Testimony of Healing March 6, 1937 Issue

About thirteen years ago I changed my work

Warren A. Rix

About thirteen years ago I changed my work. Things were in a very unsettled condition and my income was greatly reduced. This, together with the illness and passing on of my father, produced mental suffering threatening my efficiency. At this time a man I was working with told me how Christian Science had healed him of paralysis and other troubles. He lent me the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and before I had read two pages of the chapter on Prayer, I realized it was the thing for which I had been looking for many years. I had never been in accord with orthodox churches, although I was reared in a religious family.

I had read philosophy and investigated many theories, but could find nothing with a provably basis. Now I realized I had found it. Years before, I had lost faith in medical doctors and had evolved a system of treatment of my own, as I had been a sufferer from stomach and bowel trouble since birth and was a constant user of medicine. I had been reading Science and Health for about thirty days when I discarded all medicine and was almost immediately healed of these physical troubles, and my business began to improve.

I have also been healed of the tobacco habit and the social drink habit, and have lost all desire for coffee and tea. Most of these habits seemed to drop away, except tobacco smoking. I had smoked for many years and tried to stop, but whenever I did, the desire was so great that I would take it up again. After I had been reading Christian Science literature about three months, a great stir would take place in my thought every time I tried to read and smoke at the same time. I realized that one or the other must go, and there was no questoin which it was, so I stopped smoking. By this time I had learned about practitioners. As I had not healed myself of smoking, but had just quit, I experienced considerable suffering and nervousness for a day or so, until I went to a practitioner and was instantly healed. I have had no desire for tobacco since. This has taught me a lesson—to take my stand for the right and trust God to support me, which He has always done ever since. I am truly grateful.

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