Testimony of Healing November 7, 1931 Issue

For many years I was in bondage to the liquor habit,...

Horace C. Shank

For many years I was in bondage to the liquor habit, and drank to excess on an average of two or three times a month. After my marriage to a student of Christian Science, I did everything humanly possible to overcome this weakness and always promised myself that each experience would be the last. I often told my wife of my good intentions, and on these occasions she would suggest that I try Christian Science; but this remedy did not appeal to me at the time, although I thought it a fine religion for her and for the children. Notwithstanding many failures, my wife had the good grace to let me work out my own problem in my own way, and she had the courage to "wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 454).

Early in November, 1921, I informed her that I would ask for help if I ever again yielded to this temptation; and before the month was half gone I was in the same condition. But a wonderful day had dawned for me; I continued willing to do anything to rid myself of this habit. I continued drinking until noon, and my wife thought I was not in shape to make the trip, but I was determined to keep my promise; and that afternoon we called on a practitioner in another city. He was a real "man of God," and he informed me that I was one of God's children. He assured me that this false belief could have no power over me if I should realize my true relationship to God. He also told me of a number of similar cases which had been healed, and all fear vanished during the Christian Science treatment. "When fear disappears, the foundation of disease is gone;" "Jesus healed sickness and sin by one and the same metaphysical process" (ibid., pp. 368, 210). I have not taken a drink of anything intoxicating since that day nor had the least inclination to do so.

Constipation, indigestion, dyspepsia, and palpitation of the heart left me with my change of thought. The cigarette habit finally yielded when I was examined for membership in a branch church in 1923; it vanished without the least effort on my part at that time, although I had been working over a year for this healing. Bleeding piles were healed overnight after I promised the practitioner that I would give my testimony at a Wednesday evening meeting, expressing my gratitude for the good already received.

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