REVIVAL SCENES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1932, Page 7

REVIVAL SCENES

FOURSQUARE GOSPEL MISSION AT ALjBERT HALL CUBE AM) CDNYEKSION United Press Association ■—By Electric TeleV graph—Copyright. (Received 29th Macrch, 1 p.m.) LONDON, 28th. March. With the platform ; from which Mrs. Aimee Semple Slacpherson had launched a similar movement, covered with imitation gpcass surrounding an enormous tan-Is in readiness for subsequent baptises, the Albert Hall was the scene of a vigorous revival meeting, in which thousands of enthusiasts* participated. Hymns, shouts of "Hallelujah" and "Praise the Lord" announced the opening of the meeting, which was1, the seventh Four-Square Gospel >demonstration conducted by the principal, Mr. George Jeffreys. Many | came to seek a cure from various ailments. Others, waving hymn books as they sprang to their seats, joyously miswered Mr. Jeffreys's categorical inquiries regarding the diseases, from which they were now free. Seventy-four testified to having Been curedi of cancer tumours; eighteen ex-cripples had thrown away their cratches; .132 said they had been cured of arthritis, nineteen of blindness, and twenty-nine of deafness. A series of hymns heralded the healing service, in which Mr. Jef-: freys laid hands on the. y&eads of many of the congregants, while men; and women sobbed and ;manry womenfainted from stress of emotcons. : The first session resulted in fifty--five conversions. -. ~'