The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-01-25
Of Local Interest
&C. B. W.
MOTHER KING NOW ONE HUNDRED
AND ONE YEARS OLD
Healed of Malignant Cancer in 1885
Healing Has Stood Test of Time
for About Thirty-on Years
&C. B. W.

for About Thirty -one Years
The testimony of Mrs Deliah King, univer-
sally known as Mother King" appears this
week in Leaves of Healing. This is the tenth
time her testimony has been published and sent
around the world
Mrs. King reached her one hundred and first
milestone in life last Thursday, January 20.
She is in good health her hearing and eye
sight are excellent for one Of her advanced age.
She feels the full assurance that she will live
until Christ comes and is waiting, longing and
watching for His reappearing. She says
that in vision, many years ago, she saw the
Savior stand at her side and tell her that she
would never see death.
Mother King stands as monument Of Gods
grace and healing power; but for miracle
wrought in answer to prayer, she would long
since have been in her grave
In the year 1884, while living in Oakland,
California, she was stricken with horrible and
malignant cancer Of the tongue Having never
heard that Christ is the same Healer today as
in the days Of His ministry here upon earth,
and having been taught by the ministers in the
Methodist church, of which she was member,
that the days of miracles are past and that
sickness is gift bestowed by loving Heavenly
Father upon His children for their good, she
went on in darkness and ignorance, seeking de-
cape from the supposed gift Of God, which was
making her life an indescribable torture.
Four well-known physicians attended her case
and all pronounced it active cancer Of the
most malignant type. Her suffering caused
general physical breakdown.
When Dr. Dowie arrived in San Francisco,
from Australia, in 1888, she learned of his meet
ings through the newspapers She went regu-
larly to hear the teaching on Divine Healing,
Il. C.
ask him to pray for her healing. All the time,
she was still trying to obtain healing through
doctors and drugs.
Just the day before she received her healing
in answer to prayer through the laying on Of
hands, she purchased bottle of medicine. Up
on arriving home, she fell down on her knees
and cried out to God, pleading that if He wanted
her to die Of that cancer to take her home, as
she did not want to live any longer in such
agony.
After she had prayed, she felt convicted in
her heart that she was not fulfilling Gods con-
ditions for healing as DR.. Dowie had taught
and that she must put away everything that
was hindering life Of faith. Selling the bot
tie of medicine, she hurled it into an open field
promising God never to touch drugs again.
Previous to this the doctors had burnt out
the cancer with caustic number Of times
When DR.. Dowie looked into her throat he saw
it swollen and spotted with cancer. Holes were
eaten in her tongue and throat. He placed his
finger on the cancer and prayed in the name Of
the Lord Jesus, in the power Of the Holy Spirit,
and in accordance with the will of God, our
Heavenly Father-and from that instant she
was healed. She has never suffered particle
Of pain from cancer from that day to this.
She refrained from giving her testimony pub
licly for two months in order to make sure that
the healing was permanent; but God had given
a complete deliverance in answer to prayer
Her healing now has stood the test for about
thirty-one years. 1t is very rarely that she
misses attending services; practically every
Lords Day finds her occupying her place in
Shiloh Tabernacle, attired in her officers robe
of spotless white, as shown this week on the
front page of Leaves of Healing. Volume 43,
Number 49,
For several years Mother Kings testimony
has been republished on the occasion of her
birthday, and although we always have printed
hundreds of extra copies of that particular is
sue, the supply in each instance has run short
before another year came around There are
some people who desire to send out her testi-
mony in hundred lots, and we therefore urge
all such persons to place their orders promptly