Healer makes a hit in N.Z.

Press, 24 February 1977, Page 14

Healer makes a hit in N.Z.

i New Zealanders have ’ packed meetings held by the 'travelling English evangelist and healer Harry Greenwood, | seeking healing and evidence (that God was real, the evangelist said in Christchurch. Mr Greenwood is in New (Zealand for three weeks of ’ meetings, and will be in Christchurch for the next two days. He said that he had been a paraplegic, and was healed by God 13 years ago. His healing was the beginning of his own ministrations, under which he said he had seen dying patients healed of cancer, multiple sclerosis, paralysis, deformity, blindness, deafness, and had seen new body parts created. Mr Greenwood made a clear distinction between healing by the power of God, and psychic surgery and faith; healing. Psychic surgery and faith’ healing left the person in a; more desperate condition, he said. Although the healing itself might have been success-1 ful, the net result was a psychological and spiritual state worse than the original; one. When God healed he restored the total person, and ( left him with a healthy body. I peace of mind, and a revela-1 tion that God was a real per- ’ son, not some vague entity in the clouds. The trans-i action was “through Jesus’ Christ.” Mr Greenwood said he had: been a sailor and free; thinker, who had set out to|

( prove that God did not exist. ; “I had been told as a kid (that God was there, and that I if you were good you went to (heaven, and if you were bad (you went to hell. This left :me with a God conscience that, stopped me really enjoying myself. I figured that I if I could prove God did not exist, I could wave goodbye ito my conscience, and really enjoy life. ( “I told God I would give Him two weeks, and that if He could not find me in that time, He just wasn't around. On the tenth day He proved ’ Himself to me as a person. ‘ “I met Jesus Christ, and [got up off my knees saying lover and over again, ‘lt's real. (1 don’t have to pretend.’ I (always had to pretend liefore. .because 1 found nothing in lit” .