rs, even, failed to
understand his trouble. And when he got out in the world he put it off,
this matter of being cured of stammering. He Waited! He kept saying to
himself that he would do it tomorrow--next week--next month. And
tomorrow never came. Next week and next month ran into next year--and
next year ran into a case that was hopeless and incurable.

He Waited!! How tragic those two words. He Waited! And his waiting
sounded the death-knell of a thousand boyhood hopes. HE WAITED!! And
health slowly took wings and flew away. HE WAITED!! And the insidious
little Devil-of-Fear piece by piece tore down his will-power, sapped
his power-of-concentration. HE WAITED!! And that first simple nervous
condition turned into something near akin to palsy.

On the tombstone of that man when they lay him under his
six-feet-of-earth, they might truly inscribe the words: "A
Failure"--and should they wish to set down the reason, they might add:
"He Waited!"

To the stammerer's question: "When should I begin treatment for my
stammering?" and "At what stage will I stand the best chance of being
most quickly cured?" there is but one answer. The time for the
stammerer or stutterer to begin treatment for his malady is the day he
discovers his stammering or stuttering. The best chance for being
quickly cured exists today.

The stammerer, then, to paraphrase Emerson, should "Write it on his
heart that TODAY is the very best day in the year." He should remember
that indecision, delay, uncertainty, vacillation, lead to oblivion and
that his only redemption lies in that golden opportunity known
as--TODAY!

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