It is now a year and a half since I was healed in Christian Science, and I have waited this long because I wanted it thoroughly acknowledged that I was healed before sending in my testimony. Love of excitement and a weakness for popularity caused me to drink and smoke simply because others did, until I no longer controlled these habits but had become their slave. I had from childhood been troubled by bilious attacks, and remorse for the life I was leading, and fear that my wife would find out the extremes to which I was going, greatly increased this trouble, until hardly a month passed without my being confined to my room, taking the doctor's usual prescription of drugs. I was engaged in outdoor work, and, according to material health laws, should have been exempt from these attacks. It was while out on reconnoissance work that I became convinced I was no longer able to control myself, and returned to Durango fully intending to take some one of the cures for the liquor habit. Drunk or sober, I smoked continually, and a naturally boastful tendency was stimulated, until I felt I was entirely untrustworthy.
Upon my return I found my little daughter suffering with an abscess in her head, from which she could secure no relief with drugs, though two physicians tried faithfully to relieve her. About eight o'clock in the evening a Christian Science practitioner was called up over the telephone and asked to treat her. In a few minutes the child was asleep. When she waked, very late the next morning, she was entirely healed, not only of this, but of a bowel trouble which she had had all her life. This healing so impressed me that I immediately began the study of Christian Science, with the result that inside of two months' time I was entirely healed, and this without a single treatment. It is now a well-established fact that I do not use drugs, liquors, tobacco, or stimulants of any kind, even the taste for coffee having been overcome. During the past eighteen months we have depended entirely upon God instead of drugs, and during that time we have had many demonstrations of the power of Truth to heal disease. During a trip through Old Mexico last winter, another person who was interested in Science, and myself, were the only two in the party who were not forced to use material remedies of some kind, our health being perfect on the entire trip.
I desire to express my gratitude to God, and to His divinely-appointed messenger, Mrs. Eddy, for this wonderful healing truth. I realize the truth of her statement in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 340), "There is no excellence without labor; and the time to work, is now;" and I know that any one who will conscientiously and faithfully study Science and Health, and follow the rules laid down therein, will have the proof within himself, as given by Jesus—"If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself."— Durango, Col.
