Article March 7, 1925 Issue

At Our Testimony Meetings

MARIAN GREGG

EVERY student of Christian Science is vitally interested in the Wednesday evening meeting at which testimonies of healing in Christian Science are given. Frequently one's study of Christian Science dates from his attendance at one of these meetings.

To this service come the sin-weary, the sick, those burdened with problems they cannot solve, all looking for some proof that Christian Science can do what it claims to do. At every Wednesday evening meeting Christian Science is thus on trial; and witnesses for the defense are summoned to give their testimony. A definition of "testimony" given in Webster's Dictionary is enlightening on the point. It is as follows: "A solemn declaration or affirmation made to establish or prove some fact: . . . evidence consisting in declarations made according to law by a person as witness." When people arise in a Christian Science church and tell of some healing that has been accomplished in their own experience, they are really adding to the true evidence that is being offered to counteract the false evidence of personal sense.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 430), in the chapter entitled "Christian Science Practice," Mrs. Eddy describes in an allegory the trial of one who had "committed liver-complaint." A great deal of false material evidence is given to prove that the person is sick and should die. and it remains for Christian Science to refute this evidence, and prove that "the prisoner at the bar has been unjustly sentenced. His trial was a tragedy, and is morally illegal" (p. 434). To our churches on Wednesday evening come those who have been hearing, perhaps all day, the evidence which sickness and sin seem to present. It may claim to be staggering evidence, and many are overwhelmed by it. In the calm of the evening they come, alternating between hope and fear, to hear the argument for the defense.

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