THE POWER OF WILL

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 278, 18 August 1921, Page 2

THE POWER OF WILL

The Council Chamber of the Town Hall was well filled last night when Mr. Vivian H. R. Deacon delivered an interesting lecture on "Power of Will.” Mr. Deacon jxiinted out that science as well as religion emphasised the truth that “Whatsoever a man thinketh in his heart, that he becomes.” “We know today that it is not the organ that produces the function, but the reverse,” said tho lecturer. He contended that by regular periods of concentrated thought upon noble themes, we can grow brains; we know how under (hypnosis burns and blisters can be caused through suggestion. The power there used can be utilised for construction as well as for destruction. We can literally rebuild tho cells of the body by the power of will. In India mind-power is more recognised than here. It was a common thing there for a Hindu fakir to produce in the open collective hallucinations, which, with all our modern appliances, we could not equal upon the stage. People were only too ready to credit the miracles of the early days of Christianity, although only supported by very scanty testimony, but they refused to even give heed to the modern miracles which abound upon every hand to-day, testifying that God is still an ever-pre-sent help in time of trouble, and that He has bestowed upon mankind a more marvellous power than ho realises in the power of the human will. At the close of the lecture, a number of young men went forward, and under tho direction of Mr. Deacon demonstrated the tiemendous power of the mind over the muscular system. Mr. Deacon intends to continue his lectures, and will speak next Sunday evening in the Concert Chamber on “The Necessity for Rebirth," and next Wednesday on the subject of "Personal Magnetism: The Master Key to Attainment.”