[5] _Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church_, Vol. II, p. 362,
American edition.
[6] 1 Kings xiv. 1-7.
[7] It is not intended to intimate that there is no such darker reality
as a "possession" that is "demoniac" indeed. It cannot be reasonably
pronounced superstitious to judge that there is some probability for
that view. At any rate, it is certain that the problem is not to be
settled by dogmatic pronouncement. It is certain, also, that the burden
of proof rests on those who contend that there can be no such thing. On
the other hand, it may be conceded that the cases recorded in the New
Testament do not seem to be of an essentially devilish kind. On the
general subject of "possession" see F. W. H. Myers's work on _Human
Personality and Survival after Death_, Vol. I. (Longmans, Green & Co.,
New York and London.) Professor William James half humorously remarks:
"The time-honored phenomenon of diabolical possession is on the point of
being admitted by the scientist as a fact, now that he has the name of
hysterodemonopathy by which to apperceive it." _Varieties of Religious
Experience_, p. 501, note.
[8] See _Dictionary of Psychology_, art. "Psychical Research."
[9] Dr. Peloubet, _Teachers' Commentary on the Acts_, 1902.
[10] Dr. Lyman Abbott in _The Outlook_, February 14, 1903.