The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-22
HYPNoTIsM AND RELIGION.

Rev. c. w. Cutten Shows How Work
 of God May be Performed.
 At the session of the Hartford con-
 ference of Baptist ministers at the First Baptist church, in Hartford, a
 lengthy paper was read by the Rev.
 George ". Cutten. of New Haven, on
 Conversion and Secondary Conscious ness"
 In brief his address was, that man, by working through the secondary or sub-consciousness of his brother, may perform in an .nf,niteslmal way the same works tha. God has done.
 To his Introduction he said that Christian theologians and scientists had always differed, but at the present time both were coming to realize that they are working on the same plans
 Flie subject which he was to discuss was in its infancy. but there are two sides to mans nature--the conscious and the sub-conscious. The sub-con- scious is nonlinally the real part of a man. It is servila and ccwardly and essentially a brutish self, but it is quick to act. 10 study 1t, it must be separated from consciousness. This can be done by hypnotism, but when one IS hypnotised his sub conscious self { becomes his conscious elf.
 This sub b-consciousness may be illus trHted by writing. A person starts to write Institution. When he reads over his writing he finds he has written Instance" His consciousness carried him through the first three letters and then the sub-consciousness asserted It. self and he wrote the more common word aSub-consciousnes has control of the body during sleep. It never sleeps and never forgets.
 MT. Cutten then spoke of how a man could wake himself at certain hour by fixing it in his mind when he went to sleep. He Illustrated his point by saying a servant girl in sickness began to recite Hebrew and Greek. She had never studied 1t, but it turned out that years before she had worked in min- ister's house and one day had heard him repeat the words she uttered. It was the ub-consciousness which had never forgotten. Actors were cited as examples, when they have at times really believed they were the persons whose parts they were playing.
 "Hypnotism," said MT. Cutten, lis an Instrument for exalting all human na- ture, but with religion we must deal with the consciousness as we'll as the sub-consciousness. But I believe God works through it. Religion does not appeal to reason, it is sudden knowl- edge that comes to one. Very few peo- pie are converted by argument A man with a craving for stimulants may be cured by simple suggestion, to his eub-consciousness and man by working on his brothers sub-consciousnes may in an inf1nitesimal degree accomplish what God has done.
 In regard to the relation of eub-con- seriousness to religion, MT. Cutten said that the majority of conversions took place between the ages of ten and twelve. This is because. he said, the mind at that time is more easily influ- enced by suggestions. The sub-con- sciousnees never forgets that sugges- ton. MT. Cutten believed that in teaching, as well as preaching, 1t is better to use b-consciousness, as one should suggest rather than reason Doubt in religion is often caused by a C onflict between the conscious and sub conscious natures. In prayer we find 1 ub-consciousness, for it is communion | with God we want and not words and | reasoning as to how God will hear | them.
 MT Cutten spoke of Christian Sci ence, saying that the way to prove it's | fallacy was not by denying it, but by | explaining t. Mrs. Eddy and her SO called metaphysics had little to do with | 1t. One could be relieved as well of | the tootliache by going to an illiterate person and sitting down and reading Latin and Greek. MT. Cutten ended by l stating his belief that God worked | through the sub-consciousness of mans nature. and that he believed that Jesus while on earth did the same.