The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-06-12
WAS IT A MIRACLE?
A SOUTH AMERICAN MISSIONARY IS SAVED
IN A MIRACULOUS Way


went among the Aztec Indians of South
America, who has returned alive. It
was Prof Weycoff who planted Chris
tianity amid these fierce people, and
made minister out of Zoreff, the man
eater and chief of the savages. Eight
years ago." said the professor, to
gathering of friends at the Allyn house,
II resigned my lucrative professorship
and set sail for South America. NV
journey was two-fOld mission-frst,
to carry the gospel to people who
had never heard it, and second, to re-
gain my health, if possible, amid the
arid hills of southern atmosphere. My
disease was consumption. I had been
pronounced incurable by leading physi-
clans of the East. Analysis by DR..
Agney, OF Philadelphia, showed that I
was in the early stage of Bright's dis
ease. also had a growth in my left
side, which some physicians diagnosed
as an enlargement of the spleen, some
an ague case, and others tumor. I
was told that anyone of the troubles
would prove fatal within year, and
that there was no cure for me in the
known world. After a long sea voyage,
then railroad journey, and then nine
days. wagon journey over the plains
and up into the mountains, my wife
and I reached Deswisaca. You have
all heard me relate my experience
among these people. In this connec-
tion would say, by the treatment Of
the medicine man of the tribe, by the
help of God and the climate, I largely
recovered from my lung and kidney
troubles. The tumor, however, con-
tinued to grow. Two years ago I took
cold and relapsed back to my original
condition. The medicine man gravely
informed me that I was dead white
man and felt that for once in his life
he was telling the truth.
twelve months ago, at a ranchman's
hut, a few miles from Deswisaca,
CHANGED to come across copy of the
Atlanta, Ca, Constitution. It was like
home to see an American paper, and I
devOured its contents with great in
terest. What attracted my interest
mostly was an article describing the
miraculous cures of a Louisville physi-
clan. In fact, they read as much like
miracles as old-time bible miracles.
This article spoke of the cure of Mrs.
J. A. Clark, Jonesboro, Ca, of double
curvature of the spine; Miss Mary
Lewis, of Galveston, Texas, of con-
sumption; of Mrs. c. E. Omber, Shreve-
port, La, of malignant fungus growth
and tumor; and of Miss Lidia Head,
Ensor, KY, of kidney and bronchial
troubles. It mentioned the remark
able cures of fifty people.
''Now my wife, who is Southern
woman, happened to know Miss Head,
and knew they were among the most
respectful BILE 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. It was on the ninth
day of December, 1895, that I reached
the office of DR.. Rea, who is president
of the Southern Medical and Surgical
Institute, Louisville, Ky. I was nearer
a dead man than live one. I found
the doctor busy, with about SO people
waiting to see him. . He was also pre-
pairing to make professional trip to
Texas. AS soon as I entered the pres
ence of DR.. Rea he told me my exact
condition and how had been for years,
better than [ could have told him.
knew | was in the presence of great
man, and one who was master of his
profession. I 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. My blood had al
most turned to water, my limbs we're
swelled to almost the size of my body,
my cough was very severe, and my left
opinion that the chances we're greater
that [ should get we'll than that I
should 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 I had been told the day
before by two prominent physicians in
Cincinnati that could not get we'll. I
was under DR.. Rea's treatment about
six months and have just been dis
missed by him as cured, tumors all
gone, cured OF Bright'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.
Bonaparte, Ia, cured by DR.. Rea of
cancer OF the stomach and of fungus
cancer tumor of womb, after the best
physician in the state had nr0no,,nood