FAITH HEALING

Southland Times, Issue 21894, 21 December 1932, Page 7

FAITH HEALING

AUCKLAND SERVICES SCATHING CONDEMNATION MAGISTRATE CRITICIZED (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, December 20. Following the hearing of a deputation of which Mr E. C. Cutten, benior Stipendiary Magistrate of Auckland, was the chief spokesman, the City Council last Thursday reversed its previous decision not to allow the use of the Town Hall to A. H. Dallimore, evangelist, for his faith-healing services. '

To-day the joint medical, professional and clerical committee of inquiry which recently investigated the faithhealing mission and reported in extremely adverse terms has issued a statement expressing deep concern that anyone holding the responsible office of senior magistrate should have made a public demonstration to comment ori Mr Dallimore’s mission. The committee says it was forced, after a careful and comprehensive survey, to declare the mission to be a danger to the health, sanity, and morale of the community. "We submit that in his presentation of the case to the council,” says the committee, “Mr Cutten by flouting and misrepresenting the considered and unanimous opinion of the representative committee, including university professors, medical practitioners and ministers of religion, which was also unanimously endorsed by the Auckland Council of Christian Congregations,. has forgotten the great traditions of his office. The situation is unprecedented in the city of Auckland and we are reluctantly compelled, in the interests of truth and public dignity, to make this protest.”