It was once brought to the attention of the writer that testimonies concerning small daily happenings were not desired at the Wednesday evening meetings of the Christian Science church; that people came to hear about the cure of so-called incurable diseases. Not having any serious physical ills to meet, one felt ruled out of court, as it were, by this dictum. Nevertheless, it is the logical working out in Christian Science of the numberless problems which confront us in daily experience, as related in these simple testimonies, that is making innumerable converts to this new teaching of man's true relation to God.
On page 51 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy states that Jesus' "purpose in healing was not alone to restore health, but to demonstrate his divine Principle." Physical healing may therefore be regarded as an "outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace;" consequently it is the slowness of spiritual apprehension which accounts largely for what seems a deferred physical emancipation.
The gradual purgation of thought resultant upon an earnest and prayerful study of Christian Science uncovers and disposes of the stubborn roots of an external manifestation with a dreaded name, just as war has ever been the visible presentment of long and secretly indulged false ambitions, lusts, and desires, born of universal ignorance concerning the true relation between God and man, the witness also of man's reliance upon the false deities of mortal mind invention, which invariably fail at the crucial moment.
