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.
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.
