Testimony of Healing July 10, 1943 Issue

It is with a feeling of extreme...

Charles Yokelson

It is with a feeling of extreme gratitude that I give this testimony.

I began the study of Christian Science about ten years ago. My business, which had been bringing me a fine income, went to pieces. That, with several other factors, brought a sense of desperation. I knew of Christian Science, but this knowledge was meager and faulty. I certainly did not feel that it could help me out of the predicament I was in, but when every other means of help failed me, I heeded a recommendation made by a friend that I go to a Christian Science practitioner.

At that time I had been a very heavy and inveterate smoker. I could hardly afford the pernicious habit, to say the least, but I deprived myself of things more necessary and vital to buy cigars and tobacco. As a matter of fact, when I came to the practitioner's office I was smoking a cigar. He casually mentioned that smoking was not in keeping with Christian Science. I resented it, but he let me read what our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, wrote on the subject of tobacco. I do not remember that these statements in any particular way registered with me, but I do know that after that visit I never had any desire to smoke again. The healing was startling, and I began to study Christian Science earnestly and sincerely. As I began to understand more of what true substance is, my business began to improve. My health and my outlook, too, grew better, and in spite of the fact that I was going through very deep waters my appearance became more and more youthful and buoyant.

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