HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS March 30, 1957 Issue

[Following is the text of the program of the above title released for broadcast the week end of March 22-24 in the radio series, "How Christian Science Heals," heard internationally over more than 800 stations. This is one of the weekly programs produced by the Christian Science Committee on Publication, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston 15, Massachusetts.]

RADIO PROGRAM No. 184 - A Man Who Found Freedom

Elbert R. Slaughter

Speaker: As the title of our program today indicates, our guest was once in captivity, not in the kind of prison we usually think of, but in bondage to a very distressing, enslaving habit. He found his freedom in a wonderful way, and the story of how he found it is one that can help all of us.

Now let's ask Elbert R. Slaughter of Dallas, Texas, to tell us the experience that brought him his freedom.

Mr. Slaughter: Well, at one point in my life you might say I reached a day of reckoning. You see, as a young man Id been disillusioned and mixed up In my failure to find answers to questions about God and man and existence. It was popular to drink; so I drank. The same way with the other things that go with the attempt to have a big time. After a number of years of this I suddenly awakened one day to the fact that I couldn't control my drinking. I had to have a think, and I had to have it every day and not just one drink, either. I was general manager of a lumber company, and my business was going to pieces. So were my home and my health. It was like being in prison. Nothing I did for myself seemed to be of any use.

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