A GOOD TRACT COMMENDED.
By Mary Hornaday
IF you have not read that wonderful little tract, “Hypnotism: What Is It?” do so at once. I recently enjoyed its perusal; and as I read, I thought of my friends, and of strangers, too, who are ignorant of this terrible delusion, and I determined they should have an opportunity to learn something of its awful workings. So I bought seven copies, and gave two to some workmen, who took them readily. Later I learned that one of them has a brother who is submitting to the development of a spirit medium. When I asked him if he would like to send his brother one, he replied that he was intending to send his. I gave him one to send, and when I asked him if he would like some to give away, he took the remaining four. That was my experience with the first seven. Then I bought fifteen, and gave four away on my way home. But I wish to tell of the one I offered one of our brethren after I had given two to strangers in his presence. He answered, very indifferently, that he had enough of hypnotism. I told him the tract exposed it. He replied that he found what he wanted against it in the Bible. That is all very true. But as tracts are a means by which some may be reached, should we not be careful how we speak of them before those we wish to help? Reader, have you, like myself, thought you were established and safe because you were convinced that hypnotism and its kindred isms are satanic delusions? And believing this, have you felt that you were proof against any of its attacks? While the Lord has so mercifully blessed us with this knowledge, should we not do all we can to warn others against this “important and dangerous factor,” as the author of the tract calls it?