In the present desperate need of the world, I am offering this book
as my contribution toward the solution of the Cancer problem.
It is founded on personal experience and is put forward more as
a prevention of Cancer than as a Cancer cure.
Many of the sufferers from this malady have had organs
removed. Havoc has been wrought by the virulent cancer poison.
They all have the same story to tell such as:
" We are now declared to be suffering from inoperable
cancer."
To all such afflicted beings - and there are many
- I wound say that the grape diet is, so far as I know at present,
their only hope.
Any questions with regard to such cases should be
directed to licensed drugless healers or to medical men who have
studied the Grape Cure.
Before starting on the grape diet, it is absolutely
essential to remove any and all prejudice from our minds and hearts.
Start with a clean sheet, then the only thing you will have top
eradicate is the obstruction in your physical body.
Johanna Brandt,
Pretoria, S.A.
It was mid-winter when I left my home in the Transvaal
the bring the message of the discovery of a remedy for cancer
to the United States of America.
Nothing could have been more dreary than that dusty
little platform of our provincial town. Something clutched my
heart when I looked on the faces of the children who had helped
to get mother ready for her strange expedition. When would I see
them again? Matters were not improved by the fact that my husband's
face was missing. He was away from home on affairs connected with
our church.
It was the 4th of July - the American Day of Independence.
This was a mere coincidence. The date had not been prearranged
because of its significance but because it fitted in with the
lectures I had to deliver in Bloemfontein and Cape Town before
sailing for England by the "Windsor Castle."
It was a good omen, I told the children. America was
a free country politically, and an independent, powerful, progressive,
rich, and enlightened nation. But it was not free from disease.
I had no doubt whatsoever that this free nation would accept my
message, and accepting it, be blessed with a new emancipation
- a wonderful deliverance from disease and premature death. I
tried to conjure up visions of the blessed and beautiful state
of the world when, through America, a perishing humanity had been
saved from suffering and the poverty which so often follows the
wake of disease.
In Cape Town, after one of my lectures, an astrologer
who happened to be present, volunteered the information that the
planetary influences were against my enterprise. I was earnestly
advised to cancel my voyage and to return to the Transvaal.
This was discouraging! To hide my depression I smiled
and said:
"I shall overcome all planetary and other evil
influences, by the grace of God!"
The brooding majesty of Table Mountain enveloped me
in a parting benediction.
Disappointment followed my wake. Every plan was frustrated;
my funds ran low and I was so much delayed in England and Europe
that it was the end of November before I arrived in New York.
Perhaps some day the story may be written of how in
the end, by the grace of God, every obstacle was overcome.
The first three months in America were difficult indeed.
I found to my great disappointment that the Medical Practice Act
of the State of New York was tyrannical in the extreme. Much time
was lost in constructing a plan by which I could demonstrate the
efficacy of the Grape Cure.
As a law-abiding citizen of South Africa, I had no
desire to come into conflict with the law of a strange land. There
was nothing to do, therefore, but to secure the cooperation of
registered medical men and carry out my healing campaign under
their protection.
But would it be possible to find medical men who would
be willing to supervise test cases under an unknown system of
healing?
the time spent in searching for them was not lost.
I visited many people an institutions, presented letters of introduction,
delivered private lectures and worked up many valuable connections.
My main activity, however was writing. The little portable "Corona"
typewriter that accompanied me everywhere since 1916 was nearly
worn out with letters I wrote to the editors of leading newspapers
and magazines, the heads of healing movements, the pastors of
churches and, last but not least the most prominent medical men
connected with the campaign against cancer.
But these efforts met with no success. The months
went by and I did not even get an acknowledgment of the receipt
of any of my communications.
Two years before when I was lecturing in Cape Town,
I met a fine American woman who was interested in healing and
who still had time, on her trip around the world, to help me with
my work. We became close friends. Her home in Long Island received
me after I landed in New York.
"It is God, who built the nest of the blind bird."
I still have the latchkey of that home. The refuge
is always ready.
Those who have drunk deeply of the cup of homesickness,
will understand. But this was no ordinary homesickness. It was
not longing for home and loved ones, or a yearning for the "slumbering,
sunlit vastness" of South Africa. It was a state of mental
and spiritual anguish charged with unfathomable suffering of all
the ages. It was my utter helplessness.
To hold the key to the solution of most of the problems
of life and to have it rejected, untried, as worthless - that
is to pass through the dark night of the soul. To have a mockery
of worldly splendors thrust upon on as a substitute for an ideal;
that is the temptation in the wilderness. To offer the gift of
deliverance from pain, freely, without money, and without price
and to see it spurned - that is crucifixion - Calvary.
Among
others, I had a letter of introduction to the Father of Naturopathy
in America, Dr. Benedict Lust, and when I placed my difficulties
before him he advised me to approach Mr. Bernarr Macfadden, editor
of the "Evening Graphic" and the famous magazine "Physical
Culture."
Mr. Macfadden received me very kindly. In spite of
the fact that I was still withholding the secret of the Grape
Cure (until it could be brought forward in such a way that it
could never be disputed), he listened attentively to my story
and finally invited me to write an account of the discovery for
the "Evening Graphic."
What seemed to impress him most was the fact that
I was prepared to undergo an exploratory operation to prove my
claim, for I have always maintained the the scars of the malignant
growth were still present in my body.
This proof of my sincerity touched him and he made
a special feature of my case in a full page article in the "Evening
Graphic" of January 21st, 1928.
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