Editorial March 13, 1902 Issue

Unusual Testimonies

Editor

At a recent Wednesday evening meeting at First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Chicago, there were given two testimonies of an unusually interesting character. One was given by Mr. John Lloyd of Chicago, an employee of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and was substantially as follows:—

"My principal contention against the churches in general while in the old thought was that Christianity was not practical. I often made the statement that when I found a religion that was practical for every day as well as Sunday, I would adopt that religion. So bitter was my contention against the churches that even after I had turned to Christian Science for physical help, when the name 'Church' was mentioned by some of the ladies at the reading rooms when I was there for treatment, I said to myself, 'If these people have any church business connected with this work, the first thing they know I will quit them.' A little later, however, and after my nature had somewhat softened under the benign influence of Infinite Love, I got into conversation with one of the ladies at the reading rooms and she told me something about the Mother Church, and how the Treasurer had sent out notices to the subscribers at the time the church was built notifying them that they must stop sending in money, as sufficient funds were at hand to complete the work. 'What!' said I, 'do you mean to tell me that some church acknowledged that it had enough money?' She said, 'Yes, that is the way we do in Christian Science.' My reply was, 'That is the greatest miracle of the nineteenth century.'

"After taking up the study of Christian Science it began to become clear to me what 'Church' really meant, and that I had at last found a church that was practical and that it was a church for Sunday, Monday, and every day, every hour, and every minute, if you please.

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