The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-05-11
Bishop Sabin Tells How
Wife, His Other Self,
Wanted TO Die.
Says She Thought of Can
Ger Until She Died
of One.

That Mrs. Mary Cordelia Bent Sabin,
vtce-bIshop Of the Evangelical! Christian
Science Church. who died May 8. actual
ly expired three weeks before the world
knew OF IL ana that her husband Bishop
Oliver g. Sabin. founder OF the creed,
stood at her bedside that length of time
aHd prayed until she came back 10 life.
was the startling statement made by
him ,7day az his home. 1929 NJ street
northwest.
Il heard the death-rattle in her throat
and sEe died three weeks before the
world .zOew g." said Bishop Sabin, who
IS today broken-hearted over the death
Of his wife. "She died. There was no
breathing. I got down on my knees
and lifted my voice 10 God 10 restore
her TO me. I needed her. She was my
other self and prayed day and night
20 God not TO take her away. The
Giver Of All Good heard my prayer she
was returned. She did breath and talk
but she wanted 90 die"
Breaks Down With Grief.
Here Bishop Sabin. a man about sixty
years old. broke down completely. His
big brown eyes filed with tears. bis
form shook and he bore out his own
statement: IT am a broken-heartee
man
Funeral services for Mrs. Sabin were
held at Lees Undertaking establishment
Thursday, the Rev. Charles F. Winbig-
Ter officiating Music was furnished bv
8Iiss Edith Pickering. The body was
then taken 10 Batavia, III. where Serv.
ices were held in a Baptist Church. Mrs
SaDin was Inferred in the family bury
Aaa s-r- -rAn
as pallbearers- Bishop Sabin and sew
eral children and grandchildren accom-
panied the body TO Batavia and returned
TO Washington yesterday.
Mind Created Her Cancer.
Mrs sabln died from cancer. Bisbon
SabIu said today that she created the
cancer by concentrating her mind on if.
he said she told him many years ago
that she believed she would die from
cancer although az that time she ,-ae
not ~ufering and had no symptoms of
cancer.
Man r-ectes what he wants" sam
Bishop Sauin. Thought is the g-eq+
creator. Ny Eife-or rather my ofber-
self-thought Of cancer. She died from,
cancer. She took a morbid view of life
but sire lived as a saint She was sec-
ond only to an angel in sweetness. ami
ability and goodness. She often tolr5 -,
she wanted to die because Of ~. ;r,i-,.tS t.iS
and perfidy Of the world. I knew eyeT,J.
thing that went on In her mind af teest
1 believed I did, but she kept This one
single thought on cancer from me ana
now she mas been taken awey. In ali
my philosophy cannot find any good
that has been done by her DEATH
Regarded as Supernatural
Bishop sabin declared lis wIfA No.
regarded by their followers as "a e,ra-
natural persoEagc and. that he ,,,r
yelled at her understanding and nD19,f
fed sweetness Of character. He s9i5
be had intended making a tour of tbs
world with her both ketur7ng an
Fvangelistical Chrlstion science buf
since her death he had beer as f., dead
himself. and knows not what ne would
For eighteen months Bishon sabi,
was identified with the followers Of
Mrs. ECdy, but ten years ago he es-
tablisheG the church over which he nOvr
pTesides said Bishop Sabin:
I'VE believe GCd cures. We ala con
vinced that Ills can be healed through
the efficacy OF prayer, but we SO be-
Iieve in medicine and surgery.
Says Wife Wanted to Die.
six specialists attended my wife
There was a specialist on pathology.
stomach trouble. nerves. and sever. /
others. Everything that money or
science could do was done for my wife.
But she wanted to die. No earthly
rover can cure OF save a person who
wills TO DO the opposite thing nv
wife believed the world TO be wicked.
She wanted it to be pure. sweet and
beautiful ike her own life but could
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