Modern Spiritualism Briefly Tested by Scripture 117 in beautiful language. After a time they became mixed with obscene language. Then he heard voices, and things so preyed upon his mind that he became insane, and died in three months, raving mad. The following well-known passage from Spiritualistic literature is very significant: “They come, THE DOOR ONCE OPEN, in crowds, in riotous invasion. They run, they leap, they fly, they gesticulate, they sing, they whoop, and they curse. . . . Mind, body, soul, memory and imagina- tion—nay the very heart—are polluted by the ghostly can aille.” ■ May God preserve the writer and reader from ever open ing the door to such diabolical wickedness; or if already opened, may he or she seek the power of Him, who is stronger than the strong man armed, even of the Lord Jesus Christ. “Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils” (Luke 8 :2 ) . “And Jesus asked him saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion, because many devils were entered into him (Luke 8: 30). Here is evidence that more than one demon may take possession of the human body. Mediums admit that at times several spirits control them, and hence the incoherency of the messages. “A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us . . . the same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salvation. . . . But Paul being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of the Lord Jesus to come out of her. And he came out the same hour” (Acts 16:16-18). “Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth. And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew,
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