The story of Elisha and the Shunammite woman in the fourth chapter of II Kings has inspired mankind through the centuries and taught in a graphic manner the value of unwavering faith in God, infinite good. It will he remembered that this Shunammite had a child who became ill and to all appearances passed on. Despite this, the mother did not waver in her adherence to the spiritual fact of God's changeless goodness. Even to her husband, who asked why she was hastening to reach the prophet, she replied, "It shall be well."
Elisha, seeing the woman approach him from afar, sent his servant to meet her and inquire of her: "Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? it is well with the child?"
In her intelligent and God-inspired reply, "It is well," she gave a perfect illustration of a Christian Scientist's attitude and altitude of thought when he seems to be faced with evil conditions, sin, disease, or death. Did not the Shunammite mother glimpse in some degree the great truth that only what is Godlike is real, and that that which denies the nature of our loving Father-Mother God, Life, Truth, and Love—the cause of the universe and man—is not real but an illusion of false, mortal sense? An illusion has to disappear from the thought that entertains the truth of being. As one claims the spiritual fact that man is always at one with God and that it is always well with him, the proof that this is indeed the truth is made manifest, even as it was to the Shunammite when the prophet's spiritual ability to heal met her human need and restored the boy to life.
