Testimony of Healing February 26, 1921 Issue

I was brought up under good influences, my father being...

Ralph M. Duffield

I was brought up under good influences, my father being a clergyman in the Church of England, but in spite of this I early developed evil tendencies, which led me into many bad habits, and finally to an attempt at self-destruction, which left me totally blind.

"If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die." Christian Science teaches that all that can die is false appetite, false pleasure, all false belief about that which is good, true, pure, and real. Five months after the attempt to end my troubles in the wrong way, Christian Science came to me, and has taught me how to end them in the right way. The following manifestations and beliefs have been overcome through Christian Science: the belief that God is a corporeal being seated on a throne somewhere beyond the skyline; the daily practice of secret sin for many years; the desire to indulge in and hear vulgar and profane conversation; the excessive use of intoxicating liquor, which was taken with the thought that the more I drank of it the stronger would be my courage to follow the fleshly lusts; the use of tobacco, both chewing and smoking, to both of which I was a slave, and the desire for gambling and the dishonesty connected therewith.

In addition to the above I have been freed from the desire for tea and coffee, which I used to excess, also from various physical difficulties, of which chronic catarrh seemed to be the most distressing. I have peace of mind and the assurance that I am on the right path at last, and for all this I am indeed grateful.

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