CITY OF PRAYER
FOR WORLD IN DISTRESS
NEW ZEALANDER'S DREAM
NUCLEUS FOUNDED
United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received May 8, 1 p.m.) LONDON, May 7. A New Zealand engineer (Mr. Charles Simpson) has realised his long-cher-ished dream of building a city of prayer at Addington Park, Maidstone.. j Prayer will be the- only industry, the inhabitants spending their time praying for the / sick and needy throughout the world. Mr. Simpson became a spiritual healer in 1926 and started with a capital of £15 in a.coal cellar in Westminster. He gradually formed an organisation called the "Seekers," with headquarters in Kensington, where twelve healers daily minister through a laying-on of hands. Hundreds of all classes meet in small circles and pray for thousands of distressed people, who report progress periodically. Lady Mosley opened the Addington Hall as the nucleus of the city site, of which the cost was £13,000. Mr. Simpson hopes to build small cottages renting at 5s a week. Persons devoting themselves to prayer* will live rent free.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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170CITY OF PRAYER Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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