William Carlisle, in a book printed in London in 1827, on "Evil Spirits," and of which there is a copy at the British Museum, recognizes all the kinds of evil INFLUENCES that oppress mankind.

As scientists, by the aid of microscopes, have discovered to us vast tribes of insects which before were totally unknown to us, so Revelation discovers to us myriads of spirits -enemies more powerful "than flesh and blood."

The book is a very learned and logical work based throughout on the Bible, and showing conclusively that the demons, or spirits, or, as we would call them, INFLUENCES, on the one hand, and the redemption from their power, on the other, is the whole theory, plan and completeness of the salvation of, and taught in, the Holy Scriptures.

The oldest known clay tablet from the ancient ruins of Nineveh, now to be seen at the British Museum, is marked with characters which have been translated:

"I who am smitten with disease, whom the hand of the demon (here the surface

is broken.)

"The spectre that striketh fear, that for

many days has been bound on my back and is not loosed, who attacks my face, my eyes, my back, my flesh and my whole body.

A book published at the price of $25.00, entitled the Divine Mystery, by R. Swinburne Clymer, may be seen at the Congressional Library at Washington. It paraphrases a Roman Catholic promulgation by Father Sinistrari, entitled, "Demoniality."

Elemental spirits suck the vitality of those who are weak and especially of drunkards. It has often been observed that drunkards' lives are the safest from accidents; this is because the Elementals take care of them, and preserve them in dangers, in order that they may continue to draw their vitality from them. When they have accomplished their purpose and drawn all the vitality out of their victims, the drunkards die, not so much from any pathological reason, as from spiritual depletion.

This is the reason it is so hard for a drunkard to reform; there is always "something" urging him to drink.

Clymer divides the spirits into four kinds:

*"Babylonian Cunciform Texts" by Leonard W.

King.

Sylphs, Gnomes, Undines and Salamanders. These Elementals derive their names from the four elements, air, earth, water, and fire. "The throne of Paralda, Queen of the Sylphs, is to the East; of Gob, Prince of the Gnomes, to the North; of Nicksa, Princess of Undines, to the West, and of Djin, King of Salamanders, to the South."

In George Rawlinson's famous notes upon Herodotus, he assures us, at page 188, that the Delphic oracle was in reality possessed of an evil spirit, the demon of deceit, leading Croesus to make war on Cyrus on purpose to lead him to his own destruction.

CHAPTER IV.

FALSE AND SLANDERING INFLUENCES.

The mortal finds himself in a world of sunshine and flowers. He finds himself conscious of his great destiny. He feels himself able, if let alone, to work out that destiny and stand on his own feet, serene and perfect.

But, though he knows that there is, or should be, a perfect system of things, wherein he has his perfect place, "something" prevents him from its attainment.

The reader may be one of those who start out on the highway of life with high hopes and exalted spirits, only to find that on every hand there exists a conspiracy against him, as it were, a conspiracy of slandering thoughts and false estimates. With his high

standard rebuffed at every turn and false standards flaunted in his face, he can no longer stand untouched and uninfluenced, but dreads what every day may bring, and every day, finds such dread more than justified.

A strong sense of justice and right is born in such an one, a gift highly desirable and supremely valuable. Yet his very gift becomes the prey of INFLUENCES, and makes the victim more susceptible to the injury brought about by these INFLUENCES, and more bitterly wronged than he could be, if he had never had that fine sense of justice and right.

The INFLUENCES make his very words appear to others as unworthy of himself and as suggesting thoughts he never would have entertained. False standards of life are brought about by the INFLUENCES, formerly known as "false gods," a different INFLUENCE for each false standard. The Slandering INFLUENCES are closely allied, for they slander the sense of right by intimating that the victim has those particular false standards which he hates the most.

The reader if troubled by such influences