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of 1913 yet have to confess here that had never
heard OF Patience Worth. When this young woman
tod Inc about Patience WORTH fam to comics:
that thought she was just a little bit batty-ths
young woman. not Patience Worth, mind you.
But since that time l have read Patience Worth
for myself; have read the testimony # Casper
lost of the ST. Louis Republic; have read the tes-
tmony of William Marion Reedy OF Reedy's Mirror
7 have read some of the late poems by Patience
read The Sorry TaIe-and 1 have not skinned it
have read it line by line and have read the foot
aotes and the preface and the appendix. / have
read it and thought about it, and trembIed before
its beauty and its power
Since l have read The Sorry Tale, / have beer
very humble about laughing at anything that die
not believe have smiled at myself for thinking
The young woman just little batty. who told me
about Patience Worth. and / advise all who scott
to first read Mrs Currans wonderful contributions
to the literature OF this age and then make decision
You need not fear to make the experiment The
greatest minds of the age are making 1t today
To say off-hand what believe Patience Worth tc
be. would be indeed farcal-the greatest scientists
are puzzling themselves that very question
But will say, without wishing to claim that I an
that anything in the world could prove the
deathlessness of the SOUL the literature of Patience
Worth does that very thing
There are few to-day who are at all familiar with
contemporaneous literature. do not know ABOUT
Patience Worth. put Tor those few Will tell her
story bfleIiy' as tie young woman tried to tell il
20 me on me Jersey river ferry boat-and | hope il
snail sam more credenee with my readers than il
cid with me. And l hope that they viii be
as far was-and read for themselves
Patience Worth Is the name OF the medium OF
contro-what YOU will-who came to Mrs John r.
ourran and friend hot July afternoon in 1918
when they were amusing themselves with ouija
BOARD. MIR. Yost of the St Louis Republic, and Mr.
Reedy of Reedy's Mirror, have told her story in a
wonderful way. but shall tell it very briefly and
let them fill it in for you later
1t seems that Mrs. Curran and her friend had fire.
quently amused themselves with the ouiia board in
this way. but had never really attained to any re-
suits. when suddenly this hot July afternoon the
finger" began to spell: Here / come. Many moons
ago / lived. Patience Worth my name" Again and
again this information spelled and that after
noon and succeeding afternoons Patience Worth
spoke through the medium of the 0uja Board
Since that afternoon she has given to the world
over six millions of words of wonderful literary out
put
But, to quote Mr. Rathom who may certainly be
considered authority fake sexposures
I'm her book "A Sorry Tale" the chapters which
describe the crucifixon are not only wonderful in
their language and expression, but show remark
able knowiedTe of geographical and physical con-
dtions. which up to the time the book written
were not known to exist. and which since 1t was
written have been proved through expert research;
in the Holy Land. to be true.
Mrs Curran is a woman of ordinary education
She has never been a believer in so-caed spiritual
ism, and has never. attempted to earn dollar by
reason of her remarkable gift. although she and
her husband have often been in straitened circum-
stances.
s"Wiliam Marion Reedy Of the st. Louis Mirror,
Casper S. Yost and other men who have followed
Mrs. Currans for several years, very closely
as well hundreds of other competent witnesses.
have always held the opinion myself with
regard TO Mrs Curran.
THE production of over six million words of won
derfu literary output in the space of five years Ia
great deal of it in archaic English which in itself
IN the opinion OF great language experts has added
immensely to our knowledge of that form), through
woman without superior mental attainments, who
does her own housekeeping and housework for a
family Of six people. seems to me to be sufficiently
Impressive proof of the possession of powers which
are utterly impossible of explanation by logical
process of material thought"
No mere sketch such this could possibly give
he faintest conception of the marvellous genius of
Patience Worth. If Mrs. Curran had written the
books herself or if Mr.. Yost or Mr. Reedy had
written them. they would be no less marvellous.
The Sorry Tale only be compared to the Bible in
its beauty and power. The poems are exquisite and
slawless; the plays delightful the humor bub-
lies; the wit literally scntilates.
If you are soothing at Patience WORTH it is almost
safe to make the positive assertion that you have
not read Patience Worth: A Psychic Mystery, and
The Sorry Tale, and the preface and appendix of
Mr. Yost. You may wonder. after reading them: you
may refuse to believe in the supernatural YOU may