I first looked to Christian Science for the removal of physical and moral ills from which I had been unable to find relief in any other quarter. I had for a long time been a victim of the liquor habit and during later years had more and more frequently drank to excess. In addition to the drinking I became afflicted, in a gradually increasing degree, with mental and physical ailments which are the inevitable accompaniments of this habit. Except when I was under the influence of liquor, for a long time I never slept without the use of drugs. I had taken all kinds of material remedies, and relatives had even suggested a resort to a wellknown cure. The exertion of will power had not been wanting, and I once forced myself to do without liquor for eleven months, although during a great portion of the time, and especially toward the end of the period, I was in a condition bordering on delirium tremens. Under such conditions I succumbed to the unhealthy desire and was soon worse than ever. I suffered a considerable time longer, and then, at the advice of my father, whose life had been saved by it, I took up Christian Science. My first treatment was given the next day after a night of excessive drinking, and caused me to sleep through the succeeding night like a child,— a condition unheard of with me at such a time. Without Science I should either have suffered almost unbearable torture or have procured an unhealthful sleep by dosing with drugs. I was completely healed of the drink habit and of its concomitant ailments in less than two months, and have had no desire to drink since. This occurred nearly three years ago and I have neither drank liquor nor taken any medicine since.
Immediately upon my healing I became a student of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and the study of that book has given me a religion, something I had never before possessed. From what little I knew of the Bible, it had seemed a collection of myths and fairy tales, held together by a slight thread of historical truth. I now see the Bible as it is— the Book of books; and it grows more and more clear and logical as I study it and Mrs. Eddy's glorious commentary upon it. It now appears a book to live by and act by all the days of one's life, and not merely to go to church with on Sundays. In short, Christian Science has given me a practical religion,— one which gives its rewards to-day; not merely promises them for a far-distant future. I am deeply grateful for its many blessings to me and mine, and look forward to the not very distant day when Mrs. Eddy will be fully known by the people of the world at large as the noblest and grandest woman who ever lived in it, and as the one who has regiven the ultimate blessing to mankind— a knowledge of man's freedom and dominion.
Los Angeles, Cal.
