1/22/21 [
4959]'s affidavit:
WM. K. SCHANZ - Court and General Reporting - Depositions,
Bills of Exceptions - Conventions and Hearings - NOTARY
PUBLIC - Court House Building - Bessemer, Ala.
STATE OF ALABAMA )
) ss.
JEFFERSON COUNTY )
Before me the undersigned authority, Notary Public in and for
said County and State, personally appeared Wm. K. Schanz, who
is known to me, and who, being first duly sworn, deposeth and
saith as follows:
In the five years that I have known Mr. Edgar Cayce, of
Selma, Alabama, it has been to my great personal pleasure and
benefit. Meeting him through Christian Endeavor, he being
Superintendent of the best Junior C. E. Society it has been
my pleasure to meet and talk to, I being State Treasurer of
the Alabama C. E. Union and Field Worker, I first came to
know him as a deep, earnest sincere Christian man; naturally
we met at different times and talked about Christian Endeavor
work, and religion, until we became close friends. Visiting
in Selma quite frequently, I came to hear, from others, of
the great work Mr. Cayce had done in Selma and other places
with his psychical power, and it has been my pleasure to meet
quite a few people who have been benefitted by readings given
by Mr. Cayce, and who have personally told me of the good Mr.
Cayce has done for them. I, however, do not wish to speak
from hearsay, but from personal knowledge, it having been my
pleasure to be present at the following readings, where, as
Court Reporter, I reported verbatim every word uttered during
these readings, and which I afterwards transcribed, a copy
being given to Mr. Cayce of each reading, and a copy of
which I have here in my office, and which I will forward,
if necessary:
While on a vacation to my mother's home in Reading, Pa., this
Summer just past, I had the misfortune, while bathing, to get
water in both of my ears, which later resulted in abscesses
forming and making me wretched. I consulted and was treated
by a doctor in Atlantic City, N.J., and also by a doctor at
Reading, Pa.; the abscesses opened, and left me with running
ears. From this trouble my nose and throat became affected,
and though taking treatment from an Ear, nose and throat
specialist in Bessemer, Alabama, upon my return South,
I got gradually worse, until in the middle of October I
could hardly hear and had great difficulty in breathing and
speaking. I got in touch with Mr. Cayce, and he came to
Birmingham and gave me a reading upon his arrival here. Mr.
Cayce knew very little of my trouble in my head, but in the
reading went thoroughly into the trouble, explained where the
trouble was, and how it could be cured, telling me to stop
treatment with the ear specialist and take up osteopathy and
electric violet ray treatment. I have followed his advice as
closely as it was possible for me, and am still following the
treatment, and today my hearing is entirely restored, my ears
have stopped running since the beginning of December, and I
have again started singing; with the exception of a little
trouble with my nose (which I know will disappear in time),
I am perfectly well.
During Mr. Cayce's stay in Birmingham I was present and
reported verbatim readings on the following persons: Oct.
15, Mrs. Fannie Kahn [
325]; Oct. 19, Louis Halbert Tinder
[
4956]; Oct. 20, Mrs. Lorena Tinder [
4955]; Nov. 2, a second
reading on myself, the first having been given on Oct. 15th;
Nov. 3, Phillip Pendleton [
4957], and Nov. 5, Mrs. Willie
Vandergrif [
4960]. All of these readings were on diagnosis,
and given in the Hotel Tutwiler, Birmingham, Alabama;
however, Mrs. Fannie Kahn was in Lexington, Ky., when the
reading was given for her; Louis Halbert Tinder was sitting
in an automobile in front of the Tutwiler Hotel while his
reading was given; and Mrs. Lorena Tinder was visiting at
Irvine, Ky., at the time the reading on her was given. The
others were present in the room. At most of these readings
the room where the reading was given was full of spectators,
and at nearly every one there was from one to three doctors
present and asking questions. I know personally that every
one of the above mentioned people have been greatly and
wonderfully helped by following the diagnosis and treatment
given in the reading by Mr. Cayce, and every one are loud in
their praise of Mr. Cayce and the help he has given them. I
know also that the doctors and professional and business men
present at the readings were amazed at Mr. Cayce's
revelations, but one and all have confessed that there was no
doubt but that Mr. Cayce had a power that few, if any
possess; and that his practice of using his power for the
benefit of humanity was noble and princely.
For myself, I believe in Mr. Cayce and his psychical power,
for seeing and experiencing, is believing. I know not whence
comes his power, but I do know that he is using his power for
good, hence it must come from good, - the All Good, which is,
God. May he never lose his power.
[signed] Wm K. Schanz
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22nd day of January,
1921.
[signed] G. P. Benton, Notary Public, my commission expires
Sept. 19, 1923
GD's note: He corresponded with EC through the years and
obtained further readings for his family and friends.
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