In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes with inspired authority (p. 217): "That scientific methods are superior to others, is seen by their effects. When you have once conquered a diseased condition of the body through Mind, that condition never recurs, and you have won a point in Science." This statement has been proved many times in my home, where there have been healings of both diseased conditions of the body and undesirable habits.
Two healings have always remained as an inspiration to me when I have been faced with other problems to be solved. And these healings have proved to me that when any erroneous condition has been scientifically met "through Mind, that condition never recurs." The first was the healing of a member of my family who was an inveterate cigarette smoker. After becoming interested in Christian Science, he began to feel that this habit was a form of slavery, and he had a great desire to be free.
He tried on several occasions to free himself through will power, but invariably after a short time he would find himself back in the same pattern, as heavy a smoker as ever. Finally he became so disgusted with the habit that he decided to ask a Christian Science practitioner for help. After one treatment he found he was entirely free. In the twenty years since then, this freedom has been permanent. He has never again had any desire for tobacco in any form.
