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writing and asked that these be pub
lished over their own signatures for
the information of their fellow men.
Care is taken to verify these state
ments before printing them. They are
known in their respective communi-
ties, and if they were to any extent
untrue that fact could be readily es-
tablished, and doubtless in many in
stances would be. These testimonies
of course represent but a small frac-
tiOn of the cases of Christian Science
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 frst-hand informa-
ton from the beneficiaries Of this heal
ing method. The Wednesday evening
testimony meetings in Christian Sci
ence churches everywhere are especial
ly recommended in that respect.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN BUSI-
NESS
In the business world Christian Sci
ence has been found to be notably help
full. A sound body and a clear head
are important assets to one upon
whom devolves the direction or exc
cution of affairs of trade and indus
try. But Christian Science does some
thing for business itself as we'll as
for the business man or woman. For
one thing, it takes fear out of busi-
ness, thereby removing a prime cause
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 dis
Germ between the right impulse and
the wrong, how to hold in check the
aggressive suggestions of human will
and pride and greed that would lead
to mistakes of judgment; likewise
how to put down the enervating ar
guments of timidity and self-depreci-
alton, amid whose mists opportunity
might pass by unobserved.
The Christian Scientist in business
finds that he need not be a parasite,
subsisting upon his fellows, a mere
toll-taker on the necessities of others;
but that he and his busienss may con-
stitute genuinely helpful element in
the community life, substantial profit
coming to him not at the expense
of some one else but as his fair share
of the enlarged prosperity of all. In
this and other ways is being revealed
the fact that the golden rule may
be made to reign supreme in the
practical affairs of life without de-
tracing in the least from the just
rewards of intelligent judgment, cour-
age, 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 ESTABLISH
MENT.
Gods ways are not our ways.
Many a milestone along the high
road of human progress is likewise
the gravestone of some cherished hu-
man tradition. Epochs ever have en-
tered contrary to schedule, in viola
tion of the code. And so it was in
keeping with historic precedent that
when the established order of things
intellectual and ecclesiastical had
settled itself complacently in the con-
viction that masculine mentality was
the exclusive medium through which
truth might be permitted to reveal it
self to mankind the aforesaid estab-
lished order should be confronted
with the, to it, shocking fact that
divine Science was being reduced to
human apprehension> of this age
through the pure spirituality of
woman. The established order of
thinking at first but arched it's i'm
perious brow, then smiled indulgently,
then laughed outright; later it
frowned, then scoffed, and finally let
loose its batteries of persecution, both
open and concealed. All these fail
ing, the established order is only now,
after nearly half a century, showing
signs of coming around to an ac-
acknowledgement of the fact that a wom-
an, Mary Baker Eddy, has demon
strated to mankind in this day that
Christianity is scientific.
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 frmy believed un-
derlay the healing of the sick by
purely spiritual means at intervals
throughout the recorded history of
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 healed
Of her infirmity. The great fact was
established in human consciousness.
How to make it available to her fell
low men became the immediate prob
lem. The pallid invalid was trans
formed in the glory of her task.
Years of consecrated effort brought
forth the Christian Science textbook,
"Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures" 1t was followed by a
veritable library of collateral writ
ings. Meanwhile it had been demon
strated that the knowledge could be
transmitted to others. The good news
spread Students came in increasing
numbers. Mrs. Eddy was equal to
the task. She organized a church,
established a system of teaching,
launched publishing house, founded
and for time edited monthly jour