were compounded, the mixture would be labelled thus:
“Religionists' mistaken views of Mrs. Eddy's book, ‘Sci-
ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” and the
malice aforethought of sinners.” [15]
That I take opium; that I am an infidel, a mesmerist,
a medium, a “pantheist;” or that my hourly life is prayerless,
or not in strict obedience to the Mosaic Decalogue,—
is not more true than that I am dead, as is oft reported.
The St. Louis Democrat is alleged to have reported my [20]
demise, and to have said that I died of poison, and bequeathed