The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-27
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Rochester, N. Y. Especial Correspond
ence)-'If I charged a thousand dollars
q treatment ] could do no more than
now do for nothing. 1t is useless Tor
you to offer me money for my services
I refuse this check the same as re-
fuse the poor mans Offering. said
Prof. Thomas T. Adkin. of this city. to
q wealthy patient when 1 say that
I make no charge for certain help to
those who are i'll and suffering, 1 mean
every word of it. I am able to practice
my profession because love it, be-
cause I feel that it is my duty as
Christian to use this wonderful power
that has been given me for the beneht
of all mankind. to cast out from their
bodies the evils of disease. That is why
I refuse payment, why the poor man
receives the same attention and care as
his more fortunate neighbor.
Eyes, YOU may say that L talked DR..
"a. W. Shaw. of Grafton, w. Va, back
to life" replied Prof. Adkin to ques-
ton put by the reporter. A dead
man was the verdict pronounced by
doctors and friends. Yet 1 saved him
from the grave. proved to him that
was gifted with the ability to combat
any or all diseases; that my power was
supreme over all bodily ills. But that
is only one of hundreds, thousands OF
similar instances. Some of the worst
cases in the country: men and women
on their way to the grave, nave Deen
brought to me by their physicians
when all hope was abandoned. and 1
have cured them so quickly that
have been credited with working
miracles Letters blOtched with the
tears of pain and sorrow have come to
me, imploring the aid am so glad to
bestOw and in a few days others have
come from the same sources fairly
singing with joy and gratitude over the
wonderful restoration to health my
treatment has accomplished"
Prof. Adkin disdains the use Of all
''isms" or dangerous drugs, saying;
while it is true that I cure thousands
whom never see. there is nothing Su-
pernatural about my method. 1t is sci
eDtific to the highest degree. however
wonderful and Duzzling it may be to
doctors and scientists. I have at last
discovered the long lost secret of ma
ture that sages and chemists have
been unsuccessfully seeking for CEN
turtles past. 1 was convinced that there
was a power above and beyond drugs
and medicines, as superior to them as
electricity is to a tallow candle AL
most by accident this wonderful secret
was revealed to me in all its majestic
simplicity. and now 1 know that. by
means os this law of life, 1 can cure
any disease, can restore to health peO-
Pc in the last stages of what are usu-
ally fatal illnesses 1t is nothing what
other doctors nay say; no matter how
chronic thS trouble or how hopeless or
1ncurable the case may seem; no i'll OF
The body can continue when 1 take con-
tTOI over twenty physicians, special
lists in their practice, have abandoned
their old-fashioned theories and taken
Up the study of Prof. Adkins methods.
stS wing with him in order to daily wit
ness the almost miraculous cures he
performs. From him rich and poor
alike receive the same treatment and
Uniform courtesy which have won him
so many friends among the influential
men of the country.
One of the most marvellous things
about this mans mira culous curative
power is his proved ability to cure those
thousands of miles away as easily and
quickly as though he stood by their
bedside. It would seem beyond doubt
that thOught-transferen magnetic
waves of the will or some mysterious
esoteric energy can be shot through
space as kilograms are sent without
wires; but the nature of this potent
electric fluid ana how it takes mold and
ease. is beyond explanation.
The reporter. desiring to learn more
about the case OF DIR. Shaw and other
patients cured by this sovereign law OF
life, requested Prof. Adkin for further
details. In response the Wonder-WOrker
said PERHAPS it would be better to
allow you to convince yourself by read
ing what DR.. Shaw said in a letter he
wrote to me-" Here is a copy, word
for word. of the letter handed to the
reporter: Leading physicians and spe-
and ! was given I'd to die. My trouble
was Br1ght's disease. L had not been
able to lie down for eight months. and
had lost all hope. I did not think any
thing could save me- but your treat