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for it would be difficult to name any other points 

 of doctrine on which the Nazarene does not differ 

 from the Christian, and the different historical 

 stages and contemporary subdivisions of Chris- 

 tianity from one another. And, if the demon - 

 ology is accepted, there can be no reason for 

 rejecting all those miracles in which demons play 

 a part. The Gadarene story fits into the general 

 scheme of Christianity ; and the evidence for 

 " Legion " and their doings is just as good as any 

 other in the New Testament for the doctrine 

 which the story illustrates. 



It was with the purpose of bringing this great 

 fact into prominence ; of getting people to open 

 both their eyes when they look at Ecclesiasticisin ; 

 that I devoted so much space to that miraculous 

 story which happens to be one of the best types 

 of its class. And I could not wish for a better 

 justification of the course I have adopted, than 

 the fact that my heroically consistent adversary 

 has declared his implicit belief in the Gadarene 

 story and (by necessary consequence) in the 

 Christian demonology as a whole. It must be 

 obvious, by this time, that, if the account of the 

 spiritual world given in the New Testament, pro- 

 fessedly on the authority of Jesus, is true, then 

 the demonological half of that account must be 

 just as true as the other half. And, therefore, 

 those who question the demonology, or try to 

 explain it away, deny the truth of what Jesus 



