HEALING BY TOUCH

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 2937, 14 March 1922, Page 2

HEALING BY TOUCH

R KM A 1 * K A BLE DEMONSTRATION Some remarkable demonstrations oi “healing by Couch” have just been given in Melbourne by a Yorkshire evangelist, Air Smith Wiggle worth. After the evangelist had .given an address on the subject of “faith,” lie called upon those -who had come “for aid” a couple- of cluvs previously to testify as to the results; and several persons who had been suffering from deafness, rheumatics, and lameness declared that tlieir ailments had completely gone. All* Wiggles worth then gave further manifestations of “healing by touch.” An elderly man, who said flint lie had been deaf for years, fried “Hallelujah! II al lelu jab !” when asked by Mr Wigglesworth if he could hear, after hands had been j.'laced on him and lie had been prayed over. A woman, who, it was declared, had had stiff legs floir over twenty years, and who limped to the meeting on the arm of a relative, ran about the hall in joy after she had been “tone hied.” Another woman, who was said to have been ail invalid in a chair for twenty-three years, declared that her limbs were “beginning to move.” She was advised - by the evangelist to retain her faith in Jesus Chriist and her cure would be complete. A young woman, with pains of long .standing in her back, was a bile to stdlop and touch (the ground with her hands, and slic laughed heartily as she told the audience that her trouble had gone. A woman, who asserted that she had been unable to walk owing to pain in her fe* t, ran up and down in front of

audience, crying, “Praise the name of the Lord.” She declared that her pain vanished when the evangelist touched her.

There were a few failures, some deaf persons and some almost blind stating that they could " not admit any improvement. “Strengthen your faith in the Lord,” was the advice given them by Air Wigglesworth.