The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30
The JUVENILE 4zP 44SzRP THEORY
OF HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION ].

in his own objective life without con
scious effort of any kind, or. if the
blacklisted feelings or impulses should
fugitively recur it costs him no strug-l
gle to Danish them. Mark well, 1t is
not the will of another that constralns
and regenerates; it is not God COM
pelling worthy action; it is the free
man himself that has come to his own
assistance How true the words OF
Helena in ''AlIs Welt"
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven.
Gospel of Self Help
God helps those who help them
selves. Grace may indeed be had for
the asking, but the surest way to Sc
cure additional grace is to use that al
ready bestowed upon it. This is the line
of my exhortation to a sleepless sub
ject. I preach the gospel of self-help,
and transcontinental interference to
regulate disordered function or
straighten a crooked moral bent is
self help.
"The doctrine of the utter helpless
ness of man, which has for centuries
unsouled the Christian is taught
neither by Jesus nor Paul. God does
not create souls without good in them,
without power in themselves to help
themselves
ITO the personality that apprises an
apparently helpless soul of its own in
tellectual and moral powers and makes
plain the possibility of conquest
through self-help, the truth an enfam-
ined world Graves today, that soul
flows out in great tidal wave of rec
ogmtlon, gratitude and reciprocal
stimulation. And the possibility of as
sertiIlg a slumbering intellectual cour-
age that clearly discerns and a moral
courage that grandly undercreSts is
open to all who have lost sight of the
godlixe in their own lives. There is a di-
vine potency as we'll as an old Adam III
every human being, and the divine pc
tency will always win if given half a
chance.
Applies to the Child
'I have dwelt thus at length on the
nature and efficacy of transliminal in
spiration in order that you who teach
it and use it as mothers may fully ap-
preeiate the sovereign force You have at
your command. What applies to the man
applies with double force to the child.
Children, as a rule are more impress
sionable than adults and the fulfillment of
suggestions given to them is more pro-
nounced and more permanent. Here
the result of suggestion amounts practi-
cally to regeneration, moral perversity not
having become fixed by the indulgence of
years.
"In the training of children tactful sug-
gestion has power to exalt both the in
tellectual and the ethico-spiritual nature.
Differences induced by objective educa
ton may be obliterated; and the funda-,
mental endowments of that finer spiritual
organ in which, under God, We have our
highest being-endowments conferred by
Deity on all human souls without favor
and without stint-dominate the intellee-
tual life.
1.-THE divine image is supreme in the
child, and creativeS communication on the
broadest lines and the most exalted
planes becomes possible. The principles
of science, of language, of music, of art,
are quickly appropriated and permanent
ly retained for post hypnotic expression
through appropriate channels. Confidence
in talent is acquired, and embarrassment,
confusion, admission of inferiority are
banished from the objective life-by plac-
ing the superior self in control
MANY children are contrary, disobedi-
ent, lacking in reverence for superiors,
troublesome or destructive to an extreme. 4
They are abnormally ungoyernable. Kind
ly persuasive measures, the line upon
line, precept upon preeept treatment are
inefficacious Corporal punishment is
equally impotent to accomplish reform.
A case which has recently come under
my observation was a boy of twelve, hys-
terically insane from inhaling tobacco
smoke This boy had been smoking from
thirty to fifty cigarettes a day. with the
usual consequences. 1 was asked to edu-
cate out of vice and nervous bankruptcy
liar, an incorrigible thief, a master of
profanity and obscenity, an adept in the
schoolery of the streets. a colepixy at
home and designated by his teacher as
the biggest devil she had ever seen
LET us assume that you have ten
year-old, in consequence of whose de-!
struetive impulses. eternal restlessness,
fragrant disobedience, defiance of authors