Testimony of Healing August 9, 1900 Issue

Tobacco and Liquor Habits Destroyed

David Dawson

It is nearly four years since I became interested in Christian Science. A friend gave me some Christian Science literature and asked me to read it. I did so, but as I had always possessed good health I paid very little attention to it. My friend continued to give me literature from time to time, One day my eye caught something in the Journai that seemed to me to be sound common sense, and by reading a little more I learned that Christian Science was quite different from what I had thought it to be. My friend then loaned me "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." I set to work to find out all I could. I had not read it very long before I pronounced it the most wonderful book I had ever seen. Well do I remember how I enjoyed reading that book! I could not have been more interested and delighted over a gold mine had I discovered one, and to-day, after nearly four years of patient and persistent study, it is worth to me more than all the gold the world has ever seen or ever will see.

Before I began the study of Christian Science my custom was to sit down every night after supper with my jug of beer, my pipe, and my newspaper, and read and smoke and drink until it was time to go to bed. I commenced to read Science and Health in my usual way, with my pipe and jug of beer, and would sit reading until morning. Often I went to bed just because I thought I had read enough for one night. After I had been reading Science and Health about a month my wife informed me that my beer was nearly gone and I had better see about getting another barrel. I told her that I thought I would not get any more beer. I wanted to get a copy of Science and Health of my own instead of the beer. She said I could please myself about it, but told me it was foolish of me to think I could get along without the beer when I had used it over thirty years, and had proved that I could not get along without it.

About a year previous to this I had made up my mind to stop drinking and did not drink anything for over six weeks. The result was that I lost flesh to such an alarming extent that I became frightened and commenced drinking again. I soon regained my usual weight. My wife knew this and used it in support of her argument. I admitted the fact but told her my mind was made up to buy Science and Health and let the beer go, that I should now prove the truth of what I had been reading. I bought the book in place of the beer, and the result is that instead of losing flesh I am to-day thirty pounds heavier than I ever was before. My pipe was consigned to the stove about the same time, and now for over three years I have neither smoked nor drank, nor do I have the least desire to do so.

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