Article March 30, 1899 Issue

Healing Work in the South

FRANCES J. KING

Before the light of Truth dawned upon my darkened sense, I was a bundle of selfishness,—in fact a very fair specimen of the Adam-legacy, but now I am a new creature, old things are passing away, and life is bright with the illumination of divine Love.

Goodness, expressed in our daily lives, is the fruit of the Spirit bearing fruit after its kind. It heals the sick, cleanses the leper, casts out devils, and raises the dead in trespasses and sins. To be good truly is to be God-like. Our work is to follow in the footsteps of our Way-shower by overcoming the carnal mind, and living the Christ-life, expressed in tenderness, meekness, humility, and love; for without this we are nothing. If we are obedient we shall not lose our way, but heaven will be nearer, and Love become dearer as we journey on from sense to Soul.

When first coming into Christian Science, I was healed of Bright's disease and chronic indigestion, by reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. For eight years I had been a great sufferer. During that time I tried every remedy that mortal mind could suggest and had little hope of ever being well again; but when Truth knocked at the door of my heart, and I opened the door, I found relief, Sweet indeed was its taste when it healed me, but to say that I have not murmured over its digestion, is more than I am prepared to do. Is the servant greater than his Master? Jesus drank the cup; our Leader is drinking it; can we ask to be spared? surely not, for only as we are tried and purified can we reflect the Father's image. I therefore rejoice with exceeding great joy for every pang of suffering, for every seeming evil that has come to me. By meeting these evils I have overcome much of self that constantly kept in God's way. Had the problem been an easy one, I might have found ease in Zion and been an but disease has aroused me to life and action, compelled me to watch my thoughts, separate the tares from the wheat, and now I shall not be satisfied until I awake in His likeness.

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