SPIRITUAL HEALING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18468, 3 August 1923, Page 11

SPIRITUAL HEALING.

THE HICKSON MISSION.

GOLDEN RULES OF HEALTH.

r An address on spiritual healing •was given in the Baptist Tabernacle last evening by the ; Rev, J. W. Kemp. He stated thai the subject ■ had been known at different periods .as faith-healing, spiritual healing, and Divine healing. ;It was. not new, even in these modern days. It had in reality been lost sight of for a very long period of time, but for probably 50 years had been a subject of deep and increasing interest. .: .; ;" ' , ■

The Hickson/spiritual healing mission, even in its prospects, was giving rise to much speculation in the city, and numbers were asking what attitude they, should adopt toward it. A Without, attempting to dogmatise, Mr. Kemp said he thought he was safe in stating that ■; the movement was receiving practically, universal- endorsement from the clergy. He took- up the attitude of a sympathetic,looker-on; one who was desirous of becoming more fully conversant with it. .'••_ - ~ ■;.

Christian science was designated by the spaaker as a , frightful counterfeit, and one of the ;'i most, colossal < anti-Christian': movements in the world to-day. He also denounced spiritism as one of ; the false doctrines iof to-day.-. To the'statement that : the age of, miracles was past, he said such was opposed ;to Scripture., fWe were living in an age when God had ceased to be real to the majority of the people. There was a fearful -danger when once we left the moorings ;of the old ' faith. There' was, ! said Mr. Kemp, an aversion in these days to the thought. of anything ; miraculous, but was not the regeneration (if the soul a miracle? Referring to,the rescue and rehabilitation of the drunkard, he said ■he considered drunkenness ; just : as much a disease as ; tuberculosis, v ' '\'<\ . •■' ' -•' ' Personally, he believed in , Divine, healing, and recalled 'how he had been raised up from sickness after a severe operation, the attending physician having admitted that though Tie had performed the operation it was God who had pulled him through. * i ' -r:'-',''-'\ ' , - Concluding,' Mr. ; Kemp laid down • six golden - rules; 1 * iwhich '■■. ho declared i< would go far ; toward establishing good health in the community. These were the laws of ! sanitation,; isolation (in ■ cases of . infectious diseases), hygiene, diatetics, exercise/ and rest.; Then there might be added .the great seventh law of: healing. Seated on the platform was Miss Wilson, who was recently stated to *be . cured by prayer, * after 20 .; years of ; suffering. Miss Wilson briefly ;; addressed ,the audience, telling her; ; story in;' simple, homely language. ' .'*