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APPENDIX
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IN COMPLIANCE with the expressed wish of many of our subscribers we take great pleasure in here appending a few thoroughly authentic testimonies written by persons of unimpeachable integrity, who gladly publish their grateful acknowledgment of the inestimable boon confered upon themselves through a practical application of the principle of the science to the advocacy and elucidation of which this book is devoted. We have only put before our readers a very few narratives out of hundreds which have been sent to us. Those which we here publish we have carefully selected as being of a character to impress and interest the general reader. Many others were quite as forcible and important, but as our work had already exceeded originally proposed limits, we were compelled to confine ourselves to a few typical instances. In offering these facts to the public we do not desire in any way to detract from the well-earned fame of many noble and honest men and women who conscientiously and effectively practice medicine. What we do contend for is the unanswerable declaration that, without having recourse to any outward appliances, the sovereign power of mind alone is adequate to the accomplishment of all and more than all that medicine can accomplish. Now with reference to medical men and women, magnetic healers and others allow us to state our position clearly; we believe them capable of relieving
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many sufferers, not alone or chiefly by their art but in consequence of their exercising an influence for good over their patients in ways they often fail to comprehend. In California especially, where we have had many pleasant relations with eminent medical practitioners of the several schools we have found in many instances great breadth and liberality of sentiment and a Willingness to investigate this subject.
Druggists, whose business it is to compound prescriptions, and who, therefore,
have a special interest in the support of an external medical system, have also
in many instances freely testified to their knowledge of the effectiveness of
mental therapeutics. One highly accomplished young gentleman in
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to individual
necessities in accordance with the understanding and conviction of those working
and those worked upon. All over the world the medical profession is coming to
represent a truer and broader eclecticism than it ever could represent, until
the spiritual awakening of recent years called prominent attention to the
spiritual element in therapeutics, and threw down the gauntlet to modern
materialism. Mrs. Eddy, of
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TESTIMONY OF MRS. C. M. LEWIS,
A little boy who had catarrh, and had suffered from birth, whose face was continually distorted, and whose nights were disturbed from inability to breathe, was entirely cured. He had been under the care of two medical doctors, without benefit. This child had one hand covered with warts which had refused to yield to every kind of treatment, but with the radiation of
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truth dissolved into nothingness, they went like dew before the sun, gradually fading away.
This case was healed three years ago, and has stood intact. I mention this as so many claim that mental cures are not lasting. All that I shall mention are cases that have remained cured a year or more.
An old lady who had suffered long with sciatica, and who had lain only on one side for over five years, was entirely cured with one treatment. She can now lie on one side as well as the other with perfect ease; cured two years ago at tune of writing.
In. a case of eczema that had been under a physician’s care, and was being treated with morphine every three hours, the patient after first treatment was left sleeping and slept quietly through the night without morphine or any drug whatever. A complete cure vas performed and morphine totally dispensed with. This was more than a year ago. The lady was eighty-six years of age.
I was called to a case where a young man had hemorrhage, and was afflicted with
distressing cough. A doctor said lie must spend the winter in
A babe three months old, who had been treated to eight different kinds of food in its short existence, and who was discharging blood all day before coming under treatment came into harmony after first treatment and was healed; is now quite well, two years old. I could give many more instances where truth has dispelled
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error and where light has proved the nothingness of darkness in equally conclusive ways.
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AN INTERESTING CASE
I was called to a lady very ill of pneumonia. It was feared she was dying the morning I was summoned. I found her, physically speaking, in a very high fever, her lungs so congested that her breathing was like the panting of a dog. The fever soon began to subside, the respiration grew easier and longer, under my “thought,” or, at the call of my spirit to hers to come up out of its physical bondage onto the plane of spirit where pneumonia does not exist. During the treatment I received sudden and strong impression, like a message to “treat the bowels, keep the bowels open,” a condition which I believe the regular practitioner seeks to avoid. This surprised me as the point of seeming danger, in the thought of patients and attendants was centered elsewhere, but remembering the injunction: “quench not the spirit,” I obeyed the inner prompting. At my next visit I was told that the patient had passed a tape worm, in two sections, which by actual measurement was seventy-two feet long. The lady’s restoration to health was rapid.
Miss SUSIE C. CLARK,
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Among other cases not generally, supposed curable by mental or spiritual methods by those who do not yet realize that the physical is alone the realm of limitation, I would record the cure of some very severe corns and
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bunions, a case of, eczema, one of dyspepsia of twenty-two years’ standing, and a case of peritonitis which regular physicians had given up to die. The water had stopped and could not be drawn with instruments, unsuccessful attempts to do so having been made, causing great torture. In fifteen minutes after I entered the room the water passed freely without the patient’s consciousness that the stricture and inflammation were removed. Recovery was immediate.
I also treated a lady while two large, double teeth were extracted, she experiencing no pain, or unpleasant sensation.
