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For a period of years, probably not less than ten, I was...
For a period of years, probably not less than ten, I was addicted to the use of whisky. The thought of what a struggle the effort to break from this habit would be, always made the task too great to be seriously considered; besides this, the thought that I was in need of any fundamental reformation was in no sense acceptable to my ideas of my own importance.
On the evening of January 5, 1914, in a spirit of friendly curiosity and at the end of five days of excessive drinking, I told a friend, whose loving-kindness and patience toward me had been very beautiful, that if he would lend me a copy of Science and Health, I would read it in order that we might be able to talk about its teachings intelligently; so he lent me the book. On the way to my room I took another drink or two, then going to bed, fixed myself so that I could read in lazy comfort. I was thoroughly saturated with whisky when I went to bed and started to read at nine o'clock in the evening, and it was the first time I had ever taken a look at the Christian Science textbook. From the first line of the first page I found treasure beyond price, and I read until four o'clock in the morning, when I went to sleep perfectly sober; and since then I have been entirely free from any desire for liquor. I was healed and knew that I was,—healed through the reading of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and the realization that I had found Truth. The great effort had not been called for and the great burden had vanished. Neither of them was there, only a great sense of happiness and of release from the burden of false appetite, ignorance, and misunderstanding under which I had been laboring all those years.

August 9, 1919 issue
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Overcoming
IDA M. ROFF
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Our Textbooks
MARY C. HOLDEN
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"Taught of God"
PERSIS COX
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"The chart of life"
RICHARD DEENER
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"I will dwell in the house of the Lord"
JESSIE C. E. KIRBY
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Influence
HORACE C. JENKINS
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God's Dear Love
ANNIE ASHCROFT
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Christian Science teaching is based on the first chapter...
John W. Watkins
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A Word in Season
William P. McKenzie
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Humility
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Hans Frey, J. Allen Barris, W. V. Wells, W. J. Robinson, G. R. Hagens, Roy C. Sugg, D. H. Denman, H. G. Harris, Rose M. Koogle, C. D. Rorer, Sadie Baglole Ellis, Elizabeth Sanford, Roy L. Reichert, W. E. Thompson, B. W. Oppenheim, Mary Alexander
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For a period of years, probably not less than ten, I was...
George D. Hazard
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On Tuesday, February 4, 1919, while I was hanging out...
Elizabeth Foss Lackey
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I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science
Josephine Hendrickson with contributions from Caroline R. Cochran
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It has been my pleasure to have doubly proved the efficacy...
Frank W. Stoddard
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I cannot express in words all that Christian Science...
Laura Whitelock
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Christian Science was brought to me a little over four...
Mathilde Stein
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For several years our little family has been studying...
Jane Williams Cooper
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I am happy to testify to what Christian Science has done...
Georgia Schultz
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In 1905 I first became interested in the beautiful teachings...
Sarah I. Churchill
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To say I am truly grateful for what Christian Science...
Maryee Page Morris
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It is with a heart full of gratitude that I testify to the...
Mary Betsy Maltby
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from D. Kennedy Bell