Nearly everyone is taught from early childhood to say "Thank you!" If someone gives us a wonderful gift, one we may have been wanting for years, perhaps, wouldn't we feel it incumbent on us to say "Thank you"? Wouldn't we wish to be the one of the ten whom Christ Jesus healed who came back to express gratitude, rather than one of the nine who evidently didn't appreciate his blessing enough to return to give thanks?
Those of us who are recipients of the greatest of all gifts, Christian Science, have the joyous privilege of telling others of the great good that has come to us. Mrs. Eddy evidently knew the value of an acknowledgment of the healing efficacy of Christian Science, not only to friends and associates, but to the public generally, for she instituted Wednesday testimony meetings in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, where those healed may testify in person and so carry the good news farther afield. She writes in the Manual of The Mother Church: "Testimony in regard to the healing of the sick is highly important. More than a mere rehearsal of blessings, it scales the pinnacle of praise and illustrates the demonstration of Christ, 'who healeth all thy diseases' (Psalms 103: 3)." Man, Art. VIII, Sect. 24;
Regular attendance at the Sunday services is important to our spiritual progress, for at these services the teaching and methods of Christian Science are clearly set forth in the weekly Lesson-Sermon outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly and read in The Mother Church and in all branch churches. But might it not be said that the real growth of a branch church can be measured by the importance its members attach to attendance at the Wednesday testimony meetings, where the practical application of this Science in healing and in the solving of human problems is testified to personally by members of the congregation?
