Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-26


holding followers except its superior
ability to meet their human needs,
and if it failed to do this to any ap-
preciable extent the closing chapter
in it's history would have been writ
ten long ago. So, then, the rapid :.
widespread, and steadily increasing
growth of the movement constitu-
ties inferential evidence of peculiar
ly forceful character that Christian
Science healing is fact.
Thousands Testify to Healing.
A mass of evidence of direct and
particular nature is to be found in
the individual testimonials of heal
ing in the official publications of
the Christian Science church. In
these publications during the recent
years have appeared the statements
of more than twelve thousands of
persons, who testify to having been
healed through Christian Science of
ills that cover the whole range of
human suffering. These thousands
of persons have been so impressed
with what Christian Science has
done for them in the way of healing
that they have voluntarily set out
their experiences in writing and ask
ed that these be published over their
own signatures for the information
of their fellow men. Care is taken
to verify these statements before
printing them. They are made as a
rule by individuals well known in
their respective communities, and if
they were to any extent untrue that
fact could be readily established, and
doubtless in many instances would
be. These testimonies of course rep
resent but small fraction of the
cases Of Christian Science healing in
the communities from which they
come.
OF course official records are not
really required by the average indi-
vidual who wishes to learn what
Christian Science is doing for the
sick, for the reason that in almost
every community of consequence the
inquirer may obtain first-hand in
formation from the beneficiaries of
this healing method. The Wednes-
day evening testimony meetings in
Christian Science churches every
where are especially recommended in
that respect.
Christian Science in Business.
In the business world Christian
Science has been found to be notably
helpful. A sound body and a clear
head are important assets to one up
on whom involves the direction or
execution of affairs of trade and in
dustry. But Christian Science does
something for business itself as we'll
as for the business man or
woman. For one thing, it takes fear
out of business, thereby removing a
prime factor of failure. The Chris
tan Scientist in business will tell
you that he has reason to be every
day less afraid for his business, and
this is because he is learning how to
think, how to discern between the
right impulse and the wrong, how
to hold in check the aggressive sug-
gestions of ruthless human will and
pride and greed that would lead to
mistakes of Judgment; likewise how
to put down the enervating argu-
ments of timidity and self-deprecia-
ton, amid whose mists opportunity
might pass by unobserved.
The Christian Scientist in business
finds that he need not be parasite,
|subssting upon his fellows, a mere
toll-taker on the necessities of 9TH
ers; but that he and his business
may constitute a genuinely helpful
element in the community life, sub
|stantial profit coming to him not at
the expense of some one else but as
his fair share. of the enlarged prop
cry of all. In this and other ways is
being revealed the fact that the gol-
den rule may be made to reign SUI
preme in the practical affairs of life
without detracting in the least from
the just rewards of intelligent judy
ment. courage, alertness, industry,
and economy, all which qualities, and
others of their kind, are enhanced
through the study and application
of Christian Science, as thousands
of successful business men do most
gladly affirm.
Discovery and Establishment.
Gods ways are not our ways.
Many a milestone along the high
road of human progress is likewise
the gravestone of some cherished hui
man tradition. Epochs ever have
entered contrary to schedule, in vio-
lation of the code. And so it was in
keeping with historic precedent that
when the established order of things
intellectual and ecclesiastical had