Demonism.—A New York paper of June 20 tells a story which vividly recalls the demoniac of Mark 5: 1–5. It is that of a five-year-old child who does her best to kill her brothers and sisters and injure herself. "The neighbors call her the 'devil child,'" says the report, "and indeed she acted like one. She would fly at children and grown persons, biting with such fury that it required unusual strength to subdue her. Then she would refuse food, and chew and swallow old rags, paper, and weeds." As truly as in the days of Christ, there are now persons possessed, or controlled, by demons, angels of Satan. The Master relieved them through the power of God by faith. Men call them insane; and so they are; but the cause is often more than physical. This does not mean, however, that men should sit upon these cases and punish the afflicted; nor endeavor to lay their condition at other people's doors, as they did in the early days of Salem, Mass. Humanity should do all in its power to ameliorate their condition, science to cure them, and Christianity to help or free them by every Gospel remedy.