Testimony of Healing March 27, 1915 Issue

I feel that I cannot longer delay the expression of my...

Sarah L. Raby

I feel that I cannot longer delay the expression of my gratitude for the numberless blessings which have been showered upon me and mine through the kindly ministrations of loving friends, whom divine Love has sent to me during the past two years.

Christian Science came to me three years ago, when I was in the depths of despair. We were then living in Oklahoma city. I was a complete physical wreck and in deep mental darkness. My husband had been ill for a long time, and was then in the last stage of what physicians called a malignant disease. While he was unable to grasp Christian Science enough to get the full benefit of its healing power, we realized many happy hours together, trying to know more of the "Life that knows no death" (Hymnal, p. 4). Two years ago he passed on, and I was left with three little children to care for, and the "wolf" at my very door, as all our material possessions had been swallowed up in doctors' bills and other expenses incident to illness. Since passing through that bitter experience I have trusted God, ever present Love, as implicitly as I ever trusted my earthly parents. Without doubting or wavering for a single moment, I have followed the Scriptural injunction, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." My heart overflows with gratitude that I can bear witness to the truth and fulfilment of that promise. Though I was left alone in the world, without any person to whom I could look for my supply, and seemingly not strong enough to support myself and my little ones by manual labor, I most humbly and gratefully say that I have never lacked any "good thing." I have been sustained by divine power to accomplish more than I had ever dreamed of being able to do, literally verifying the words of St. Paul, "Having nothing, and yet possessing all things."

On one occasion, when I left my children at home while I attended a Wednesday evening service, the youngest, four years old, cried for a few minutes and then said, "I will not cry any more, for our other Mother is here," meaning our "Father-Mother God" (Science and Health, p. 16). When the older ones told me of this on my return from church, I felt so grateful for having taught them that God is our Father and Mother. This has comforted them many times since, when they have wished for their father, who to their sense had been taken from them.

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