8/02/26 [
4769]'s letter to EC:
"Your letter of July 28th and reading of 27th, received
29th. The pile remedy and Ipsab for teeth and gums received
today in good shape. Thank you very much for the present,
but will send you check for same as soon as you let me know
amount of bill, and if no bill, then I hope to be able to
send you a check just the same some time soon.
"I presume you keep a carbon copy of all readings. If so,
please refer to mine of July 27th, ..., and advise how the
alkaline, Petrolagar, is to be used. The reading does not
state how to use it.
"I have not yet tried to get the Petrolagar. So, do not know
whether I will be able to get it or not. I never heard of
the name before. Sure hope it is not a drug that I will be
unable to get, as I am real anxious to get everything
suggested in the readings, and to use it as it should be
used, for I have great faith in the readings.
"We use about 1# fresh beefsteak per day in making the Beef
Juice, which makes about a large coffee cup of the juice,
which is divided into two meals, one taken about 12 o'clock
in the day and the other about 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
Wonder if this is enough for me? If not, could you suggest
about how much I should use per day? I like the taste mighty
well, and it seems to assimilate all right, as I never
'belch' it up.
"Referring to answer to question one in the reading, I
presume the remedy referred to is the one you have just sent
me.
"Referring to answer to question four, I presume the remedy
(properties) referred to is the Petrolagar. If not, what?
"Now, referring to the last reading (July 27, 1926), I wish
to state that it 'just fits my case' in every particular. I
believe it could not have been made more perfect and accurate
if I had been cut into pieces so that you could have made a
close, personal inspection of every part. There sure is a
mysterious and wonderful revelation transmitted through you
from some power beyond human comprehension. I have a brother
who is a chiropractor, and who is perfectly familiar with my
case, and he says there is no doubt of both readings of my
case being absolutely accurate. He says it is A WONDER OF
WONDERS. He hopes to meet you some day and talk with you
personally.
"I am feeling better than for several months past, and have
gained two pounds in weight in last two weeks..."
8/07/26 EC's letter to [
4769]:
"Glad to have yours of the 2nd, and more than glad to know
that you are feeling better and are somewhat on the improve.
That's fine! And I just feel sure that you are going to keep
on improving until you are a well, strong man and back on the
job, with more vim, vigor and vitality than you have ever had
before in your life.
"To be sure, we keep a copy of all of the readings, and
replying to the question you asked concerning yours of the
27th, the alkaline, Petrolagar, I feel sure you will be able
to obtain from any drugstore. As I understand from the
readings where this has been given, and what druggists and
physicians tell me concerning it, this is a preparation,
especially, for individuals who have any intestinal disorder,
and especially where gas forms easily in the stomach and
bowels, and where an individual is subject to constipation.
As you will notice, this calls for the ALKALINE. I believe
this is made in alkaline and an acid. Of course the alkaline
is for where acidity shows in the system, but I don't think
you'll have any trouble getting this. This will be
especially good with the Beef Juice, and I think you are
right in the amount, and you know you want to judge by the
amount you are able to assimilate as to the amount to take,
and as I understand, the Petrolagar will assist you in
assimilating.
"The answers in question number one in reading, refer to the
ones that I think I sent you, and I'm in hopes that you are
going to receive the benefits from these as others have. No,
I just sent these for your own use, and of course there is no
charge for them. You can contribute to the work as you see
fit, but these two have been given over and over again, as
specifics for pyorrhea, of Rigg's Disease, and the ointment
for any rectal trouble - piles, fistula, or such like, and I
know of two cases, especially, that this ointment has proven
most wonderful; one a case where a person had chronic piles
for more than forty years. While of course it has not CURED
the condition, for they are of the protruding nature, but the
individual tells me he is better from the use of this than he
has been in the whole forty years.
"In question four, I'm sure this refers to the Petrolagar.
"Many thanks for your letter, Mr. [
4769], and I'm certainly
in hopes that you will let us hear from you every opportunity
you have..."
8/12/26 [
4769]'s letter to EC:
"...Many thanks for the information given and for your kindly
feeling and good wishes in my welfare. This makes me feel
good.
"By paying the price of a 'regular visit,' I got a physician
to sign the prescription for the inhalant, as given in
reading of June 4th, and then I had no trouble in getting it
filled by a druggist in my home city, ..., four miles from
where I live. The physician said it was 'all bosh' about
heroin not being allowed to be manufactured and sold in the
U.S. And, by the way, he said this prescription was a
powerful antiseptic, and should do me a lot of good. He said
the heroin was a mighty important part of it, too. I got the
prescription filled one week ago today, and it seems to be
doing some good. But I still cough a lot, and at times spit
up more or less mucus.
