A CITY WHERE PRAYER IS THE ONLY INDUSTRY
NEW ZEALANDER’S LONG-CHERISHED DREAM REALISED SPIRITUAL HEALER WITH LARGE FOLLOWING STARTS HIS PROGRAMME Press Asnociation. —Copyright. Reed. Today, noon. LONDON, May 7. THE New Zealand engineer, Mr. Charles Simpson, has realised his long-cherished dream of building a city of prayer at Addington Park, Maidstone. Prayer will be the only industry, the inhabitants spending their time praying for the sick and needy throughout the world. Mr. Simpson became a spiritual healer in 1926, and started with a capital of £ls in a coal cellar at Westminster.
Ho gradually formed an organisation called “The Seekers,” with headquarters at Kensington, where twelve healers daily minister through laying on hands. Hundreds of all classes meet in small circles and pray for (he thousands of distresed people, who report
progress periodically. Elizabeth Lady Mosley, opened the Addington Hull, which is the nucleus of the city site, of which the cost is £13,000. Mr. Simpson hopes to build small cottages, renting them at 5s weekly. Persons devoting themselves to prayer will live rent free.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 237, 8 May 1933, Page 5
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