What a source of comfort and inspiration are our Christian Science Wednesday testimony meetings, providing, as they do, a refuge for those who desire to withdraw from what may seem the monotonous tasks of daily routine!
The weary wanderer, searching for rest, peace, and health, may cry in the words of Job, "Oh that I knew where I might find him!" He is assured that the answer to his query has been found when he listens to the inspiring testimonies given in Christian Science churches. Frequently, individuals paying their first visit to one of these meetings, have found therein the way of surcease from their troubles, renewed courage, and beautiful physical healing. Also, they have found an opportunity to sing out in joyous gratitude: "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. . . . Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, ... to give thanks unto the name of the Lord." "The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the Lord; ... I was brought low, and he helped me."
In these quiet resting places, many testimonies are given which relate how individuals, through hearing other testimonies, or some newfound truth read from the desk, have been led to call upon a Christian Science practitioner for the first time. Likewise, many have been led to purchase or borrow and read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and have found therein these beautiful, spiritual, scientific truths: that God is the one infinite divine Mind or intelligence, the only cause and creator; that the only real creation is a spiritual creation; that the only real man is the image and likeness of his creator, divine Mind; that the only real body is "the spiritual body, the incorporeal idea" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 218), always perfect, and wholly immune from disease, accident, and death.
