HICKSON MISSION

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11663, 30 October 1923, Page 5

HICKSON MISSION

.SOME REMARKABLE CURES

WOMAN FR-FFD, FROM GOITRE?

(By Tciegi a p!i.—“Times” Special Reporter.)

FALMEUS.TON N

October 29

Ip addition to the cures already reported at Palirrerston North at the Hi<?ls*on Migyon, there is that of a litfle girl aged nine years, whp hgd to wear leg-irons 33 the feaitlt of mla'utile paralysis, £hc saw Mr Hickson at AH Saints.’ Church, he laid liis hand on her and prayed, the child was taken home, tho irons were discarded, and she attended school ue.yt day without thorn. She has since been running about, and sfie only feels a little stiffness in . the knees.

CfIHdTS HEARING RESTORED. Another cose is that of Joan Robertson, aged five years, who was deaf and dumb.' She can now say simple wprds, and that she has recovered her hearing Was shown by fier running indoors when whe heard the firebell go and called her parents’ attention to it, and she could also hear her brother playing the ft\ite in another room. NEW SOUTH WALES CASE.

In view of the argument that no casco of gro\yth have been cured- it is interesting to quote from a letter received by a Ralfnenstou Npyth resident, Mrs Buck, from her sister at Sydney. It says: “There were some wonderful cures of Mr ope in particular from Lawson, who is a friend of mine. The woman in question had scarcely been off her back for twelve months, and was under two specialists in Sydney. S.fie £iqd an inward goitre, and she wept to Air Hickson she uent again to the specialist, pot mentioning tfiat sfio bad s£so\ A* r Hickson* He was amazed, and said lvc could not understand it. The growth hack completely disappeared,’ and she has not had one of trouble from that day to this/*

THE NAPIER SESSION

CROWDS AT PUBLIC SERVICE.

Per Press Association.

NAiMKR, October 29.

The Hickson Mission in Napier opened this evoking with a public service m bit-. John’s Cathedral, which was filled in every part by an immense crowd, not even, an inch of standing space being vacant, while outside were hundreds \vfio were unable to gain admission. So large was the crowd that the 'assistance of the police was necessary to regulate the ’traffic, which did not get out of hand. The gathering in the cathedral tonight radicated the intense interest taken in the mission, during which some 110 Q sufferers will be presented for the laying on of bands. To-night’s service wua public, but on the succeeding days admission will be by ticket, in order that patiante may receive attention. The. haling service will be held to-morrow moji\ipg. Mr Hickson delivered address similar to those be gave in other centres.