I would like to express my gratitude for a wonderful healing of alcoholism through the application of Christian Science. For several years I drank to have a good time, to be with the "in" crowd. But, as time went on, I could not stop with one or two drinks. I had to get drunk. My wife could no longer trust me with so simple a task as going to the grocery store; she never knew when I would come back. I was drinking in the morning before work, at lunchtime I would have a few, and at night I would get so drunk that sometimes, the next morning, I could not remember what I did the night before.
My wife begged me to stop drinking. I would promise her that I would, knowing that I did not mean it. Finally she threatened to take our only child and leave me, but even this had no effect upon me. I told her that drinking was the only enjoyment I got out of life, the fellows I drank with were the only friends I had, and if I stopped drinking, my friends would desert me.
About this time my wife became interested in Christian Science. She tried to get me to go to church, but I was never sober enough. Whiskey had such a hold on me that nothing else meant anything to me, not even my family. My wife began prayerful work for me as taught in Christian Science, and she asked a Christian Science practitioner for help regarding our home situation.
