Then the progress of the disease was very rapid. In less than two years from the time her husband died she had developed a cancer of the stomach of enormous size. Nothing that medical science could do availed. I was with her when she passed away and had seen her every day for months previous.

To observe her unselfish work in the community and see her patience and fortitude during her painful illness, one would question the possibility that somewhere in her consciousness was a vicious, malignant state of mental activity; yet it was there. It seems that when a child she had worked with her father’s establishment at estate. Upon his death this estate all went to a half sister; which was really a great injustice, but after much litigation the half sister still retained it. She developed a feeling of intense resentment and hatred for this half sister. It became a corroding, blighting thing in her life. In the last years of her life it became an obsession; as she lived over the memories of her younger life the whole thing became greatly magnified and made her very unhappy.

This lady was very firm in her convictions and no attempt was made to change them, as it would have been useless.

We will give another case where a satisfactory attempt to render assistance occurred. A widow lady about sixty years of age came from a distant city to visit a relative who resided near us. She had been told by physicians that she had a cancer and that they could offer no hope for a recovery. The case had advanced so that uremic poisoning had already set in to the degree that one foot and leg was swollen at least twenty per cent above normal. She could walk only with assistance.

To someone she had stated that she intended to commit suicide as she would not be a burden to anyone. A friend knowing of our investigations into the laws of mind as related to physical manifestations brought her to see us.

She was asked if she really wanted to know the truth. We quoted, “By suffering they are made to listen,” and asked her if she believed she had arrived at that place where she could really listen and accept the truth about herself. We told her we could offer some soothing-syrup method that would give her temporary relief; that it was possible to remove the manifestation of a malignant disease by mental means the same as by the knife,