From early manhood and for a period of twenty-five years I was a victim of the liquor habit in all its various degrees, even to the condition known as delirium tremens. In the latter years of my bondage to this great evil, which had destroyed my opportunities, blasted my hopes, and almost killed my ambitions, I had tried to resist its influence with every conceivable method and system in the human will of man, only to meet with failure and to be cast up again on the rocks of adversity and despair, until I was near the end of human endurance. At this point, and when quite indifferent to my fate, Christian Science treatment was recommended to me, and with my consent a practitioner was called and treatment given. I was so weak and low that seemingly the spark of life was nearly out.
With the first treatment the desire for alcoholic stimulants left me and I felt resigned to trust my fate with Him from whom all blessings flow. During the first few days of treatment the sense of fear of the hallucinations was displaced by a calm, restful peace. As the light of Truth penetrated the haze of my mental condition, and with returning physical strength, I was soon able to leave my bed and walk to the home of the practitioner, and continued to do so daily for about three weeks.
That was in March, 1914-. There has been no reaction, no exercise of human will-power, as in former periods when I tried to combat this evil, but rather a sense of freedom and security in the sustaining power of Truth. Bowel trouble of years' standing has also been overcome, and no medicines have been used since the spring of 1915.
