The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30

EzHE latest original thought on the up
bringing of children that has at
tracted attention is the advice of
DR.. John d. Quackenbos, of New York,
that mothers train their children
through hypnotic influence. DR.. Quack-
enbos startled the New York state con-
vention of mothers clubs recently by
his suggestion, and the mothers have
not been long in distributing the hyp-
notic.news. There were about 500 per-
sons in the audience, the majority of
them mothers, and they were variously
moved by wonder, amusement and
s1vstification during the reading of the
paper The doctrine was new to al
most all, and the exposition of It be-
wildering to those who were hearing
1t for the first time. But the lecture
produced a great impression, and gave
the mothers something to think about,
report to their clubs and experiment
with when they returned to their
homes.
In practical hypnotics,'' Dr. Quack
enbos told his hearers, "the best thing
one has to give is himself, but he must
be as his inspiration. The regenerating
force is measured exclusively by the
quality Of soul in him who suggests.
Suggestion of this high order is
capable, not only of transforming char
acter, but of opening mems hearts to
the divine illapse. On the contrary, to
defect by suggestion from the per
pendicular of a pneuma governing it's
body along ethico-s spiritual lines is
practically impossible to human
agent. Hence. moral injury can hardly
be inflicted through suggestional chan
nels. Those who are good may not be
debased; so called hypnotism is not
used for criminal purposes.
Bad Soul and Bad Cell
'It is because ethical energy is po-
tential in man as the created copy of
God that successful appeal may be
made to the transliminal self in states
of unstable moral equilibrium. And
assuredly there is no man or woman,
however seemingly enthralled by sin,
who is not capable of regeneration anu
of moral greatness. AS in intellectual
disqualification, some subtle degenera-
ton of the cell-due to poisoning by
tobacco, afusel oil, morphia, or other
drugs, or traceable directly to physi=
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plain the swoon Of conscience. Brain
defect unquestionably accounts for
that distortion of Gods image in the
act of its transmission, which we know
as insanity. 1t were uncharitable,
therefore, not to distinguish between
bad soul and a bad cell, and wise
to remember that man is not by ma
ture, but by immature, sin loving and
sin living. God hath made man up
right and the image of God in the
man cannot be obliterated by wrong
doing. It prompts those periodic long
ings for escape from sin that charac-
terize every depraved career,
yet the flesh may become so pro-
nounced in its demands for indulgence
that the objective will is impotent to
grappIe with the situation. The SUBJ
ject apprehends his spiritual danger
and rallies at intervals, only to be
drawn with resistless force back into
the deep waters of his specific SIM
For such a wretch the Almighty has
provided a, way of escape through ap-
peal to the godlike in his constitution.
In a state of hypnosis he is made to
realize the inherent dignity and worth
of his human nature; he is urged into
revolt against the sin that holds him in
durance, and in response to the in
spiration abandons the life he is lead
ing for one that is in harmony with his
newly@ @apprehended relationship to God
and duty.
while aequiescence in the treatment
is essential, will power has nothing to
do with the result. Paralysis of the
viii, which is the bette noir of the popu-
lar mind, is inconceivable. The mes
merizee works out his own salvation