Nr. R. R. Chappe·ll
Chappells Limited
Sydney, Nova Scotia,
Canada
Door 11!' . Chappell:
June 15', 1949
Thank you for your very eooo letter of recant data . It uas
o plcasuro to hoar fran you.
If you knou how many thousandn of pooplo t-1l'1te to us os you
did , you Hould knou thu t at lon3 last the actual Truths of
Tho Spirit .of God al~o being made knot!m to t;lGn a:1d \ramon on
this earth. Hhon it is understood that man is tho hiehest
creation of The Groat Lifo-Spirit , tho earth u111 bo a paradise
.
The direct result of my father ' s death was from a severo
lung hemort'hago, uh:tch occurred shortly a:f'tol' noon on October
19, 1948, !Ie never claimed for hi.rnself earthly immortality
or tho perpotuntion or his physical self. Ho did boliovo,
hovJovor, that soma day man uould come into such complete
roolization of tho Pouer and Prosonce of God that death \·rould
bo overcome,
Plouso feel free to "\'n•ito at any time if there in anything
further vie can do for you.
S:1.ncarcly yours,
Alfred B. Robinson
THE PSYCHIAHA RELIGIOI~
DIAL 4455 * Please address all communications to the Company
Mr. Alfred Robinson
Moscow, Idaho
U. s. A.
Dear Mr. Robinson:
lHllffED
SYDNEY, N. s.,
CANADA
P. Q. DRA W~R P.
It was with heartfelt sorrow I read in
our local paper of your Fathers' passing some time ago. I am eighty-five
years old today. I was born in sickness and brought up in ignorance as
I had not strength enough to walk a mile and three-quarters to the countey
school and did not get as far in school as children get in the fourth
grade at the present time.
In my seventeenth year, I realized my
physical inability to do what others of my age were doing and at the same
time, a humiliating sence of ~ ignorance because I had not half as much
common school education as others of ~ age in the community had acquired
and going to school at that age was not in order except for those whose
parents were in a position to keep up the required funds to educate a
preacher, lawyer or doctor as the case might be.
However, I had learned to read and write
and during the next few years answered every Ad I could find and studied all
I could get on psychology, spiritual healing, the force of suggestion,
hypnotism and at the same time, gave serious thought to healing of Jesus
as described in the Bible but I never could accept the story of Jesus as a
sinatoning Saviour but I was always confident that there was a spiritual
power helping me do the transactions that my three older brothers, with whom
I had joined in a partnership, would insist could not be done.
Time rolled on, and in 1902 I had a bad
case of typhoid fever. When I survived the Drs. said it was the worst case
they ever knew to recover. I attributed the r•coveey to my mentality and
my absolute confidence that I would recover even though I was unconscious
much of the time.
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During these years I had studied ever.y
mail course in drugless healing etc, I could find. The most interesting
called "Suggestive Thezapeutics" by Professor Weltmer, who was then conducting
a healing and teaching school in Nevada not far from Kansas City.
In 1904, a serious condition developed in
my stomach and bowels which constantly became worse and when the best doctors
here intimated they could not hope for any improvement, I went to the Weltmer
School.In thirty days was discharged and have since had no recurrence of this
trouble. While there, I had free access to the classes and added more knowledge
to what I had learned from the mail course and before leaving, took
examinations and shortly received a diploma certifying my ability to teach
and heal. Their method was manipulation laying of the heated hands and suggestion
and instruction to hold positive healing thoughts.
Professor Weltmer died and the Institute
r closed turing the 1930-31 despression. The only reason I did not make healing
my life work was because I had organized a Company and was honour bound
to stay with and make a success of it.
I think it was ninteen or twenty years ago
I subscribed to a course advertised by your good Father and have taken
( all his course since with the exception of the $100.00 course offered some
time ago. Have read practically all his books and magazines and I get more
\_from his wri tinge than I do from anything else I read.
Six or seven years ago, apparently, the
years and continual hard work was bringing my activities to a close and five
and one-half years ago I did not expect to live through the coming winter and
made arrangements in event of my going out for my body to be taken care of in
a morgue until spring when it could be more conveniently taken three-hundred
miles to the old home cemetery.
