HEALING BY TOUCH

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 57, 9 March 1922, Page 8

HEALING BY TOUCH

DEMONSTRATION IN VICTORIA.

(rJOM' ODR OWN CORMSPONDINI.)

■ ':■. .': SYDNEY; 28th February/ Some remarkable demonstrations of "liealing by tbucli "lliave' just been given in Melbourne by a Yorkshire evangelist,. Mr. Smith Wigglesworth. • After the evangelist had given an address on the subject of "faith," he called upon ■ those who had come '■' for aid "' a couple of days previously to testify,-as,, to; the results; and several persons who had been suffering ;from deafness, rheumatics,. and lameness declared that their ailments had*completely gone. Mr. Wigglesworth then gave fur-: ther manifestations of,. " healing by touch." An elderly man,' who, said that; he had been deaf for years, cried " Hallelujah! Hallelujah!" when asked by Mr.. Wigglesworth'.if he could hear, after hands had been placed on him and he had been prayed over. A woman, who, it was declared, had had stiff-legs'for over twenty years, ,and who limped to the meeting on the arm of a. relative, ran about the hall in joy after she'had been," touched." Another ,woman, who ,was said to have been an invalid in a chair for twenty-three '-years, l declared that her limbs were " beginning to move." She was advised by the evangelist to retain her faith in Jesus Christ and her cure would be complete. A young women, with pains of long standing in her back, was able to stoop and, touch the ground, with . her hands, and.' she laughed heartily as she told the audience that her trouble had A woman,^ who asserted that. she "had ,been unable.to walk owine; to pain in her feet, ran up and down in front of the audience, crying, "-Braise'the name of. the Lord." She declared that her pain vanished when the,evangelist touched her.

There were a few failures, some deaf persons and some almost blind stating that they' could not., admit any improvement. " Strengthen your ' faith in the Lord." was the advice given them by Mr. Wigglesworth. , ;