46. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 



time rolled on and my success constantly en- 

 larged, I felt as if the" summit of my ambition 

 had been almost attained. The limit of time I 

 had fixed for remaining was one month, but as 

 the end of that period drew near I was strongly 

 solicited by many friends to extend my visit, to 

 which, as the interest was daily augmenting, I 

 consented. Month after month passed, during 

 which time my class was constantly increasing 

 until, by the close of the fourth month, it had 

 swelled to the number of four thousand eight 

 hundred and eighty-six members ! At the end 

 of that time my preparations were made to 

 depart, but I was not allowed to leave before 

 receiving the most conclusive and gratifying evi- 

 dence of the high estimation which my system 

 had secured and of the friendship I had been 

 so fortunate as to win. 



The evening of the 21st of February, 1870, 

 had arrived ; a free exhibition of the power and 

 beauty of my system was in progress in the great 

 tent, when, most unexpectedly to myself, Elmer 

 Ruan Coates, Esq., a well-known citizen and 



