Testimony of Healing May 23, 1908 Issue

I wish to bear grateful testimony to the redemptive and...

Alexander Williams

I wish to bear grateful testimony to the redemptive and healing power of Christian Science. For years I was addicted to the liquor and tobacco habits; the saloon was to me a place where I sought pleasure and happiness, and there I spent much of my hard-earned money. At times my better sense would assert itself, and I would resolve never to drink or to go into a saloon again; but I could not keep the resolution, and in a short time I would be helplessly drunk. Finally the drink got me into a serious trouble in the sight of the law, and in this extremity a friend advised me to try Christian Science. During the first three weeks of treatment all desire for drink left me, and I have loathed the very thought of it since; later, I lost all taste for tobacco. That which had wrought me much misery and suffering, and had for years bowed my mother's head in grief, was suddenly lifted from my life, and has become as a dream of the past—to be forgotten. How grateful I am to the torch-bearer to this age, Mrs. Eddy, for lifting the curtain of unreality and revealing man's true and only selfhood as a child of God. As the Principle of Christian Science unfolded to me in its purity and immortality, I found myself healed of stomach and throat troubles.

For the freedom from the enslaving habits and physical diseases before referred to, I am truly grateful; but above all else I prize the spiritual uplifting and incentive to better living which Christian Science has brought to me. Every day I find that divine Principle is helping me to a larger sense of dominion over the man of the flesh.

Alexander Williams, Salamanca, N. Y.

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