While he was in high school, he tried an electrical hearing aid, but it was of no
value to him; due, we believed, to a condition that was disclosed when the child was
six, by Dr. J. Gordon Wilson, of Chicago, when he operated on one side of the boy's
head, and discovered that there was no sign of natural hearing equipment.
During his last week in college, (eighteen years after the operation), something
happened which marked the most important turning-point of his life. Through what
seemed to be mere chance, he came into possession of another electrical hearing
device, which was sent to him on trial. He was slow about testing it, due to his
disappointment with a similar device. Finally he picked the instrument up, and
more or less carelessly, placed it on his head, hooked up the battery, and lo! as if by a
stroke of magic, his lifelong DESIRE FOR NORMAL HEARING BECAME A REALITY! For the
first time in his life he heard practically as well as any person with normal hearing.
"God moves in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform."
Overjoyed because of the Changed World which had been brought to him
through his hearing device, he rushed to the telephone, called his mother, and
heard her voice perfectly. The next day he plainly heard the voices of his professors
in class, for the first time in his life! Previously he could hear them only when they
shouted, at short range. He heard the radio. He heard the talking pictures. For the
first time in his life, he could converse freely with other people, without the necessity
of their having to speak loudly. Truly, he had come into possession of a Changed
World. We had refused to accept Nature's error, and, by PERSISTENT