December 10, 1921
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To
beginners in Christian Science as well as to more advanced students the question often arises: I have learned to know that all is infinite Mind, Love, good, and its perfect infinite manifestation, the spiritual universe and spiritual man; how can anything that is not good still seem to me to have reality or power?
The
doctrine of the "divine right of kings" is based on the hypothesis that certain individuals by virtue of their office are responsible for their actions to God alone, that they are above the civil law and therefore not subject to the jurisdiction of the civil courts.
Sometimes
in the experience of a student of Christian Science, when a claim of sickness and suffering or lack and limitation seems tenacious, discouragement comes and puts up its plea: Why struggle on?
To-day
the traveler crossing the desert lands of Syria or Arabia may chance to see a great flock of sheep and goats guarded by their shepherds around them during the whole of the dark summer night.
When
the student of Christian Science has been for some months, perhaps even a year of two, not only a reader of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, but a regular attendant at the Sunday services and the midweek testimony meetings, he begins to take some interest in the various activities of the church, as these are unfolded to him, and to look forward to the time when he, as a member of a branch church or society, will have the privilege of sharing in its work, and so, of helping, in his degree, to spread the Christian Science gospel with its glorious message to mankind.
There
is in every man a potential something that makes of him a conceivable recruit for the Holy War.
In
some way one needs to turn definitely to Christian Science in order to receive the full benefit of its demonstrable Principle.
On consideration of the Lesson-Sermon entitled "Christian Science," and just what it means to me, I feel that it is time to send a testimony for publication, that it may reach a wider field than the usual Wednesday evening meeting.
I have long deferred giving my testimony, for the happy reason that from a wealth of blessings it has seemed difficult to compress even a few into a small space.
It is about three years since I found Christian Science.
I have had so many proofs of the healing and beneficial effects of Christian Science that I hardly know where to begin in writing my testimony for publication.
Having received great help and encouragement from the testimonies, I feel that the least I can do is to add mine to the volume of evidence that grows daily to prove that the omnipresence of divine Principle can be demonstrated to-day in the healing of both sickness and sin.
Christian Science came to me at a time when I was desperately in need of help.
It is with a heart full of gratitude that I send this testimony to what Christian Science has done for me.
The impulse to express gratitude through our periodicals is often quieted by the suggestion to wait for a more convenient time, thus expressing ingratitude, the very opposite of our real desire.
