DROPPED HIS CRUTCHES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 292, 7 December 1923, Page 12

DROPPED HIS CRUTCHES.

CRIPPLED MAN WALKS.

"A WONDERFUL CURE." (By Telesraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Thursday. To-day was the third and the final day of the Hickson Healing Mission. St. Paul's Cathedral was packed, women patients predominating by a majority of ten to one. Altogether over 500 patients -have been ministered to during thei' three days. I

One cure was reported—that of Mr. John McGill, of Winton. He met with a cerious accident on December 10 last, a motor car having run over him, causing r-evere injuries to his shoulder and knee cap. The latter was fractured, and had to be set three or four times. Mr. McGill attended the service yesterday, when he was reported to be in severe pain, and walked on crutches. As a result of the accident one of Mr. McGill's legs was about an inch shorter than the other one. It was reported to-day by several competent observers that as a result of Mr. McGill's attendance at the service yesterday he was now able to walk without assistance, and a most miraculous thing was that there was now apparently no difference in the length of his legs. Mr. McGill is stated to have walked to the Cathedral this morning to congratulate Mr. Hickson on being the medium of such a wonderful cure.

Particulars of Mr. McGill's injuries were rerified later by the patient's nurse in the Invercargill Hospital. She stated that Mr. McGill had been discharged in what -n-ag regarded as a hopeless condition. She has not, however, seen Mr. McGill. since his reported cure.