nor is he merely a hypothesis to account for facts, but he has been
forced upon us in order that we may be able to deal with them. Unless
we act as though there were an enemy to be resisted and chained, if we
fritter away differences of kind into differences of degree, we shall
make poor work of life. Spinoza himself assumes that other commands
than God's may be given to us, but that we are unhesitatingly to obey
His and His only. "Ad fidem ergo catholicam," he says, "ea solummodo
pertinent, quae erga Deum OBEDIENTIA absolute ponit." Consciousness
seems to testify to the presence of two mortal foes within us--one
Divine and the other diabolic--and perhaps the strongest evidence is not
the rebellion of the passions, but the picturing and the mental
processes which are almost entirely beyond our control, and often
greatly distress us. We look down upon them; they are not ours, and yet
they are ours, and we cry out with St. Paul against the law warring with
the law of our minds. Bunyan of course knows the practical problem and
the rule, and to him the Devil is not merely the tempter to crimes, but
the great Adversary. In the Holy War the chosen regiments of Diabolus
are the Doubters, and notwithstanding their theologic names, they
carried deadlier weapons than the theologic doubters of to-day. The
captain over the Grace-doubters was Captain Damnation; he over the
Felicity-doubters was Captain Past-hope, and his ancient-bearer was Mr.
Despair. The nature of the Doubters is "to put a question upon every
one of the truths of Emanuel, and their country is called the Land of
Doubting, and that land lieth off and furthest remote to the north
between the land of Darkness and that called the Valley of the Shadow of
Death." They are not children of the sun, and although they are not
sinners in the common sense of the word, those that were caught in
Mansoul were promptly executed.

There is nothing to be done but to fight and wait for the superior help