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Orison Swett Marden's

The Miracle of Right Thought

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The Divinity of Desire - Success and Happiness Are for You - Working for One Thing and Expecting Something Else - Expect Great Things of Yourself - Self-Encouragement by Self-Suggestion - The Crime of the "Blues" - Change the Thought, Change the Man - The Paralysis of Fear - One With the Divine - Getting in Tune - The Great Within - A New Way of Bringing Up Children - Training for Longevity - As a Man Thinketh - Mental Self-Thought Poisoning - Contents -


blowing horns to awaken the people to the fact that the world was coming to an end.

The expectation that the earth would be burned up by the comet forced men to confess murder and other crimes of which they were not even suspected. Mothers poisoned their children. People ordered their coffins from undertakers in order to be ready for the terrible calamity. Several persons actually dropped dead at the first sight of the comet

In the poorer sections of New York and other large cities great processions of people repeating their prayers paraded the streets with crucifixes in their hands, their terror- stricken faces turned toward the sky. Many were seen on their knees praying in the streets.

There was great excitement among the negroes in the South, where all-night services were held in the churches, numbers professing salvation in an effort to prepare themselves for the fatal day when the earth would be destroyed by the comet's tail. In numerous places the farms and fields were practically denuded of help, the hands positively refusing to work.

In Pennsylvania thousands of miners refused to go to their posts, while operations were entirely suspended in several mines.

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