Testimony of Healing March 18, 1905 Issue

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:...

W. T. Selleck

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:.... and his name shall be called Wonderful.... Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end."

It is this sense of wonder and peace that appeals first to the Christian Scientist, and so it has been with me. After suffering for years from the demon of intemperance, years that have dragged wearily on, each to a more desolate conclusion than the preceding, years of sorrow, sadness, and seemingly hopeless struggle, the Christ-truth revealed in Christian Science has dispelled the clouds of earthsense and "I know that my redeemer liveth."

For sixteen years I had been the slave of an appetite for strong drink. With this had come all the attendant evils of morbid sensitiveness, sin, selfishness, and worldly pride. I had also been addicted to the use of tobacco in different forms, including cigarettes,—a habit for the mastery of which I had battled for years with no seeming effect. I was what is called a periodical drinker, and scarcely ever drank at all without drinking to a state of complete intoxication. The habit had been growing on me, with increasing hold, until I was forced to seek help. Eight years ago I took one of the best known drink cures, and since that time I have taken three other alleged cures, besides private treatment from several regular physicians. I had tried different systems of dieting, physical culture, Turkish and other baths, without relief. I had gone away and lived alone in the mountains, chopping a notch on a tree for every day that I had kept my pledge. In addition to this I was peevish, irritable, and over-sensitive to either the slightest criticism or praise. My life was an incoherent and inconsistent muddle. I was up in the clouds one day and in the depths the next. Brilliant plans for future good and suggestions for the fulfilment of the highest ideals would come to me, but I lacked the scientific understanding to make them practical facts in my daily life. I was always given credit for the honest efforts I made toward reform, but the realization of actual success seemed to be getting farther away.

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