Testimony of Healing September 18, 1943 Issue

Christian Science has no kinship...

Herbert Filmer

Christian Science has no kinship with tobacco and alcohol. These habits, which are often found together, impeded my progress in Science for many years. I held to the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (given me by a loved one a decade before), though, be it confessed, I admired at first its exquisite binding rather than the message within. But in time the healing pages took on a two-edged sharpness, dividing "joints and marrow," making me see that smoking beclouded my consciousness of Truth, and that social drinking did nought to un-parch a singularly fruitless life. Obeying the whispered advice of error, "Take it easy. Do it gradually," I was a pendulum "ticking" to a fine taper. Let me affirm and repeat: The only way is total prohibition, a radical reliance on Truth. All else is vanity and vexation.

A great stride forward came with this eventual healing. Knowing and expecting more abundance, however, and seeing the perfect man in myself as well as in others, I began the struggle onward and upward. Fear of high blood pressure was stilled by a line from a favorite hymn, "One in the heart's perennial youth;" and many other human complainings have been similarly silenced. I stumble often, but at each rising I find myself a little farther ahead, thanks to many loving Scientists and to Christian Science.—Herbert Filmer, Carlisle, Cumberland, England.

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