Show IDA ILE I 1 0 STAR NC g T THIS HIS STORY of two persons who learned to conquer themselves was told me by david S gonyer bridgeport conn after he came out of the army his mother was injured in an automobile accident and this left her in a nervous state just before david enlisted in the navy his enlistment hit her hard and in her condition she made no effort to conquer her worry over him no matter that many other mothers were suffering the same trial 1 no matter that the majority of our soldiers and sailors have returned safe and sound from our wars she saw only her own trouble so david frank with her and allowed her to think that he was not stationed anywhere near a danger zone although he was in tile the thick thick of the fighting at leyte island he also asked carnegie relatives and friends not to tell her where he was suddenly letters from her ceased and his sister wrote she had burned her hand but was all right later her letters resumed it until he came home that he learned she had worried herself into a nervous breakdown immediately following someone accidentally c telling her that he was in action when he saw her aft after er his return she had to be carried up and down the stairs one day her doctor knowing that her illness was due wholly to her mental attitude suggested that she try christian science she asked a practitioner to visit her and after several discussions the she was convinced that her trouble was brought on by her own self when david arrived home he scoffed at christian science but only for a short while after he heard his mothers story she had been so ill that she had been sent to a hospital that was when her letters to david had ceased it was after she had gained faith in god through christian science that she resumed her letter writing his mothers example so impressed david that never again will he be subject to fear as he once knew it |