Article June 2, 1945 Issue

Prove It for Yourself

J. LESLIE HADDON

One evening many years ago I paused before the wide-open doors of a church, attracted by the joyous demeanor of the people chatting within the foyer. Why the unusual happiness, I wondered. My appeal to a stranger who had stopped to share the scene evoked no satisfactory reply. "I guess, though," he added thoughtfully, "these folks have got something." I agreed readily. Without question they had. But I was not to learn what it was just then. My answer came some months later when, impelled by the need of physical healing, I attended a Christian Science Wednesday evening testimony meeting.

From testimonies given by some of the congregation I gathered that what those good people in the church foyer had had was this: a religion which led to definite answers to their prayers, and which could be applied to their everyday problems, a religion, in short, which they had proved would work. The speakers had demonstrated the fact that Christian Science heals. Through it, they declared, the Bible had been marvelously clarified for them. By it they had been given the means of proving that the promises made in the Scriptures still hold good today.

Had not their beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, told them on page 547 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "You can prove for yourself, dear reader, the Science of healing, and so ascertain if the author has given you the correct interpretation of Scripture"?

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