Croup Healed

It was only a few months after our stay with my cousins, early the following winter, that I [Mary Godfrey] had an attack of membranous croup. I had suffered with this all during childhood, and Father and Mother both used to become very fearful that they would lose me during one of these attacks. But this time Mother was so sure that Mrs. Glover [as Mrs. Eddy was known at the time] could heal me that she wrapped me up in a blanket and started off to Lynn in a heavy snowstorm, my Aunt Nancy accompanying us to the station.

Aunt Nancy kept telling Mother that she was crazy to take me on such a journey on a day like that and I would surely die. But Mother went right on and finally got me to Lynn. When she reached Mrs. Glover’s house, she went straight to the back door so that she could get in more quickly. Mrs. Glover came to the door at once and, as calmly as if nothing was the matter, said that if I would run upstairs and play I would be all right. I do not remember much about it, except that I did as she told me, for I had been taught to be obedient. I ran upstairs to the Nashes’ [boarders of Mrs. Eddy’s] apartment and immediately I was all right. That was the end of the awful condition. They stayed at the house that night and in the morning Mr. Godfrey came over to be with them. Mrs. Glover saw him then and told him that it was his fault that his daughter had had those problems. The little girl was very upset at hearing Mrs. Glover say this to her father as she thought her father was a wonderful man. Of course, she did not then understand what Mrs. Glover meant and possibly her father did not either. Mrs. Eddy was alluding that the fear of the parent thought about the child is frequently the cause of the physical problem in the child.