Thankfulness for the blessings of Christian Science must find expression, and as the testimonies of others help us, we should reciprocate by sometimes writing our own experience. It seems easier, perhaps, to give these orally at the Wednesday services than to send them to the editors of the Journal and Sentinel; but we should remember those who are far away from a Christian Science church, and whom a word of encouragement may thus reach through those messengers of Truth and Love so gladly welcomed in many a distant home.
We English folks are proverbially conservative and perhaps also inherently disposed to take everything that hails from America cum grano salts. This insular prejudice very readily applies itself to such a revolution of thought as Christian Science involves. Yet I am happy to say that even in England Christian Science is making marked progress, and the number of its followers is rapidly augmenting.
I well remember listening half incredulously to the first explanations I heard of Christian Science in 1899. I finally said to the friend who was telling me about it, "What a glorious Gospel this would be, if it were only true." There was something so beautiful about it that I eagerly began to study, although bringing forward every argument against it for several months, until at length I had occasion to try it, and found, to my delight, that Christian Science is true. Then the tempter of course said, "Well, that might have happened anyhow: it is not sufficient proof." Still continuing to study the literature and eventually to attend some meetings at the London Church, I found more and more proof of the absolute correctness of this great teaching.
