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290 and Husband," in which she expressed confidence in their blessed state and in her own future.

In this dialogue the mother, Abigail Baker, asks of Mr. Eddy: Bearest them no tidings from our loved on earth, The toiler tireless for Truth's new birth,
 * All unbeguiled?

Our joy is gathered from her parting sigh: This hour looks on her heart with pitying eye,— To this Mr. Eddy replies: When severed by death's dream, I woke to life: She deemed I died, and could not hear my strife
 * What of my child?
 * At first to fill

That waking with a love that steady turns To God; a hope that ever upward yearns,
 * Bowed to his will.

Years had passed o'er thy broken household band When angels beckoned me to this bright land,
 * With thee to meet.

She that has wept o'er me, kissed thy cold brow, Rears the sad marble to our memory now
 * In lone retreat.

By the remembrance of her earthly life, And parting prayer, I only know my wife,
 * Thy child, shall come,—

Where farewells cloud not o'er our ransomed rest,— Hither to reap, with all the crowned and blest, Many of Mrs. Eddy's students, as well as Mrs. Eddy herself, disregarded the evidence of the autopsy, and believed that Mr. Eddy had died from mesmeric poison rather than from a disease of the heart. Every new movement has its extremists, and
 * Of bliss the sum.