The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-13
 DIR. TALMACE'S SERMON.
BY THE REV. FRANK DE WITT rALMAeE. D. D.

book, deals with the hypnotic power one human mind may have over another mind In that book the English writer makes Svengali Polish Jew and a musical genius, by hypnotism transform a French laundress into a prma donna He lays all Paris at her feet although in her normal condition that young womans 8 voice was weak and her ear could not recognize musical harmony from a dis cord.
 Gospel Teepathy.
 As one human mind has an influence over another human mind, we also know that there is a spiritual telepathy, a sub tie, mysterious influence which the other world exerts upon our own. Vislonal messages as direct and unmistaSable as that which came to Peter upon the house top of Simons house in Joppa may also come to us. We may be unable to ex- plain how the divine manifestations come to the human mind. God will speak to us now if we will only let Him, as surely as he spoke in many cases to his servants of old If we look to God continually for guidance, to us. too, shall the promise be fulfilled, Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee saying: This is the way; walk ye in it." The purpose of this sermon is not to analyze the causes of divine telep- athy so much as to suggest ways in which God may be speaking to his children in these days.
 Gospel telepathy. in the first place. comes to Gods children 1t did to Peter upon Simon's house top, in broad daylight. By that I do not mean that 1t necessarily comes to us as 1t did to Peter at the sixth hour or when the sun is highest in the meridian. but do mean this; When God speaks to man He speaks to him when he is rational when he Is wide awake, when his senses are on the alert, not when he is cooped up in some dark, deceitful re- treat of sprtualistic medium or when he is tossing about on his couch at mid night in uneasy slumber as the result of his digestive organs having been over loaded. here is a vision of the spirit and a vision of the flesh. There Is a vision which comes from God and one that is, like the nightmare, the product of our own brain under the disturbance of physical or mental conditions. There must be care full discrimination lest we accept foolish fancies and mischievous impulses as the voice of God. That which Is born of the flesh is flesh. and that which Is born of the spirit Is spirit.
 God Speaks in Rational Way.
 I speak very emphatically on this sub feet. As Charles Dickens had his Bleak House." with it's Ghosts walk. and Ma thane Hawthorne his House of the seven pSOpicu WliH llie tNii spiI its of past generations, unless we beware we may have the temples of our minds filled with the weirdest fantasies. created entirely by our own unregulated imagina- tion or by evil associations and not by the vision of God. What right has any man to apply to himself the Ninety-first Psalm of David. as did a man some time ago in one of our eastern cities? He pondered over these verses day in and day out: For He shall give His angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands. lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.' Then, in order to demonstrate his belief in this saying, that man jumped from the top of a four-story building and broke nearly every bone in his body. Do you suppose a vision like that came from God or from the devil? What right has man to imagine that he can get a vision from God by using the Bible as fetish or an amulet, opening 1t at random and expecting the first verse his eyes falls upon to be Gods judgement in reference to some undecided matter. as have