I well remember, when a child, lying in my mother's arms and listening delightedly to the story of Moses; and such a deep impression did it make upon my thought that though only seven or eight, it awakened a longing desire for the knowledge of the God of the Hebrews, a God that would hear and immediately and visibly answer prayer.
A few years later, my father read of a certain person in Boston who was teaching that "all is Mind and all disease has a mental origin." This statement, together with the ridicule and criticism it awakened, was a seed sown in my child-thought which, as I grew to womanhood, sprang up and often led me to endeavor to overcome through mind.
I was not strong as a child, and owing to a serious illness during my academic course was obliged to leave school. This experience led me to decide that my life should be devoted to the relief of suffering.