I had organized a close Corporation in 1901
and as President, enjoyed spending all the time I possibly could at the office
only a three minute walk from my residence. As I walked home on January 5th,
\ five years and fo~ montm ago, I said to myself'the chances are I will not
return to the office again". I had been weighed that day and with very heavy
winter clothes, only weighed 117 lbs. (my normal weight being 140 to 145 lbs.).
I still had ambition but no strength or energy and I decided I was down for the
count. As I had been doing for same time, I lost no time in going to bed and
soon found ~ in deep and serious thought, appar ently asking ~elf if there
was any reason why I mould want to continue to live any longer and the thought
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came to me if I lived four months longer I would be eighty years old and I
reasoned that at the rate I was failing I would not live that long and even
though I had a desire to live I had no dread of death, and no fear of what
would happen to me on the next plain.
After I had lain there for same time and
done much thinking, I reached out to the table and got hold of one of your
Fathers' writings, I think it was an old lesson and I read something like
this - "If you don't believe what I have been trying to teach you, put God
to the test and he will not fail" • I then did more serious thinking and
later I picked up one of his magazines and opened it up at an article, the
heading of which was "Guiding God" I read the article and said if Robinson
is right as I think he is, I can live four more months and I can have ten
pounds more weight and will be much better and much stronger than I am now.
I then began to talk to the ever present
power within, more earnestly and more often and with more confidence than I
had ever done before and on the 26th of May just four months later I had gained
the ten pounds and ~ general health condition was wonderfully improved. I
then reasoned that as this method had been so effectual in four months, it surely
should be equally good for five years, so I took on what I called a new five year
lease of life and have been on the job almost every day since and today I am
starting on a continuance of the lease but not setting any timfi~Sjective as
I feel more like living ten years than I did like living five years ago.
During the past forty-five years I have survived
serious physical conditions even after death sentences had been passed on
me by different doctors and have brought a number of others, who would not respond
to medical treatment, into a condition which the ever present healing law
(the power of the spirit within) could manifest; Our united desires being ever
mindful of that promise which says: '~ere two of you on earth agree on one thing,
it shall be done by our Fa·ther".
The most remarkable case I had, was that of
an internal cancer, which after much delay the doctors decided to operate. On
making the incision, found it so developed, having grown through the organs into
the hip joint to such an extent, the patient could not use her right leg and the
doctors closed the incision as the growth was too extensive to remove. There
was no mistake about this case, as the local doctor has sent her to the best
hospital in the East and the incision was made by competent physicians. I was
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personally acquainted with the family Doctor and when she was brought home
he told me she was not expected to live longer than thirty days. The doctors
who had made the incision, had told her husband the same. I was a very good
friend of the family as her husband had worked with me and I had treated a
child who was crippled by infantile paralysis with surprisingly good results.
The doctor said she would never walk nor have any use of this leg, which had
been apparently dead from the knee down and had not grown for two years, bUt
under my treatment, life returned and she is still walking but it lost two
years growth and is shorter and smaller than the other. This gave her parents
confidence in me. They agreed I may give her some relief from the suffering
she was enduring and when he came for me with his car, as he did some nine or
ten times during the first three weeks after he and I had both been told that
she would not live longer than thirty days, she was well on the road to recovery
and when her doctor called just thirty days after he had said she could not
live, and had said it was of no use for him to continue to call, she answered
the 'phone and told him she was very much alive. He went to the house and
made an internal examination and after a few mimutes silence, remarked "The
most curious freak of nature I have ever known. The darn thing is all dried
up". That was about twenty-five years ago and she is still living.
· Now in closing, I shall appreciate your
tell~ me what was or appeared to be the cause of your Fathe,;:s' .,a:B.ng. I
sometimes think his desire to pass along to the next plain became so strong
it was granted but at the same time, I feel that his going at that age has been
one of the greatest losses that has ever befallen humanity. I hope and trust
you will continue the good work.
RRC:em
Sincerely yours,
.• 7 ) 1 i!{ _ fJ_~___
R. R. Chappell.
