ry elect should be deceived.

The religious teachers of to-day on the whole are in ignorance concerning
the binding of Satan. We will give you a sample of the ignorance of these
teachers. In the _Gospel Messenger_ of March 25, 1899, the Querist
Department in answer to a question asked concerning the binding of Satan,
said: "Satan will then be bound, cast into the bottomless pit, and there
will be a chance to convert the unrighteous and lead them to accept Christ
as the Savior."

A subscriber in search of knowledge asked the Querist Department to give a
scripture to prove the last clause. He received this answer: "It seems to
us that it is one of those self-evident views that needs no proof. If the
Bible teaches otherwise let us have the chapter and verse. The Querist
Department does not pretend to know everything."

There are many other chapters and verses that teach otherwise. "Now is the
day of salvation." "How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?"
The wicked shall be resurrected to damnation. John 5:29.

Conclusion Of Part Second.

We have now passed the noonday. The reader, no doubt, fully comprehends
why it was dark. The morning was light because the whole Word of truth was
taught and experienced by the church. All were under the immediate control
of the infallible Holy Spirit.

The noonday was dark because the leadings and teachings of fallible man
were substituted for the Holy Spirit and Word. A thousand errors were
brought in, the Word of God rejected. The faith once delivered to the
saints was lost, sin and iniquity abounded and their love waxed cold. The
preachers divined for money, and sought places of affluence, and thus the
day was dark over them. Sectism to-day is a mass of worldliness.
Infidelity abounds and every abominable work. If you desire a perfect
description of sectism as it appears upon the scene to-day, read that
given by the angel in Rev. 18:2.

PART III. THE EVENING.

Or,
Christianity In The Closing Days Of This Gospel Era.

We have now come to consider the evening time of this gospel day. The
morning was light because of the truth being experienced and taught. The
noonday was dark because traditions and theories and vain philosophies of
man became substitutes for the Word of God. This evening time was seen by
prophetic eye. "But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord,
not day, nor night: but i