May 3d 1886.
From Iowa to Massachusetts my arms stretch out to you, with a feeling that I have found something, for which the spirit has long yearned; viz- that there is someoneAs Written:some one who knows of a power to heal, beyond drugs and magnetism Weary of these I have longed for more reliable means; and have often felt, there was a power to heal more real somewhere if I could only unveil it.
Would that it were in my power to receive benefit from you, and also that I had means to avail myself of a collegiate course, that I might benefit others. Ever present with me has been this desire to benefit the suffering ones of earth.
On looking over the cards in C. S J which I recently met with, and is what has led me to write, I do not see any name located in PhiladelphiaAs Written:Philad PennsylvanniaAs Written:Penna. Have you a student there? if so please send word to Mrs. S. T. Gibson. No 686 Nth 13th Street. PhiladelphiaAs Written:Philad PennsylvanniaAs Written:Pa. She is a friend who is suffering greatly — and I have written her of this course of treatment=. that is, what I could understand from the two numbers of. The C. S. journal which has found its way to my hands I will enclose stamp for that purpose, & your sending the address to her will prevent delay, as would occur were it sent to me for her.