Another said, “Jesus I know and Paul I kw, but who
are ye?” (Acts 19: 15.) The young woman from
whom Paul cast out the spirit of soothsaying and divi-
nation ( Acts 16: 16-19) is a good illustration. Can it
be claimed by any that the Apostle deprived the woman
of any proper talent or power? Must it not be con-
fessed to have been a spirit which possessed and used
her body ?–an evil spirit unfit to be tolerated there?
Many of those who claim that the demons of the
Scriptures were the spirits of wicked men and women
who died, and that these are the “lying spirits” act-
nowledged by Spiritists, have still another difficulty ;-
for generally they claim that the spirits of wicked dead
go to hell-torments, as they wrongly interpret she01 –
and hadcs to mean.* If so, how could they beso much
at liberty ?
“Witchcraft,’ ‘ “Necromancy,” the “Black art ,”
“Sorcery,” etc., are supposed by many to be wholly
delusions. But when we find that they had a firm hold
upon the Egyptians, and that God made special pro-
vision against them with Israel, we are satisfied that
he made no such restraions either against that which
is good, or against that which had no existence what-
ever.
The instruction to Israel was very explicit: they
should not have any comm.don nor make any inquir-
ies through necromancers (those who claimed to speak
for the dead; i. e., spirit-mediums); nor with any wiz-
ard or witch; nor with any who .had occult powers,
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