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ence to “ faith, home sickness, hope, fear,” &c. as 
emotions to be attended to. I shall say nothing 
of hope or fear, the one as the exhilarating, the other 
as the depressing agent ; and I shall make no refer- 
ence to the faith of the doctor-book, which is not the 
faith that assents to the truth of what God has re- 
vealed, or puts.the heart and the soul’s dependence 
on trust in these truths for Salvation ; that book 
makes it the “‘confidence in what medicine may do 
for recovery ;” but the ‘* home-sickness,” the nostal- 
gia, the emotion excited by things that recall to 
mind, whatever the heart has loved, making it the 
desire of the senses, and the craving of the soul ; 
@ vehement anxiety that must be controlled, or not 
alone melancholy will ensue, but disease will super- 
vene. This is the subject on which I would dwell 
for a moment.* 

* In the year ’53 we were terribly smitten by yellows 
fever; the visitation was confined to newly-arrived Eu- 
ropeans, and to vessels lving along shore. Out away in 
the harbour the crews were comparatively, if not abso- 
lutely safe. I was very much interested in a case related 
to me by a medical friend. Asailor youth some 14 or 15 
years of age was mortally stricken with the pest. THe 
was throwing up that black grumous matter, that told 
the blood had lost its vitality and death was circulating © 
through all the system. ‘* May Itake anything Ihave a 
hiking for,” was the inquiry of the ‘poor dying boy. It 
had come to this, that where nothing could do good, 
nothing could do harm. Assured that he might; he 
asked for a drink of milk. As it was given to him, and 
he drank it, *‘ ah,” said he, ‘+ this reminds me of my home, 
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