"To those leaning on the sustaining...

Marguerite C. Cutting

"To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings" (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, Pref., p. vii). I read this each day with unfailing joy—another day in which to express Truth, Life, and Love! In humble and fervent gratitude to God. I give my testimony, hoping it may help others as I have been helped by both articles and testimonies.

I have read and loved the Bible from childhood. I began attending a church because I loved the hear the organ music: I loved the beauty of the stained glass windows, and above all the quiet peacefulness; yet I knew always that I was seeking something. One day I read an article in a newspaper which said, "God is not a spirit, GodisSpirit." I pondered this but did not like it, for I thought. "Anyone can have spirit." Then a clear, reasoning thought came to me: "Yes. anyone can have God." I cried out aloud, "Yes, but how?" and the clear thought came again (John 14:6), "I am the way, the truth, and the life." I knew then that God was very near. I knelt down and asked Him to guide me.

I read my Bible each day as usual. Very soon I met a woman who asked me if I understood the Bible. I replied, "Of course." The woman smiled, showed me a copy of Science and Health. and asked if I would care to take a copy home with me. I read and read. Then began a warfare within; the chemicalization had indeed begun. I hated and loved the book in turn, but could not leave it. I knew I had found the truth when I read Mrs. Eddy's words in her Message to The Mother Church for 1902 (p. 4), "I again repeat, Follow your Leader, only so far as she follows Christ."

One day I heard Christian Science being ridiculed. I went home, picked up my Bible, and knew that God would show me the way. I read of the wonders God had performed when He brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. I read far into the night, and then knelt and prayed that God would keep me in His way. I heard the still small voice say. "I am the Lord your God. which brought you forth" (Lev. 25:38). I recognized forever, in that moment, my everlasting oneness with God. The same God who brought the children of Israel out of nondage was here., and would free me from sin, sickness, and death. I knew that the truth I had so earnestly sought was there, in Science and Health, to help and guide me.

I have had many physical healings, and these have blessed me with a greater capacity for more spiritualized thinking. I was healed of the aftereffects of rheumatic fever, of pneumonia, and of many other troubles too numerous to mention. I have seen little children healed instantaneously in Christian Science of measles, pneumonia, coughs, and colds.

The most wonderful healing of all was a curious one. From early childhood I had what most people call second sight. I prophesied, told people things about to happen, and knew people's thoughts. Sometimes I was very unhappy over this, but the ability seemed to increase. Finally, since I became more and more unhappy, I said to a practitioner: "Will you help me over this? It seems so much a part of me that I feel as though my whole life will fall to pieces without it. yet if it is not of God I do not want it." I knew I wanted Truth. I had feared a terrible upheaval, but a great calm came, a peace such as I had never known, and a clear perception of Life. Truth, and Love. I was completely healed of this tendency.

My heart is overflowing with gratitude to the Way-shower, Christ Jesus, and to our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who labored with love and unselfish devotion to give us Science and Health. I can never be grateful enough for the joy which has come into my life through the study of the text—book. The truth therein is indeed the Comforter which Christ Jesus promised those who believed on him.—(Mrs.) Marguerite C. Cutting, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England.

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