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Love Eternal

CHAPTER VIII
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Then after church we dine, and after dinner we take a nice walk through the woods arm in arm.

Yes, perhaps we go as far as Lucerne and pay a little visit there, since this afternoon I have arranged that there is no service." So Godfrey went to church and sat under the cold, blue glare of the Pasteur's spectacles, listening to a really eloquent sermon, for his preaching was excellent.

He took his text from the story of Saul and the witch of Endor, and after dwelling on it and its moral, opened up the whole problem of the hidden influences which may, and probably do, affect the human soul.

He gave a short but learned account of the history of demonology throughout the ages, which evidently he had at his fingers' ends.

He distinguished between good and evil spirits, and while not denying the lawfulness of such research, pointed out the peril that the seeker ran, since in his quest for the good he might find the evil.


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