Weld ghost story, The, ii. 49 ---- Philip, drowned, ii. 50 ---- Very Rev. Alfred, S. J., on the Weld ghost story, ii. 54 Weld’s, Philip, apparition, ii. 53 Westcote, Lord, on the Lyttelton ghost, i. 33 White’s Dream, Sir Thomas, i. 266 Witchcraft and necromancy, i. 152 ---- and sorcery, Canon Melville on, i. 156 ---- common in non-Catholic countries, i. 201 ---- condemned in Scripture, i. 152, 155 ---- Definition of, i. 174 ---- Examples of, i. 176-201 ---- George More on, i. 171 ---- Herder on, ii. 210 ---- Jane Wenham accused of, i. 192 ---- Joseph Glanville on, i. 175 ---- recognized by the Fathers, i. 161 ---- Rev. John Wesley on, i. 160 Witches, The Northamptonshire, i. 182 “Wonders of the Invisible World,” i. 198 World of spirits, The, ii. 82 Wynyard ghost story, The, ii. 26 FOOTNOTES: [1] “Westminster Review,” July, 1872. [2] Acts xvii. 27. [3] The idea of the eternal enters largely into the stock arguments of unbelief; for it is through the asserted “eternity of matter” that the unbeliever shifts away the ideas of creation and a creator. [4] Articles of Religion, No. 1, Book of Common Prayer. [5] Christianity, as we know, exhorted men and women to the care of the aged, the suffering, and the infirm. Our Blessed Saviour’s promise, regarding the gift of a cup of cold water and its reward, was not forgotten. Christian love resisted and cast out Pagan selfishness. Hospitals were built where the diseases of the poor might be cured; where the sore distress of hopeless pain and slow wasting-away might be soothed; and asylums were provided where the weak and imbecile might be tended. Now if the Pagan theories of “scientific people” are applied, the chief duty of physicians in the future will be to poison their patients. Such a conception would be ludicrous were it not so utterly revolting. [6] A writer in an influential organ of opinion connected with the American Church puts forth the following vigorous protest:--