Many Christians converted years ago show no more progress than the
subject of this sketch:
“There is a young man in England,” says _The Dietetic and
Hygienic Gazette_, “who at the age of twenty-four is
developing at the rate of only one-sixth of that of the average
human being. At present he is learning his alphabet and can
count up to ten only. During the last nineteen years he has
eaten but three meals a week, has slept twenty-four hours and
played twenty-four hours, without the slightest variation. In
spite of his twenty-four years he looks no older than a boy of
four or five and is only thirty-six inches in height. For the
same period his development physically and mentally has been at
only one-sixth the ordinary rate, while absolutely regular and
perfect in every other way. At his birth this child weighed ten
pounds and in no way differed from any other child. He grew and
thrived in the usual way until he attained the age of five. Then
his progress was suddenly and mysteriously arrested, and since
then six years have been the same to him as one year to the
normal person. He has attracted the attention of many medical
and scientific men, more than one of whom has exprest the
conviction that this remarkable man will live to be no less than
three centuries old.” (Text.)
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