CONVERTS BAPTISED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 1 May 1937, Page 9

CONVERTS BAPTISED

REVIVALIST CEREMONY RUB-DOWN TO PREVENT CHILL [By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent] LONDON, 3rd April. One hundred converts to the Rev. George Jeffrey’s revivalist movement were baptised this week in a huge tank in London’s Albert Hdll. Mr Jeffreys, waist deep in tepid water, wearing a pastor’s waterproof gown, ducked ea-’- "invert. He announced that forty cripples had been cured; twelve people were cured of deafness, eight of blindness, forty-seven of cancer growths, tumours. Cures in rheumatism, arthritis, and stiff limbs were too many to count. Wearing wh :f e bathing caps, some in waterpro'-' capes, others in white cotton robes, converts were taken by the neck and thrust under the wafer while Mr Jeffreys announced: “You are saved.”

Nurses from St. John Ambulance Brigade stood by, taking the older women down to the changing rooms, giving them hot drinks and a quick rub-down to prevent a chill. “It is quite hygienic” one of the pastors said. “The water in the tank is constantly changed.”