Article November 26, 1949 Issue

BEING GRATEFUL FOR SMALL DEMONSTRATIONS

WALTER S. SYMONDS

The beginning student of Christian Science is usually surprised and delighted to hear the expressions of gratitude to God for healing at a Christian Science testimony meeting. He may also be impressed by the wide range of subjects for which thanks are voiced: healings of minor ills and of diseases of a malignant nature; domestic relations made harmonious; failures averted; and many other problems solved, all through the application of Christian Science.

Yet there are those in the congregation who customarily remain in their seats at these meetings, not so much through fear as from thinking that their experiences are not sufficiently striking to command the interest of others. They await some unusual and impressive demonstration before testifying to their gratitude for the healing power of Christian Science.

Actually, one instance of annulling false testimony is just as important as another, in the sense that each illustrates the Principle of divine healing. Mary Baker Eddy says in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 461): "Christian Science must be accepted at this period by induction. We admit the whole, because a part is proved and that part illustrates and proves the entire Principle." The simple testimony of a comparatively insignificant healing may be as helpful as one relating how the belief of some incurable disease has been overcome.

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