Satan, His Methods

Satan seeing that he could not stamp out the church by violence and persecution has changed his tactics and is now trying to seduce her into conformity to the world, and to try to better an "Age" that God has doomed to destruction. His present purpose is to build up a "magnificent civilization," and he has been deceiving the church that it can bring in the "Millenium" without Christ, by the Betterment of Society. His hope is that the "Gospel of Social Service"will take the place of the "Gospel of Grace," and by diverting the attention of Christian people to "secondary" things, they will neglect the primary work of soul saving, and thus delay the evangelization of the world, and postpone the Return of the Lord, and his own confinement in the bottomless pit. [All emphasis by the author]

Clarence Larkin, The Spirit World