 2 November 1927, Page 2

SATAN’S SEAT.

IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.

LECTURE RY MR. E. P. CLARK. “Where Satan’s Seat Is,” was the subject of an interesting lecture by Mr E. P. Clark, of Melbourne, at the Strand Theatre, Hamilton, on Sunday evening.

The lecturer, quoting various Scriptural texts, showed that the seat of Satan was not in Hell, where the people were taught he holds demain. but in their midst, working as the direct adversity of God. Many believed, he continued, that after death man went to Hell to expiate his sins and to suffer endless torment. There was no he.ll such as was commonly believed. Hell, he said, was merely the place where the dead stayed until the resurrection, when God would bring them back to life and happiness, providing it was His will to do do. The soul was not immortal, and ceased to be at death. Man was a soul, and when death claimed him he ceased to exist in any form whatever. Really we were a« the beasts of the field, returning to dust when death claimed us.

There was not a single text in scripture, contended the lecturer, that stated that the soul was immortal.

Finance, politics, and religion were thq three main topics of conversation among men of the. present day, and it Avas through these channels that Satan scattered hist poison. These three were so closely allied that they were practically inseparable. He dealt briefly with the part played by churches during the World War, showing that they had advocated the wholesale slaughter of the armies of the opposing nation. Politics also played a leading part. The late war made many millionaires, and it was the great financiers of the world who brought about these disturbances between nations.

Many of the professors of colleges were, !he stated, infidels, believing in evolution.