"GLORIFY God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." So pleaded Paul to the early followers of Christ in that far-off day in the dawn of the Christian era. The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, in her Church Manual (Art. VIII, Sect. 24), repeats this clarion call to those who would demonstrate the Christ-healing in the present day. And she goes on to say, "Testimony in regard to the healing of the sick is highly important."
So important, indeed, did she consider this particular means of glorifying God, that she provided definite avenues through which students of Christian Science should voice His praise for the blessings vouchsafed to them through their study and application of the Science of Christianity. These avenues are our periodicals—The Christian Science Journal, Christian Science Sentinel, The Herald of Christian Science, and the Wednesday evening meetings in Christian Science churches throughout the world.
But our great Leader was not content merely to provide avenues for oral and written testimony in praise of God for His wonderful works. In the same By-Law, with her characteristic wisdom, she explicitly describes the nature of the testimony. Thus did she throw every safeguard around the Church she founded, including plainly marked guideposts along the trail she blazed for us to follow. She adds, regarding testimony (Manual), "More than a mere rehearsal of blessings, it scales the pinnacle of praise and illustrates the demonstration of Christ, 'who healeth all thy diseases' (Psalm 103:3)."
