Then again
came the so-called "Higher Criticism," showing alleged flaws and
cracks in the very foundations. All this time the churches were
yielding ground, and every retreat gave a fresh jumping-off
place for a new assault. It has gone so far that at the present
moment a very large section of the people of this country, rich
and poor, are out of all sympathy not only with the churches but
with the whole Spiritual view. Now, we intervene with our
positive knowledge and actual proof--an ally so powerful that we
are capable of turning the whole tide of battle and rolling it
back for ever against materialism. We can say: "We will meet
you on your own ground and show you by material and scientific
tests that the soul and personality survive." That is the aim of
Psychic Science, and it has been fully attained. It means an end
to materialism for ever. And yet this movement, this Spiritual
movement, is hooted at and reviled by Rome, by Canterbury and
even by Little Bethel, each of them for once acting in concert,
and including in their battle line such strange allies as the
Scientific Agnostics and the militant Free-thinkers. Father
Vaughan and the Bishop of London, the Rev. F. B. Meyer and Mr.
Clodd, "The Church Times" and "The Freethinker," are united in
battle, though they fight with very different battle cries,
the one declaring that the thing is of the devil, while the other
is equally clear that it does not exist at all.
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