FAITH HEALING PRACTICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 261, 3 November 1932, Page 6

FAITH HEALING PRACTICE.

May I be permitted to express through your ■valued columns something , of the growing ibody of considered opinion upon faith ihealing .practice in this city? First, may I speak for thousands, their gratification at tho prompt and effective measures taken by the City Fathers in the interests and well-being of the whole community? It should not be difficult to anticipate the inevitable protests about "religious persecution," etc., by reference to. his Worship's statement that it ie not religious preaching but faith, healing practice that has been denied our City Hall. Auckland City, if I may be permitted so to say, is fortunate in its chief executives. Second, ihowever, I would ask, sir, with all the gravity engendered by an intimate knowledge of these movements overseas, if these practices are not to be •permitted in our City Hall, are they any less dangerous to mind and body in one privately owned. Since so responsible a committee has indicated clearly its official opinion, may we not expect that other Department whose duty we conceive it to be, to act similarly, and forbid public faith healing to foe continued anywhere in our cityT KENNETH H. MELVIN. .