Testimony of Healing October 26, 1918 Issue

Feeling that perhaps my experience may aid a fellow...

R. S. Trulock

Feeling that perhaps my experience may aid a fellow traveler on his way, I think it my duty (as it is a pleasure) to write of some of my experiences in Christian Science. Being born in a southern state I was reared among a family of tobacco smokers, and it seemed as natural to use tobacco as it was to drink water. When a mere boy, therefore, I began to smoke and continued to do so for a number of years during all my waking hours. At different times I quit for set periods, and while I kept my word about this with myself, and stopped or slowed down as I had promised myself to do, yet it was always a seeming deprivation and I began again with great so-called pleasure to use the weed at the end of the set period. This continued from the time I was about eleven years old until I was thirty years of age, in 1898. I then took class instruction under a loyal student of Mrs. Eddy, and while so doing the habit left me without any effort on my part. I smoked all the way up to the city and while there the first day, but after attending a few sessions of the class I forgot to buy cigars. I have never had the slightest desire to resume the habit, though constantly in the company of smokers.

Since then I have had many proofs of the protection of Mind, including the instantaneous removal of a foreign body from one of my eyes. I first tried to get it out with a handkerchief tip and eyeglass, but was unsuccessful. After worrying with it for hours I went to a practitioner for treatment, and it was gone in an instant. I am thankful to God, and grateful to Mrs. Eddy for giving to the world this great truth that heals.—R. S. Trulock, El Reno, Okla.

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