Faith Healing

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 96, 28 August 1923, Page 5

Faith Healing

QUICK CURES CLAIMED.

Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, August 27.

The Rev. R. Griffith preached a remarkable sermon at Westminster Abbey on faith-healing. He said it would be the first of its kind ia the Abbey since the Reformation. A number of the congregation wer« blind or deaf, and they were led, in hy friends. Mr Griffith, who has been conduct* ing a remarkable series of faithhealing services in East Anglia, said he had seen Wind men regain their sight, and cases of cancer cured in twenty minutes. Thousands of people in East Anglia had waited in the Streets throughout the day, kneeling outside little shrines, where hands were laid on the sick they saw, and the stone-deaf were healed In a few minutes. They returned thanks publicly.

Mr Griffith said he had a small bowl of oil, specially blessed by the bishop of the diooese, with which to rub tho foreheads of sufferers. ‘‘Under this treatment,” he said, “abscesses vanish in a few minutes, leaving no trace. Doctors have failed, but the Christian Church is going to help the sick.”

While the offertory was being taken up in Westminster Abbey a young seafaring man, looking very frail, approached and knelt at the steps leading to the altar, but the verger intervened and led him back to tho aisle.