"The first few times I used the pile remedy you sent me, it
seemed to do a lot of good. Then it seemed to get 'weak,'
and upon examination, found that the hot weather had melted
it. Some of the ingredients (the black part in particular)
had settled to bottom of box, and upon trying it, found it to
be too severe. What could I mix with it to make it safe to
use?
"Would appreciate it if you would send me more of the pile
remedy, two or three times the original quantity. Hereafter
I will keep it well mixed, especially during hot weather when
it is liable to 'melt down' and ingredients separate.
"I had no trouble in getting the Petrolagar alkaline at one
of the city drugstores. At last, and for the first time, I
have been able to get all the remedies and prescriptions as
suggested in the readings, and am now using all of them
according to suggestions, and hope I will soon be able to
report good results to you.
"We are in the worst financial condition we have ever been
in, having to depend to a great extent upon charity for what
we live on. But that is no reason why I should want to make
you a pauper too. So I am enclosing my check for $2.50 to
'help the cause' some..."
8/18/26 EC's letter to [
4769]:
"I was certainly glad to have yours of the 12th, and to know
you are feeling pretty good, and I'm more than glad to know
you were able to get a physician to fix up the prescription
for you. I can't help but feel that this will prove more
beneficial, and I believe you will see the difference in the
results of same - perhaps have already found this.
"As for the pile remedy, I am sending you another lot. This
is the largest size bottle or jar we have this made up in at
present. It should be kept stirred up, so that it would be
of the same consistency throughout. I believe you will find
this good, and will help you a whole lot.
"Many thanks for the check you enclosed. I appreciate your
feelings in the matter. Apparently all don't feel this way,
for there are many that I never hear from at all, until they
tell someone else that the suggestions were what cured them.
I'm sure that you're going to come along all right, and it
won't be long before you'll be in a better condition
physically and financially.
"Let me hear from you whenever you have the opportunity. You
know I am vitally interested in your condition, and desire to
be of help if it's possible..."
11/01/26 EC's letter to [
4769]:
"Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of
the party!
"Within the next few weeks I will have a get-together meeting
of those interested in the success of the work I am and have
been doing.
"Since coming to the Beach, the work has succeeded
wonderfully. More than six hundred readings have been given,
and much good accomplished along many lines.
"Now the time has come to begin the hospital work proper. We
will begin at once, and you will want to have your part in
this.
"Fifty thousand dollars will start a benevolent hospital,
incorporated. This would be conducted along research lines.
"Those who have already received aid should be the ones, and
are being asked, to contribute first. From this group will
be chosen the managers and those to act on various
committees, with a scientific man at the head to direct the
work. You know the good that may be accomplished by carrying
out the suggestions as are given in these readings, and you
will want to help make this possible. You know your own
abilities to contribute, and we want to make it possible to
go on and serve others in a better and more scientific
manner. You know how sincere has been my effort to be of
help to others, and I am sure you now desire to help me to
help others.
"This is not an experiment. Many years of labor and records
are behind us. Look at what others say. Then, let's get
together, everyone doing their part, and we will have the
greatest humanitarian institution in the world.
"Return your card today - become a member of this
Association. Every dollar will help. This will be put in a
fund for this purpose only, the Hospital. You will know how
every dollar is spent, who and how many you have aided in
making their suffering lighter, and life's pathway easier.
"'As ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to
them.'
"Do it now..."
12/03/26 [
4769]'s letter to EC:
"I am glad to learn of the undertaking you are making, as
referred to on other side of this sheet, and only wish I were
able to help out some on it. But I am confined in the Kings'
Daughters Tubercular Hospital at this place, as a charity
patient, and am completely 'flat,' financially, and no income
of any kind. I used to be making a little money, and getting
along fairly well, but not for the last three or four years.
"I am glad to be able to state that since coming here on or
about August 15th, I have gained about twenty pounds in
weight, and that I feel much better generally than I have in
a long time, and that my cough is not very bad now, and cough
up but little stuff now.
"While here I have to take such medicines as the doctor
prescribes, and eat such foods as they give me, so am not
able to follow up your treatment as prescribed for me last
spring and summer. But I wish to state that the diagnosis by
the doctor here verified every bit of your diagnosis, and
that part of the treatment is the same as you prescribed. If
I could have had the money with which to buy the proper foods
while at home, I believe I would have improved there just as
well as I have here. My stomach and bowels, as you stated,
seem to have been my worst trouble, and they are not yet
cured by a whole lot, but seem to be much better, and if I
continue to improve in the future as I have since coming here
last August, I believe I will be able to go back home within
the next six months or so.
"I sure would like to have another reading as to my present
condition, noting any changes that have taken place, and
suggestions as to further improvement. But I do not like to
ride a good horse to death, so I could not ask you to give me
this reading, for, as above stated, I am completely out of
money and have no income. Friends have contributed a little
money to me to get winter underwear, postage stamps, etc. I
sure hope I will be able to be self-sustaining before this
time next year. I have no immediate family except my wife,
and she is a patient now in the State Charity Hospital at ...
