Testimony of Healing November 27, 1915 Issue

Gratitude for the complete change Christian Science has...

Samuel H. Deirks

Gratitude for the complete change Christian Science has made in my life impels me to give this testimony. I was told of this healing truth by a dear friend, and was led to ask for its help through a desire to be rid of the drink habit. It was not until the usual methods of escape had all been tried that I realized drink had become my master, and during the last miserable three years of this bondage the time was about equally divided between the indulgence of the habit and the suffering occasioned by trying to conquer it. Indeed, I had come to the point where suicide seemed the only way out of the difficulty. Then Christian Science was offered as a means of relief.

I was intoxicated the night I went for the first Christian Science treatment, but in about half an hour I left the practitioner's house sober, and with a sense of freedom and peace never known before. I was able to ride my bicycle and not afraid to pass through the shadows cast across the path, whereas in making my way to the practitioner it was about all I could do to lead the wheel, and I was afraid to step on a shadow before trying to see what it might be. Within the next two days' treatment I realized that I was healed. Only those who have been or are slaves to the liquor habit can understand what this healing meant to me. There was no feeling of missing something, no awful void, as when trying to leave off through will-power, because the place that drink had taken was filled with the satisfying joy of knowing that God's man does have dominion and is not a slave.

I had also used tobacco in about all the ways it is used, learning to smoke while at school, and up to the time of finding Christian Science I often got up in the night to smoke. I cannot recollect when freedom from this enslavement came about, but as my understanding of Science increased, I simply forgot to use the weed. Moreover, Christian Science treatment was the beginning of a spiritual education, and I have been raised out of the darkness of ignorance and suffering into the glorious light of spiritual knowledge and harmony. Every good thing that has come to me, everything worth while, dates from my first healing in Christian Science. Freed from the old bondage, living gradually became a pleasure instead of a round of wearying tasks, while courage and confidence began to take the place of fear and doubt.

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