Miss SUSIE C. CLARK,
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A TUMOR CURED
A lady who had an ovarian tumor of nearly eight years, growth was healed in five treatments, although before the fifth treatment she pronounced herself cured, the tumor having gradually subsided until it entirely disappeared. A few months before I studied Spiritual Science, I spent a day or two in her home, during which time she was wonderfully relieved, although she did not then mention it. Does this not show that the spiritual power which heals is a natural out-breathing, rather than the result of mental argument, whether in “silent mind,” or in verbal presentation? The Eternal Spirit is always present to heal, it one lives in the conscious realization of this truth.
Miss MARY E. STEINGARDT,
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TESTIMONIES FURNISHED BY DR. AND MRS.
CONGAR,
The case of Miss Anna Phillips had baffled the skill of medical doctors, and she came to us as a last resort. Inheriting as she thought kidney difficulty from her father, who had died from that disease, she had given up all hope of recovery, and constantly feared insanity. She had been unable to walk, or go up and down stairs for over a year. She was healed by seven treatments, entirely mental and spiritual. Miss Phillips proclaimed the glad tidings of health far and near, and was a striking advertisement for truth seen and read by all.
ROSA C. CONGAR.
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The case of Mrs. W. N. Coffy, was a combination of uterine difficulties, indigestion, constipation and inaction of liver and kidneys, producing partial blindness and dizziness. One treatment produced a marked change in her condition. She was entirely restored in twenty-four treatments. Few cases can be found more complicated or physically worse than the above.
ROSA C. CONGAR.
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Mrs. Rickey had been unable to work or wall: for a year, suffering constant pain resulting from uterine complications, with nervous exhaustion.
Only eight treatments were needed to restore her to health both of body and mind. She reported herself strong and well, six months later, expressing great gratitude for such singular benefit.
ROSA C. CONGAR.
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The case of Mrs. J. S., of
ROSA C. CONGAR.
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CASE OF CHAS. CLOUGH
Diagnosis:
Rheumatism for over six months; constipation, stomach and liver troubles; had
only two weeks to remain before leaving for
DR. M. E. CONGAR.
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CASE OF JOHN MEYERS
Diagnosis: Injured by a fall; kidneys failed to do their work; sunstroke, constipation, rheumatic pains in right shoulder, rupture, etc., etc.; declared lie was only fit for the grave; tried mental treatment to please his wife; was healed in twenty-six treatments; volunteered a strong testimonial; a German rationalist, without the least faith to build upon, but looked at the end of one month like a new man.
ROSA C. CONGAR
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Mrs. Mary N––– for seven years had been a victim to periodical attacks of sick-headache; was a physical wreck. Her right lung was diseased, and she suffered from a constant cough and many other unpleasant symptoms. Mrs. N––– was healed in twelve treatments by purely metaphysical methods, and said she felt better than in twenty years previously.
MRS. R. C. CONGAR.
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The case of Mr. W. O. Rutledge was one of long standing; said he had taken drugs enough in the past twenty years to stock a drug store; was but a wreck of his former self, the result of a diseased heart, inaction of the digestive organs, and poisoned blood; used tobacco excessively; was perfectly healed in forty-five treatment. He always slept during treatment. He was also enabled to relinquish his tobacco habit. We received many letters from him during the next year, in which he always reported himself strong and fleshy.
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EXPERIENCE OF MRS. LILY D. BOTHWELL,
In 1874 I bad the misfortune to sprain my right knee; slight lameness for six or eight weeks was the result, though I did not at that time realize its serious import. It gave me no permanent trouble. At times I lamed myself for a few weeks, by making some quick movement. One morning in February, 1886, I awoke to find that I could bear no weight on the right foot. Not sensing the actual condition, I gave, it no serious
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thought until the third day when I found that the whole limb was losing power. Two surgeons pronounced the case “fluid around the joint.” The limb continued to grow weaker and finally began to shrink. During three months of deep mental and physical depression I was under the care of a most capable surgeon, whose every effort to relieve the trouble seemed futile. The case baffled experience. The weakness of the limb became so excessive that day and night I was obliged to rest it upon a pillow.
A lady asked me one day why I did not try mental cure. I replied that I knew nothing about it. She then spoke of a metaphysician whom she knew to be very successful and (to use an old phrase) as a last resort I sent for her. She gave me treatments for a week without visible effect on the physical. A few hours after the seventh treatment, sitting quite alone in my room reading Dr. Evans’ Primitive Mind Cure, the chapter on the Art of Forgetting Disease, with crutches beside me, my foot resting on a chair and a pillow under the knee, I became so deeply engrossed in the subject that I was oblivious of self until I realized that I was standing on the opposite side of the room, and that I had walked there of my own free will, quite without the aid of the friendly crutches, for there they stood beside my vacant chair. I was greatly excited anti continued to walk, cry and laugh alternately for an hour or more. As the different members of my family returned and found what had been done they were in much the same state of mental excitement that I was in.
The following morning the metaphysician came as
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usual, and she,
too, was quite overcome when she saw the wonderful work that had been
accomplished. It was like one of the so-called, miracles of old, so marvelous
were the results. I shall ever hold this clear lady, Mrs. Shields, of
N. B. – The incident recorded here took place on the campgrounds bordering
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