Article January 28, 1933 Issue

Giving Testimony

A. LINCOLN ROTHBLUM

There is cause for gratitude that when Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, established the Wednesday testimony meetings and the Christian Science periodicals she made due provision for testimonials of healing. That she incorporated Section 24 in Article VIII in the Manual of The Mother Church is indicative of the importance she placed upon audible and written testimonials.

Whatever the nature of the demonstration, the healing furnished practical and positive proof that Christian Science is the remedial truth. Whether the healing be an instantaneous demonstration or a more protracted one, it is indubitable evidence of the power of the Word. Every such experience has contributed to the individual's spiritual growth and merits communication to others.

Among the arguments attempting to retard the giving of testimony may be a sense of one's being incapable of proper expression because of curtailed education, limited vocabulary, or halting speech. Such erroneous reasoning finds its counterpart in Bible history. It presented itself to the thought of Moses when he was directed by God to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt. When he voiced his belief of a lack of eloquence and of slowness of speech and tongue, he received the clear reassurance of the ever-presence and support of divine Love, "Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say." As encouragingly as it came to Moses, so today to the one desiring to give testimony comes this divine promise.

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