The Washington herald., 1910-03-14
HITS At HYPNOTISM
DR.. Russell, of Brooklyn, Con.
dennis Evil Practice.
NATIONAL THEATER CROWDED
Pastor Asserts Certain Ministers Try
to HypnOtize Congregations, and
that New York Department stores
Teach Clerks TO InyeiEIe Custom
ers to Purchase Goods by Craft.

day trying to hypnotic congregations,
that physicians employ hypnotism to cure
all ills, and that department stores in
large cities are teaching clerks 10 hypno-
tie customers into buying merchandise
they do not want. Rev G.. T. Russell,
pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, yes
terday preached a sermon at the National
Theater on the overthrow Of Satan"
The speaker had an audience which
filled the auditorium OF the playhouse
DR.. Russell now occupies the pulpit for
merly held by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
and Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. His ser
mon was. in part. as follows:
Satan's Empire TO Go.
"Satan's empire. the reign Of sin and
death, is TO be followed by the reign OF
! righteousness and life. Satan is TO be
bound during the millennIal reign of the
! Prince Of Peace. when the glory of the
Lord shall be revealed, and all shall see
/ it together.
Wise men Of the earth believe in the
/ theory Of evolution: but if they want TO
think the human being was first a mag
got. then a tadpole. and from that to
| monkey. and so on to a man. decline
| to take any such view OF the matter.
4 This is practically what is taught in all
our colleges to-day. and I would never
| send a son or daughter to any of them. -
| Speaking of hypnotism DR.. Russell said:
/ There are to-day a number OF ministers
/ OF the gospel who try to hypnotic their
/ congregation. also doctors who believe
( hypnotism a cure for all things. and even
some Of the large department stores in
/ New York are teaching clerks so they
may be able 10 hypnotic customers. and
make them buy goods whether they want
TO or not. Hypnotism is nothing more or
less than the manifestation of evil spirits.
through clairvoyants, spirltualists. and
the like.
The test of Satan's loyalty to God
came when he beheld our FIST parents in
the Garden of Eden, a new creation with
powers of procreation for the develop
ment OF their own species, power which
even the angels did not possess. Satan
saw that If he could obtain possession of
our first parents all of their children
would be under his control. Thus by
usurpation and not by Divine authority
! Satan became the prince of the world
Test to Loyalty.
But the Creator desired to test the
| loyalty not only of one bat of all the
/ holy angels. He therefore permitted
Satan apparently to triumph In his re-
bellion, and also permitted the angels to
have free intercourse with humanity dur
ing the 1900 years preceding the flood.
The influence of the angels was not suf-
| ficient to Offset the sin which had con-
taminated humanity. and this contami-
mating influence extended from man 10
angels and drew some Of them away
from obedience to the Divine will into
! sin.
The record of the fall is briefly given
in Genesis, where we read that the sons
of God saw the daughters of men, that
| they were fair, and took unto themselves
wives, the result being children that were
giants, men of renown, superior in some
respects TO the fallen Adamic stock. In
this way did Satan get his assistants"
DR.. Russell referred to Satan as a muir
/ derer from the beginning. and said John
the apostle declared he was the first
great liar.