, that she might see
results for herself. We found him looking even better than on
Friday, and it is very interesting to hear him tell his
experience, which he will be glad to impart to those who are
seeking after the truth, and interested in the cure of disease
of themselves or their friends by this natural and without price
(but priceless) means. We also visited two other of the five
cases over which Mr. Ritter is at present keeping watch, and
every one bore evidences of the great truth. No one should
undertake the fast on their own responsibility, as certain
conditions may arise requiring the eye of one who has made the
matter a study, and no one should pass an opinion on the matter
until they read Dr. Dewey's _New Gospel of Health_, wherein the
reasons are made so plain that all can understand."

[Illustration: Copyrighted 1900, by Henry Ritter.

MR. LEONARD THRESS,

FIFTIETH DAY OF FAST.]

Mr. Thress has regained his normal weight and has been in the best of
health in the several months since the fast.[2]

The following case was deemed a miracle by all friends: Mrs. H. B., a
woman of seventy-six, became exceedingly breathless, due, it was
supposed, to defective heart action that had been chronic for many
years. The final result was general dropsy. The eyelids had become so
heavy that reading could be indulged only a short time because of their
weight; the throat was also charged with water so as to make swallowing
difficult. Beneath the eyes and jaws were pockets of water--in short,
the skin of the entire body was distended, a condition that had deceived
the friends as revealing only an increase of her natural stoutness. The
real condition became known through a call to treat a bad cold.

What had authorized medical art to promise in such a case? Absolutely
nothing, as she had become too old and weak to be subjected to the
ordinary means for such a general condition. As for a fast for one so
old, that was the last thing that would have been thought of: her age
and debility would only have seemed to invite more daily food than she
had been taking.

She was put on a fast, or rather the fast was continued, the cold
having abolished her appetite. It went on until the fifteenth day, with
increasing general strength and diminishing weight. The last days before
hunger came she was able to go up a long flight of stairs without the
aid of the railing and without m