In answering the question, "Can your Science cure intemperance?" Mary Baker Eddy states in her book "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 37): "Christian Science lays the axe at the root of the tree. Its antidote for all ills is God, the perfect Mind, which corrects mortal thought, whence cometh all evil. God can and does destroy the thought that leads to moral or physical death. Intemperance, impurity, sin of every sort, is destroyed by Truth. The appetite for alcohol yields to Science as directly and surely as do sickness and sin."
Through His divine Science, God can and does destroy the thought that produces the appetite for alcoholic drink. This statement can be verified in the experience of many people who have been healed of this appetite and who have testified to this fact. Here may be related a healing which has been permanent.
Late one Sunday afternoon a very intoxicated woman came to the home of a Christian Science practitioner. As soon as she was ushered into the study the woman completely collapsed under the influence of the liquor.
