HICKSON MISSION

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11659, 25 October 1923, Page 3

HICKSON MISSION

OVER 500 PATIENTS AT FINAL SESSION. Per Press Association PALMERSTON N., October 24. Over 500 patients attended the final day of the Hickson Mission at All Saints’ Church to-day. The missioner delivered an address exhorting the people to revive the spirit of prayer, r.nd urging the formation of prayer circles, to the members of which only the Christian names of sick people would be given. He appealed to the people to get into clceer with the clergy of all denominations; then the work would go on. MORE CURES REPORTED. The cure is reported of a man who was blind and who on leaving the church exclaimed; “Look, I can see.” A girl from Rongotea suffering from infantile paralysis left the church as she entered, a cripple, but is now reported to be cured and has cast aside the use of splints. A case from Masterton of a deaf and dumb girl whose speech is now restored is reported. ‘CURES EFFECTED” AUCKLAND REPORTS. The follow)rip excerpt froiji a letter received by a Wanganui resident from an Auckland gentleman gives an in- | stance of cures effected at the mission conducted by Mr J. M. Hickson: “Mrs G went to him duiing the week of the mission. She had been operated upon, and had treatment for an internal complaint several times during the last- 18 years. And she came to see me after the laying on of hands and declares she is quite better, and can sleep at nights now as she has net done for years. Another old lady of 80, a few doors away, who could only get about in a wheel chair, can now walk easily Ajid J —— tells me of a little sehoiolmajte who had infantile paralysis in the leg and had to be helped up and down the step at school. She now jumps off the steps herself and skips with the others. She used to be wheeled to school on a kind of tricycle. ■ The schoolmaster declares little Millsie has quite converted him.” WELLINGTON ARRANGEMENTS HEALING SERVICES. The Hickson healing mission will open in Wellington on Monday November Sth, when Mr J. M. Hickson will address those working in connection with the mission at St. Paul’s proCathedral. The organising-secretary for Wellington is the Rev. W. Faneourt, who states that healing services will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 10 a.m. Patients should be in the church by 9.30 a.m. Hie service must start punctually at 10 a.m., and everything must be in perfect order by that time. Patients will help the organisers of the mission by ooming in good time and preventing a rush at the end. The church doors will open at 8.30 a.m. The committee have abolished the closing day for applications. ' Patients are advised to apply early; as soon as the full list has been compiled, the applications will he closed. At present the number of intercessors is restricted to 50 a day, so that there can be only a few who will have this privilege. It Is hoped that other churches will have services of intercession going on at the same time for people to pray for the mission. HOSPITAL PATIENTS MISSION AT INSTITUTION Per Pres. A.-’OcinHnn CHRISTCHURCH, October 24. The hospital committee at to-day’s meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board reported that the question of the Hickson Mission had been considered by the physicians and surgeons of the staff, nnd the majority of them had not the slightest objection to the patients submitting to Hickson’s administrations should they desire to do so. The mission will be held in the massage department and the details have been left in the hands of tho medical superintendent.