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 * Heed not the images forever thronging
 * From out the foregone life thou liv'st no more.
 * Faint-hearted mariner! still art thou longing
 * For the dim line of the receding shore?
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 * For the dim line of the receding shore?
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The pallid invalid, whom you declare to be wasting away with consumption of the blood, should be told that blood never gave Life and can never take it away; that there is more life and immortality in one good motive and act, than in all the blood that ever flowed through mortal veins, stimulating a personal sense of material life. Let the despairing invalid, inspecting the hue of her blood on a cambric handkerchief, think of the experiment of those Oxford students, who caused the death of a felon, through the belief that he was bleeding to death, when not a drop of blood had been shed. Then let her learn the opposite principle of Life, as taught in Christian Science, and she will understand that she is not dying on account of the state of her blood, but suffering from her belief that blood is destroying her life. The fact is, that the so-called vital current does not affect her health, but her fear produces the results she dreads.

The belief that Life is contingent on matter must be met and mastered by Science, before Life can be understood and its harmony obtained. Christian healing has this advantage over other methods, — that it is Truth controlling error, and by it man goes up higher. Other methods are embodiments of error opposing error, and represent an increasing warfare of matter with matter.

Disquisitions on disease have a mental effect similar to that produced by telling ghost-stories in the dark.