Testimony of Healing September 17, 1904 Issue

While I am a Christian Scientist and have been a class...

Jesse H. Lockhart

While I am a Christian Scientist and have been a class student for some time, and have read all of Mrs. Eddy's books, I had never thought of treating against the tobacco habit. I was so deeply impressed with the prayer in the Manual beginning, "Thy kingdom come" (Church Manual, p. 57), that for days my consciousness was permeated with it.

One morning with tobacco in my mouth, a strange sensation come over me; for a few moments I could not understand it. The tobacco became distasteful and I threw it away, and soon after realized the meaning of this experience. It was the passing of the desire for tobacco. It was an answer to the prayer, "rule out of me all sin."

I began the use of tobacco,—chewing and smoking,—at seven years of age. I was a slave to it for forty-two years. It has been nearly three months since this healing, and I have not had the least desire for tobacco since. I feel a great deal better, and have gained fifteen pounds in weight.

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