Testimony of Healing March 11, 1985 Issue

My last years in high school and my college...

ROBERT WILSON WELLES SQUIRE

My last years in high school and my college career were beset with difficulties. I yielded to several forms of temptation—among them, experimentation with drugs, habitual use of alcohol and cigarettes, and poor moral standards, I also experienced problems with my health, including a digestive difficulty and vision difficulties resulting from an eye injury.

I sought help for the morality problem from a Protestant clergyman, but I found no hope offered, only further despair. I tried using willpower to stop smoking and taking drugs, but there was no lasting effect. During one semester in college I drank large amounts of coffee to stay awake, and slept only with the aid of tranquilizers. A concerned friend suggested a type of meditation for relief. I tried it but to no avail. I also wore prescribed glasses to alleviate the vision difficulty.

My religious training in a popular denomination during childhood and young adulthood familiarized me with Bible stories, but provided little insight into the application of Christian truths to present-day needs. In fact, in one church I attended, God's very existence was seriously questioned and discussed!

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