Christian
Science Testimony
SMOKING
HABIT HEALED
Feeling
that perhaps my experience may aid a fellow traveler on his
way, I think it my duty (as it is a pleasure) to write of
some of my experiences in Christian Science. Being born in a
southern state I was reared among a family of tobacco
smokers, and it seemed as natural to use tobacco as it was
to drink water. When a mere boy, therefore I began to smoke
and continued to do so for a number of years during all my
waking hours. At different times I quit for set periods, and
while I kept my word about this with myself, and stopped or
slowed down as I had promised myself to do, yet it was
always a seeming deprivation and I began again with great
so-called pleasure to use the weed at the end of the set
period. This continued from the time I was about eleven
years old until I was thirty years of age, in 1898. I then
took class instruction under a loyal student of Mrs. Eddy,
and while so doing the habit left me without any effort on
my part. I smoked all the way up to the city and while there
the first day, but after attending a few sessions of the
class I forgot to buy cigars. I have never had the slightest
desire to resume the habit, though constantly in the company
of smokers.
Since
then I have had many proofs of the protection of Mind,
including the instantaneous removal of a foreign body from
one of my eyes. I first tried to get it out with a
handkerchief tip and eyeglass, but was unsuccessful. After
worrying with it for hours I went to a practitioner for
treatment, and it was gone in an instant. I am thankful to
God, and grateful to Mrs. Eddy for giving to the world this
great truth that heals.
R. S.
Trulock
El Reno, Oklahoma
"Testimonies of
Healing"
Christian Science
Sentinel, October 26, 1918
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