Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-16
AN UNSEEN POWER WORKING
TO POISON OUR MINDS.
(By Richard IL. Edmonds, Editor
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Wy NicHliu II. Eu1nOnuS, Editor
Manufacturers Rccor,i.)
Mental suggestion, hypnotsm ;:n>.
psychology are all being used by
Germany with pers:sLcscy and
power incomprcLcnsible to people
who have not understood the cam
paign by which for years Germany
has been poisoning the wells of
! thought all over the world.
For some years Germany, in Il
way that is nothing less than Satanic
in its wide sweep throughout the
world and its tremendous power for
evil, has been utilizing mental sug-
gestion and hypnotism upon people
who do not themselves realize that
they are becoming possessed of the
devil
Many a man stands in Tie pulpit
and breaches peace without punish
ment, many an editor shapes an cdi-
torial or Il headline, many IL man III
public and private life makes state
ments calculated to weaken the
morale of America and of our Allies
without himself realizing chat lie is
under the domination of the work of
mental suggestion and the hypnotic
power which Germany is cxcrting.
Impressions come to many people
lessening their hostility to Germany,
or lessening their determination that
there shall be no pcccc with an I'M
beaten Germany, who have not the
slightest idea that those tLoughta
have been put into their minds by
the devil-work of Germany mental
suggestion or hypnotic aviivities.
The tremendous power of this in
fiuence is not graspcd at I'll; men
scott at the power of mcrtal suggcs-
ton or hypnotism without realizing
that there is q fearfully dangerous
power in the possession of some
people to control the thoughts and
acts of others. Germany has dcvcl-
oped this power to the fullest OK
tent. 1t is powcr from the devil
himself
For years Germany has been u;iliz-
ing it in order 20 plant throughout
the world its poisoned thoughts and
to control men and women who have
no conception of the fact that they
are under the domination of such an
evil influence, and therefore, yield
willing obedience to it.
We are facing n situation where
Germany is putting forth the most
tremendous effort in history to cA.
tend the influence OF this mental
control, OF hypnotic power over
their people, in order to secure peace
without punishment.
Men who think that they are talk
ing peace from high and holy mo-
tives are, in many c&scs, without
realizing it themselves, being used
oy this German hypnotic work cx-
erted directly upon them through
some pro-German skilled in tie use
of mental suggestion or hypnotic.
German psychologists, through
American universities, in which they
held positions of honor, fo-' years
sought to bring American thought
under their control, just rs ether
Germans have been engaged i'm SINH
lar work all over the world
If we accept the doctrine that the
devils sends out into every corner OF
the earth his unseen workers of evil,
that he puts into every human heart
suggestions of sin, and dominates all
the earth where Ito power Of God is
not superior, and where men do not
look wholly unto God for safety
from the Wise of the evil one, than
we have an xeact illustration Of the
work of the German propaganda of
hypnoticism and mental suggestion
or control. The menace is 4 real one
or tremendous import. Watch care
fully every suggestion of peace with
an uncrushed; unrepentant Germany,
and know tliat it comes from pro-
German hypnotic power or from
German financial operations to in
fluence by money, where German,
cannot control by "mental sugges-
| tion."