Show i IN Stetson of Dt zoa Col College loge lege la le said to believe In sorcery If It correctly quoted ho thinks that many persons persona are aro ruled by per ties other than their own and that It ItIs ItIs itIs Is Impossible Impo elbl for rM these th H e victims to te disen disenthrall thrall themselves They grow froW away from their own solves salvos by sheer force of ot sinister and antI occult Influences over which they hive have nt 11 control This of witchcraft has ban reached proportions and It II i one Otte of ot the most Important problems problem with which science line has to den dool today Those lh po of or demons will trill never cease until titan man mankind kind comas pomell to perfect conditions In olden times lines It t was generally bo ho lIow that human beings sometimes coma came under the of at strong In Influences other than human According to Plutarch there th re tare lIra wl ed anti and ma na malignant demons Who t uio envy onn good loet men nten and endeavor to Kinder them In the pursuit of or virtue lest men aten should be he partakers ot or greeter happiness than Ihan they enjoy explained that demons lire are tha tho of o the wicked that enter Into refit mill and kill 1111 them theta un unless less lesa they con cnn some help hell against them thom In the Now New Testament tho the re 10 allty of ot Is III very clearly net Bet forth Tho demons ate are cast out They Thay aro spoken to te ns as they are lire Bald said to have knowledge fear tear do slice otc etc During DUlIng the middle ages superstition sup ran riot null mid many natural phenomena avero 10 ascribed to supernatural beings and tc and sorcery If It an nn animal died witchcraft was wall suspected If It a n churl child was waa side sIcK It was wn bewitched Almost any rny rn kind Ilind if Of misfortune was by bythe bythe bythe the superstitious to tho Cho sorcery of ot nn enemy or u II malignant person The Tho consequence con vas wal v 8 tho the numerous Im tortures anti and burnings at attha atthe atthe the tha stake that make portions of or tho the history of ot tho the middle egos ngos read like Ilk lurid description of ot hell holl Tho The reality of ut such was cs es by judicial Investigations In every country In III Europe but In spite of ot this public opinion finally demanded a n niop elop to tho the prosecutions pro Since then tb tie Idea Iden that tho the visible world Is 11 all therE thero Is has taken strong stronghold hold held of ut the tho public The Tho credulity ot of was waif followed by tho the ore ere credulity dulity of unbelief The world likes to wobble between extremes Tho The Kala lenla professor will be criticized for tor forbis his bis belief In unseen Influences but It Is 18 limo lime to 10 return rei urn to the rational anti biblical biblical cal philosophy that t nt tho the contest of or man manfor mantor manfor for tor eternal progress toward perfection Is not only with flesh and blood but with principalities I and powers and the tho rulers of ot o tho the darkness of this world and tint that th conflict Is 18 of ot such a n nature that unites el It bo be waged In the power of ot truth It will bo be lost |