Article December 5, 1901 Issue

Underneath are the Everlasting Arms

BY G.

"Leaning on the sustaining Infinite, to-day is big with blessings,"—Mary Baker G. Eddy in the preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

This morning I have filed away in my desk six hundred dollars worth of notes given by myself to personal friends for temporary loans in a business way, which this week's mail has brought me cancelled and paid. Five rather oppressive debts to personal friends, which represented in amount nearly or quite one half of a year's income; debts which had come down to me as heir-looms of the old mortal-mind period of my life; debts which were the sole remains of business transactions undertaken before, through Christian Science, I learned to consult divine Love in all my business matters. Five such obligations have been lifted in the past ten days, and I am deeply moved with an awesome sense of the power of God, when I acknowledge here and now that I owe my present freedom from the chains of this old financial claim, to the strength and power and courage that have come to me in the endeavor to practise the faith and understanding of the true Scientist, as taught by Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy.

I am constrained to bear witness to the all-power of God in caring for this sort of human need, because I am convinced that mortal mind obtains its hold on the thought of most people in our day through the failure of our old-time teachers to recognize and teach to others the power of God (Love) in smoothing out the question of how to pay for what we need. If one is frugal, watchful, industrious, and with it all unselfish and Christian, one will not be extravagant, careless, vacillating, mean, or envious. The first state is that of the true Scientist, and is bound by the unchanging law of Good, to produce harmony, peace, tenderness, and joy. It has been tried. The second state is that of mortal mind, and it produces debt, discord, and frantic attempts to recover lost ground by senseless efforts, which only plunge deeper in the mire of trouble and invites disaster. This also has been tried. Frugality, watchfulness, and industry, without unselfishness, will not produce the fruits of which I speak. Our work will fail without that Love which clothes our operations in such a mantle of sweetness, that no suspicion of self-seeking shall be manifest to those with whom we labor. This understanding came to me only through the study of Science and Health, and the attempt to practise what I read. The endeavor to obey brought such results as to encourage me to lean more and more upon that Immorial Mind in which men truly live, and move, and have their being. What had been a half-hoped-for good in the old way of thinking, became, through the study of Christian Science, the vitalizing, pulsating energy of every-day life. With no desire to call attention to personality, but that I may voice the impersonal Truth as it has become known to me through experience, I wish to bear grateful testimony to the fact that a family of five persons has for over two years been led through Christian Science, without medicine, into health never before known, into a remarkably improved conception of life and what it really means, and into a wonderful realization of the truth as quoted above, "Leaning on the sustaining Infinite, to-day is big with blessings."

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