The Detroit times., 1915-10-26
War Caused By Devils
~ On FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. BY Frank Crans)

Of the terrific commissions the human
race is now undergoing, said my old anti
quarian friend, 1rismegistus Jones, but
they all are lame. giving no adequate
grounds for such prodigious effects.
The fact is, he continued, that all the
Wanted science, statecraft, and reason
ings of this conceited age break down
because they do not recognize the wis
dom and accumulated experience Of the
ancients.
The real moving cause Of this colossal
uproar among men is the devil, or rather
that host of devils, whose existence and
pernicious activity were once honestly
recognized and studiously investigated
by the learned.
Burton, in his admirable Anatomy, q
storehouse of facts too neglected in these
egoistic days Of materialism, gives many
instances Of diabolic activity. The air,
says he, is not so full of flies in summer
as it is at all times of invisible devils.
The earth is full of them. Cicogna
says quarter part of them are aerial.
cause thunder and lightning, tear oaks,
fire steeples, houses, make it rain stones,
or. as in Livy's time. wool, frogs; etc
And does not Scheretzius tell of them
creating counterfeit armies in the air,
strange noises, swords, ETC., as at Vienna
before the coming of the Turks?
Josephus also tells us. of the wonders
they wrought before the destruction Of
Jerusalem.
Trismegistus, after whom / was
named. confessed he could make them
come to their images by magic spells.
Their existence is proved by an over
whelming mass of evidence. could read
to you all day instances Of their varied
activity how they have ruled kings and
councils, determined policies OF state,
routed armies against whose leaders they
were piqued, caused plaques and panics,
and altogether PLAYED with mortal men
as we play with chess. or as cats with
mice.
'The Lord of Lies" says Austin, "as he
was deceived himself, seeks to deceive
Others the ringleader to all naughtiness.
as he did by Eve and Cain, Sodom and
Gomorrah, so will he do by all the world.
He tempts by covetousness, pleasure,
pride, etc.; he errs, defects, kills, pro-
tects, and rides some men as they 90
their horses"
Another says they are mems COVER
nors, as we are of our cattle. BY various
superstitions, passions, and epidemic pro-
pensites, whole populations rush violent.
ly to war and slay one another In all
manner of frightful ways.
OF course we cannot see devils, but for
that matter can you see your precious
atoms and electrons in which you 50
nightly believe? For the devil, as Jason
Pratensis declares, being slender, IN
comprehensive spirit can easily insin-
uate and wind himself iAto human bodies,
and cunningly couched in our bowels
vitiate our healths, terrify our souls with
fearful dreams, and shake our minds
with furies let mentes furorlDus
uuatere). They enter our bodies as pee,
do in a hive. We are their sports and
playthings.
God, for our sins, permits them as
agents to work His wrath; as David:
"He cast upon them the fierceness OF ms
anger and vexation, by sending out OF
evil angels.
To my mind the simplest, most direct
explanation is always the best. AND
when contemplate the darkness that
now covers the nations, oDtunds !neir
intelligence, estops their vision: raising
their pride and stubborness TO towering
heights, and casts them into TINS maei-
strom OF wanton waste and mischief the
plainest answer is that our planet Is nov
suffering from the visitation OF tnick
cloud of devils, innumerable as grass
hoppers.
II you don't believe this ask you TO
read these my books, lawyers, divines,
physicians, and philosophers, OF more
believing age, Austin, Hemingius, Don
aeus Chytraeus, Zanchius, Aretius' Del
rio. Springer, Niderius. .Cuia1ius, bar
tSlus; to s. sax nosnl Goldman. etc.
And II the devil did not cause this war,
who the devil did?
Thus spake Trismegistus Jones.
THE CURIOUS JAPANESE HOUSE.
A Japanese house hasn't q single window.