charms; nor with those who work miracles by means
of sorcery and incantation.-Read carefully all of the
following Scriptures, – Exod. 22: 18; Deut. 18: 9-12;
Lev. 19: 31; 20: 6, 27; 2 Kings 21: 2, 6, g, 11; 1 Chron.
10: 13, 14; A& 16: 16-18; Gal. 5: 19-21; Rev. 21: 8;
Isa. 8: 19, 20; 19: 3.
The Bible story of King Saul’s “seance” with
the witch of Endor, a necromancer or spirit-medium,
as related in 1 Sam. 28: 7-20, is an illustration of what
is claimed to be performed to-day. Altho the law with
reference to these mediums was very striA and the pvn-
ishment death, there were some who were willing to
risk their livea because of the gains which could thus
be obtained from people who believed that they were
obtaining supernatural information from their dead
friends- just as with spirit-mediums to-day. King
Saul was well aware that there were numerous of these
mediums residing in Israel contrary to the divine in-
junAion and his own law, and his servants apparently
had no difficulty in finding the one at Endor. Saul
disguised himself for the interview, but no doubt the
crafty woman knew well the stately form of Saul-had
and sWders taller than any other man in Israel. (1
Sam. 9:2.) Hence her particularity to secure a promise
and oath from his own lips that no harm should befall
her for the service
The methods used by the evil spirits through the
medium at Endor were similar to those in use to-day.
They caused to pass before the medium’s mental vision
the familiar likeness of the aged prophet, Samuel,
wearing as was his custom, a long mantle. When she
described the mental (or “astral ?” ) picture, Saul recog-
nized it at once as a description of Samuel; but Saul