soothsaying. The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are servants of the Most High God, which shewed unto us the way of Salvation. And thus did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out that same hour. And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, and brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city."-Acts xvi, 16-20.

"And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. Notwithstanding, in this rejoice not," said Jesus, "that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven,"-Luke x, 17-20. There is a name above the name of spirits, and he who trusts therein is able to bid all evil away, and lo! it flees. In that name Jesus denying-spirits are exorcised; it is a terror to them. But he who obtains Divine aid must have the Holy Spirit in his heart. Of this more shall be said in the investigation of the present spiritual phenomena.

The above quotations from Luke are corroborated and confirmed by that just considered from

Acts xvi, 18, as well as many others of like nåture recorded of those days. And the opposite is revealed in the following incident, where those whose heart was not the temple of the Holy Ghost attempted to exorcise evil spirits but failed. Thus it is written, Acts xix, 13:

"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, and chief of the priests which did

So.

And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so they fled out of the house naked and wounded. And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus, and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. And many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all."

No one can mistake the character of the truc principles disclosed in these historic facts. Spir itualists, who deny the Christian Faith, admit the presence of spirits as recorded in the Scriptures. They claim that the Patriarchs, Prophets and Apostles held communion with spirits,

etc.

This confession commits their cause, for the Prophets and Apostles professed a faith directly contrary to that of the Naturalists; moreover, by the name of Jesus evil spirits were exorcised, and the spirits which operated with those of the natural sphere confessed the divinity of Jesus. "Why art thou come to torment us before the time?" was the language of spirits to the Savior. By this they, in the strongest manner, admitted the power of the Lord over them; their consciousness that they could not endure his presence, or resist his command. But the evil spirits overcame those who were not the true and faithful servants of the Lord; those who had not the Spirit of Christ. Incidents in perfect accordance with these have transpired connected with modern spiritualism.

Again, it is written, 1 John, iv., 1-3, "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they be of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God; and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God; and this is the spirit of anti-Christ, whereof ye heard that it should come, and even now already is in the world.”

How plainly the distinction is here expressed.

And how abundant the evidence afforded by history, both sacred and profane, that connected with man are two spheres of spiritual influx; that two classes of influences from the interior or invisible world seek the control of the human heart: one is divine and infinite, and the other sickly, discordant and finite; and that the same spirit which now opposes the doctrines of the Inspired Word was anciently developed.

CHAPTER XVI.

THE CONSUMMATION.

"AND the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth; and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.. And he opened the bottomless pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth, and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And the shape of the locusts were like horses prepared unto battle," (manifestation of power,) "and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men; and they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. . . And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood, which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk."— Rev. ix.

Had the Revelator lived in the Nineteenth