first undertaken by a mesmerist, to test that malprac- [1] tice I experimented by taking some large doses of mor- phine, to see if Christian Science could not obviate its effect; and I say with tearful thanks, “The drug had no effect upon me whatever.” The hour has struck, [5] —“If they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them.” The false report that I have appropriated other people’s manuscripts in my works, has been met and answered _legally_. Both in private and public life, and especially [10] through my teachings, it is well known that I am not a spiritualist, a pantheist, or prayerless. The most devout members of evangelical churches will say this, as well as my intimate acquaintances. None are permitted to re- main in my College building whose morals are not un- [15] questionable. I have neither purchased nor ordered a drug since my residence in Boston; and to my knowledge, not one has been sent to my house, unless it was something to remove stains or vermin. The report that I was dead arose no doubt from the [20] combined efforts of some malignant students, expelled from my College for immorality, to kill me: of their mental design to do this I have proof, but no fear. My heavenly Father will never leave me comfortless, in the amplitude of His love; coming nearer in my need, more tenderly to [25] save and bless. Love What a word! I am in awe before it. Over what worlds on worlds it hath range and is sovereign! the un- [Page 250.] derived, the incomparable, the infinite All of good, the [1] _alone_ God, is Love. By what strange perversity is the best become the most abused,—either as a quality or as an entity? Mortals misrepresent and miscall affection; they make it what [5] it is not, and doubt what it is. The so-called affection pursuing its victim is a butcher fattening the lamb to slay it. What the lower propensities express, should be repressed by the sentiments. No word is more mis- construed; no sentiment less understood. The divine [10] significance of Love is distorted into human qualities, which in their human abandon become jealousy and hate.