NewThoughtLibrary.com / DivineLibrary.org

to climb in the path of higher attainment. Even the swollen face had its meaning and good was to come out of the apparent ill.

But the most difficult of all to conquer was my tendency to hay fever which had afflicted me from a child. For a time I seemed to make very little headway, but after a while I noticed that each year it came a little later and left me a little earlier. That encouraged me to believe that in time it would go entirely, and it did.

But I must tell you a carious circumstance connected with the hay fever, showing again that disease is in the mind. At times when I was suffering the most, if friends came in who were particularly interesting so that my mind was completely taken away from myself, every trace of hay fever would disappear and I would suddenly be conscious of myself as perfectly free from every symptom, but they would all come back again when my friends left me and my thoughts centered again upon myself. It is said that hay fever is caused by pollen floating in the air at a certain season of the year. It is not probable that the pollen was abstracted from the atmosphere just while I was entertaining my friends, to be restored to it upon their departure. It is more reasonable to suppose that the pollen was present all the while and that I was sensitive to it in some mental