THE K I N G ' S B U S I NE S S 439 demic of ouijamania. Three women and one fifteen-year-old girl spent twenty-four hours at a stretch over the ouija hoard and were committed to the State Hospital for the Insane. It is said by city authorities that sacrifices to the ouija board were made daily, and in one instance $700.00 in bills were burned to the evil spirits when children in the same house were starving. By order of the ouija board the'hair of the children was clipped, and when the police broke into the room they were about to have important revelations from them. "Was this in our country? Yes,—in the United States of America, Twentieth Century, and sunny California! Sir Oliver Lodge has certainly served the devil well in his trip to this country, and while he is too big to fool with the ouija board, he is small enough to play into the hands of the devil and make many people believe a devil’s lie. We are just in the beginning of the ouija business. The harvest is not yet. But there is one grain of comfort. The pastor of the Roman Catholic church in an adjoining city has advised his parishioners to abstain from the ouija board during Lent! — T. C. H. .$»£. ■£¥■£- B lessed Witk a Bible Visiting a very godly woman some time ago who had been sick for a long time, it was learned that a certain Christian Scientist had been urging her to take up Science. Finally a book was left and she was asked to read it. After the Scientist had gone, the invalid said: “ Now, Lord, if you want me to read this book and take up Christian Science, just show me.” Then she took from the table THE BOOK and opening it her eye fell on Jer. 51:63, which reads: “ And it shall be when thou hast made an end to the reading of . this book, that thou shalt bind it to a stone and cast it into the ' midst of the Euphrates.” It’s a good thing to have a Bible handy. Many people would have been spared the sorrow which has come to them from following cunningly devised fables had they gone to the Bible. The Lord never directed any one into Eddyism, but the Word of the Lord has brought many a one out of it. —T. C. H. ■Wi, ¿ste, J ohn weslets Epitaph Over the grave of John Wesley words were written that Methodists ought never to forget. His epitaph says he was raised up of God to ‘ ‘revive, enforce and defend pure apostolic doctrine and practices of the primitive church. ’ ’ Wesley taught specifically: (1) The spread of the Gospel as a testi mony to all nations. (2) An apostasy already at work in Christendom and to be more developed. (3) The literal restoration of Israel to their own land. (4) That the revelation of the antichrist would precede the second advent. (5) That it is the duty of the church to observe the signs of the
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