Mississippi for kidney trouble, rheumatism, etc. So you see
we are having a hard time of it now.
"With kind regards to you, and wishing you success with the
project in hand..."
12/08/26 EC's letter to [
4769]:
"I was certainly very glad to have yours of the 3rd. It's
good to know that you are getting along nicely. I'm sorry
that things have broken so bad for you, but it's good for a
fellow to know that the people of this old world have it in
their hearts to establish institutions where those who are
unfortunate, and the sick and afflicted, can have at least
the care and attention due every son of the Father.
"Yes, we shall be very glad to get a reading for you at this
time, Mr. [
4769]. While, as you say, it is necessary for you
to take such medicines as the doctors whose care you are
under prescribe, and to have such diet as they prepare for
you - yet a man of your turn of mind, ideas of life, I am
sure it will be a great satisfaction to know what would be
given as regarding your condition from these sources, and if
it is possible for us to be of any benefit, either in mind or
body, to any individual, that is the service we want to
render. Just how soon I can get to this, I don't know. But
I wish you would let me have the ward or room number in which
you are apt to be located at the time we will be able to take
this up.
"I had the very sad misfortune to lose my Mother on the 26th
of October. She had been in failing health for a number of
years, and as she told me in her last moments, I had kept her
alive for at least three years, but I could do no more, but
I must use the gift God had given me to help others. That
alone, I think, Mr. [
4769], would be a great incentive to
me. Don't you think so? I know there was never a better
mother, nor a more beautiful Christian character, and I know
that she has gone to her reward. But in her loss there is a
something that seems to stun me almost to where it has been
very hard for me to get back to regular work. Of course, the
weeks that I was out, naturally there were a great many
requests, and there were a great many appointments that had
to be deferred. Consequently, our appointments have gotten
in advance of our time, and most everyone that has requested
readings lately seem to be taking advantage of the
opportunity given them to obtain information from this source
concerning their physical condition. And, as you know, I am
only able to give two readings in one day. So it makes me
limited in the number of people that I can assist, but I
assure you we shall be glad to take this up for you, and I
certainly hope and trust that you and your wife both will
soon be on the road to excellent health. I appreciate very
much your kindly feelings, and may God's richest blessings
rest with you and yours..."
1/17/27 [
4769]'s letter to EC:
"I certainly appreciate your kind letter and offer of
December 8, 1926, but I must admit I have been rather
careless in replying to same.
"I appreciate your offer of another reading of my case. But
I am able to imagine your position, with so many applications
ahead of mine, and so shall not avail myself of your offer.
Not at present, at least. Maybe some time in the future I
will be financially able to help you a little, for I know a
good man like you is imposed upon no little, even by those
who are amply able to assist you financially. You have to
have something to eat, clothes to wear, a place to sleep,
etc., and we should help you along all we could. The good
you are doing, or the good that is manifested through you,
is worth more than can be measured by dollars, but not many
of us give it a serious thought.
"I am glad to state that I am much improved over what I have
been for over a year. I weigh as much as I ever weighed in
my life, a gain of twenty-nine pounds since I have been here,
and I am able to be up and walk around some every day. But
my stomach and bowels still give me a lot of trouble, which
have been my main trouble all the time. One of your
readings stated that my stomach and bowels were in a much
worse condition than my lungs. This has proven to be the
absolute truth of the matter. So far, every part of your
diagnosis has proven to be absolutely correct.
"May God bless you and allow you a long life in which to pass
on to suffering humanity the great truths that The Unknown
Force makes manifest through you.
"You have my sincere sympathy in the death of your good
mother on October 26th, last. I love my wife, but there is a
motherly love in me that excels all other loves. A mother is
the most saintly being we have on earth. My mother died a
little over thirteen years ago, and I still cannot realize it
to the full extent of the fact. My father, age eighty-two,
died November 30th, last, or a month and four days after your
mother. I was not able to go to see him or attend the
funeral. He lived with my wife and myself until last August,
when I was brought here to the hospital, and then he had to
go and live with a brother of mine.
"Well, I must close for this time. I hope to keep in touch
with you and your good works. Will try to write you again
from time to time, and hope to hear from you when
convenient for you to write. I know you are a busy man, so
shall not expect a letter from you 'every foggy morning..."
1/26/27 EC's letter to [
4769]:
"I am always very glad to have a letter from you, and
especially glad to have yours of the 17th and to know that
you are feeling so much better and feel that you have every
reason to think you are really on the gain, and possibly will
soon be a whole lot better yet.
