BY
LYMAN P. POWELL
Rector of St. John’s Church, Northampton, Mass.
Author of “Christian Science: Its Faith and Its
Founder”; Editor of “Historic Towns of
the United States”
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1908
Copyright, 1908
BY
LYMAN P. POWELL
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
To
MY WIFE
WHO FIRST TAUGHT ME BY EXAMPLE THE MORAL
VALUE OF SERENITY
PREFACE
This little book, like my book on Christian Science which appeared a year ago, is the evolution of a pamphlet.
The first half of the pamphlet was written in the middle of a sleepless night some years ago. The last half was written about two years ago, after I had found relief by auto-suggestion from the lifelong bondage of insomnia and had thereby doubled my capacity both for work and play.
First published in the spring of 1907 as my weekly message under the heading of “The Parson’s Outlook” to the 5000 readers of The Hampshire Gazette in and about Northampton, the article on sleeplessness was republished by request in the same paper some months later; then, as the demand increased for it, in pamphlet form. This year past it has been used in the Emmanuel Clinic, both in Boston and Northampton, with such gratifying results that more than 300 sufferers from insomnia in one part of the country or another have testified by letter or by word of mouth to the benefit they have received from it.