Testimony of Healing May 18, 1912 Issue

It seems to me that no one could have received more...

Mabelle Vizzard with contributions from Thomas Vizzard

It seems to me that no one could have received more blessings from Christian Science than I have. My mother became a Scientist when I was but ten years of age, yet I would not see the good in it and said many bitter things regarding it, until at the age of twenty I was led to the study of Science and Health through a deadly fear of lung disease for myself and the hopeless clutch that an opiate seemed to have on a very dear friend.

All who had passed on in our family had suffered from lung trouble, and the doctors told me that I could not live six months. I then read Science and Health, and understood it well enough to demonstrate its teachings for myself, with the result that almost immediately my cough disappeared and all the darkness turned to sunshine. So I thought I could see immediate help for my friend, who was the son of a drinking father and himself a slave to the tobacco and drug habits, drink, gambling, and a bad temper. Yet he was a good-hearted lad who really wanted to overcome his bad habits, and with good promises from him we were married. When, however, I asked him to try Christian Science he would have none of it, but with will-power tried to overcome his habits, until he became so discouraged that he went from bad to worse, and thinking I would be better off without him he left me alone to support myself.

I then went to live with my parents, and I worked, suffered, and tried to know the truth until my parents went to Los Angeles, Cal., to live, and there was nothing for me to do but go with them. We lived there for three years, and in all that time I worked and supported myself and my baby boy. I did not get one line from my husband for two and one half years, did not even know where he was, yet I knew that God was watching over him, and that God's child would be made manifest sometimes. At last I received a letter from him, saying he had been in New York the past year. He was at the time of writing in our home town and was studying Science and Health. He said that he no longer drank. used the opiate or cigarettes; that he was truly sorry for his past life and wanted his wife and child, and would do all in his power to repay me for the suffering he had caused.

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