A Thought suggested itself to me that I must write a little testimony to the Journal in regard to a demonstration I have had on the line of giving to the cause of Christian Science.
Some years ago I was troubled in regard to money matters. I went to my teacher and laid the case before her, because mortal mind tormented me with perplexing thoughts suggesting that I had no right to give money for Science because my husband had a debt which ought to be met before I could rightly use any of our means for anything beyond the bare necessities of human existence. This thought continually seemed to confront me, "If you take this money to apply in any other way than to pay this debt, it is taking another man's money, for it justly belongs to another. My teacher, however, advised me to give something regularly for Science, confiding to me the results of her own experience, which, she said, convinced her that some investment of money in that way would ever prove the best of all possible investments.
I went home and thought more earnestly than ever before upon this subject. My love for Christian Science, and my desire to express that love in deeds, seemed to increase, and I caught new glimpses of the power which God bestows on man to manifest the inexhaustible resources of Mind. I realized from that moment that Christian Science must be first in my affections, and then Truth would take care of me and enable me truly to fulfil all my obligations to my fellow-man. I grew daily to feel more and more assured on this point, giving meanwhile continually, out of my daily store, and always a little more than the human sense at first suggested. It seemed that Truth demanded this of me as a demonstration of my faith, and I wish to say that this has resulted in a great blessing to me. I have assuredly proved the truth of what the prophet Malachi said to the children of Israel: ''Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."
