The
word "testimony" has for its derivation the Latin word testis, meaning "a witness," so Webster tells us in the dictionary which bears his name; and he defines "testimony" as "a solemn declaration or affirmation made to establish or prove some fact.
During
a Sunday service in a large and beautiful metropolitan edifice, a branch Christian Science church, the announcement was read from the desk, "The collection today will be devoted to reducing the indebtedness of this church.
Speaking
the new tongue of spiritual sense, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, again and again found human language a frail and inadequate messenger for her sublime message.
Eben S. Longfellow
with contributions from Rosa G. Longfellow
I am very grateful for Christian Science and wish to express the gratitude I feel that our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gave its truths to the world so that they can be readily applied by its students.
Words are inadequate to express my gratitude for the wonderful healings and blessings that I have experienced in Christian Science for more than forty years.
In a copy of the Christian Science Sentinel some time ago, an account of one who came to the Christian Science Reading Room for the first time in search of a way out of human misery contained the phrase, "a human life in ruins.