Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-30
WAS IT A MIRACLE?
A SOUTH AMERICAN MISSIONARY is
SAVED IN A MIRACULOUS WAY
Reaches United States Just in time to Save His Lie

You have all heard of Prof. E. r.
Weycoff, the only missionary that ever
went among the Aztec Indians of South
America, who has returned alive. 1t
was Prof. Weycof who planted Christ
ianity amid these people, and made a
minister out of Zoreff, the man eater
and chief of the savages. "Eight years
ago" said the professor, to a gather
ing OF friends at the Allyn house, 81
resigned my lucrative professorship
and set sail for South America NV
journey was two-fOld mission-first
to carry the gospel to people who had
never heard it, and second, to regain
my health, if possible, amid the arid
hills of Southern atmosphere. My
disease was consumption. l had been
pronounced incurab]e by leading ply
sicians Of the East. Analysis by Dr..
Agney, of Philadelphia, showed that I
was in the early stage of Brights dis
ease. I also had growth in my left
side, which some physicians diagnosed
as an enlargement of the spleen, some
an ague case, and others a tumor.
was told that anyone of the troubles
would prove fatal within a year, and
there was no cure for me in the known
world. After long sea voyage, then
a railroad journey, and then a nine
days wagon journey over the plains
and up into the mountains, my wife
and | reached Deswisaca. You have
all heard me relate my experience
among these people. In this connect
ion | would say, by the treatment
Of the medicine man of the tribe, by
the help of God and the climate,
lSrgely recovered from my lung and
kidney troubles. The tumor, however
continued to grow. Two years ago l
took cold and relapsed back to my or
iginal condition. The medicine man
gravely informed me that l 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,
HANGED to come across copy of the
Atlanta, Ga,, Constitution. 1t was
like home to see an American paper
and l devoured it's contents with grea
interest. What attracted my interes
mostly was an article describing tn,
miraculous cures of a Louisville ply
stefan. In fact they read as much lik
miracles as the old-time bible miracles
This article spoke of the cure of Mrs
J. A. Clark, Jonesboro, Ca, of doubl
curvature of the spine; Miss Mar,
Lewis, of Galveston, Texas, of con
sumption; Of Mrs. c. E. Omber, Shreve
port, La, of a malignant fungi
growth and tumor: and of Miss Lid;
Head, Ensor, KY, of kidney and bron
chial troubles. It mentioned the re
markable cures of fifty people.
Now my wife, who is southern wo
man, happened to know Miss Head, ane
knew they were among the most respect
able people of the state. Such was thu
impression made upon my wife and my
self that we determined to start imme
diately to Louisville and see by til,
help of God if that great healer coult
help me, It was on the ninth day O
December, 1895, that l reached thu
Office of DR.. Rea, who is president O
the Southern Medical and Surgical In
stitute, Louisville, KY. l was neare
a dead man than live one. l fount
the doctor busy, with about fifty peopl
waiting to see him. He was also pre-
pairing to make professional trip tt
Texas. AS soon as entered the pres
ence of DR.. Rea he told me my exac
condition and how l had been for year.
better than I could have told him.
knew I was in the presence of grea
man, and one who was master of hi
profession. l felt before he had givel
his opinion that | would get we'll.
! felt that his work was Gods work an,
God was with him. My blood had al
most turned to water, my limbs wer
swelled to almost the size of my body
my cough was very severe, and my
left lung badly affected. DR.. Rea gav'
his opinion that the chances were great
er that | should get we'll than that
should not, and that by the help o
God he would save me if be could
You can It imagine what lifethese word
gave me, for had been told the da,
before by two prominent physicians il
Cincinnati that I could not get we'll
l was under DR.. Rea, S treatment abou
six months and have just been dismiss
ed by him as cured, tumors all gone
cured of Bright's disease, lungs cure'
and feel like a new man.
NV wife has recently visited Iowa
and there learned some of the most re
markable cures. Mrs. Jane Smith
Bonaparte. Ia cured by DR.. Rea O
cancer of the stomach and of fungu
cancer tumor of womb, after the bes
physician in the state had pronounced
her case incurable. Eugene Athey,
prominent business man of Hamilton
ILL.,, cured of kidney troubles, ate
being pronounced by the leading ply
siciau of the state as beyond all hope
Mrs. Rachel Erickson, Marshalltown
Ia. cured of abdominal dropsy, latte