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which may be awarded in the present apparently in- 

 significant action in re the swineherds of Gadara. 



The immediate effect of such judgment will be 

 the decision of the question, whether the men of 

 the nineteenth century are to adopt the demon- 

 ology of the men of the first century, as divinely 

 revealed truth, or to reject it, as degrading falsity. 

 The reverend Principal of King's College has 

 delivered his judgment in perfectly clear and 

 candid terms. Two years since, Dr. Wace said 

 that he believed the story as it stands ; and con- 

 sequently he holds, as a part of divine -revelation, 

 that the spiritual world comprises devils, who, 

 under certain circumstances, may enter men and 

 be transferred from them to four-footed beasts. 

 For the distinguished Anglican Divine and Biblical 

 scholar, that is part and parcel of the teachings 

 respecting the spiritual world which we owe to the 

 founder of Christianity. It is an inseparable part 

 of that Christian orthodoxy which, if a man 

 rejects, he is to be considered and. called an 

 "infidel." According to the ordinary rules of 

 interpretation of language, Mr. Gladstone must 

 hold the same view. 



If antiquity and universality are valid tests of 

 the truth of any belief, no doubt this is one of the 

 beliefs so certified. There are no known savages, 

 nor people sunk in the ignorance of partial civili- 

 sation, who do not hold them. The great majority 



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