Robbie Listens and Is Healed

[Of Special Interest to Children]

LETA BAILEY

Robbie is a happy little boy who attends a Christian Science Sunday School every Sunday. He is in the first grade at school. Each morning before he goes to school, his mother helps him study the Golden Text of the weekly Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, and she reads some of the lesson to him.

They talk about God and His ever-presence and know that there is no power other than God. Sometimes they repeat the ninety-first Psalm from the Bible. Robbie especially likes verse 11. It reads, "For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways."

One Saturday Robbie was asked by his grandfather to come over and help him clean the yard and move a woodpile. "Oh, goody, that will be fun," shouted Robbie gleefully. When the wood was all neatly stacked, Grandfather let Robbie wheel the wheelbarrow, which they had used in moving the wood, around the yard to pick up sticks. With the sticks they built a fire.

Robbie had great fun loading the wheelbarrow with sticks and then unloading the sticks on the fire. He had almost finished the unloading when a big stick rolled off the fire. Robbie grabbed it to put it back on the fire, then dropped it right away, as it had started to burn and was very hot. Almost in tears, Robbie went into the house to tell Grandmother what had happened.

When Grandmother saw Robbie coming toward her, holding his hand and crying out with pain, she immediately declared, "There is no pain in Truth, and no truth in pain." These words are on page 113 of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.

She asked him to repeat "the scientific statement of being" with her. It is found on page 468 of the same book and reads: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual."

They repeated this several times aloud. When they stopped Robbie had let go of his hand and put it behind his back. Grandmother asked Robbie if he remembered these words from the Bible: "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love" (I John 4:18). Robbie listened earnestly, and he was happy that his fear had disappeared.

Grandmother went on to explain that nothing had really happened to his real selfhood, because accidents are unreal, and nothing can touch the perfect child of God.

A smile spread over Robbie's face, and looking up at his grandmother he said, "I am all right now, Grandma." Then he asked, "Please, may I wash my hands?" Before he washed his hands, they both stood quietly and repeated the Lord's Prayer together. Robbie knew that Christ Jesus gave us this prayer.

Robbie's hand had been covered with white ashes, but when he washed them away, there wasn't even a tiny pink spot on his hand. Grandmother and Robbie rejoiced and thanked God for his healing. In Sunday School class the next day Robbie told his teacher and classmates how he had listened to the truth and been healed.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.—John 1:3.

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