●   ●   ●    in my condition a trip of that distance was a momentous undertaking;—as I had lived for several years under the impression that any unusual exertion would end my life, I preferred dying at home and was opposed to the idea of attempting such a journey, feeling I could not endure it nor hope to reach the journey’s end alive. But my husband through reading Science and Health had gained a thought that had deeply impressed him as wholly different from any other Christian faith; it seemed a practical, workable, demonstrable faith, and he desired to meet the author personally.