February 12, 1921
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As
students and demonstrators of this great and wonderful practical truth, Christian Science, our real desires, efforts, and purposes are one, and that one is to gain an understanding of the truth that will make us free and enable us to work out our own salvation in the way appointed, and there is no other way.
Gradually
mankind is waking to the realization that it lives in a world of thought.
It
is very interesting to note how in the Old Testament Pentecost was held in commemoration of the children of Israel being delivered from servitude to the Egyptians and of the freedom they experienced through reaping the fruits of their labors, which culminated in the gift of the law obtained by Moses, who, having seen sufficiently clearly, received the truth and gave to their waking thought the guidance from God.
To
those who have settled down with the fatalistic acceptance of old-age beliefs, Christian Science comes with the glad assurance that the stagnation and loss of normal faculties that are considered an accompaniment of advanced years can be overcome here and now.
In
his first epistle, John declares that "God is light," and that "in him is no darkness at all," and adds: "If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Thy
will be done, we sing and prayIn accents loud, on bended knee;But do we mean just what we say?
In
trusting Principle, as revealed through Christian Science, for help and healing, a man's encouragement lies in the immanence of good.
With a grateful heart I give my testimony, hoping that it may be helpful to others.
I think there is no one who has more cause for gratitude for Christian Science than I.
To-day when reading the testimonies in the Sentinel, I felt it time for me to express my gratitude for Christian Science,—for what it has done and is doing for me.
Gratitude prompts me to tell others some of my experiences along the way which leads from the belief in matter to the realization of Spirit.
I desire to express my gratitude for Christian Science.
I should like to add my testimony to the many I have read.
More than twenty years ago I turned to Christian Science for help because I knew not what else to do.
The efficacy of Christian Science treatment has been proved to me many times.
About four years ago an incident occurred which I accepted as an illustration of the powerlessness of error when one's thought is fortified with the truth.
Since my girlhood I have loved and studied the Bible, and as far as I understood the teachings of Jesus have endeavored to put them into practice, even to leaving dear ones and going to a foreign country to tell the good news to those who had never heard of God as Love.
Christian Science was brought to my attention about five years ago.
I first heard of Christian Science about twelve years ago through the healing of a dear friend.
Christian Science found me while I was reading many things of a religious nature with the idea of making a right choice for church membership.
It has been almost four years since I commenced to study Christian Science.
