River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-08-31

You have all heard Of Professor E. r. Wey-
com, the only missionary that ever went among
the Aztec Indians of South America, who has
returned alive 1t was Professor Weycoff who
planted Christianity amid these fierce people,
and made a minister out of Zoref, the man
eater and chief of the SavageS. Eight years
ago" said the Professor to a gathering of
friends at the Allyn House, II resigned my
lucrative professorship and set sail for South
America My journey was two-fOld mission
-tirSt to carry the gospel to people who had
never heard 1t, and second, to regain my
health if possible. amid the arid hills of South
ern atmosphere. My disease was consumption.
| had been pronounced incurable by leading
physicians OF the East. Analysis by DR.. Agney
of Philadelphia showed that was in the early
stages of Bright disease. 1 also had growth
in my left side which some physicians dag
noSed as an enlargement of the spleen, some
an ague cake and others tumor. [ 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 long sea
voyage, then q railroad journey, and then nine
days wagon Journey over the plains and up
into the mountains, my wife and l reached
Deswisaca. You have all heard me relate my
experience anon these people. In this con-
nection would say, by the treatment of the
medicine man of the tribe, by the help of God
and the climate, 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 medicine man gravely inform
ed me that was
DEAD WHITE MAN,
and felt that for once in his life he was tell
ing the truth.
''Twelve months ago at a ranchman's hut a
few miles from Deswisaca. CHANGED 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 interest mostly was
an article describing the miraculous cures of
an American physician In fact, they read as
much like miracles as the 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, cOnSumDtlOQ.
E. Omber of Shreveport, La, of malignant
fungus growth and tumor, and of Miss Lidia
Head, EnSor Ky. of kidney and bronchial
troubles 1t mentioned the remarkable cure
of fifty people.
Nov my wife, who is southern woman,
happened to know Miss Head, and knew they
were among the most respectable people of
the state. Such was the impression made up
on 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 9th day of December, 1895.
that / reached the office of DR.. d. d. Rea,
was nearer dead man than live one.
found the doctor busy, with about fifty people
waiting to see him. He was also preparing to
make professional trip to Texas. AS soon as
1 entered the presence of Dr. Rea he told me
my exact condition and how l had been for
years, better than l could have told him. 1
knew l was in the presence of a great man,
and one who was master of his profession.
felt before he had given his opinion that l
would get well. felt that his work was Gods
work and God was with him. My blood had
almost turned to water, my limbs were swelled
to almost the size of my body, my cough was
very severe and my left lung badly affected.
DR.. Rea gave his opinion that the chances
were greater that should get well than that
1 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 had been
told the day before by two prominent physi-
clans in Cincinnati. that I could not get wen.
/ was under DR.. ReaS treatment about six
mouths and have just been dismissed by him as
cured tumOrS all gone, cured of Bright'S dis
ease lungs cured, and feel like new man.
How does DR.. Rea perform these cures?
asks half a dozen voices. God only Knows
replied Professor Weycoff, s'but he does it,
He is a man of great skill and experience be-
sides he possesses almost spiritual gift in di-
agnoSng diseases. have talked to numbers
of his patients, and they have all told me that
he tells them their troubles better than they
could have told him. He seems to cure in
durable diseases as though they were slight
defects His cures are the work of God and
the brain of a great man. We can't tell how
he performs them. but the world knows that
he does. / consider DR.. Rea the greatest
physician that ever lived Though only a
young man. he stands as physician greater
than that of any score of physicians have
seen him in hundred cases examine men an =
women with all kinds of diseases Gall strangers
to him), and tell each one his disease without