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92 Better the suffering which awakens mortal mind from its dream, than the false pleasures which tend

to perpetuate it. Sin alone brings death, for it is the only element of destruction.

“Fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell,” said Jesus. A careful study of this text shows that the word soul meant sense, or corporeal consciousness. The command was a warning to beware, not of Rome, Satan, or God, but of sin. Sickness, sin, and death are not concomitants of Life or Truth. No law supports them. They have no relation to God wherewith to establish their power. Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own Heaven.

Such books as will rule disease out of mortal mind — and so efface the images and thoughts of disease,

instead of impressing them with forcible descriptions and medical details — will help to abate sickness, and ultimately destroy it.

Many a hopeless case of disease is induced by a single post mortem examination, — not from infection, or contact with material virus, but from the fear of

the disease, and from the image brought before the mind, — it is a mental state, which is afterward outlined on the body.

The press unwittingly sends forth many a plague among the human family. It does this by giving names

to diseases, and printing long descriptions, which mirror images of disease distinctly in thought. A new name for an ailment affects people like a Parisian name for a novel garment. Every one hastens to get it. A minutely described disease costs many a man his earthly days of comfort. What a