Article August 18, 1917 Issue

Witnessing to the Truth

J. THOMAS MUMFORD

"What sayest thou of thyself?" was the question propounded to John, the forerunner of Jesus the Christ, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to discover who the Baptist was. He was on the witness stand, so gave his great testimony concerning that prophet whose shoe's latchet he counted himself "not worthy to unloose." Christ Jesus has had his witnesses in the past, and especially during the last fifty years thousands of his true followers in Christian Science have verified his work as they did in the first three centuries of the Christian era.

Because of my gratitude for the benefits received through Christian Science, and for the good it may do others who are seeking for that "true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world," I too desire to add my experience. Although a minister in the Congregational denomination for over twenty years, during that time I was constantly disturbed by the though that I was not receiving the blessings which justified the life, teachings, and purpose of "the Son of God" in my behalf. Surely there must be something somewhere which I had not discovered, and for this reason was spiritually poor when I should have been gloriously "rich toward God."

Having resigned my pastorate on account of a bronchial ailment, and entered business, I began to investigate various new theories with the hope of finding relief,—not from physical ills, even though the ministry was given up because of them, but rather to find something to fill the aching void which seemed to be growing larger in my consciousness from day to day. In these inquiries, which were carried on with an honest desire to know the truth, I thought I was making some progress, but now I know that they were only steppingstones to higher things, as I discovered later in Christian Science. I wanted to be led by divine light, not by human opinions; not by the advice of friends and loved ones, nor yet by the church which I loved because of long and intimate fellowship. The truth was what I desired above every other thing in the world. I hungered and thirsted for it, and said with Job, "Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!"

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