Testimony of Healing September 9, 1944 Issue

For some twenty odd years I...

John Henry with contributions from Lillian E. Henry

For some twenty odd years I had known of Christian Science, but it took an extremity to bring me to my senses. I had had several healings, which I appreciated, but the pleasures of sense seemed more desirable than the joys of Soul. Finally I awoke to the fact that a social habit had bound me with what seemed to be unbreakable chains. Finally, in despair, and at the recommendation of my loving wife, a Christian Science practitioner was consulted. Progress seemed slow, but the patient insistence of the practitioner that the real man could not sin and that I was that man, had its effect. One day he said, "You are healed," and while I could not see victory, we both laughed at the thought of the evil that had been attaching itself to me.

A very short time after that I went home one night without the stimulant which had been my companion for many years. The healing was complete—there were none of the aftereffects which are claimed to accompany such abrupt cessation.

Later came the desire to join the church, and this brought about my release from a habit of thirty years' standing—cigarette smoking. Personal efforts from the standpoint of will power had failed, but when it was realized that of myself I could do nothing, humility and love won the day. Here, too, the cessation of the practice presented no evil effects. How could it, with divine Principle governing and guarding harmonious activity?

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