Article January 30, 1926 Issue

Testimony Giving

DAISY BEDFORD

The word "testify" is derived from the Latin testis—a witness—and facere—to make; and this explains one function of the Christian Science testimony meetings. Every earnest student of Christian Science appreciates the fact that there is not an hour in the day when the warfare against the world, the flesh, all evil, is not taking place in human thought, and is learning day by day to rejoice in the healing, regenerating, and supporting power of the truth which delivers from error.

With keen foresight our beloved Leader instituted these testimony meetings, and they have undoubtedly proved of the greatest practical help to all participating therein. They provide a suitable occasion for the thankful heart to express some of the loving gratitude which floods thought as it contemplates the goodness of God; and likewise are a source of inspiration to the inquirer who is seeking to know something of the teachings of Christian Science, and who has an opportunity of learning, by listening to the various testimonies, that these teaching are practical, operative, and demonstrable, enabling one to overcome the false beliefs of fear, lack, sorrow, suffering, and sin.

Every testimony given with an underlying sense of love and gratitude, and winged with the desire to share with others the blessings which have come to one, must radiate an atmosphere of healing to the receptive thought; for this message of Truth cannot return void; and if it is God-inspired, then we may joyously know that "the Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit." Our Leader in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 149), in speaking of the meetings, says, "Invite all cordially and freely to this banquet of Christian Science, this feast and flow of Soul."

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