LONDON CROWD TO HEAR BOY FROM AMERICA

Grey River Argus, 25 August 1949, Page 8

LONDON CROWD TO HEAR BOY FROM AMERICA

LONDON, Six thousand people sat in the Albert Hall for the greater part of a sweltering Sunday afternoon to hear a 14-year-old American boy evangelist, David Walker, billed on posters as “Little David the Divine Healer”, describe what he called his visit to Heaven and then lay hands upon a number of sick and crippled people who came to him to see whether they could be cured of their afflictions. No definite cures wore reported, though the evangelist claimed that one six-year-old deaf mute girl had given signs of speech. Shouting and screaming through a microphone until he made himself hoarse, the boy claimed that when he was nine he fell into a trance during a revival meeting at Long Beach, California. During this trance, he said, he had visited Heaven, which he described as possessing “great wide rates, twice lheh width of the Albert Hall stage, made of precious stones like jasper, ruby, and so on”. Its streets were made of real gold, and 'it was full of magnificent mansions. Little David’s mission to Britain, which has been financed by several churches in the United States, has been a financial loss.