Hypnotism—What Is It?—A Boston architect writes us: "Read Acts 13: 9-13 and know that Holy Ghost and Holy Spirit are now named Hypnotism!" We have before said that men would come to believe that mesmerism and hypnotism were the power of God, and confound it with the Holy Spirit, and that they would do this solely from the fact that it was a wonder-working power, whereas the only test of the nature of any such manifestation is the moral test of the law of God. All the hypnotism of Acts 13: 9-13, was manifest in Elymas, the sorcerer, and the Spirit of God, in direct antagonism thereto, rebuked it. Simon the sorcerer, of Acts 8: 9-13, was another instance, of a man bewitched by hypnotism, and the people said, "This is that power of God which is called great." They thought it was the Spirit of God. God's Spirit does not work that way. It is always in harmony with His law, and enslaves no man.