●   ●   ●    it only represented a prevailing belief in spiritualism, that even Saul’s edict that witches were to be put to death indicated a widespread belief in the necromancy of that day, and that when Saul, in his human extremity, turned away from God, he fell into the deep pit of superstition and disobedience to divine law and lost the way of Truth. This was made so lucid by a few words from Mrs.