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fact. The whole question of demoniacal agency is one so large as to require 

 a separate paper entirely devoted to it. I shall only say with respect to the 

 narrative of the witch of Endor, that there is nothing in the narrative which 

 athrms that Saul saw Samuel, but much which implies the contrary. In one 

 passage the magicians of Egypt are expressly stated to have done so by their 

 enchantments and foiled. I see nothing in these events which is not fully 

 paralleled by many well-authenticated acts performed by the conjurors of 

 modern Egypt and India. In fact, I have read of accounts much more won- 

 derful. I think that no one believes that these latter are Satanic. The 

 language of the sacred historian describes them as they appeared to the popu- 

 lar eye. I see no intima.tion on the face of the history that these acts were 

 performed by the power of the devil. The admission that the devil has 

 wrought real miracles is a very serious one, but it is impossible to discuss it 

 at this time of the evenmg. I have only to thank you for your attention to 

 the paper and the discussion. 



The Meeting was then adjourned. 



