Spiritualism and Hypnotism
By Editor
ALEXANDER HERMANN discourses in the current number of the Cosmopolitan on "Spiritualism and Hypnotism." Spiritualism he denounces as humbug, pure and simple, while hypnotism he regards "a strictly legitimate science, destined in the future to occupy a large share of attention from the savants of the world." He claims it is electric and natural. "The roll call of Spiritualists," he says, "is not a long one." All this sounds well, and doubtless reflects the honest opinion of the gentleman, but he does not even know what he has declared of hypnotism, and of the number of Spiritualists he is at least grossly ignorant. We do not mean professed Spiritualists, but those who hold to the essential doctrines of Spiritualists, namely, that the dead live, and that they can communicate with us. Saint worship in the Catholic Church is but a form of Spiritualism. Millions of Protestants are no better. And to our mind all these occult "sciences" which seek to shut out God and his word, because that word condemns them, are of that old deceiver, Satan. Of these delusions the prophet spake eighteen centuries ago. 2 Tim. 3:1-4.