CITY OF PRAYER
PLACE’S “ONLY INDUSTRY.” NEW ZEALANDER’S SCHEME, PRAYERS FOR THE WORLD. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph!—Copyright.) Received May 8, 8.55 a.m. LONDON, May 7.
A Now Zealand engineer, Mr Charles Simpson, has realised a longcherished dream of building a city of prayer at Addington Park, Maidstone. 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. He started with a capital of £ls in a coal cellar at Westminster and he gradually formed an organisation called “Seekers” with their headquarters at Kensington where twelve healers daily minister through the laying on of hands. Hundreds of all classes meet in small circles and pray for thousands of distressed people who report progress periodically. Lady Elizabeth Mosley opened Addington Hall. It is the nucleus of a city site of which the cost was £13,000. Sir Simpson hopes to build small cottages, renting them at 5s weekly. Persons devoting themselves to prayer will live rent free.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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173CITY OF PRAYER Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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