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ivine power. In Genesis i. 26, we read: "Let us make man in [10] our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air." I was once called to visit a sick man to whom the regular physicians had given three doses of Croton [15] oil, and then had left him to die. Upon my arrival I found him barely alive, and in terrible agony. In one hour he was well, and the next day he attended to his business. I removed the stoppage, healed him of en- teritis, and neutralized the bad effects of the poison- [20] ous oil. His physicians had failed even to move his bowels,--though the wonder was, with the means used in their effort to accomplish this result, that they had not quite killed him. According to their diagnosis, the exciting cause of the inflammation and [25] stoppage was--eating smoked herring. The man is living yet; and I will send his address to any one who may wish to apply to him for information about his case. Now comes the question: Had that sick man dominion [30] over the fish in his stomach? His want of control over "the fish of the sea" must [Page 70.] have been an illusion, or else the Scriptures misstate [1] man's power. That the Bible is true I believe, not only, but I _demonstrated_ its truth when I exercised my power over the fish, cast out the sick man's illu- sion, and healed him. Thus it was shown that the [5] healing action of Mind upon the body has its only ex- planation in divine metaphysics. As a man "thinketh in his heart, so is he." When the mortal thought, or be- lief, was removed, the man was well. _What did Jesus mean when he said to the dying thief,_ [10] _"__To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise__"__?_ Paradisaical rest from physical agony would come to the criminal, if the dream of dying should startle him from the dream of suffering. The paradise of Spirit would come to Jesus, in a spiritual sense of Life and [15] power. Christ Jesus lived and reappeared. He was too good to die; for goodness is immortal. The thief was not equal to the demands of the hour; but sin was de- stroying itself, and had already begun to die,--as the poor thief's prayer for help indicated. The dy- [20] ing malefactor and our Lord were inevitably sepa- rated through Mind. The thief's body, as matter, must dissolve into its native nothingness; whereas the body of the holy Spirit of Jesus was eternal. That day the thief would be with Jes
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