THEOLOGY — - DEVIL WORSHIP. 81 
Witchcraft, Devil-worship, and a thou- 
sand other foolish things, is simply because 
the light of Heaven shines upon us. How 
soon would all the impositions and cruel- 
ties imposed upon heathens be practiced by 
us, were the restraints of Christianity re- 
moved. Without these, ours would be a 
more powerful and efficient machinery for 
the promotion of all that is debasing and 
cruel. 
The time was when persons were killed 
in this country for the imaginary crime of 
witchcraft ; and by those, too, whom we are 
proud to call our Fathers. But as light in- 
creased, belief in witches ceased, and with 
it the cruelties growing out of that belief. 
Witches and hobgoblins never flourish in 
the light of a pure Gospeh 
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