Magnetic Healing
All magnetic healing is founded on
the theory of Dr. Anton Mesmer and Dr. Braid, the founders
of mesmerism and hypnotism. Having perused a complete
course in magnetic healing I am thoroughly convinced that
all modern healers, such as John Alex, Dowie, Sanford,
Schlatter, Merritt, and Weltmer, are nothing more than
hypnotists or mesmerists clothed in, and a disgrace to,
the name of Christianity.
All magnetic healers, with a few
exceptions, claim that their power comes from God.
Magnetic healers are always men or women with strong
individuality and ruling force, by which the mind is
overpowered and deceived. Dowie, Weltmer, Mrs. Eddy,
Sanford, and Merritt claim the same, and yet they all
differ, and ever quarrel and fight. "Is God the
author of confusion? God forbid."
Weltmer founds his doctrine on the
text, "If two of you shall agree on earth as touching
anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of
my Father which is in heaven." Matt. 18:19. Such
perverters of holy writ will receive their just recompense
of reward at the final judgment, when God shall reward the
wicked. Some of these impostors have the brazen audacity
to say that Christ was a magnetic healer, or used the
power of hypnotism. Such is almost as bad as the
Pharisees, who ascribed His work to the power of
Beelzebub, the prince of devils.
To be healed by faith in God does
not require the magnetic passes of mesmerism, nor the
senseless gaze of hypnotism. Divine healing comes from God
through the simple means laid down in the Bible, such as
anointing with oil, laying on—not rubbing—of hands,
prayer, and faith. H also comes "without money and
without price," while magnetic healers are usually
money beggars. God will heal the sick, cast out evil
spirits, and answer prayer today, the same as He ever did;
but the people of His choice should beware of modern
impostors sent out by the devil "to deceive the very
elect if possible." That they cure diseases we cannot
deny, for the spirits of devils can work miracles (Rev.
16:14), and the Egyptian sorcerers turned their rods into
serpents; but they deceive the soul and drown it in
perdition to accomplish their mysterious end.
May the Lord help every true child
of God to quickly flee the dark ruins of mystic Babel and
steer clear of every black art and invention of the wicked
one. We now stand in the battle's front, surrounded by the
hosts infernal, and face the stern realities of the
severest struggle ever engaged in by Christian soldiers.
Mesmerism, hypnotism, spiritualism, false healing, and
"Iying wonders" of every description lurk on
every hand to deceive. This calls for double diligence on
the part of the children of God. Surely the "fig tree
is budding," and the signs of the times in general
proclaim to all that the "Son of man" is near to
come. "Wicked men and seducers are waxing worse and
worse, deceiving and being deceived;" reveling on to
the final judgment, blinded to their certain awful doom.
"We have reached an awful era
In the onward flight of years;
While the nations are in slumber,
Crying peace and drowning fears,
Lot the shadows of creation
Lengthen to the eventide;
The Lord is surely coming
To receive His holy bride.
"While we stand upon the summit
Of the everlasting rock
Every human structure 'round us
Crumbles into gen'ral wreck;
Mighty heralds swiftly flying,
Sound the news from shore to shore
The Bridegroom is returning,
And already at the door."
