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suaded that He will do a certain thing, He is pledged to do it. Accordingly, all arts are used to induce this confidence in the patient and in all present, creating thus a consensus of spheres, and a powerful persuasion that the Lord will presently answer. Such a set of conditions connot fail to invite enthusiastic spirits, and they, by the very delight of their life, inject insanities, pervert the truths of the Word, and perform magical miracles with them. There are spirits in the other life who by the knowledge of truths, and by the power of truths in the ultimates of the Word, induce changes of state in others, lifting them into enthusiastic imaginations, bringing them into new relations, and subjecting them to their power for infernal ends. The faith that they induce is a mere persuasion, and the truths of the Word which they recall are merely for confirmation of falsities and the securing to themselves power over the spirits of men thereby. An intrepretation of the Lord's words, "whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing ye shall receive," as meaning that He will give whatever we have undoubting confidence in asking, and that He will directly interpose to heal those who ask Him in humility and confidence, and prove