About five years ago I came into Christian Science through physical healing. Before that I was a member of a Jewish temple. Judaism did not mean much to me, because it never revealed God as One who could be loved and obeyed understandingly. Some Christians tried to tell me that Jesus was God. This was harder to believe than Judaism, so I was practically an infidel.
With no Truth to sustain me, I sank lower and lower without realizing what was taking place, until conditions became so acute that all mortal supports failed me. Christian Science came to me at that time through a friend. He advised me to go to a practitioner. I was in such a bewildered and confused mental state that I was willing to try anything, so I called on a practitioner. I date everything in my life from that day: a new birth was begun by the treatment I received from that Christian woman. I began to look up and not down; I was hearing the truth, and hope was kindled in my heart.
In one year all desire for alcoholic drinks and tobacco was completely destroyed, together with other intemperate appetites, without the slightest use of will-power. Truth did the work. Is it any wonder that I place more and more faith in Christian Science? The old false beliefs are being replaced by some measure of understanding. I am seeing things in a moral light, thinking morally, and using the moral courage to resist temptation.
