is to cry to the Lord Jesus, and to seek His help. He can break the chains that Satan casts round us, and set us free. He can cast out every devil that j)lagues our hearts, as surely as in the days of old. It would be miserable indeed to know that there is a devil ever near us, if we did not also know that Christ was " able to save to the uttermost, because he ever liveth to make intercession for us." (Heb. vii. 25.)
Let us not leave this passage without observing the painful loorldliness of the Gergesenes, among whom this miracle of casting out a devil was wrought. They be- sought the Lord Jesus to " depart out of their coasts." They had no heart to fesl for anything but the loss of their swine. They cared not that two fellow-creatures, with immortal souls, were freed from Satan's bondage. They cared not that there stood among them a greater than the devil, Jesus the Son of God. They cared for nothing but that their swine were drowned, and " the hope of their gains gone." They ignorantly regarded Jesus as one who stood between them and their j)rofits, and they only wished to be rid of Him.
There are only too many like these Gergesenes. There are thousands who care not one jot for Christ, or Satan, so long as they can make a little more money, and have a little more of the good things of this world. From this spirit may we be delivered ! Against this spirit may we ever watch and pray ! It is very common. It is awfully infectious. Let us recollect every morning that we have souls to be saved, and that we shall one day die, and after that be judged. Let us beware of loving the world more than Christ. Let us beware of hindering