Testimony of Healing May 29, 1926 Issue

I am so grateful for God's protecting care

Ina Palmer Gentry

I am so grateful for God's protecting care. Mary Baker Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 384), "God never punishes man for doing right, for honest labor, or for deeds of kindness, though they expose him to fatigue, cold, heat, contagion."

A little over a year ago I was called to wait upon an individual who was suffering from black smallpox. When I went upon this case, I asked a practitioner to work for me. I was at this place eight days and nights. I got very little rest after the first three nights; and those three nights I rested with the patient, because accommodations were such that I had no other place to rest. The city officials asked me to be vaccinated, and I had this done; but the vaccination did not take effect.

Our beloved Leader tells us on the page mentioned above, "If man seems to incur the penalty through matter, this is but a belief of mortal mind, not an enactment of wisdom, and man has only to enter his protest against this belief in order to annul it." About a month later I was called to another case of the same disease. While with this individual I seemed to be overcome with an extreme fear. I tried faithfully to do my mental work, but as the disease seemed to grow more real to me I again called the faithful and loving practitioner for help. The next morning I seemed to be coming down with the disease. I very quietly and quickly went to the telephone, and these are the words that came back to me over the wire: "You are living 'in the secret place of the most High,' and error cannot find you." This truth so illumined my consciousness that all fear left me, and I was completely healed. For this proof of God's omnipotent power I am very grateful, but more grateful still that I am able to see more clearly each day that God, good, is a God at hand.

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