In health / by A.J. Ingersoll.

  • Ingersoll, A. J. (Andrew J.)
Date:
1892
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Credit: In health / by A.J. Ingersoll. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to keep me from doing any outward wrong, but I could not attain unto that purity of heart that I knew I ought to have and that I earnestly desired. But as God would have it, while visiting at the home of a Christian lady at O last summer, she spoke to me about a certain faith-cure, and asked me if I had ever read anything about it. I told her that I had read of such a cure at Buffalo, but had little confidence in it; never- theless, I believed that whenever God gave the faith of healing He healed. But she said that she referred to another and different sort of faith-cure, and that she had a little book [ “ In Health,” published by A. J. Ingersoll, M. D., Corning, N.Y. ] which she would like me to read, which would tell me all about it. So when I was leaving she handed me the book, request- ing me to read it carefully and prayerfully, and tell her what I thought of it. I put it in my satchel and went on my way, had a few days’ vacation, returned home, found much to do, and did not look at the book for several weeks. Finally I felt that I must, in fulfilment of my promise, write to that kind friend; and before I did that I must at least give a hurried reading to the little book. I had not read the first chapter through before I had very strange thoughts, and wondered whether my friend thought that I was a bad man, and sought in that way to tell me of it. If it had not been