Testimony of Healing November 6, 1920 Issue

I am grateful for the privilege of giving testimony to the...

William E. Dixon

I am grateful for the privilege of giving testimony to the efficacy of Christian Science treatment together with the study and application of its teachings in the healing of disease and all other discordant conditions. I was healed of a disease infinitely worse than cancer or tuberculosis, which the medical fraternity frankly admit they are unable to cope with. The disease alluded to is commonly known as the "drinking habit" or use of intoxicating liquors. As a noted journalist and ex-postmaster of California in his narrative of the healing of this disease says, "It is no more accurate to speak of a man having the liquor habit than to speak of him as having the cancer or consumption habit." It certainly is a disease, and one not easy of cure through human will power. I worshiped at the shrine of Bacchus for a good many years, beginning in a social way, and the disease progressed insidiously until I was a physical wreck. Will power, pledges, resolutions, and various cures were of no avail. The beautiful part of this healing is that there was absolutely no temptation and continual battle as with human will cures. The enemy simply departed into its native nothingness. I was convinced that the cure was absolute and complete, for I was, as it were, "born again." I was also healed of a throat and bronchial condition that gave me much concern from early childhood, especially in the winter season. A specialist some years ago advised me to seek a semi-tropical climate.

The admonition of the great Way-shower of nineteen centuries ago, "If ye continue in my word ... ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," has been demonstrated to my entire satisfaction through the elimination of much that is worldly and material and its replacement by that which is spiritual. The study and application of the Science of Christianity as taught by Mrs. Eddy has brought complete harmony into my life, destroying discordant conditions, physical and mental, and giving me a fuller realization of my true being as the son of God, having dominion over and not being in subjection to the beliefs of evil. The scientific statement of being, as given by Mrs. Eddy on page 468 of Science and Health, has proved to me that "the flesh profiteth nothing," that matter has no power, that fleeting worldly pleasures are only temporal. I have discarded them for the spiritual, real, and eternal, which means heaven within, and the attacks of error are lessened day by day.

In reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" the first time, the first line of the Preface made an indelible impression upon me, "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." The much misunderstood old saying, "Self-preservation is the first law of nature," has been replaced by the Golden Rule toward my fellow man. The better understanding of the truth has brought peace, happiness, health, contentment, and prosperity into my life. The peace that the world can neither give nor take away is my abiding possession. The "pearl of great price" has been found. My chief concern now is spiritual living, and my prayer the desire to help others to better living.

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