The
Rev. G. Sandby, in his valuable and interesting wok on mesmerism, has fully
answered the religious objections; perhaps the following lines written by an
accomplished lady, and published in a volume called “Angels’ Visits,” may be acceptable to my readers: - 1
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In conclusion, would it be deemed
impertinent for an old soldier to remind parents, husbands, and wives – who,
perchance, have hitherto treated with contempt the idea that a few passes made
by a mesmeriser can possibly have any healing effect – that the will find in
their Bible the sensible and practical appeal of Naaman’s servants :-
“My father, if the prophet had bid thee
do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it? How much rather then, when
he saith to thee, ‘Wash, and be clean.’”
