Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-22
CONSUlMPTTVES.TO
HOLD CONVENTION
cAMPMEETINo STYLE WILL BE
OBSERVED
October and November Set for Gather
Ing to Be Conducted by Or. r. E.
Yoakum, Who Urges Faith
as Cure

A convention OF consumptives Is to be
held in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles has achieved great name
for herself in the convention line, but
convention of consumptives to last two
months is a record breaker. M
The convention Is to be held during
October and November at Pisgah Home,
a faith curing institution conducted by
DR.. f. E. Yoakum. Entertainment Will
be given free to those attending.
The following letter has been sent out
by DR.. Yoakum:
'In these last days, when so many
miracles are taking place, no one need
be startled at this announcement OF
convention for the healing Of persons in
the last stages of tubercular consumption.
''Thirteen years ago, after receiving an
injury pronounced to be fatal by thirty
two doctors Zone lung being entirely gone
and the other half gomez, l was healed
by the pra: er of faith, amounting with oil
and laying on of hands by Brothers w.
G. Stevens. f. w. Flint and others of the
Christian alliance, according to the man
ner laid down in the scripture-James,
fifth chapter, fourteenth, and fifteenth
verses. Since then have seen many dis
eases cured without medical treatment.
PRAYER has been sought for by many
consumptiyes who had been pronounced
incurable by eminent physicians, and a
rumber of these hopeless patients were
restored to health. In view of this fact,
now we'll known and attested to by rella-
BILE witnesses, l have been led to open In
connection with our other work Pisgah
Gardens for Consumptives In Toluca, Cal.
'"This work includes, first, Pisgah Home.
which is house of refuge for homeless
men and women who have lost their way
| in this unfriendly world and who com.
| there to be saved from the appetite fol
| liuuor tobacco or other narcotics, by
which many of them have become COM
| plete wrecks; and all manner Of diseases
are also healed.
"A revival of religion goes on all the
time at the home, many every day being
led to Christ. Wanderers are brought in
by delegation Of persons who used to
belong to that class but have been saved
and healed during their brief residence
at the home.
"Second-A weekly assembly in the
midst of the city at which hundreds Of
sufferers present themselves for healing
every Monday at p. m. One peculiar
feature Of these assemblies Is that hand
kerchiefs are sent from our bodies for
the healing Of those to whom they are
sent.
testimonies of blessings received along
with these simple tokens of faith In the
Word-Acts 1911, II.
"Third-Pisgah Gardens, where we have
been receiving consumptives in the last
stages for the last two years, free of all
charges, many being healed.
"Now, all the consumptives in the world
who have life enough left in them to
reach the pace are invited to come for
the months of October and November
next with a view to taking their share
in the waves and tides of blessing by
which we fully expect many hundreds
will be saved and Healed in his name,
through the blood.
Entertainment in camp meeting fash
ion will be provided free to all who
choose to accept it. and the time is to be
spent In waiting upon the Lord both for
body and soul. who forgiveth all thy
ipiquities and healeth all thy diseases
Address Pisgah Home, 6O26 Echo street,
Los Angeles, Cal. Your brother in Jesus,
'FINIS E. YOAKUM, M. D."