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Mounting Testimony
A familiar incident related in the Gospels tells of the messengers sent by John the Baptist to inquire of Jesus if he really were the long-looked-for Messiah, who was to establish God's kingdom on earth, or should he continue to look for the coming of the Saviour. The practical Nazarene, knowing the great superiority of works over words as witness-bearers, performed certain cures before the very eyes of the messengers. This done, he bade them return to John and tell him of the wondrous things which they had observed; how the blind were made to see, the deaf to hear, the lame regained the ability to walk, lepers were cleansed, and, more marvelous than all, even those who were thought to have died were restored to their sense of life. All this as witness to his Messiahship!
What marvelous proof of the power of Spirit to destroy even the deepest seated of human beliefs did this incident afford! How much greater were the impressions made upon John's messengers by the actual demonstration of healing than could have been made by any doctrinal statement of the Master's! None knew better than he that the weight of such evidence was constructive, and could not be overthrown. In the face of such demonstration, no effective denial could be made of the fact that the power of Spirit was being utilized to destroy the false beliefs which then so greatly harassed and still continue to distress and harass mankind. The thrilling pertinency of this incident has lost nothing of its importance through the passage of time. Its message is equally potent to-day. Works count. With the increase in the world's population and the improved facilities for expression, words may seem to have lost something of their primal potency; but the works as test of the soundness and practicability of a proposition have lost nothing of their weight as evidence.

June 8, 1929 issue
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Peace
HAROLD S. EAGLE
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Advertising
NORMAN S. ROSE
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Opportunity for Thanksgiving
EMILY SHANKLIN ALLAN
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Arise!
ELISE MURPHEY
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"According to his eating"
LAURA BOWLBY MASSEY
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The Second Commandment
MILDRED H. DOYLE
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"She turned herself"
HILDEGARD KRÜGER
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Nowhere in Mrs. Eddy's writings is there to be found a...
Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
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Christian Science is classed with "mind cure" and "newthought"...
John Murray Burriss, Committee on Publication for the State of Kansas,
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My attention has been drawn to an article in the editorial...
Bryan R. Savory, Committee on Publication for the Transvaal, South Africa,
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In your last issue under the heading "Mission to the Jews,"...
Stanley M. Sydenham, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,
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A sermon, as reported in your issue of March 5, would...
Richard E. Prince, Committee on Publication for the State of Virginia,
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Please allow me space in your column to make a statement...
Mrs. Annie I. Rembert, Committee on Publication for the State of South Carolina,
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In addition to being the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science,...
Dwight K. Chenoweth, Committee on Publication for the State of Kentucky,
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Omnipresence
LEAH BOHN
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Mounting Testimony
Albert F. Gilmore
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The Healing Law of God
Duncan Sinclair
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"As the twig is bent"
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Earle E. Bruck, Minnie C. Blake
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My family felt the touch of the healing Christ in 1915...
Harry Edward De Lasaux, Jr.
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I wish to express my gratitude for a healing which came...
Austin H. Rankin
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For over eleven years I have enjoyed the most wonderful...
Bessie M. Kozlik
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I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science and...
Evelyn E. Ogilvie
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It is with joy that I testify to the demonstrableness of...
Clara W. Ingersoll
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I did not take up the study of Christian Science for physical...
Gertrude Raymoure
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I have known of Christian Science for many years, and...
Marguerite F. M. Roxby
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Fulfillment
ELENORA E. PIKE
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Kerr Boyce Tupper, Jackson, R. J. Anglin Johnson, Howard McLellan, Karl Reiland, A. Herbert Gray