Then goeth he and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

Arthur John Gossip had the Celtic gift of breathing life into words, and dramatizing scripture unforgettably. Never was he more effective than in the word-picture he paints of the haunted house in the gospel for this the third Sunday in Lent. He paints for us a little cottage on a lonesome moor where the neighbors of nights hear strange goings-on. Then the owner suddenly cleaned house, expelled the demons, had a thorough house-cleaning - but let it go at that. He shows us "the house lying there in God’s blessed sunshine, swept and pure, but empty; the eyes watching in from afar, and realizing that it is empty" no puff of …