SPIRITUAL HEALING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 6 September 1923, Page 2

SPIRITUAL HEALING.

RESTORATION OF SIGHT

SYDNEY, Aug. 23. The gift of spiritual healing, of bringing to the sick and the afflicted fresh ; hope through the exaltation of prayer ' and the laying on of hands, is not the monopoly: of Mr. Hickson after all. The restoration of a man's sight by the same method is now attributed to Dr. j Radford, Anglican Bishop of Goulburn, and one' of Mr. Hickson's strongest supporters. | The Rev. J. D. Nicholson, a country rector, has looked to the Divine Healer through Dr. Radford as His instrument, for a Way out of the darkness, , and not in vain. His sight, it is reported, had been steadily failing. An expert held out no hope for him, and he sought Bishop Radford. A special service was held at Goulburn. Two clergymen were present as intercessors, and away m Mr. Nicholson's quiet little parish his flock were praying. Immediately after the ministration, it is reported, Mr. Nicholson was conscious of a lifting of the burden which had oppressed him, physically and mentally, and, on rising to his feet, he.found that he^couk! see with his hitherto blind eye Mr. Nicholson remained in goulburn over the week-end, and assisted at the Sunday services in the! cathedral. Bishop Radford described the healing service as a wonderful and uplifting experience. But the clergy are not all as confident about their gifts as Dr. Radford At a conference of clergy in Sydney the other day to discuss future plans arislnK out of the Hickson mission, an exchaplain, who had contracted shell shock at the war, collapsed, and had to be carried out. If hands were laid upon him—it was impossible to say, as the press were excluded from the conference—there was no evidence of its efticacy, for the poor chap was in a state ! or utter collapse when brought out Nor was the subsequent spectacle of a young man rushing dramatically about for a doctor to come to the chaplain's aid such as to convert unbelievers in spiritual heaJmg. Anyway, a doctor had to be called in. But it certainly looked an admirable, if poignant, oceaXJ? a mee*in S of "Mr. Hickson's supporters, to demonstrate their faith in divine healing. j To act as the instrument of divine' power is apparently the gift o f few