Articles

Have you wanted to give a testimony of Christian Science healing but been afraid to? Or talked longer than you had intended? Or forgotten an important point when giving a testimony? These questions bring another question: Have you ever thought of preparing in advance to give a testimony? Every week inspiring accounts of healings can be heard at testimony meetings in Churches of Christ, Scientist, Christian Science Societies, and Christian Science college organizations. Mrs.

The Bible records that when Christ Jesus cured the man with dropsy, he "took him, and healed him, and let him go. " Luke 14:4; It is clear from the various gospel accounts of healing that the Master was not mesmerized by the appearance of disease, even though he evidently saw the need sometimes to take the patient to one side, away from the crowd, before he addressed himself to the difficulty in order to heal him.

Some of the greatest healing experiences recorded in the Bible are briefly told. We need not on that account, however, be deprived of the tremendous significance for us of these evidences of God's care.

Why do we sometimes find ourselves struggling with a comparatively small problem that seems to defy healing in Christian Science? The basic difficulty arises from the supposition that there is an evil mind, or mind in matter, whose misty conceptions obscure the reality of perfect God and His idea, man. But we do not have to accept this supposition.

The demonstration of the power of God, divine Mind, through healing is an essential aspect of Christianity and Christian Science. Faith, hope, expectation, are building blocks of prayer.

To many an amazing factor of Christian Science is its dynamic effect in human experience. It not only heals bodily disease but purifies character, encourages, strengthens, and uplifts constructive human endeavor, and solves what seem most difficult and complex human problems.

Flowing perceptibly through the Scriptures and their correlative in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy is the startling revelation that there is but one self-existent Being, one incorporeal, supreme Person, called God. Incomparable and indivisible Person, or divine Ego—I am, as God revealed Himself to Moses—is infinite Spirit, or divine good, all-inclusive Life, Truth, and Love, the only Mind, Soul, or Principle—the only Father and Mother—of the universe.

The impelling desire to think for ourselves comes early to most of us. It means we want to be free of personal domination in making our decisions, large or small.

Is what humanity experiences on this earth all there is of life? Many think not and may wonder about the hereafter and what their state is going to be upon leaving this plane of existence. Within this speculative wonderment is a hint of reality—a hint of the fact that Life and being are inextinguishable.

Christian Science, the Science of Christianity as taught by the Master, Christ Jesus, is an irresistible power for good in today's distraught world. What is it that binds its followers together and implements its forward thrust? Is it not the Church of Christ, Scientist? If those who wanted Christian Science had Mary Baker Eddy's book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, but there were no church, these seekers for Truth would be scattered, rolling around in a sea of orthodoxy like isolated fragments.