Testimony of Healing August 12, 1905 Issue

About a year after I was healed of pulmonary consumption...

J. Marshall King

About a year after I was healed of pulmonary consumption by Christian Science, I had a severe attack of pleurisy, and no practitioner being within reach, I strove to demonstrate for myself, but without success. After many hours of suffering, I decided to try my old remedy,— the counter-irritant, —which had never failed to give relief in times past. I used it thoroughly, but was surprised that I received no benefit. I asked myself, What do I lack? Am I trusting in God? Evidently not, or I would not have used the counter-irritant, and besides it was, midnight, and I was sitting up holding my aching side. Surely my position was not that of one who trusts in God. I retired at once and tried to realize God's spiritual creation. As I closed my eyes to materiality, the beauty and reality of spiritual being dawned upon me, and for some minutes I feasted upon a contemplation of spirituality. It was plain to be seen that all was love, joy, peace, and happiness. At last it occurred to me that my pain was gone. Certainly God is Love, and He was very near to me at that moment. I took a deep inspiration, with no pain, then a complete exhalation, with no discomfort whatever. I was astonished. At other times it had required several days after so severe an attack of pleurisy before I could take a full breath. I cannot express the gratitude I felt at that moment for my deliverance.

One thing remained, however. God was with me; surely He would show me how I could prevent a recurrence of my past painful experience. Spiritual intuition pointed to the Word of God. I seized my Bible, opened it and read these words: "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." How strange that I should turn to these words, and how well they fitted the circumstances.

Truly, in our gratitude to God, we should not forget her who has toiled so unremittingly to replace a vague sense of truth with practical Christian Science.

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