Testimony of Healing December 5, 1953 Issue

For many years I tried to live...

Warren C. Fouch with contributions from Reatha I. Fouch

For many years I tried to live without God. I endeavored to make myself believe that this was not a God-created world, and I read everything I could lay my hands on that held to this theory. I realize now that this was done in an attempt to excuse my lack of health.

Serious illness had left me with a very bad nervous condition at an early age. As I grew older I became increasingly aware of it, and it caused me a great deal of embarrassment. I was constantly being reminded of my shaky hands and was depressed to feel that I was a physical oddity, because I was otherwise a healthy looking person.

I had smoked for some time, and later I began to drink. After I married I came to use liquor more and more at social functions to relieve my nerves. My wife, who is a Christian Scientist, always objected to my doing so and told me that this practice was an evil cloak that I must someday cast aside; but I turned a deaf ear to her words. In a few years I got to the place where it was hard for me to leave liquor alone. Had it not been for my wife, I dread to think what would have become of me. She stuck by me, however, and for that I shall never cease to be grateful.

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