Christian Science
practice with its resultant healing is the most powerful and important activity on earth, and it must be seen and upheld as such by Christian Scientists everywhere.
Fundamental
to the demonstration of harmony in human relationships is the understanding of man's true identity as the child of God, and from this standpoint alone can harmony be universally established.
One
day during the Christmas holidays in England, David's mother amused him by making a Christmas cracker, or snapper, for him out of a pocket handkerchief.
How
wisely did the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, choose the name for her weekly periodical when she titled it Christian Science Sentinel! And how appropriate is the challenging message of Christ Jesus which appears on the cover of each issue, "What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch".
A young woman, her face beaming with happiness, said to her Sunday School teacher, "I was tempted to do something last week unbecoming to a Christian Scientist, but I remembered that I was a member of The Mother Church and must act as one, so I turned from the error.
When the Smith Lake dike at the western end of Vanport City, Oregon, broke last May, flooding the city with many feet of water within an hour, the Christian Science Committee on Publication for Oregon immediately telegraphed the general Committee on Publication in Boston.
For many years I have been receiving encouragement and help from reading the testimonies in our periodicals, and it is indeed time that I acknowledge the blessings and healings that the study of Christian Science has brought to me.
I did not begin the study of Christian Science for physical healing, but to correct an unhappy, inharmonious condition in the home which had been brought on mostly by my own wrong thinking.
Beginning the study and sincere application of the teachings of Christian Science has been the most constructive step, humanly and spiritually, of my experience.
I write this testimony with the hope that it may help someone as I have so many times been helped and uplifted by reading the testimonies in our periodicals.
Words alone can never express the gratitude which I owe to God, to Christian Science, and to the practitioner and the many friends who have helped me in times of need.
It is with a great sense of reverence that I think of all that God has done for me and my family through the unfoldment which has come to us since we became students of Christian Science.
For the beauty of God's creation and for His power and presence, proved through the understanding and application of Christian Science, I am deeply grateful.
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