Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-26
A HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT.

A Newark, N j., pastor, the Rev.
Henry G. Rose. has new system Of
saving souls. It's simple, too, as he
explains It, No sermons, no prayer,
no getting up Sunday morning to go to
church in his method Just get your
victim to sleep and then work on his
subconscious self with mental sug-
gestions. "Show me 100 children adj
olcted to swearing, lying or other vice
and | will reform thirty-five merely
by sitting down beside their beds as
they sleep and talking to them" he
says. Forty-five OF the 100 will be
greatly benefited by the treatment and
only twelve will fail to respond" By
sleep, he explains. he means natural
not hypnotic slumber. Then, although
the conscious self is slumbering, the
subconscious self is wide awake and
on the alert. To those who are
not familiar with their subconscious
selves, wouldn't know it if they saw it
or what to do with it after they
found it, the Rev. Mr.. Rose explains
that the ''subconscious self never
sleeps, that 1t is keenly susceptible
TO suggestion and asserts. itself to
Sabide by such suggestions when the
FSouSClOuS sell is aroused.
The pastor told Of woman whose
husband was cured of drinking by
the mental suggestion plan She wait
ed until her husband slept and then
she took a seat beside the bed and
began:
Il am going to have a little talk
with you, Henry. You will not
ewake, because l am going to tell you
pleasant things, and because will
lot harm you, but love you. you will
listen. You will not be alarmed. but
VIII listen to me closely because We
will both be very happy"
Then having dealt with him mega |
lively. the pastor explained, the wife
Went on to speak positively:
tomorrow, when you will have |
fnlshed your work, you will not go to !,
The club and drink and carouse You
VIII retu1n home, where you will find |
a good dinner and happy family |
Inc evening you will spend with me,
because will entertain you. so that |
you will not want to leave"
The next Gay, says the pastor the /
husband came home as his wife said
he would, forgot his club, and soon.
Aafter persisting in the treatment. the
wife had entirely cured him.
a great many people might find
something distinctly attractive about
This Newark plan. For instance the
wife who has been admiring that
sealslIin jacket although her husband
told her he could not afford to buy it
might wait until Johns shores be-
game regular and then begin:
am going to have a little talk
with you, John. You will not wake.
1or I'll soak you in the eye if you
do Now | want you to stop on the
way home tomorrow night and bring
me that jacket you were too stingy to
get me- and bring diamond ring
with it,"
The only thing that might interfere
with the workings of the plan is that
1t could be worked both ways. For in ,
stance, John might have been awaken,
ed by the dream that the ice man ]
was sitting on his chest while the coal t
man whent through his pockets and
heard part Of his wife's remarks. :
4'hen if he should wait until his wife !
was asleep and tell Mary to forget ]
that sealskin jacket and get busy in i
making over her winter before lasts c
coat" the wires might get badly :
crossed on that subconscious party :
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