Article August 2, 1900 Issue

Testimony Meeting at Portland, Ore.

Evening Telegram

The regular weekly testimony meeting at First Church of Christ, Scientist, was conspicuous for its quiet dignity and earnestness. At such a meeting a stranger, upon entering the room, is at once impressed by the bright faces of the Scientists. All enter into the simple service with unfeigned joy and gladness. The leader of the meeting announced that the Sunday and Wednesday services were for the benefit of all who desired to attend, and that a free reading room was kept open daily in the rear of the church edifice. She also stated that while the Sunday services presented the doctrine of Christian Science, the Wednesday evening services were for the purpose of giving some of the practical effects of the application of the doctrine.

The time given to testimonies, was fully occupied. People standing up here and there in the audience, told of their experiences since accepting the doctrine. Many expressed themselves as grateful, not only for the physical healing, but for the moral uplifting and the spiritual blessings received.

A woman spoke of recently attending a gathering of six thousand Christian Scientists in Boston and hearing personal testimonies of the healing of almost every known disease. She said that thirteen years ago she had journeyed eastward to find health from change of climate, but had been forced to return home without it, and later found it through Christian Science, and that this time she had gone eastward joyously in full health. She also spoke of visiting a friend while on her trip who one year ago had been given up by physicians to die with cancer. She had been six months confined to her bed, but three weeks after beginning Christian Science treatment was able to walk about the house, and in six weeks made a journey on the cars and was perfectly healed.

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