A unique public opportunity to relate healings accomplished through prayer alone is available in many communities every Wednesday night. The Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy designates a period for giving "experiences, testimonies, and remarks on Christian Science." Man., p. 122; This is a time for sharing aloud gratitude for the healing Christ. In testifying, we can also claim our rightful role as recipients of divine direction and share with others what we have discerned.
The testimonies should be healing in nature. Sometimes we get so absorbed in giving the details that we may forget this. For example, at one Wednesday testimony meeting I sat down after relating an experience and realized I had forgotten to tell how I was healed! I saw then that beyond simple restoration of health and well-being, healing gives us a specific insight on Truth as it relates to a human situation. Unless we communicate this understanding in our testimony, we've left out the main event.
To those who wish to learn public speaking, the advice from professionals is likely to be, "Talk about what you know about." We can approach giving a testimony in a similar way. We should become so familiar with the spiritual truths we have gained from our study and prayer that these ideas, rather than parenthetical episodes of human experience, will be the unmistakable point of our remarks.
