Items of Interest September 3, 1932 Issue

Items of Interest

Of late varying accounts of a somewhat spectacular nature, setting forth a healing effected through Christian Science, have been given as testimonies at Wednesday evening meetings in The Mother Church and in branch churches in this country and abroad. It is obvious that some of those who have related this case have not been possessed of direct testimony regarding it, but are reporting what they have heard from others, for their narrations have varied in important respects; all of which points to the advisability of one's knowing that what one states at the Wednesday evening meetings, or elsewhere, is accurate. Not all testimonies need be given by eyewitnesses, for accuracy can be established to a speaker's satisfaction through the word of trusted individuals who have known the facts beyond question. But if a testimony given by a stranger in a Christian Science church is repeated in another church, it has been found advisable to preface one's remarks by the explanation that the testimony was heard in a Wednesday evening meeting elsewhere. In the Church Manual (Art. VIII, Sect. 24) Mrs. Eddy has written: "Testimony in regard to the healing of the sick is highly important. More than a mere rehearsal of blessings, it scales the pinnacle of praise and illustrates the demonstration of Christ, 'who healeth all thy diseases' (Psalm 103:3)."

Someone who has visited Jerusalem recently commented interestingly that Solomon's Temple, built of stone made ready before it was brought to the site, "so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building," was, as modern discovery shows, constructed of limestone quarried underneath the city. This visitor procured a sample of the limestone from that quarry. It is of color and texture similar to that used for The Mother Church Extension, and now being used on the exterior of the new Publishing House.

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