Don't Worry About Yourself.
To regain or recover health, persons should be relieved from all anxiety concerning diseases. The mind has power over the body. For a person to think he has a disease will often produce that disease. This we see effected when the mind is intensely concentrated upon the disease of another. It is found in the hospitals that surgeons and physicians who make a speciality of certain diseases are liable to die of it themselves; and the mental power is so great that sometimes people die of disease which they only have in imagination. We have seen a person seasick in anticipation of a voyage before reaching the vessel. We have known a person to die of cancer in the stomach when he had no cancer or any other mortal disease. A blind-folded man, slightly pricked in the arm, has fainted and died from believing that he was bleeding to death. Therefore, well persons to remain well, should be cheerful and happy; and sick persons should have their attention drawn as much as possible from themselves. It is by their faith men are saved, and it is by their faith that men die. If he wills not to die he can often live in spite of disease; and if he has little or no attachment for life he will slip away as easily as a child will fall asleep.—Journal of Health.