"Yes, as I have understood your condition from the first,
Mr. [
4769], your greatest trouble has been your digestive
system - stomach and bowels, of course, especially, or in
other words, your own body becomes so rundown by absorbing
the toxins from your own system as to lay the rest of the
organism open to receive most any destructive force that
might be surrounding you at any time. But I am in hopes that
with the proper strength and vitality built up, you will be
able to cope with this condition and get this trouble
corrected. I am sure you fully realize what you've got to
meet, and being forewarned you should be forearmed. And
you may be sure, if there is at any time you feel I could
possible be of assistance in helping you get just the right
thing necessary for the full correction, I shall be only too
glad to try and be of help.
"I was sorry indeed to hear of your father's death, though he
lived to a good old age. I know that you regretted seeing
him go, though I am one of those who believe that our loved
ones are about us, and being absent from the body are present
in the spiritual body, perhaps in a better way to assist us
than they had ever been before, if we will but put our minds
in an attunement with the spiritual forces, for God is
Spirit, and He seeks such to worship Him.
"Let us hear from you whenever you have the opportunity. I
certainly hope that you continue to improve, and that your
good wife is feeling better also..."
[
4769]'s letter to EC:
"Have you read the article by Stewart Edward White,
"Mysteries I cannot Explain "in the July, 1926, number of The
American Magazine? If not, I wish you would, for it is in
reference to your wonderful kind of revelations. You are not
mentioned, but some others are mentioned, and it is real
interesting. I guess you can get a copy in your town, or if
not, then from the publishers, Cromwell Publishing Company,
Springfield, Ohio..."
8/25/27 [
4769]'s letter to EC:
"...I sincerely wish that I were able to take membership in
this Association, and to get readings from you every month or
so. But owing to sickness, etc., we have lost nearly
everything we have, and now have no home. I am still a
charity patient here in the Kings' Daughters Tubercular
Hospital, where I have been since the 20th of August of last
year. I appear to be considerably improved, but still lack a
great deal of being well. I stay up most of every day now,
but cannot stand much exertion. The food I get here does not
agree with me very well, and so I am planning to leave here
next week and go to Denver, Colorado where I have a brother
who states that he will take care of me free of charge for at
least one year if necessary. He is a chiropractic doctor.
(By the way, I believe he might be interested in your
wonderful work, and would suggest that you send him one of
your pamphlets and any other literature that would tend to
give him an insight to your wonderful work. Write him too,
telling him that I referred you to him, etc. His street
address of ..., name, Dr. [...], Denver, Colorado.) If I do
not go to Denver, then I think I shall buy a tent and put it
up somewhere around my home town, and try living in it, as I
have no family except my wife, who is working in a knitting
mill, trying to pay our expenses as far as possible.
"No matter where I go, I wish to keep in touch with you and
your wonderful work. I am still as thoroughly convinced as
I was when you gave me the two readings over a year ago that
the diagnoses given my case are accurate in every particular.
I have watched symptoms and results closely all the time, and
it all goes to prove that your readings were absolutely
correct.
"Several months ago you wrote me, stating your opinions in
reference to 'heaven,' or our heavenly state after we die, to
which I wish to state that I concur with you in every
particular, and in which I have had several manifestations
that convince me of the correctness of your theory..."
P.S. "My brother's wife's people live in Virginia, but I
don't know what part of the state."
9/01/27 EC's letter: "Was certainly very glad to have yours
of August 25th. Very glad to know that you are still
somewhat on the improve, and I'm in hopes that you will be
able to make the visit to your brother in Colorado, if that's
what you really desire to do. I only wish that our
institution was in full running order and we could have you
come on here, where you might have the advantage of the
institution and of the readings whenever necessary. That is
what we are trying to have this for, that we may be better
able to serve humanity, and that we may be able to follow out
in a systematic way and manner the suggestions that are made
in the readings for the improvement - for, as you say
yourself, you believe that the readings were correct, and if
it were possible for those suggestions as were given to be
carried out in full, then the results as promised in the
readings certainly must follow, and I am hoping that if you
have not entirely recovered from your trouble, by the time we
are in running order, that you will arrange it so that you
can be here where you will be looked after in the proper way
and manner - for we expect to have, of course, places
especially fitted for people with your trouble and believe we
will be able to be of service to a great many. Our work is
going along very nicely at the present time. We hope to be
able to start with the actual erection of the building in the
next few weeks, and as soon as this is completed, of course
we will be ready for those who care to take advantage of the
institution.
"Be sure and let us keep in touch with you. I sent some data
to your brother in Denver, and know that whenever you desire
it we shall be more than glad to try and be of help - though
I know you have a very poor way of having the information
carried out as is suggested in the readings.
"Many thanks for referring me to the article by Steward
Edward White. I think we have the magazine here. We have
had some correspondence with Mr. White, but he has never
investigated the work personally.
"Trusting you will let us hear from you from time to time,
and with kindest personal regards..."
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