SPIRITUAL HEALING.
MR HICKSON’S MISSION. REMARKABLE CURES ALLEGED. (T’kb Untied Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, October 24. Over 500 patients attended the final day of the Hickson Mission in All Saints’ Church to-day. The, missioncr delivered an address, exhorting the people to revive the spirit of prayer, and urging the formation of prayer circles to members of which tho Christian names only of the sick people bo given. Ho appealed to the people to get into closer touch with the clergy of all denominations. The cure is reported of a man who was blind. On leaving the church ho exclaimed: “Look, I can see.” A girl from Kongotea. suffering from infantile paralysis, left the church as she entered, a cripple, but she is now reported to be cured and has cast aside the use of her splints. Tho case of a Mastcrton girl who was deaf and dumb, but whose speech has now been restored, is also reported. HOSPITAL PATIENTS. CANTERBURY BOARD’S DECISION. CHRISTCHURCH, October 24. The Hospital Committee, 0.l to-day’s meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board, reported that, the question of the Hickson M : s-;ion had been considered by the physicians and surgeons of the staff, and the majority of them had not the slightest objection to the patients submitting to Mr Hickson's administration should thev desire to do so. The mission could bo held in the massage department, and the details were left in tlie hands of the medical superintendent.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19001, 25 October 1923, Page 8
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