Testimony of Healing October 31, 1903 Issue

In my early youth I had a good religious training, but...

J. H. J.

In my early youth I had a good religious training, but as I became old enough to think and reason for myself I gradually dropped what I had been taught, until I had no religious belief left.

This was about my condition when, at the age of twenty-five, I was married. My wife was an orthodox church member, and she tried hard to induce me to accept her views and become a member of her church. I obtained a commentary on the New Testament and studied the Bible a great deal, but the more I studied it the more antagonistic I became to orthodox theology, until I threw the whole matter aside and declared I did not know what truth was and I did not believe that any one else did. So I settled down as an agnostic, and for about thirty years I was seldom inside a church, and if I did go it was from no proper motive.

At the end of that time I was a very discordant mortal, I was burdened with a fear of poverty, having lost about all the property I had acquired, and was held in bondage by many chronic ailments, some of which ran back beyond my remembrance. Among other things I had the tobacco habit. I had chewed and smoked tobacco nearly forty years, and there never was a greater slave to it. The first thing I did when I got up in the morning was to reach for my tobacco and knife and put a piece in my mouth, and probably there was not an hour during the day that I was not either chewing or smoking tobacco. I had tried several times to break the habit through will-power, but always failed, and I remained a slave to tobacco until Christian Science came to the rescue. I have now been free from that habit about four years.

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