Individual demonstrations are the links which, welded together in human experience by Truth, form a complete chain of convincing evidence. A single demonstration may not be sufficient to carry much weight with a prejudiced antagonist, and even seekers after Truth often find occasion for doubt in the first few apparent results of their efforts; but when a number of such demonstrations are combined, they constitute a testimony which ultimately overcome all opposition.
How important, then, that the Christian Science student consider thoughtfully each demonstration that comes under his observation before referring to it publicly.
We find emphasis for this suggestion in the constant reiteration of the Master's command to those whom he healed: "See thou tell no man." Not that the mighty works of God were to be concealed. That were impossible. Christ's answer to John when he asked, "Art thou he that should come?" was, "Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them." It may often be wise, however, for the healed to remain silent until the full significance of the demonstration is comprehended and they have become ''steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord."
