Article August 19, 1922 Issue

Sure Testimony

ELIZABETH C. ADAMS

David sang: "The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;" "Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors;" "I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed." And David gives the reason for his "delight" in the words, "Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies." It is for a similar reason that Christian Scientists love the testimony of God,—because the God they are coming to know, by the very nature of His absolute goodness and allness, testifies to the unreality of evil. To those who have not had proofs of its truth this may seem a hard saying, because the material senses are forever bringing forward testimony to the contrary.

Mrs. Eddy has written in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 296), "Mortal mind judges by the testimony of the material senses, until Science obliterates this false testimony." How does Science do this? By showing men how to prove that "man is the image and likeness of God" (Science and Health, p. 414), whose thoughts are loving and harmonious. Moreover, it shows mankind how to put away, like dross, out of its own thinking, all wickedness, and to find its true consciousness in the One who made all things good. "The Science of Mind-healing," Mrs. Eddy says on page 120 of Science and Health, "shows it to be impossible for aught but Mind to testify truly or to exhibit the real status of man. Therefore the divine Principle of Science, reversing the testimony of the physical senses, reveals man as harmoniously existent in Truth, which is the only basis of health; and thus Science denies all disease, heals the sick, overthrows false evidence, and refutes materialistic logic."

What wonder that David sang and sang again, "Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them." And what wonder that the grateful thousands who gather in the churches of the Christian Science faith all over the world like to sing,

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