XXVI. THE HYPNOTIST 114 XXVII. DEVIL POSSESSION 119 XXVIII. DEVIL OPPRESSION 124 XXIX. DEVIL ABDUCTION 129 XXX. THE RATIONALE OF SUICIDE 134 XXXI. DEVIL WORSHIP 138 XXXII. VICTORY THROUGH THE VICTOR 143 XXXIII. THE ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT 148 XXXIV. THE FINAL CONSUMMATION 152 XXXV. SATANIC SYMBOL IN NATURE 156 I THE PROBLEM OF EVIL "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."--_Genesis vi. 5._ That we may appreciate this discussion, removed as far as possible from theological terminology and theories, and get a concrete view-point, the following head-lines from a single issue of a metropolitan daily will suffice: "War Clouds Hanging Low;" "Men Higher Up Involved;" "Eighty-seven Divorces On Docket;" "Blood Flows In the Streets;" "Gaunt Hunger Among Strikers;" "Arrested For Forgery;" "A White Slave Victim;" "Attempted Train Robbery;" "Kills Wife and Ends Own Life;" "Two Men Bite Dust;" "Investigate Bribery." This fearful list may be duplicated almost every day in the year. Our land is deluged with crime, without respect to person or place; its blight touches all circles from the slum to the four hundred. Wealth and poverty, culture and ignorance, fame and obscurity, suffer alike from this Pandora Box scourge. The march of history--the pilgrimage of the race, has enjoyed but little respite from tears and blood. Those who strive to maintain a standard of purity, righteousness, and honour, are beset by strange, powerful, intangible influences, from the cradle to the grave. The child in swaddling clothes has a predisposition to willfullness, deception, and disobedience; paroxysms of passion and anger are manifested with the slightest provocation. Notwithstanding the barriers thrown up by the home and society; the incentives and assurances for noble, industrious living, the dykes are continually giving way, so that police power and the frowning walls of penal institutions are insufficient to check the overflow. The Church of God, with its open Book, ringing out messages of life and hope at every corner; the object lessons on the "wages of sin," sweeping in full view before us, like the reel-film of a motion picture--do not seem to lessen the harvest of moral shipwreck.