Article December 24, 1949 Issue

ALL IS WELL

PATRICK J. HAMBROOK

The story of the Shunammite woman recorded in the fourth chapter of II Kings is significant and inspiring. That brave mother, unexpectedly confronted with her small son's death, laid the boy in an upper chamber, "shut the door upon him," and "went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel." Elisha, seeing her at a distance, told Gehazi, his servant, to run to meet her and inquire if all was well with her, with her husband, and with the child. Her reply was direct and emphatic: "It is well."

Reaching Elisha, she fell at his feet, and he perceived that her soul was "vexed within her." But this agitation did not keep her from bearing faithful witness to the perfection of being or deprive her of the reward of such faithfulness. The prophet went to her home and "prayed unto the Lord," and her son was healed.

It is comforting to know that the anguish which sometimes seems to accompany one's earnest declarations of truth cannot deprive one of the tender Father-Mother's ever-presence, care, and guidance or prevent his joyous demonstration that no discordant circumstance or condition is beyond the control of the ever-operative law of God.

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