Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-06-10
WAS It 4 MIRACLE?
A South American Missionary Saved
in Miraculous Way.
Reaches United States Just in Time 10 Save
His Life.

His Life.
You have al heard Of Professor E. R.
Weycoff, the only missionary that ever
went among the Aztec Indians of South
America, who has returned alive. It
was Professor Weykoff who planted
Christianity amid these fierce people,
and made a minister out of Zoreff, the
maneater and chief Of the savages.
Eight years ago." said the Professor,
to gathering of friends at the Allyn
House, II resigned my lucrative pro-
fessorship and set sail for South Amer
ica. My journey was a two-fold mis-
slOn-frst, to carry the gospel to a peO-
pie who had never heard it, and second,
to regain my health, If possible, amid
the arid hills Of Southern atmosphere
My disease was consumption. | had
been pronounced incurable by the lead
ing physicians Of the East Analysis
by DR.. Agney, Of Philadelphia, showed
that L was in the early stages Of Bright's
disease. [ also had growth in the left
side, which some physicians diagnosed
as enlargement of the spleen, some an
ague case, and others a tumor. I was
told that any one Of the troubles would
prove fatal within year, and that there
was no cure IN the known world for me-
After q long sea voyage, then railroad
Tourney, and then nine days wagon
Tourney over the plains and up into the
mountains, my wife and [ reached Des-
wisaca. You have all heard me relate
my experience among these people. In
this connection [ would say, by the
treatment Of the medicine man of the
tribe, by the help of God and the eli
mate, largely recovered from my lung
and kidney troubles. The tumor, how
ever, continued to grow. Two years
ago took cold and relapsed back to
my original condition. The medi cine
man gravely informed me that was a
DEAD WHITE MAN,
and felt that for once in his life he was
telling the truth.
"Twelve months ago, at a ranchman's
| hut few miles from Deswisaca, I
! chanced to come across a copy of the
Atlanta, Ga, Constitution. 1t was like
home to see an American paper, and [
devOured its contents with great inter
est. What attracted my attention mostly
| was an article describing the miraculous
cures of q Louisville physician. In
fact, they read as much like miracles as
old-tlme Bible miracles. This article
spoke of the cure Of Mrs. j. A. Clark,
Jonesboro, Ga, of double curvature of
| the spine; Miss Mary Lewis, of Calves
ton, Texas, Of consumption; of Mrs C.
E. Omber, Shreevesport, La, of a ma
| lignant fungus growth and tumor; and
of Miss Lidia Head, E7sor, XIV. of
| kidney and bronchial troubles 1t men
toned the remarkable cures of fifty
people.
Now my wife, who is a southern wo-
man, happened to know Miss Head,
and knew they were among the most
respectable people Of the state. Such
was the impression made upon my wife
and myself, that we determined to start
Immediately to Louisville, and see by
the help of God if that great healer
could help me. 1t was on the ninth
day of December, 1895, that I reached
the office of DR.. d. Rea. who is prasi-
dent of the Southern Medical and Sur
gical Institute, Louisville, Ky. I was
nearer q dead than I was a live man
| found the doctor busy with about fifty
people waiting to see him, he was also
preparing TO make a professional trip
to Texas. AS soon as [ entered the
presence of DR.. Rea, he told me nv
exact coalition and how had been for
years better than | could have told him.
[ knew [ was in the presence of a great
man, and one who was master of his
profession. | felt before he had given
his opinion that [ would get we'll. I
felt that his work was Gods work and
God was with him. Ny blood had al
most turned to water, my limbs were
sWelled to almost the size of my body,
my cough was very severe, and nv left
lung badly affected. DR.. Rea gave his
opinion that the chances were greater
that [ would get we'll than that [ would
not, and that by the help of God he
would save me if he could. You can't
imagine what life these words gave me.
for [ had been told the day before by
two prominent physicians in Cincinnati,
that | could not get well. I was under
DR.. Rea's treatment about six months
and have just been dismissed by him as
cured, tumors all gone, cured of Bright's s
disease, lungs cured and feel like a new
man.
My wife has recently visited Iowa,
and there learned some of the most re-
markable cures. Mrs. Jane Smith, Bon
aporte, Iowa, cured by Dr. Rea Of can
Ger of the stomach ana Of fungus can
Ger tumor Of the womb, after the best
physician in the state had pronounced
her case incurable. Eugene Athey, a
prominent business man of Hamilton,
H., cured Of kidney troubles, after be-
ing pronounced by the leading physi-
elan of the state us beyond all hope.
Mrs. Rachel Erickson, Marshalltown,
Iowa. cured of abdominal dropsy. after
all others had failed. H. c. Emerson,
keOkuk, Iowa, catarrh of throat and