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A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, 
but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen 
(and herbaceous plants, from some of which are prepared articles for 
medicine and the arts. It is a native of warm countries. The American 
aloe is the agave, a genus of plants of the order Amaryllidaceae. 
Superstition, 
“Stands not within the prospect of belief.” 
— Shakespeare. 
J > UPEKSTITIOJST, as you may know, is the entertaining of the false, 
' and often impious, notion that a special service is rendered to God 
by some one arbitrary arrangement of exterior things and prayers, and 
that God has imparted to them particular healing virtue, if they are em¬ 
ployed in a certain unauthorized form and order, and thus applied for 
particular purposes. 
, To this belongs the so-called cure by sympathy, or what goes by 
the name of “faith-cure.” 
We may, and of course, should pray for continuance of health, recov¬ 
ery from sickness, and other such blessings, for ourselves and for others ; 
but we are never allowed to believe that there is virtue in charms or spells, 
or in particular forms of words or kinds of actions not justified by reason 
or guaranteed by competent authority. 
All of this is superstition, contrary to the command of God. 
Besides, any willful turning away from the order and workings of 
Divine Providence—from the means of help which God has directly or 
Indirectly ordained—to follow the delusive suggestions of men or demons, 
