CURED BY FAITH.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10747, 19 November 1928, Page 3

CURED BY FAITH.

A SILENT SINGER, BURSTS INTO SONG. HA AVER, A. Nov. 13. Alost people could hardly believe their ears at the Hawera Presbyterian Church when Mrs A. J. Ching’s rich contralto voice burst into. song, yet it was true, and . the singer’s triumphant notes swelled above the choir’s, to tho amazement and delimit of friends. The last time that Mrs '■Ching attended St. John’s Church previously, and that was about a fortnight ago, she was obliged to remain sadly silent. Try as she would, her vocal chords would not respond. What is more, modern doctors told her she would never sing again. Three years or more ago Airs Ching had been a richly talented .singer. Faith has banished her impotence and with it tho dictum of materialism. In that accomplishment lies- a story. Tongues are talking in wonder. A handkerchief seems most irrelevant; yet the delirious desire of Alr.J Ching’s sister to possess a “little pink handkerchief ” plays a very strange part in the story. Sickness and suffering for a long period has been the lot of Mrs Ching; to-day her husband, family and friends are delighted and amazed at the marked difference. Troubles accumulated about there years ago. when some aggravation of go.tre' resulted in Airs Ching losing her singing voice while her ordinary speech was reduced to little more than whispering. A severe form of influenza attacked attacked Airs Oiling about three weeks ago. A telegram came advising that a sister was seriously ill, and Airs Ching had been unable to visit the sister in AVellington. A day or two later another -telegram showed her sister to be critically ill, and Airs Ching decided to go to AVellington despite her own illness. In a low condition. Mrs Cliing’s sister had been hurried to the hospital for an urgent operation. Visits revealed that the patient desired “a pink handkerchief,” and that led to Mrs Ching, still very weak, hunting the -shops of AVellington for such an article. Pink bordering*, and colors were chosen in vain. “A little pink handkerchief,” was the delirious request, and nothing else would do. Search was continued by. Airs Ching, AVhilc in Newtown an impulse beckoned the Hawera lady to enter a small shop and she instinctively did so. She found there the only pink handkerchiefs in the city, as well as the way to possession of her own voice, long silent, her oral health, and the recovery of her sister without the necessity for the impending operation. The lady of tlie shop was attached to Pastor Jefferies’ mission of faith healing and she told Airs Ching she believed she had come to the shop in answer to prayer. She told Airs Ching that she and her sister would he cured. A smiling lady at the mission door of the, AA r ellington AVinter Show Building welcomed Airs Ching with a handshake, and told her she would he cured, as many had been praying for her. Airs Ching believed it thoroughly and joined in the singing preceding tlie service of Pastor Jefferies. In a little while ■ AlrsvChing suddenly and simply burst into song, justified her faith and amazed her nearby companion.?, who heard her voice above the throng. The glad news was passed around “Cured by faith, without the laving on of hands.” “I felt calm and composed,V soid Mrs Ohing, “and I was filled with joy. Thera was not a tremqr in my voice or my whole body. As I sang from the stage at. tlie request of Pastor Jefferies my voice filled the whole building, and everybody was delighted at the cure, We then sang ‘Praise God from A\ r hom All Blessings Flow.’ I then addressed the gathering, telling them of mv experience nsd suffering.”