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Others do not believe"
Are you the only medium on earth OF
communication between Almighty God ard
We His children"
81 do not know whether others believe"
Are you the only perfect belng?"
:! do not know 1 believe every one is az
good as me-
"Then by what authority do you constitute
yourself an agent of God to relieve suffering
humanity at S. per head?'
Il only believe"
COULD NOT GET A LICENSE.
Further cross examination brought out
that La Chance had tried to get admission
to the medical department at the state uni
versity and had been refused as a student.
He was asked If he had tod Detective Wells
that the physicians were jealous of him, aid
If he had said he could turn his adversaries
into stone. He did not remember. He ad-
mitted having told a fellow boarder, where
he took his meals, that he could tell what
the jury was thinking about. He said he
could read the minds Of the jurymen from
the witness stand, but admitted that he could
not foretell what the verdict would be.
ARRAIGNED BY O'BRIEN.
Mr.. O'Brien's argument on the mo-
ton to direct a verdict for the defend
ant was a severe arrangement of La
Chance and his methods. Said he:
1t Is conceded by all Of us at the bar as
1 understand, that the substantial part of
this libel consists in charging the plaintiff
With being an impostor and obtaining money
by false pretenses, the false representations
consisting of the representation Of his ability
to cure people. Now, of course the truth is
always complete and absolute defense and
no circumstance of malice has been shown
here in this prosecution and no personal
feeling between the parties. The plaintiff
comes upon the stand and testifes that he
has received from the Almighty. by direct
message, the rover Of miraculous healing of
all Of the Ills and infrmihes that humanity
is heir to, and that the power is the exercise
by MIN IN all cases and Is dependent for its
efficacy on only two conditions, one Of which
is that the patient submit himself to his op-
erations or methods and submit the will to
the operation Of his will-the other that the
patient be unconscious of his operations and
In all cases. he testifios that he has absolutely
the divine and miraculous power of curing.
Now, the question that presents itself to the
court Is this-whether man can be heard at
this day and in this generation to make an
assertion of that kind and to say that it is
truthful. OF course, there are two views to
be taken of 1t, one that the man is insane, in
which case he is not a competent party to
bring this action, and the court cannot sit
to pass upon the raving of an imheciie or
an insane man-and for the purpose of this
argument ne must be assumed to be sane. The
question then is whether or not the court will
tolerate statement of that kind and submit
a question to the jury whether or not such
statement Of the facts is possible.
BEYOND ALL BELIEF.
In the first place, that violates all experi-
ence Of mankind. 1t violates all belief In
mythology such a power was never conceded
by the Pagans to their gods, in either Greece
or Rome. They were ALL to a certain ex-
tent, though somewhat finite, Incapable of
curing all of the Ills and inf1rmities of hu-
mainly? In Christian civilization that power
has only been exercised by our Savior Tho
new testament is the only history we have
of anything of that kind, and that power was
exercised only by Christ, and that only on
rare occasions, and on only one of those oc-
casfons, when the individual was not present
being the case of the centurions daughter, If
L remember correctly. In all other cases
where our Savior cured the Sick made the
blind to see and the deaf to hear the person
was present when the miracle was performed.
Taking ell Christianity into consideration,
that power has never been conceded by man
kind to have been exercised by anybody ex-
cept our Savior, and by Him only in isolated
cases.
To say that man today is commissioned
by the Almighty. or that from any source
he has that power to cure the infirmities Of
humanity, under the conditions stated by
this plaintiff, is to set at defiance the ex-