The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1902-11-28

les was remarkable. In the German
language he mastered a three years
course in one year. During his school
term he became so accomplished mu-
stefan that he is now church organ
list and the pianist of concert troupe.
And no puny, pale bOokwOrm is he.
At eighteen he is a physical athlete,
six feet high, weighing 165 pounds, and
is a master hand at football. His
health is perfect, and he has strangely
lustrous and magnetic gray brown
eyes
1t is none of these things, however,
that sets him apart as one exceptional
ly endowed; it is the apparent possess
sion of a strange power somewhat like
that of the child in Bulwer's Coming
Race" a power of projecting his will
and thought upon others. He uses the
power to heal the ailments of his
friends and to hypnotic them.
One of HOLSTERS friends had been
for many years troubled at intervals
with assesses upon his eyes. They
were very painful, had always to be
burned off and only ran their course in
six to seven weeks. This gentleman,
a resident of New York city, tells me
he was attacked last August with one
of the dreaded assesses. He, being
then in New York, at once notified Carl
HOLSTER, who was in Mexico. The
young man began what he calls "ab-
sent treatments" and in a week the
mans eye was well, without a surgical
operation or the loss of day from
business. HOLSTER makes no claim to
being a professional healer. He says
of his unusual faculty:
"In giving treatment l recognize the
fact that l am using the only power
there is in the universe"
On another occasion a chum of the
youth was taken violently i'll. He
begged Hollister to relieve him, which
was quickly done. Then HOLSTER said:
go to sleep now. You are asleep.
want you to go to New York and tell
me where Mr.. Blank is and what he is
doing"
HOLSTERS friend went into the mes
meric sleep Immediately. Presently he
began and described infinitely Mr..
Blanks place of business, which Carl
himself had never seen. He has never
been in New York. The mesmeric
sleeper continued:
"Mr. Blank is not at his business
place. He has gone UP Fifth avenue.
| see him in a room where the people
are all men, no ladies. 1t is dining
room, and the men are sitting at little
tables. There are many electric lights
and music is playing. Mr.. Blank is at
dinner with another man. He is dressed
in gray" and so on to minute details or
his attire. At 1880, the time the hypno-
tized youth saw and described him, Mr..
Blank was really dining with friend
at Delmonico's among the exact sur
roundings described.
While not being clairvoyant himself,
Hollister seems to have the power to
hypnotic others and make them see
clairvoyantly any person or place he
bids them see, even though he himself
is not acquainted with the individual
or the locality. How does he do these
things? He says he seems to feel a 1
power working. He is frank, merry
tempered youth, his thought strange
mixture of boyish ideals and the wis /
dom of a grave philosopher. Concern /
ing prayer this boy sage says:
II do not think it necessary to pray |
for anything If 1 have absolute trust 1
in God and expect that this power will 1
do all | wish it to-"
PAUL MARVIN.