Love, Life & Work, Elbert Hubbard [the best electronic book reader TXT] 📗

and his helpers go from town to town and fromcity to city and work up this excitation as a business. They are paidfor their services a thousand dollars a week, or down to what they canget from collections. Sometimes they work on a guaranty, and at othertimes on a percentage or contingent fee, or both.

Towns especially in need of Mr. Chapman's assistance will please sendfor circulars, terms and testimonials. No souls saved--no pay.

The basic element of the revival is hypnotism. The scheme of bringingabout the hypnosis, or the obfuscation of the intellect, has takengenerations to carefully perfect. The plan is first to depress thespirit to a point where the subject is incapable of independent thought.Mournful music, a monotonous voice of woe, tearful appeals to God,dreary groans, the whole mingled with pious ejaculations, all tend toproduce a terrifying effect upon the auditor. The thought of God'sdispleasure is constantly dwelt upon--the idea of guilt, death andeternal torment. If the victim