“HYPNOTISM OR MAGNETIC HEALING.”
By T.
A SUBSCRIBER in Missouri takes exception to what we have had to say in this paper in regard to “hypnotism or magnetic healing.” She thinks that we do not understand what we are talking about, else we would not write as we do. She thinks that if we would only “investigate” for ourselves so as to know the real truth about magnetism and hypnotism, we would find great good in them. It is just because we have investigated them that we speak as we do about them. We have investigated them from the standpoint of the eternal principles of truth that God has placed in His Word, and therefore we know that we have conclusions that are absolutely correct. We know that our conclusions will be controverted, but that will not change the facts. We are in the time when God has warned us to be on the lookout for delusions that will be so cunningly prepared that the very wisest of men will be in danger of being led off by them. And in such times as these we must know the ground we are standing on. It will not do to speculate or to hang on uncertainties. We must have the positive knowledge of truth. We speak what we positively know when we say that the individual who places himself under the spell of the hypnotist or the so-called “magnetic healer” has turned his feet in the direction of the precipice; and unless he is arrested in his course, he will soon take the fatal plunge. The reasons by which we know this have been presented from time to time in this paper, and we will continue to do so as the Lord gives us grace and strength. T.