Letters April 27, 1899 Issue

Letters

with contributions from C. Wade, George L. Brett, C. R. Friskey

Dear Teacher:— The Mr. R. you spoke whom you treated in 1890 for the bone felon and intoxication, is a sober man to this day, and has not had the least desire to drink any since. I overheard him and my brother talking not long ago about how their resolutions would be broken every time they would try to stop drinking, before they were treated, hence they knew a higher power was guiding them this time, as they did not have the least desire to drink now. Mr. R. is traveling, getting a good salary, and said he was going to hunt you up the next time he was in Kansas City. I have often thought of what a wonderful demonstration this one was, for all power was taken from whiskey, that all mortals say will make drunk, and the felon healed at the same time. Mr. R. told me himself, the night of his healing, that he had taken at least twenty drinks since supper, and was drunk when he went in the house; had been drunk for seven days, and was delirious for three days before you treated him; had not slept a wink for three nights, as he imagined he was covered all over with bugs every time he lay down; had not eaten a bite for three days. He remarked to me as he went out that he was as sober as I, and that there was no more pain about his thumb than there was about the heel of his shoe.

After we got down town, he ate a hearty lunch, and told some fifteen or twenty boys, who were in the lunch room at the time, about his experience that night, and also reminded them that they, every one, knew he was drunk after supper, but now "I stand before you as sober a man as there ever was on earth, and with no desire whatever for a drink." He also struck the counter three times with fist clenched, that only thirty minutes previous was paining him with the felon before mentioned, and told the crowd that there was no more pain in that thumb than there was in the plate before him.

I assure you it is gratifying to see such as he was studying the Bible and Science and Health, instead of playing cards and drinking whiskey. Such work Science is doing all over our land, and yet a Baptist minister in our town told a brother preacher in the presence of a friend of mine, that I ought to be put in the penitentiary. I suppose it is because some of his members are coming to Science, on account of some things they have seen demonstrated by me. His own brother and all his brother's family are studying Science, and are themselves able to overcome most of their physical ailments, and care for the stock, etc., on his farm. They apply it on all occasions. This preacher's nearest neighbor is a man who has drunk up about ten thousand dollars in the last few years. A few weeks ago his wife called me in, and told me her husband had talked of having me treat him, but did not have moral courage enough to ask for it, and told me to go to work for him and she would tell him the next time she had a chance. He has not touched a drop since, and when he found out I was treating him, came down to the rooms, and asked me to treat him for heart disease, liver trouble, and several other diseases, all of which were healed. He said he was going to buy Science and Health with the first money he could possibly spare.

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