The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-03-14


railway coach was the chimera Of a
deceased mind vet popular prejudice
was mistaken in each OF these cases,
and thousands of others. MayI ask
your age?"
81 am fifty. six years old, and q ma
tive Of Ohio"
"How long have you possessed this
power over disease?'
81 presume ever since birth, Gas |
exerted it when quite q small child
l have made it my exclusives business
the past Is years previous to which
time I was a carpenter.
SIS it fact that you do not use
drugs in any shape?
Il make no use of drugs. Even
were disposed to do SO there are
State laws forbidding anyone save a
licensed physician prescribing them.
However, do not use Them, and
cure only those persons who have
found no relief from their use. Look
over my testimonials and you will
find that each one tsstifes that they
took no medicine. [ can do more
without it.
"What do the medical doctors
think of magnetism as a curative
agent?"
''In the large cities l am personally
acquainted with more than a dozen
physicians who employ magnetic
healers, paying them regular salaries
for their services. They call them
massage operators.
by what means do you discover
the disease one is afflicted with?
Are you chairvoyant?"
Il do not know the means. ! get
into an unconscious state, and while
in this condition tell my patients all
about their disease, all their symp-
toms, etc, and the less they disclose
beforehand the more exact will be
my diagnosis. I frequently tell them
things not connected with their dis
ease. When I am through I know
nothing of what I have sale. - do
not claim to be chairyoyant.
"Are you a Spiritualist? 2"
~ belieAe that after death we live
again. I believe that God is our
creator and that ] have a spirit or
soul, but don't know whether that
makes me Spiritualist or not.
"What is your religious belief?
BRIEFLY this: l would not change
one word in the ten commandments.
Christ's sermon on the Mount is my
code of morals, While the cords
prayer covers all my wants.
You call yourself a magnetic
healer. What is magnetism? @ Can
you feel it? Are you in any way a
faith curist?'
mo one knows, I presume, what
animal magnetism is, any more than
they really know what electricity is
We cannot see or dissect it, yet under
ertain conditions both are potent
and powerful factors. The most
powerful forces of nature IRE invis-
ible, fact which no one will dispute.
My patients feel the magnetic emana,
tons streaming from my handssand
fingers, and say the sensation IS plea
SAINT. My cures do not depend in
he smallest measure on faith "a
ure disease despite the patients
pinion. It matters not what the
pileptic, or paralytic person may
hink-If I get my han DIS on h'mShe
s cured" 5tz
"What diseases do you cure, and
what condition are you i'll when CIV
ing treatment?"
II cure all manner of disease, and
solicit old, chronic and previously
hopeless cases. When. giving a
treatment 1 am in a semi-conscious
state, depending on conditions | do
not understand. By scientific men
it has been called a hynotic state or
trance" ~.
"Does it effect your health?"
"Not permanently. While treating
a patient l take on some of the con-
ditions of their disease, which I can
partially throw off, nature does the
rest when I sleep. Of course [ take
a months rest, occasionally, else 1
should become permanently I'M:
healthy"
Are your cures permanent"
Il am fully aware Of Webster's de.
fnition of the word cure, and when /
use the word, intend to convey just
what it means. I do not mean al
leviate, aid, assist, help, mitigate,
diminish, but cure to restore
to sound health. If my patients
follow my instructions and take my
treatment as I direct, lasting and
permanent cure is the result. If they
cannot do this I will not undertake
their case. Of course man can have
typhoid fever almost as often as he
he desires, if he will but set himself
abont contracting it,"
"Do yon cure every one that comes
to you?'
mo sir; I first make, an exalnina-
ton of the patient and learn mad
vance whether [ can cure that par.
ticular case or not. My abilityato
cure depends upon the patient and
his disease. If he is my opposite in
avarv vav no matter what his dis.