madman's mind about these evil spirits, who were tormenting him,
making him miserable, foul, and savage, in mind and body--a terrible
confusion! We find, when Jesus asked him his name, he answers
"LEGION," that is an army, a multitude, "for we are many," he says.
Again, one gospel tells us that he says, "What have _I_ to do with
Thee, Jesus, Thou Son of God?" While in another Gospel we are told
that he said, "What have WE to do with Thee?" He seems not to have
been able to distinguish between his own spirit, and these spirits
who possessed him. They put the furious and despairing thoughts
into his heart; they spoke through his mouth; they made a slave and
a puppet of him. But though he could not distinguish between his
own soul and the devils who were in it, Christ could and Christ did.

The man says to Him, or rather the devils make the man say to Him,
"If Thou cast us out, suffer us to go into the herd of swine, and
drive us not out into the deep." What did Christ answer him?
Christ did not answer him as our so-called wise men in these days
would, 'My good man, this is all a delusion and a fancy of your own,
about your having evil spirits in you--more persons than one in you--
for you are wrong in saying WE of yourself. You ought to say "I,"
as every one else does; and as for spirits going out of you, or
going into a herd of swine, or anything else, that is all a
superstition and a fancy. There is nothing to come out of you,
there is nothing in you except yourself. All the evil in you is
your own, the disease of your own brain, and the violent passions of
your own heart. Your brain must be cured by medicine, and your
violent passions tamed down by care and kindness, and then you will
get rid of this foolish notion that you have evil spirits in you,
and calling yourself a multitude, as if you had other persons in you
besides yourself.'