Editorial June 16, 1917 Issue

Unmasking Hypnotism

William D. McCrackan

Christian Science serves notice upon the world that evil in its totality is now uncovered. The day that Mrs. Eddy discovered God to be the only cause, evil of every nature was doomed. It can no longer hide, pretend, or deceive. No one need be subject to it except voluntarily. Nothing remains to be said about it which Mrs. Eddy has not already said in her writings. She has been willing to take the lamp of Truth into the dark chambers of thought, and finally expose its intent, expectancy, modes, and methods.

When, therefore, the world war suddenly burst upon unprepared nations, those who were careful students of Mrs. Eddy's writings felt themselves at once forewarned and forearmed against the suppositious forces which had brought on this furious chemicalization and which expected to profit by it. In so far as Christian Scientists have been faithful to their Leader's teachings, they have not allowed themselves to be distracted by the merely material horrors of this war. They have observed the deploying of hidden mental forces behind the visible battle front. They detected at once that the war was being waged mentally, consciously on the one side, ignorantly on the other, and they have never for a moment been in doubt as to which side presented the lesser evil.

Christian Science, which unmasks the hidden batteries of occultism firing hypnotically upon a defenseless world, showed conclusively that there was intentional method in an apparent madness. It was also apparent that the clamor of peace at any price, which was designed to catch the self-righteous, reposed upon a metaphysical fallacy; namely, upon the supposition that life resides in matter and therefore that to save matter saves life. This theory followed to its logical conclusion would have forbidden Jesus to sacrifice his sense of life in matter upon the cross. Calvary proves the theory of peace at any price to be anti-Christian, though that theory may parade itself in the very vestments of theology.

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