"Our religion has unwittingly done us another evil turn in attaching such exaggerated importance to the necessity of a·' special preparation for death. The Church, as ever, is wiser and more tolerant than the sects; she strongly recommends the administration of various Sacraments when they can be had, but forbears to pass adverse judgment upon a man simply because he happens to die out of her reach. Many of the sects, however, make the man's eternal welfare depend absolutely upon the state of his mind at the moment of death; if he is "saved" or "in a state of grace" at that particular instant he may be regarded as booked through for the Elysian Fields. If otherwise, the less said about his subsequent condition the better. This extraordinary theory of salvation by hysteria. Salvation by feeling oneself" saved " is perhaps one of the most astonishing aberrations of the human intellect, if indeed we can suppose intellect of any kind to be engaged in such a superstition at all."