Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to header Skip to footer

After living on the prairies several...

From the July 1922 issue of The Christian Science Journal


After living on the prairies several years, acquiring what I thought were manly habits, and two years in the army, undergoing months of campaigning in the Old World, surrounded by hardships, dangers, and vice, I returned to the United States a wreck, physically and mentally, I had become an incessant cigarette smoker, and, as was common with soldiers, drank to excess on most occasions. As a result of this, my morals were far from what they should have been. I found that my wretched condition separated me from most of my friends. I became utterly without joy, and despondent; and thought seriously of ending it all.

It was while I was in this condition, a little over a year ago,—with few friends, little money, and no work, — that a Christian Science practitioner, whom I had known before, came to my aid and took me into her home. My physical condition grew much worse. I was one day suddenly taken with severe pains in my side, followed by a swelling. Within half an hour, through Christian Science treatment, I was relieved of the violent pain; though I was unnerved and exhausted, and was laid up for a week. From then on divine Love overcame, one by one, many of the errors which had bound me. I became well enough to commence work for myself. I had ceased to smoke or to use alcoholic liquors. I went to an optometrist, because my eyes bothered me, and he told me to stop wearing glasses. My eyes had troubled me ever since boyhood, and I had worn glasses for six years. At present, I am enjoying the best health I have known in years. I was able, lately, to obtain a good position, at a time when openings were unusually scarce. Each day, instead of being a tragedy, is filled with a joy before unknown. It seems very clear to me that love and purity of thought have brought about this change, and have given me life. I am truly grateful to those who have shown me the way.

I know that Mrs. Eddy has shown us in Christian Science the way to gain the healing purification, as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus.—

Sign up for unlimited access

You've accessed 1 piece of free Journal content

Subscribe

Subscription aid available

 Try free

No card required

More In This Issue / July 1922

concord-web-promo-graphic

Explore Concord—see where it takes you.

Search the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures