Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-09-21

satisfaction in the individual expe-
rience Of the student. Christian Sci
ehce has no means of attracting or
holding followers except its superior.
ability to meet their human needs, and
It 1t had failed to do this to any ap
probable extent the closing chapter
in its history would have been written
long ago. So. then, the rapid. wide
spread, and steadily increasing
growth Of the movement constitutes
inferential evidence of a peculiarly
forceful character that Christian Sci
ence healing is a fact.
Thousands TESTIFY to Healing.
Then there is a mass of evidence
of a direct and particular nature to
be found in the individual testimonies
of healing in the official publications
of the Christian Science church. In
these publications in recent years
have appeared the statements of more
than twelve thousand persons who
testify to having been healed through
Christian Science of ills that cover.
virtually the whole range of human
suffering. These thousands Of per
sons have been SO impressed with
what Christian Science has done for
them in the way Of healing that they
have voluntarily set out their eXpe-
riences in writing and asked that
these be published yer their own sig
natures for the information of their
fellow men.
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 infor-
nation from the benefciaries OF this
healing method. The Wednesday ev-
ening testimony meetings in Chris
tian Science churches everywhere are.
especially recommended in that re
spect.
Christian Science in Business.
In the business world Christian
Science has been found to be notably
helpful. A sound body and a clear
mind are important assets to IN upon
whom devolyes the direction or exc
cution of affairs of trade and industry.
But Christian Science does something
for business itself as we'll as for the
business man or woman. For n
thing, it takes fear out of business,
thereby removing a prime factor Of
failure. The Christian Scientist in
business will tell you that he has rea-
son 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 ag-
gressive suggestions of ruthless hui
man will and pride and greed that
would lead to mistakes of judgment;
likewise how to put down enervating
arguments of timidity and self-depre-
citation, amid whose mists opportunity
might pass by unobserved.
Discovery and Establishment.
During forty years of almost unin-
terrupted invalidism Mrs. Eddy had
been struggling toward the appre-
hension of the scientific rule and
method that she firmly believed un.
derlay the healing of the sick by
purely spiritual means at intervals
throughout the recorded history oil
mankind, and especially during the
first three centuries of the Christian
era. The revelation came to her in
an hour when death seemed almost
at hand. and through it she was heal
ed of her infirmity. The great fac,
was established in human conscious
ness. How to make 1t available tx
her fellow men becameSthe Immediate
problem. Years of ~consecraved effort
brought forth the Christian Science
textbook, Science and Health will
Key to the Scriptures" It was fol
lowed by a yeritable library of col
lateral writings.
No Deep Mystery About II.
There is no deep mystery abou
Christian Science, except in the mis-
taken opinions OF some who do no
understand it, Consider, for instance
the teaching as to the unreality o
matter. Be assured that to the Chris
tan Scientist the mountains are a
high the skies as blue, and the ocean
as broad AS to n nj else. Christian
Scientists cIothe, feed. and hous
themselves after the manner Of thei
nonSscientist nelgnbors And this IS !
not Inconsistent with that which yo1