p. 8 | HYPNOTISM by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 9, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 32.

HYPNOTISM.

By Editor

RECENTLY the St. Louis daily papers had an advertisement running as follows:—

"Wanted—a few well-dressed young men as subjects for demonstration of hypnotism."

It is to be sincerely hoped that none will be foolish enough to answer such advertisements. It must be perfectly clear to any well-balanced mind that the hypnotic power can not be exercised over any one without the aid of the evil spirits. The hypnotized person must first abandon his will entirely, and he who consents to such a thing makes a weakness in his mental machinery that is not likely to ever be repaired. None but Satan could be the author of such a thing. Some great claims are made for hypnotism, but this is only a device of the evil one, by which he hopes to get men under this delusion so that he may the more easily lead them still farther into the dark.