[Footnote 63:  Compare Tract 85, p. 110; “I am persuaded that were men but consistent who oppose the Church doctrines as being unscriptural, they would vindicate the Jews for rejecting the Gospel.”]

[Footnote 64:  A writer in a spiritualist journal takes me soundly to task for venturing to doubt the historical and literal truth of the Gadarene story.  The following passage in his letter is worth quotation:  “Now to the materialistic and scientific mind, to the uninitiated in spiritual verities, certainly this story of the Gadarene or Gergesene swine, presents insurmountable difficulties; it seems grotesque and nonsensical.  To the experienced, trained, and cultivated Spiritualist this miracle is, as I am prepared to show, one of the most instructive, the most profoundly useful, and the most beneficent which Jesus ever wrought in the whole course of His pilgrimage of redemption on earth.”  Just so.  And the first page of this same journal presents the following advertisement, among others of the same kidney:—­

“TO WEALTHY SPIRITUALISTS.—­A Lady Medium of tried power wishes to meet with an elderly gentleman who would be willing to give her a comfortable home and maintenance in Exchange for her Spiritualistic services, as her guides consider her health is too delicate for public sittings:  London preferred.—­Address ‘Mary,’ Office of Light.”

Are we going back to the days of the Judges, when wealthy Micah set up his private ephod, teraphim, and Levite?]

[Footnote 65:  Consider Tertullian’s “sister” ("hodie apud nos"), who conversed with angels, saw and heard mysteries, knew men’s thoughts, and prescribed medicine for their bodies (De Anima. cap. 9).  Tertullian tells us that this woman saw the soul as corporeal, and described its colour and shape.  The “infidel” will probably be unable to refrain from insulting the memory of the ecstatic saint by the remark, that Tertullian’s known views about the corporeality of the soul may have had something to do with the remarkable perceptive powers of the Montanist medium, in whose revelations of the spiritual world he took such profound interest.]

[Footnote 66:  See the New York World for Sunday, 21st October, 1888; and the Report of the Stybert Commission Philadelphia, 1887.]

[Footnote 67:  Dr. Newman’s observation that the miraculous multiplication of the pieces of the true cross (with which “the whole world is filled,” according to Cyril of Jerusalem; and of which some say there are enough extant to build a man-of-war) is no more wonderful than that of the loaves and fishes, is one that I do not see my way to contradict.  See Essay on Miracles, 2d ed. p. 163.]

[Footnote 68:  An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, by J.H.  Newman, D.D., pp. 7 and 8. (1878.)]

[Footnote 69:  Dr. Newman faces this question with his customary ability.  “Now, I own, I am not at all solicitous to deny that this doctrine of an apostate Angel and his hosts was gained from Babylon:  it might still be Divine nevertheless.  God who made the prophet’s ass speak, and thereby instructed the prophet, might instruct His Church by means of heathen Babylon” (Tract 85, p. 83).  There seems to be no end to the apologetic burden that Balaam’s ass can carry.]