Testimony of Healing May 9, 1903 Issue

Since I was eighteen years of age I have been a constant...

Since I was eighteen years of age I have been a constant drinker, and for the last ten years, a heavy one, in fact, I seldom went to bed sober, I commenced to drink in the early morning and kept it up steadily until I went to bed. For the same length of time I was also an inveterate smoker, during later years consuming sometimes seventy or more Egyptian cigarettes daily. I also used profane language, and in addition lived as fast a life as it was possible for a man of my means. I ultimately reached a condition which demanded medical aid, and I was under the constant charge of one of the best physicians in New York, receiving daily treatments (sometimes more frequent) until my system was saturated with drugs. I continued this course for many months, eight or nine, but received no benefit whatever, but rather grew worse, until in June my doctor told me I would have to start all over again, that he could not understand why he did not benefit me. He has since told me that I was beyond any material aid, and has twice expressed his amazement at my wonderful recovery.

I was in despair, and believing I could never recover, wanted to "shuffle off this mortal coil," for I suffered excruciatingly. My throat was in a dreadful condition, and I was in constant dread at meal time, because of the agony produced by swallowing even the most delicate food, and I slept with a handkerchief in my mouth to absorb the excessive secretions.

I tried Christian Science then, not because I had any belief that God would heal me, but because I was anxious to die and feared the disgrace to my people, so consequently placed myself in the hands of a Scientist, thinking I would be shortly dead and no one would know it to be a preconcerted scheme on my part but would deem me crazy over religion. I feel ashamed to say this, but it is the truth.

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