GERMAN FAITH HEALER
ORDERED TO CLOSE CHURCH PROPERTY CONFISCATED LONDON, January 24. (Received Jan. 24, at 11 p.m.) The Times Berlin correspondent says: " The secret police have ordered an amazing figure, Joseph Weissenberg, an octogenarian faith healer,' to close the Evangelical Johannean Church, the property of which has been confiscated. Weissenberg was a builder’s labourer when he founded the Weissenberg sect and proclaimed his own divinity. He attracted scores of thousands of followers and successfully fought many lawsuits arising from his faith healing, which consisted of prayer and the application of soft cheese, called quark, to the seat of sickness. His followers subscribed millions of marks, with which Weissenberg built a settlement called 4 Peacetown,’ including a temple in which members of the congregation acted as mediums, receiving messages from spirits, including proclamations from Luther and Bismarck. Weissenberg came to earth as Elijah, Moses and John the Baptist. Recently the spirit of Frederick the Great said through a medium, 4 The Holy Ghost is now known by the earthly name of Johannes Weissenburg.’ ”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22479, 25 January 1935, Page 9
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