Testimony of Healing March 10, 1934 Issue

I have often felt that I should express my gratitude for...

William Newton Johnson

I have often felt that I should express my gratitude for the many benefits I have received from Christian Science. More than fifteen years ago I was healed of dyspepsia, and at that time the practitioner told me that I could also be healed of the smoking habit. I informed him that I did not want to be healed of smoking because it was one of my pleasures. His work was so thorough, however, that I soon found I was losing my taste for tobacco. At first I did not realize that I was healed, but when I did I began to try other and more expensive brands of cigars; I continuously and persistently held on to error in this regard until I could again seem to enjoy smoking.

This belief of self-will has been the apparent cause of much annoyance and many unfortunate circumstances in my experience. About two years ago, however, when I was called out to a western state to look after some of my mother's interests, I began to realize the true nature of this habit to which I had stubbornly clung for so many years. It was my custom to retire and read, smoking pipeful after pipeful, far into the night, to my own detriment. When I realized for the first time that it was also to the annoyance of the whole household, I had the desire to stop. I made a successful effort to do so, and I never have had any desire to use tobacco in any form again.

Since that time I have realized the importance of obeying all of the injunctions of our beloved Leader, as implied and expressed in Science and Health, as well as in all of her other writings. For the healing of numerous physical ills—acute, chronic, and accidental—I am very grateful; also for a sufficient supply for my daily needs and comforts. I thank God, who blessed Mrs. Eddy with the intelligence to realize man's relation to God and the universe, and the true mission of our beloved Saviour, Jesus the Christ.

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