Testimony of Healing July 7, 1945 Issue

It is with much humility that I...

Edward B. Hatch, Jr.

It is with much humility that I express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me. It has never failed to meet my need when earnestly applied, and the healings I have had include those of physical, moral, and business problems.

I shall never cease to be grateful for the freedom I have experienced since overcoming smoking and social drinking. In trying to overcome smoking I thought the desire would leave me and I should not be required to make any effort to stop; but it did not work that way. Finally, I took my stand and did stop, but it seemed to require quite an effort. In fact, the desire persisted for three months, even though I was faithful in my abstinence. One day, while I was in a Christian Science Reading Room working on this problem, I thought about the word "desire." The desire to smoke seemed very real, but all at once I realized that the desire to stop was the right and true desire, and that any other desire was false. In that instant the false desire left me, and I have been free ever since. This healing took place in 1931.

Overcoming social drinking did not require such an effort on my part, but after several years this false attraction returned. This was very discouraging to me, for I was trying to be a good Christian Scientist and wanted to continue as a worker in a branch church and in the Sunday school, but knew I could not unless the problem was met. I had been reared in Science and could not understand why I should have such a problem to meet in the first place.

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