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in silence: an expression of almost ab ject despair settling upon bis counten ance. Then he replied, “ Yes—yes— in deed I have. Listen, and I will tell you my own experience as a warning. For some years before I .retired from the ministry I dabbled with Telepathy, Concentration, Thought-transmission, and at last Spiritism. It attracted me as a science, and as the months passed I went deeper and deeper into it. Now let me frankly own to you; I felt my ministerial power waning, and my in terest in the spiritual well-being of others dying out. My health failed, and I retired. Since then I have dis covered that the conditions I had created through following Spiritism had quietly and imperceptibly encased me until I was not always free to think and act as I wished. At other times the most blasphemous and horrible thoughts have overwhelmed me— even to the suggestion that I should take my own life. Never, never allow your selves or anyone whom you can in fluence to touch Spiritism.” Then the good man offered prayer, and we left. We never met him again, but about two years afterwards we read the account of his death by his own hand. His friends could not account for the act: there had not been any case of insanity in his family. They could only suppose that he had ^een suddenly overcome by a suicidal con trol. Throughout Holy Scripture -occult practices are consistently denounced, and at the close of Revelation we are told that the sorcerer is finally shut out of the Eternal City of God. The ground of these denunciations is invar iably that such practices are a crime against God: that they evidence a de parture from Him, and a transference of allegiance to His (and our) enemy. We are enjoined to resist all entice ments from the other side.
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