CITY OF PRAYER
A DREAM REALIZED NEW ZEALAND ENGINEER IN LONDON FAITH HEALING (United Press Assn—Telegraph Copyright.) London, May 7. A Nev; Zealand engineer, Mr Charles Simpson, has realized a long-cherished dream of building a City of Prayer at Addington Park, Maidstone. Prayer will be the only industry, the inhabitants spending the time praying for the sick and needy throughout the world. Mr Simpson became a spiritual healer in 1926 and started with a capital ,of £l5 in a coal cellar in Westminster. He gradually formed an organization called the “Seekers,” with headquarters at Kensington, where twelve healers daily minister through the laying on of hands and where hundreds of all classes meet in small circles and pray for thousands of distressed people, who report their progress periodically. Lady Mosley opened the Addington Hall, the nucleus of the city, the site of which cost £13,000. Mr Simpson hopes to build small cottages, renting them at 5/- weekly. Persons devoting themselves to prayer will live rent free.
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Southland Times, Issue 22010, 9 May 1933, Page 7
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166CITY OF PRAYER Southland Times, Issue 22010, 9 May 1933, Page 7
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