Testimony of Healing April 20, 1968 Issue

I did not turn to Christian Science for a physical healing, but it...

William M. MacKenzie

I did not turn to Christian Science for a physical healing, but it was not long until I was experiencing this type of benefit. I found I was gaining, as well, the answers to questions concerning the nature and purpose of life.

As I started to experience the spiritual growth that naturally comes with the concerted study of the weekly Bible Lessons, outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly, I saw that to continue to progress I should take an active part in church work and outwardly live the life of a Christian Scientist. But this was closed to me until I could overcome the heavy smoking habit, which I had been unable to overcome in more than twenty years.

Then I started to reason with myself in earnest. Did I want to discover the real and true nature of God and learn my real purpose and commence fulfilling it? Or did I want to continue to be encumbered with a habit of consuming between two and three packs of cigarettes daily? I had tried to stop on numerous occasions, knowing even in a physical sense that it was limiting and degrading.

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