1.6 Testimony - Untouched by a contagious plague in Africa

John G. Lake was so full of the life of God that no disease could touch him. In 1910, a plague was raging over portions of Africa. In less than a month, one quarter of the population died. In fact, the plague was so contagious that the government was offering a huge sum of money to any nurse who would care for the sick. Lake and his assistants went to help, free of charge. He and one assistant would go into the houses, bring out the dead, and bury them. But no symptom of the plague ever touched him.

When a doctor asked Lake, “What have you been doing to protect yourself? You must have a secret!” He responded: “Brothers, it is the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. I believe that just as long as I keep my soul in contact with the living God so that His Spirit is flowing in my soul and body, that no germ will ever attach itself to me, for the Spirit of God will kill it.”

Lake then invited the doctor to perform an experiment. He asked the doctor to take the foam from the lungs of a dead plague victim and put it under a microscope. The doctor did so, and found masses of living germs. Then Lake astounded the people in the room as he told the doctor to spread the deadly foam on his hand and announced that the germs would die. The doctor did so and the germs died instantly in Lake’s hand. Those who witnessed the experiment stood in amazement.