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The Bible is a new book to me since your work came into my hands." LETTER III.
[The following terribly pathetic avowal is from a clergyman of the Church of England: ] "MADAM, "Your book, the 'Romance of Two Worlds,' has stopped me on the brink of what is doubtless a crime, and yet I had come to think it the only way out of impending madness.

I speak of self-destruction--suicide.

And while writing the word, I beg of you to accept my gratitude for the timely rescue of my soul.

Once I believed in the goodness of God--but of late years the cry of modern scientific atheism, 'There is NO God,' has rung in my ears till my brain has reeled at the desolation and nothingness of the Universe.