Testimony of Healing December 8, 1917 Issue

It is with great joy that I give this testimony

Charles D. Harricks

It is with great joy that I give this testimony. For some years I was what is termed a man of the world, with the result that I gradually found myself in bondage to the drink habit and its evil attendants, ill health and misery. Several times I tried through will power to give up using liquor, but went back to it with worse effects, until finally I lost my position. I was on the point of being separated from my loving wife and children, when one day a fellow worker where I had been employed spoke to me of Christian Science and what it had done for him and for others.

At first I felt antagonistic, thinking it to be some new idea and of no use to me, as I had not much use for religions of the present day; but I was advised to consult a Christian Science practitioner, and after the first conversation with her I accepted treatment. Then I borrowed Science and Health and began to study the Lesson-Sermon. I particularly wish to emphasize the fact that with the first treatment the desire for intoxicating liquor left me absolutely, and I was aroused to a sense of happiness and given new life. I felt that I had one Father,—Love, Truth, Life,—and that I was the child of God right now instead of at some future time. I am now a Bible student, and am striving as well as I know how to follow in our Master's footsteps. I am very grateful to God, also to our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for this grand truth, as well as for all kindness shown to me by Christian Scientists.

Charles D. Harricks, Melbourne, Australia.

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