Article June 25, 1910 Issue

SOWING "BESIDE ALL WATERS."

F. H. PARDOE.

In humble gratitude for a new understanding of God as only good, and for many personal healings and other blessings, I add this statement of what even a slight understanding of Christian Science has accomplished, in the hope that it may help to establish the reign of peace and harmony in some other home.

About the first of February, 1909, while on a railway train between my home city and a small town where my business takes me every few days, I saw a boy of fourteen years carrying his sister of six years, who was badly deformed and seemed very ill. Their appearance suggested misery and abject poverty, and there were few dry eyes in the car as I made inquiry regarding them and learned that their home was on rented land out from a neighboring town, and the mother a widow with seven children. It seemed that they were in very reduced circumstances, but a relative in Milwaukee had furnished a small amount of money to help the mother to try a certain treatment in my home city for this little girl.

I learned later that this trip was the last they expected to make, as the money had been exhausted, but not knowing it at the time, the next day I sent an employee to their home with clothing, that the child might be more warmly clad. He reported her condition as "very bad;" that the doctor had been there just before him, and had said on leaving that the child had but a short time to live. About a week later, however, learning that she was still living, I went to see her, accompanied by the employee before referred to. We took with us other bodily comforts, remembering Mrs. Eddy's statement on page eight of our text-book, "If we turn away from the poor, we are not ready to receive the reward of Him who blesses the poor." We found the child as she had lain for several days, having had one nervous spasm after another, but she did not have any more for over three months after that visit, and then only infrequently for a day or two.

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