Through the patient and loving help of a Christian Science practitioner I was healed of alcoholism nine years ago. In twenty-five years of drinking, I was never able to control myself even after taking only one drink. As the years went by, I kept getting worse until the time came when I was drinking every day, mostly alone, trying to hide the fact, lying and being deceitful about it in every way. I no longer cared about anyone but myself.
At one time I attempted suicide and spent two weeks in a sanatorium under the care of psychiatrists. I consulted several doctors after that and took much medicine and many pills, but none of the drugs had any lasting effect. I lost my home, my family—everything. I took a position, but that only lasted a few months because I could not get through the day without a drink. I started drinking on my lunch hour and even in the employees' rest room. I was drunk every night.
One day I collapsed at work. A kind doctor told me that there was nothing more he could do for me, that no amount of money or medicine could help me. I was discharged from my job; I had no money, so could not pay my rent, and I had no one to turn to.
