However, psychology rightly applied may become a moral agent. There are millions who will not seek betterment in a church. They will refuse to take up the formalities of any creed. Why, I cannot say. But they may be reached through the power we see in hypnotism. It is all education; some of it is moral and some commercial.

The "crank" who learns hypnotism and nothing more will see in it the ability to reform the world. One of these - a tailor by trade - walked into the police station of one of our smaller eastern cities not long since and asked permission to join the force as the "Official Hypnotist." He said that a man really is no good until he has been hypnotized. He was earnest in his entreaties and begged permission to try it on the members of the local force. The chief thought it a capital joke and perhaps considered it a favor to let the man go free!

This man had seen the possibilities of a great means of elevating the morals of mortals. But he had not looked deep enough. Phenomena are what we might term "surface indications." We look at the spouting volcano and see the effect; down in the interior of the earth somewhere there is a cause. So it is with these two subjects I am supposed to have: I show you but the phenomena. I must cast aside the term "Hypnotism" if I am to interest you in this work. As it is, I am willing to not make mention of the name. I will consent to drop the demonstrations and talk to you on - well, on suggestion, or education through environment. Or, again, it might be on memory, on concentration, or on anything that would appeal to you. People are interested in subjects for two reasons: The first is because they are cranks on the subject; this crankism may be mild or chronic. The second reason is because there is something in its ring that appeals to them as being worth their while hearing. It is just this same principle that the man who sells bogus jewelry on the corner utilizes. He knows that the mind of man will grasp things if properly suggested. Knowing this he proceeds to show them that they are "getting something for nothing".

There is coming a time - and that in the near future - when the public will be shown these psychological features through the agency of their utility. They will be shown wherein they can better their present conditions by the application of some principle that inheres in the mind of every living being. They will learn to apply these principles and the result is certain to be the betterment of mankind. It may be very small at first, but it will increase in time. I am not here to prophesy how long it will take. I am dealing partly with possibilities and partly with things as they exist at the present time.

Again we will turn to hypnotism and see what there is in it to commend. I have said that, in its educational sense, there would be a way discovered in the future by which we would not need to produce the phenomena of deep sleep, somnambulism or any other phase so common to-day, but I will have to admit that there are certain phases that never can be modified unless evolution succeeds in changing the construction of the mind of man. I refer to the therapeutic sense.

In hospitals, in the sick room and in ail walks and conditions of life, we will find hypnotism of use. Before us, we will imagine that we have a woman who has been in bed for weeks, suffering with a lingering fever. She has not slept for days. She rolls back and forth in agony. Here we will use the hypnotist. He does not advance in the full dress coat nor with the professional air. He tiptoes gently into the room and goes to the bed-side of the sleeper. He is a relative, perhaps a son. As he touches her forehead with his cool hand, he says, "Mother, it is time that you get a little rest. I have nothing to do so I have come into stroke your forehead. Now close your eyes; that's right." And in his voice is shown the love that his heart holds. He soothingly strokes her head - that heated, tired head, and slowly the tense muscles of the body relax and the sufferer sleeps. She forgets her pain and his rhythmatic movements - always directed with the knowledge that they must be light and filled with gentle care - put her deeper and sounder to sleep. She rests!

What a new view we are here given of hypnotism. It is the same force that places the noisy youngsters in the state of active somnambulism, it is the same force that we see on the stage employed for the amusement of the audience. But here, here it has such a different meaning. Repeat those words to yourself mentally, "Sleep, rest, sleep!" And they carry something refreshing, something that draws one back to childhood days when he wandered alone in the flowering meadows and gathered daisies and buttercups. And the fresh, life-giving breeze of spring fanned his cheeks. There was a soothing, contented feeling that stole over the little wanderer as he lay upon the mossy bank and passed into a deep, relaxed, refreshing slumt>er. "Sleep, rest, sleep!"

There is a lesson in this, also, that is well worth the time and study. It is one of those lessons that places the realm of psychology quite within the reach of all, it offers something of help, some slight relief for sufferers in all walks of life. I refer to the performance of that daily duty -sleep. Few people know how to sleep. We do not realize these things fully until we come to look into this "occult" and then we find the truth. In hypnotism, we have a subject in one of the deepest stages of sleep. What are his conditions? The first and most prominent is Relaxation. When he passes into this deep sleep, every muscle in his body is limp. He sinks into his couch without offering any resistance. People generally keep their spine tense no matter how limp other portions of their bodies may be. If the spine is kept rigid, the nerve-centers are kept stimulated and the system of the reaction of the spinal chord is carried on during the process of sleep. Here we are reminded of the sleeper who twists and figits around all night and awakes in the morning with a feeling of extreme fatigue. In studying simple means of producing this condition of relaxation, we find that, if we do not use a pillow, our spine will sink into the bed and we will rest. Or, again, where we cannot relax in that manner, if we will stand erect on the balls of our feet and slowly raise on our toes and then as slowly descend, and repeat this about forty times just before going to bed, we will accomplish much in the way of relaxing the spine.