Identifier: demonismverified00whit (find matches)
Title: Demonism verified and analyzed
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: White, Hugh Watt, 1870-1940
Subjects: Demonology Demoniac possession Personality disorders Parapsychology
Publisher: (Yencheng, Kiangsu, China) : The author Richmond, Va. : The Presbyterian Committee of Publication
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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. He got a Bible and read it. He wouldsilently argue with the demons. He would pray publiclyall about the place, until he read about praying in yourcloset, and saw that in this also he had been misled ofthe Devil. For a time the thought was borne in on himthat he was the Apostle Peter. In childhood the namebad been impressed on his memory by a boy making ajoke of it. This he argued out, saying that Peter washoly but he was wicked, and thus it could not be. Healso worked out the question about Millenial Dawuism.Finding a book of Cowpers he was helped by that. Intime he was healed and now for some years has preachedthe Gospel. The struggles of this bewildered mind toright itself evidently found help by religious lines ofthought. Granting that the hospital treatment, whateverit was, may have been suited to his needs, we can seehow religion was an effective psychic influence. I put forth my proposition, in the hope that othersmore competent may take it up, and work it out scienti-fically.
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Illus. 17. The: Wizard.Case 320. See pp. 17, 147. Illus. 15. Cask 138. See p. 144.

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